2.3

hardly worth mentioning
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
67,741 miles

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problem #2

Jul 142016

Caliber

  • 99,532 miles
The contact owns a 2010 Dodge Caliber. While driving, the instrument panel indicators flickered. The failure recurred numerous times. The dealer diagnosed that there was an electrical shortage in the instrument panel. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 99,532.

- New Athen, IL, USA

problem #1

May 252013

Caliber 4-cyl

  • 35,950 miles
I had been driving for a few hours at approximate 65 mph. Some of which was on cruise. All of a sudden my vehicle started slowing down. My speedometer said 60 mph. However, I was probably at 30. I stepped on the gas and the RPM went high but I didn't get any speed. Basically, the speedometer wasn't recording the speed I was at and the transmission was not working in increasing speed. I had it towed back to phoenix and the Dodge dealership in mesa, AZ checked it over and told me that there was a "fluke" with the ctv transmission in this model and they had been seeing a lot of this as people were driving from phoenix to flagstaff which is a gradual increase over a number of miles and people were having the same issues that I did. I was told the cvt transmission goes into "limp" mode when this happens and basically shuts down. I was also led to believe they could do nothing about it. I'm surprised there isn't a recall on this model and transmission. When I goggled 2010 Dodge Caliber transmission problems, I came up with a utube video documenting exactly what I had experienced.

- Mesa, AZ, USA