The distributor has gone out twice (2X) on my 1999 Chrysler Cirrus. The first time was in 2007 while I was sitting in a car wash. I thought perhaps some water had splashed in and shorted something out. So I didn't report it. But the second time was on Friday, May 29th. We were driving on the I-210 freeway in the carpool lane - near azusa, ca. Suddenly the car lost all power and I had to pull across 5 lanes of traffic in order to safely get off the freeway. It was very scary and very dangerous. If I had not been able to pull over, the car would just have stopped dead on a busy freeway on the Friday afternoon of the memorial day weekend. I asked the mechanic at clippinger Chrysler in covina where we had the car towed if the distributor went out often on their cars. He said it was "rare." I think that the fact that it has gone out twice on my car in the past 2 years is very strange and could constitute a serious defect.

- Roseville, CA, USA