I took the car in for its scheduled oil change, with a "clicking" sound going on in the engine. An engine flush and a polymer additive was added. 2 days later, trhe click exacerbated into a knock! I contacted several auto repair facilities and I contacted Chrysler Corporation (Phone number listed in the owner's manual). I had the vehicle towed to a local Chrysler dealer. Chrysler has offered to replace the existing engine with a new one. Several factors include previously having owned other Chrysler products, a consistent maintenance schedule (oil changes), and this current vehicle just barely out of the warranty period. Chrysler wants a $4800+ co-pay to do this! I have a couple of local mechanics offering to put a used engine in the car for about a total of $2600-$3200. Being a full time medical school student, however, I do not work nor can I afford any of these options at this time. Still making payments to the bank on this car too! The rental car is costing me almost $200 a week in the meantime! If anyone knows how I can join in on some of the class action lawsuits against Chrysler, please let me know ASAP! email is bscottdavis100@gmaiol.com

I bought my 2004 chrysler sebring beacuse I always wanted one. If I had known then what I know now I would have bought any other car! In 2006, I was driving uphil when the engine made an awful noise and the check engine light came on. At that point, I turned around to go home but could not drive over 40mph. The car had to be towed to a local dealer who charged me about 400 bucks to fix something (right now I can't even remember what it was). The car ran great after that, until summer last year when I had the oil changed. About 2 months after the oil was changed, the oil light came on. I checked the manual and that particular light supposedly meant low oil pressure. So I took the car back to the service station and explained the problem. They checked it for me and said it was empty of oil (it was not empty of oil, I did check it myself before I took it in). They wanted to charge me 60 bucks to do an engine check to find out where it was leaking from. I said no thanks. To this day, the oil light is still on. In October my car was inspected; required new front brakes, the back brakes were 'loose' and some other maintenance issues. The guy inspecting asked me how long the oil light had been on. I told him and he said they checked everything and couldn't find a reason for the oil light. He suggested I take it to the dealer because it might have something to do with the powertrain.

Fast forward to a week before Christmas, I went outside and ALL 4 of my tires were flat. ALL freaking four of them. I managed to get them all pumped up and they seemed good for about a week. Then while driving home, the back left tire blew out, so had to get a new one.

NOW, my car is doing this weird ticking thing while idling. I put my car in reverse, back up, shift to drive, step on the gas and the stupid car keeps going in reverse!!! I shift to park, back to drive...step on the gas and reverse! I let it sit a minute, shift to park and back to drive, only to have the car drift forward when I step on the gas. The engine sounds like it's revving itself up to take off, but never goes anywhere. It takes about 5-10 minutes of shifting from park to drive and back again before the car seems to kick into gear and lurches forward. Yesterday and today I have found that if I punch the gas pedal with all my strenght it kicks it into gear faster.

I hate my car

The engine is making noise at idle and during acceleration. Not sure what the ticking problem is, I had someone replace the alternator idler that I purchased from Chrysler and the alternator belt because it was wobbling. They were telling me the problem was one of the balance shafts and I am not sure. The more I step on the gas the more noise the engine makes, from what I can tell I think its a cam that is bad. And the noise is periodic. Wonder which of the cams it is on the DOHC. From this article http://www.justanswer.com/questions/jgn9-1998-dodge-stratus-2-4-l-4cyl I am guessing this is the problem.

Update from Jul 18, 2009: I took the car into Sterling Heights Dodge since my workplace was closed for 2 week plant shutdown. I work at Chryler as well :) Glad I did it cost me a wopping 100 dollars and 2 days time. The problem was a bad flywheel. I could not figure it out for the life of me. Im glad the old guy working on it with the "rookie" was there to find it.