10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
2 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 1
Average Mileage:
23,100 miles

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problem #2

Mar 192006

Galant

  • 31,200 miles
My son's car had been in the shop twice for the same thing. He said he was driving down the highway and the car would rapidly accelerate to a high rate of speed. He tried braking, but the car would not slow down. After several tries, he was able to stop the car. This happened to him 2 different times. He took the car to the shop both times. In March, 2006 my son was killed in this car. (it had been in the shop just 5 days earlier) he was on a 45 mph road in houston. The car was going at a high rate of speed when it left the roadway. It has been hard for me to talk about this, but I know that the car did the same thing it had done just days before, resulting in my son's death.

- Angleton, TX, USA

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problem #1

Nov 292006

Galant 6-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • 15,000 miles
: the contact stated while in a parking lot, the vehicle accelerated without warning causing a crash into a wall. The wall sustained minor damage and a police report was taken. The vehicle was towed to an independent repair shop. The dealer was not contacted.

- Roanoke, VA, USA

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