This car is demon possessed, I have named her Reagan, the little girl from the Exorcist.The car will not start 9 times of 10, and when it does it will die in traffic, even when driving, not just at lights. it usually will not restart foe 3 to 5 hours, I replaced the cam sensor and auto shut down relays and it is just getting more frequent. Sometimes tapping on the relay box or fiddling with the relays helps sometimes not, After 4 hours of not starting on Friday finally got it going but the gas gauge was flipping ,speedometer would not work and car would not shift,all of the sudden it down shifted and all returned to normal, got home parked and would not restart. locks work randomly as well, and there is a recall on the floor shifter/ ignition the car rolled backwards at the grocery last week the shifter will move with or without key in ignition and you can remove key in gear and running, the door and ignition hey will work either one, and the car smokes like a coal plant. this is the biggest piece of JUNK I have ever bought !!

Well i bought this car in 2002 at a local dealership in my hometown. The car ran great for about a year then it started stalling out, dieing and not restarting anywhere from a few minutes to a few days. I had to have it towed home numerous occasionbbbs. There was this spot under the back of the car near the trunk that seemed if my bf beat on it would start? Maybe knocking some sh*t loose out of the cats? Everyone seems to think it needs new cat conv. some people say you can cut em out and replace a sensor, others say car will not run without them. Either way i need to get this beast back on the road again. Im a single mother with little help and no knowledge on engines. I suppose i could start trial and error and be out extra money or scrap it?? Help if you can. Any advice or tips would so be awesome.

Thanks

Kansas

Mom in distress

we purchases a used 1999 intrepid about a month ago, about two weeks later the car would just cut off while in idle mode like waiting at a light. we would have to put the car in park, and restart it, it would come on but the check engine light would also then come on. we took it to auto zone who adivsed of bad censor, possible wiring or timing belt. our mechanic fixed the censor, checked the wiring, checked the timing belt and all seems fine but then the problem won't go away. what else could it be? I don't want the car to stop in the middle of traffic and cause an accident.

I have a 1999 Dodge Intrepid. Love the car, rides great, very comfortable and believe it or not, much better in the snow than my Volvo. Car started hesitating and then later the engine would stall. It would usually start back up but then it got worse and was harder to start. Battery is new, spark plugs not too old. I bought a new cam positioning sensor for $40 and put in in myself, super easy. The sensor is on the front of the engine, high, I needed one wrench and a scre driver to push it out of the hole, done in 30 minutes. The car started right up, runs smooth and the engine light turned off.

Word of ecouragement: don't give up, read what other people have tryed, the try it yourself. I have had the terrible knocking sound come from the engine, which some people think is a death sentence for the engine. It was not for mine, I just removed the spark plugs, cleaned them well, cleaned any oil I saw on them or around them and the noise never came back. I always use the synthetic oil. Nurture your car, don't give up, make it last an extra mile. good luck.

I bought this car from a dealer that got out of the business. I bought it March 12th 2008. On April 4th of 2008 not even a month later, the car starting making a ticking noise. I got it "fixed", put a bunch of money into, new tires, new brakes, having the transmission fluid drained and everything your supposed to do when you buy a used car! Spent about $1800 "fixing" it!

Now after a year of owning the sh*t of crap it needs a new engine. Please Dodge like you dont know that the engine is a piece of sh*t, but you kept making it! WHY???

Now I have spent the money to buy the bucket of crap, and $1800 into it, and Ive had it for just barely only a year and its garbage!!!

Seriously, I cant believe that Dodge would put their name on it!

It starting ticking, then loudly ticking, now it is BANGING!!!!

It sounds like the engine wants out. It stalls out all the time. Sometimes it goes and sometimes it doesn't. You never know when your going to be able to drive somewhere or not! Very unsafe to have with my kids in the car. It even stalled out on the highway one time, a month after I got it, when my kids were in the back seat as well as a baby that wasn't even mine! Could you imagine if we got hit and I had to explain to that mother that I got her new baby killed! THANKS DODGE!!! YOU SUCK!!!!

My ''99 Intrepid (2.7L) that is stalling after driving about 1 hours on the highway and will turn over but not start for a few minutes. The car will operate fine, then hesitates, check engine light comes on and the car just stalls (hasn't happen during city driving, only highway). i read the other post about this and i have changed the cam sensor but it still has the problem the only codes it pulls are misfire for cylinders 1,2,3 and multiple misfires

today it did stall during city driving and it finally restarted but only ran for a mile and a half the when it finally restarted it would only run for a block or 2 at a time till i finally turned onto my street when it decided not to die anymore but ran rough i put my code scanner on it and only got cylinder 1 & 2 misfire codes this time i have since cleared the codes and it started running better i have since changed the plugs and coil connectors it still does this it has had different misfire codes the last time it had misfire on 1,2,3,4,5 and the time before that was just a misfire on 3 also when i changed the plugs i switched the coils from one bank to the other to see if it was them

Car was stalling while driving along and would restart after a couple of minutes to a couple of hours after. if you are having a clean cut in power it is not the fuel pump. Every mechanic even the dealer that was the first solution that they had. The car would buck/sputter if the fuel pump was the problem Forget the dealer there was no help there at all except to take my money with their bs diagnostics replace Cam and crank sensors that is what worked for me other possible sources that cause the same problem with no error code are ASD and the O2 sensor. To check if it is the ASD, check if your fuel pump turns on ( you would hear a little whir when you turn the key on) when you try to start the car and it does not start. I hope this helps I promised myself I would post a solution here if I ever found one Other then the stalling problem had no other major issues with the car. I used to stall 3-4 times a week to no stalls in the last 2 months. I hope people would add to this thread and let me and others know my information was any help to them

I have one of these 1999 Dodge Intrepids and I had to replace the transmission at 80,000 miles because a sensor module was not working properly and without warning the car just stopped moving because the transmission was shot. Now I have a problem with it burning oil and it just started to spit and sputter yesterday on my way home from college. I broke down several miles from home and I am pissed that I need to put more money in this vehicle. I am laid off permanently and have no job as of yet and I can not afford to keep putting money into something that I will not get any return from. It will cost more right now than the car is worth. The Big Three are only concerned about their profits and not about the consumers. Them knowing about the problems that they have with their engines and transmissions says they could give a sh*t about the consumer when they allow these cars with these issues on a car lot. That is the problem with big corporations, they think that they are the almighty and no one can make them do anything. Well I have news for them and more than likely others like us here in the Auto Beef complaint department are choosing the foreign brands over the American brands. Thats why Toyota has jumped in the lead because of these arrogant bastards that think they have the world by the balls. You see adds now saying that GM, Ford and Dodge is giving 5 years or 50,000 miles warranty, KIA and Toyota just to name a couple of foreign companies have been doing this for years except they offer 10 years and 100,000 miles warranty. It just goes to show that not even the Big three have faith in their product line quality, they wont even meet or beat the foreign car industry. I hate Dodge, I hate Ford and I hate GM because they treat the little guy as if we don't matter, well wait till there stock go even further down because of there lack of sale because of poor quality work. They will be like some of the Fast food chains that did very well because the service was good until it went to sh*t, then someone new came into town and offered the people something better for what we were paying for.

Check Engine light came on and the car would barely run and I had to stop at a red light and the engine stalled. The car would barely restart and then I barely got it to the side of the road and called a tow truck and had it towed in to the dealer. I just bought this car and between the oil sending unit and the crank and cam sensor it is costing me $670.00. When they got the car restarted they discovered a knocking in the lower part of the engine and discovered the piston bearings were shot and they need to replace the engine. They told me the engine had been bad for a while. But not to worry they said because that is covered under your warranty. Well, the warranty company doesn't want to cover it. They are taking their sweet time coming to inspect the engine. This car needed to last me one year. It has lasted me two months. I don't drive like a bat out of hell. Are these cars just this terrible? I thought Dodge/Chrysler had improved their product and were making a good car. I wish I had known this before I had bought this car. I would never had bought it.