2006 Chrysler Sebring
This year drew an ordinary 138 complaints for a Chrysler Sebring — the model's median is 104. What they were about is the unusual part: 58% of them mention horn, against 2.2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 138 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 104 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- horn — 58% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the model's other years (26.1×).
- parked — 23.9% of this year's complaints, against 7.1% across the model's other years (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: parked, horn going, neighbors, blow.
- itself — 21.7% of this year's complaints, against 6% across the model's other years (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: itself, pad, horn pad, research.
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
ABOUT 4:30 PM (RUSH HOUR) ON 20 OCTOBER 2015 I WAS DRIVING SOUTH ON I-95 SOUTH OF WASHINGTON DC WHEN THE HORN SOUNDED CONTINUOUSLY AND [VIN], SURPRISING ME AND DRIVERS NEAR ME. I WAS GOING STRAIGHT AT ABOUT 60 MPH. IT STOPPED AFTER I FIRMLY DEPRESSED THE HORN…
WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS PARKED THE HORN BEGAN TO BLOW ON ITS OWN AND TURNED OFF AFTER APPROXIMATELY TWENTY SECONDS. THE FAILURE OCCURRED NUMEROUS TIMES AND IT CONTINUES TO OCCUR INTERMITTENTLY. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHERE THE TECHNICIA…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 09E056000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 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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