2005 Chrysler Sebring
This year drew an ordinary 82 complaints for a Chrysler Sebring — the model's median is 138. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.2% of them mention wheels, against 2.6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 82 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 138 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- wheels — 12.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the model's other years (4.8×). Owners wrote it as: wheels, each, further information, 2002 chrysler.
- heard — 11% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: heard, written, busy, unable find.
- crashed — 9.8% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the model's other years (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: crashed, destroyed, insurance company, totaled.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
THE VEHICLE HAS GOODYEAR EAGLE LS TIRES, SIZE P205\60\R16 (NA). THE CONTACT CRASHED THE VEHICLE AND DAMAGED ONE OF THE WHEELS. HE INSTALLED A SPARE TIRE ON THE VEHICLE, WHICH HAS BEEN IN USE FOR SIX MONTHS. HE IS WAITING FOR THE [VIN] TO PROVIDE THE ORIGINAL T…
ON DECEMBER 1, 2007, THE CONTACT WAS INVOLVED IN A CRASH THAT CAUSED THE WHEEL TO FRACTURE. SINCE THAT TIME, HE HAS BEEN USING THE TEMPORARY SPARE TIRE, BUT THE TREAD HAS BECOME BARE. HE BELIEVES THAT THE TIRE WILL BE WORN TO THE TREAD IN APPROXIMATELY THREE W…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V338000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 09E012000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 04V532000 SEAT BELTS
- 09E056000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 04V579000 STEERING
- 07E023000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chrysler Sebring was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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