I bought my 2002 Chrysler Sebring after i finished high school at the end of 2006. The past month my car has had a lot of white smoke come out of the exhaust, and now that stopped but if i drive my car more than 5 miles it overheats until all of the coolant and water leaks out of it.

2004 Chrysler Sebring 2.7 has 63000 miles on it. Maintenance has been done regularly. Had oil change and now oil light comes on when applying brakes. Engine has been flushed, new oil put in, sensor replaced. Oil light still flickers. Mechanics states that it needs a new engine.

I bought a 2001 sebring with 94,000 miles on it. I drove find nothing wrong with it and the engine started knocking and it died without warning. I see from all the recent problems I would like to become a part of the class action lawsuit.

My daughter started college this fall and I traded my Dodge Ram 1500 quad cab 4X4 for a more fuel efficient, reliable, smaller car – a 2000 Dodge Intrepid. She got the car with the trade-in and $500 cash around July 11th and drove with no problems or warnings until, on August 11th, the engine started knocking on her way home from a movie. She stopped at a gas station and put gas and oil in the car and made it home but the engine is toast. The rod is knocking severely and can not be driven. The Dodge dealer we bought the vehicle from says the car was as is and no warranty is implied.

I had a 2002 dodge intrepid with 113,000 miles on it and I have drove it for 6 years without a problem. My husband drives it to work and when he stops at a light, it dies without warning! We thought it was the alternator, but after my second opinion from a reliable mechanic, he tells us that the engine is gone and that they are junk! I have to work 2 jobs to help support our family and now we are down to 1 vehicle. We just paid the car off and all scheduled maintenance was done to the car. What are we supposed to do now? We couldn’t even send our daughter to pre-school because we only have one vehicle. And the really bad part of it is,my husband works for a company that makes Chrysler parts, and all they do is complain about how the parts they are getting from my husbands company are unsatisfactory and that they will be put on quality alert if it doesn’t improve. Maybe someone should tell them that a little plastic piece is not something to cry over when people are paying them their hard earned money for vehicles that they help to make for Chrysler, and they can’t even put in an engine that isn’t a piece of junk!

This is obviously an engine that never should have been aloud to leave the drawing board.This engine blew after and the maint has always been kept up,oil changes exct.

I have a 2002 Intrepid with 70,000 miles and last weekend the engine blew on the freeway and I was told it was caused by the water pump blowing and after inspection the entire engine needs replacing at $5,000.00. The car is not worth that much so I will just have to junk it and get a new car. I take excellent care of my cars and it had regular oil changes every 2000 to 3000 miles, including an oil change just 3 days before it blew. The mechanic told me this type of engine is well know for blowing out. I too wish to participate in the law suite.

Don’t be too quick to accept a diagnosis of a leaking water pump. A less-than-scrupulous dealer tried to pull that on me. Just drain a small sample of oil from the crankcase and let it sit for awhile in a glass jar– if there is any coolant in the oil, you will see the separation. No “layer” look, no leaking water pump.

I purchased a 2006 Chrysler Sebring Touring Edition. 2 days ago with almost 118000 miles, my 2.7 liter engine blew leaving me stranded. I now have a car that I still owe 3 years on that I cannot drive. I would love to join the Class Action Lawsuit!!!!

I came across this site while looking to sell my moms’ dead Chrysler Sebring Convertible. She has the 2001 2.7 L V6 and it’s on it’s SECOND blown engine due to oil sludge. her first engine blew up with only 60K miles and they spent $4500 on a second engine and now that has blown up. The oil was changed regulary and the car only has 95K miles on it when this second engine died. I’m trying to sell it for her. Does anyone know how I can submit her car to one of these lawsuits? Can’t believe how many of you have had the same problems.

My son’s 2001 Dodge Intrepid, with only 82,000 miles, has just suffered what the mechanic now calls a un-repairable engine. The water pump destructed and spewed water and metal shavings into the oil pan, which got into the lubrication system and ruined the engine. My son is a Marine serving half the world away, and now has a worthless car for which we owe the cost of the water pump replacement (which was repaired before the mechanic discovered the debris in the oil pan). If there is a class action lawsuit with any prayer of financial relief from Dodge/Mitsubishi, we will want to be included.

I bought a 2001 concord kept in excellent shape and at 80.000 miles it made and noise and just stopped working, took it too a chrysler dealer and they said yep thats about right these engines were not to ever see 100.000 miles But was us as the consumers told about this engine that this would happen? NO I would have never bought that concord. My brother is in the industry they said the 2.7L engines should have been recalled there is nothing but trouble. If I only knew. What to do now? I had to go out and get something else that I really can’t afford in this day and age but does chrysler care? NO they just wanted to charge me 4500.00 to fix it for only maybe 50.000 miles for it to run. So the car sits in my garage while my husband fixes it and he will drive it, I will never by a Chrysler again, I will tell everyone I know what happened to me and If they have that type or car or engine get rid of it. Its a LEMON, the lemon law should pertain to this engine. Help us consumers from getting Cheated.

We purchased a Chrysler Sebring with a 2.7 liter V-6 new in 2001and have driven the vehicle over 107,000 miles with none of the problems so many owners have experienced. The oil is faithfully changed every 2,000 miles with standard grade lubricant ( non-synthetic ). No matter how good the oil, sludge will develop and will need to be removed. High mileage lubricants encourage neglect of the motor. As my grandfather once told me, oil is cheap and parts are high; keep the oil changed and the parts lubricated!

We bought our grandaugher a used 2002 Dodge Stratus with the 2.7 liter V6 engine in December 2007, In January 2009 the car quit running and we were told it needed a new engine. We ended up putting a used engine with 41K miles in this vehicle. This engine didn’t last 7 months. We didn’t realize how big a problem this was. I found this web site while searching for problems with this engine. We hope to join a class action lawsuit to be reimbursed for some of our costs.

This car in general has been nothing but problems from the start. 6 months after we got it the belt tentioner went out, which is not covered. 2 months after that camshaft sensor, since that inner tierod bushings 3 different times, the radiator, battery cables 1 time, battery cable ends 2 times and now the water outlet housing, which is made of plastic. You think that a part that sits directly on top of the engine block would not be made of plastic and the 2 pieces of it would not be glued together. Just a poorly designed car all the way around.

Good luck to all with the 2.7L and the lawsuit. I run a repair facility and can say that week before last we saw three of the 2.7L vehicles that needed engines. The saddest case is a dear lady who is a very good customer. One year ago she came to us with a 2.7 Intrepid she had recently purchased. It had an engine noise. We explained the problem and advised her to get rid of it and not fix it. She didn’t listen but had someone put a used engine in it. It cost here $1,800. We just saw the vehicle again and after only 7 months the used engine has died. Now she will scrap it. The salvage yard is offering $100 for the car.

1999 intrepid…68000 miles…routine oil changes…engine blew…sludge…paid $4500. for new replacement engine…84000miles it blew again…not a very nice flower pot.

I too owe a Sebring. I started with a 96 Jxi and never had a problem with the V6 that is had. I drove it until 2005 when I traded it in for a used 2004 Lxi with the 2.7L engine. It was still under manufacture warranty and running fine. A little over a week ago I began to hear a ticking and thought that it might be a low oil issue. I took it in for an oil change (it was within 3000 miles of the last change) and they told me that it was not low. The next day the ticking was worse so I took it in to have it listen to by a mechanic. He informed me that it was the timing chain and that if it had not done too much damage they might be able to repair it. Less than a week later the timing chain took its toll on my engine and cracked through the end of the valve cover while I was driving to work. I now have a nice looking over sized paper weight that I owe nearly much on the car as it will cost to have it repaired. I was also told that this particular engine from Chrysler has had nothing but problems since its release. How can I get information about the class action suit and get involved in it?

I posted my sad story on July 14th. Since then I have researched the Class Action Lawsuit. It’s a company in New Jersey – don’t have the name handy, but I called them. They said that since Chrysler went bankrupt, nothing can be done. I explored every option and really wanted to put the 3.5L in it with some slight modifications (researched on line and is cheaper than the 2.7 reman), but no mechanic would try to do the swap. Finally caved and bought the same 2.7 remanufactured engine with a 5 year warranty and unlimited miles from a local engine repair place. I just got my car back last week. Price tag for this was $4,700 (it’s so expensive due to the high demand on these engines since they SUCK and blow up all the time) (Also – original price was $3,800, but I insisted on all new parts and the warranty). It was expensive, but what other option did I have? I wasn’t about to junk it, the car is simply too NICE!! If you go this route – MAKE SURE YOU GET A WARRANTY!! It could easily happen again!! I just need to keep my receipts for oil changes, since it probably will!!

We bought our 2006 Chrysler Sebring Touring Convertible with 17,000 miles on it. We love the car. This summer, June 2009 we were driving on the highway and felt like we were loosing power. We took it to our mechanic and he suggested we take it to Chrysler in case there was any warranty left. There wasn’t. We were told a valve spring broke and bent a valve stem in cylinder # 4. We drove it for 500 miles more and the impeller on the oil pump broke. We are told now that we need a new engine for our 2006 car with only 53,000 miles on it. We have only driven it for one week this summer. We are not fans of Chrysler and will think before we buy American again, at least not Chrysler.

I own a 2001 Dodge Intrepid 2.7 liter with 176,000 miles on it. change my oil every 3000 or 4000 miles. I used full synthetic oil. Never had a problem with the car and she still drives nice.

I have a 2002 Chrysler Sebring 2.7 engine. I have approximately 113,000 miles and my oil compression light came on about 3,000 miles ago and i changed the oil, that did not fix it. I want to be part of the Class Action Lawsuit as well.

I too had a strange breakdown car was checked out before a trip and all appeared working fine. when traveling down the interstate on 7/13/09 my 1998 Sebring with only 74000 miles over heated without any warning went to extreme hot we pulled over and engine was smoking…. Tow driver stated engine may be blown. Currently in shop waiting for answer on isseus

bought a 02 intrepid and it is leaking oil and water. luckly i had an other car to drive. but the oil and water are empty after about 5 min of running

I have a nice 2001 Chrysler Sebring. I love the ride. Ya but, it’s parked at a local auto shop. Its parked there because they won’t touch it. They want nothing to do with a blown 2.7 Mitsubishi/Chrysler engine. There was another Chrysler car in the lot with a similar engine knock. I told him my story. This guy was pissed. Hears my Chrysler story. About last May (2008), I started to hear a knock in the engine (front passenger side). Had around 97k miles. Brought the car in to a few shops for advise or possible repairs. I heard the same things from all. Oil sludge or Timing Chain Tensioner. Both manufacter defects. Guy at Chrysler shop agreed with these conclusions. All the local shops wanted nothing to do with the car. Best advise from them… scrap it or drive it until it dies. Dealership said to sell it while I still can. SNAKES!!! Sell this piece of junk engine to someone else. What a bunch of losers – at the dealership. Well, guess what has happened. Yep! the engine blew at 114k, 08/03/09. Well!? I had to drive it! Couldn’t afford to replace the engine or buy another car. Still paying on this one. I nursed it along. Kept the r.p.m.’s under 2500, oil changes every 2500-3000 miles, flushed oil oil out with a recommended product, stayed off the highways. Being a steel worker (machinist/Suprevisor) for 27+ years,I know the importance of proper machine maintenance. And I am confident that I followed the requirement in the owners manual. Chrysler can say what they want about the maintenance I’ve kept on the car, but they are wrong. So there my car sits. Right along side another Sebring, 2.7L. 24 valves, dual over-head cams, 98,500 miles on it. Good luck to all how are driving the 2.7l’s with a ping. Don’t venture to far from home!!!

I have a 1999 Dodge Intrepid. I loved these cars . I was not aware of the motor problems. I hope they learned how not to build motors at our exspense. People what to go to foreign cars when things like this happen.

i have a 2001 chrysler sebring and i replaced my moter at 68,000 miles. i got my oil changed every 3000 miles because i did a lot of stop and go and it still had a build up. i settled my case because i needed transportation to and from work. i would advise anyone to stay away from those cars because soon after i replaced my motor everything started to go bad ie computer

I have 1 2002 lXi with 90457 miles with bad motor with no funds to repair the vehicle. how do I get in the class action law suite?

I own a 2002 Sebring with the 2.7 engine. At 104000 miles I noticed a knock and was advised to replace to replace the engine. Now I have a nice looking car sitting in my drive way I can’t drive or afford to fix. The bank feels my pain but they won’t let me off the hook ,” Please pay us off and good luck to you.” Where is the justice in that? Chrysler took our money and received there bail out what about us?

I too own a 2001 dodge intrepid i purchased the car in 2005 had 3 years to make payments,not shortly after my mom passed away november 2008 i paid the car off. with all its many problems i thought it would be a good idea, well i wish i would have listened to the mechanic, i had to replace water pump, water resevior, and numerous sensors, after the same knocking and shaking others have experienced while traveling down the highway the car made some sound as if something fell from under the hood, i seen a little smoke and next thing i knew i got a mechanic telling me there is no oil in the car and the engine is blown up.I replaced the oil reguarly and timely i always found myself adding quarts of oil way before the required maintenance schedule. I would love to get in on this lawsuit considering i need a new engine and my car is now undrivable sitting in my yard.

My husband and I purchased a 2001 Dodge Stratus it has 93,000 miles on it I was driving it home one night and all of a sudden this loud knocking was coming from the engine and the car just shut off. Now finding out about this I would like to find out if its due to the same problem everyone else has had with the 2.7 V6 motor!

This is horrible, my 2004 Sebring has the same problem I keep reading about oil light flickers when driving slow or at a stop. Now it needs a water pump too. Problem after problem!! Leaking antifreeze too! Sad thing is now it is no longer drivable and needs major costly repairs and guess what its not even paid for I still owe $3,800.00 on it!! Chrysler should be held responsible and fix our cars.. Makes me sad to make monthly payments on a car that now sits parked and can’t be driven.

I too have got a 2002 sebring with the same problem , oil sludge , leading to engin failure , the car has 84000 miles on it , I have a after market warrenty on it , I just got the car 2 weeks ago , every thing was great with the car , as soon as I got it home I changed all the fulids as I do with any car I buy , now 2 weeks later the engin is knocking like all hell , and it will seaze up any monent , and I can not drive the car the way it is now , I have to look into getting a remanufacture engin , that has had the defualt corrected in iin. Please let me know how to join into this law suit.

I have the same problem that most on this blog have. My 2002 Chrysler Sebring Convertible apparently over heated and water entered the engine and now just smokes. I need to get it up an running and I am wondering if I replace the engine I will have a claim?

I have a 2001 Dodge Intrepid 2.7L and THIS CAR IS WORTHLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It has 149,000 miles and the engine is ruined because of the timing chain and i was told that I was lucky that it lasted this long. I was to know more about this lawsuit

yes i too spent alot of money on this carand the engine went out at 130,000 miles this car was junk i also would like to be included in the class action

I have a 1999 concorde 2.7L with 78,000 miles. For the last 2 years (only because I cant afford it) It’s sat in my driveway. I bought it with 25,000 miles on it and im very anal with oil changes(3 months/3,000 miles). My wife went to warm it before work one morning, she said it started then just quit. Later that afternoon I checked it out, changing the cam & crank sensors, checking timing, If im getting spark, fuel pressure etc. They all checkout fine and im baffled, it wont even pop! So I check around on the internet and find that this engine is a pile of crap due ONLY to BAD DESIGN not because of the owner!!!!!! I broke down and took it to a repair shop, got a call 2 days later to find out that they did a compression test on all cylinders. They said all were between 25 & 45 psi when they are suposed to be around 100 psi. After 15 years my shop closed the other day so i have time to take a closer look at it. I took the heads off today and found everything in good shape(no bent valves, piston rings ok, no wall scoring). The only thing I can think of is the head gaskets are shot, even though I had no warnings when the car was running? What do you think? After contemplating starting it on fire just to see it burn I dont know what else to do. I’ve spent loads of money and time on the pile of S$#T need to be part of the class action lawsuit. By the way my oil light flickered at low RPM all the time too.

We have a 2003 intrepid which developed a slight knock at 137,000 and the oil light came on and we changed the oil every 3,000 miles or sooner…No one could figure out where the knock was coming from at 140,000 the knock got louder and the car is not drivable anymore. It costs to much to fix even rebuilt motors are 3 grand….I believe dodge should be responsible for putting faulty motors in their cars.

Same stalling and oil light as above.

my car died on me driving down the interstate, it was crazy. yesterday the engine started making this crazy tapping noise so I checked the oil. As another post previous, my red oil light came on and off even after regular maintenance. The car over heated never warned me and basically blew up. I almost wrecked the car due to the car just stopping in the middle of the interstate. NO WARNING WHAT SO EVER. Also noticed this same “sludge” that seems to be in common. and just like everyone else. Hello where do you get thousands to replace and engine. The stress of today has me feeling scared, helpless and lost. I need to rent a car. What are all of you doing. Any suggestions. My car does not even have 80,000 miles on it and up until recentely, I only drove 5 miles to work.

I own a 2001 Sebring LSi Convertible 2.7 . I had problems similar to these and had to get the engine replaced. At 33,000 miles, t he temperature gauge would go to the top and stay for about 15 seconds and then return to normal. I took the car to the dealership for this twice and they could not find anything wrong. I went to another mechanic and was fortunate enough to have this happen while I was there. What he eventually found was that the car had a pin hole in the engine block. When the engine was cool the pinhole was so small that no fluids leaked, as the engine heated up the hole got bigger from the engine expanding with the heat. He called the dealership to see if there was a recall on the engine and there wasn’t. He told me that the mechanic at the dealership told him to PLUG THE HOLE WITH A JB WELD !!! They also told him that they recently had a Viper with the same problem but hte hold was bigger so they PLUGGED IT WITH A SCREW!!! My mechanic wouldn’t use JB Weld on my car, so I took it to the dealership and told them that I didn’t want them to use JB Weld, but I wanted my car fixed. Whatever they did worked until the car reached 49,000 miles. Then the entire engine blew because the engine now developed a leak near the transmission and water was leaking into the oil. Chryler would do NOTHING for me, except try to get me to buy another car. They wanted $6800 for a new engine. I went back the the mechanic that found the problem and ask him to look for an replacement engine. When he called the engine shops, he didn’t even need to tell them what size engine it was, they told him, and said that it was the most requested engine they had. We ended up getting an engine out of a junkyard from a car that had been wrecked. The engine had 12,000 miles on it, and from a newer car. The mechanic made sure that this engine did not have the same problem I experienced before. I have had this used engine in my car with no problems for four years, it has more miles on it than the original engine that blew.

i have an 04 chrysler sebring limited convertible with about 57K mi on it. i bought it used two summers ago (@33K mi, i’m the 2nd owner) and had not had any problems with it until recently. a couple of days ago, my mother drove it to the store and it overheated. it took a lot of slowed driving and prayers to get the vehicle back home. we couldn’t figure out why or how the car could all of sudden overheat without warning. we just had the car serviced for our routine oil change and fluids check and wasn’t alerted that anything was out of the ordinary. i immediately took out the manual to find out what i needed to do, checked the coolant level, bought antifreeze, refilled the tank after a few hours when we were sure the car had cooled down and thought we had nipped the problem in the bud since the car had never actually cut off. a couple of hours after that i started the car and everything seemed fine. i drove it about 10 miles, eyeing the temp gauge the whole time, when i noticed the needle jump suddenly from the halfway mark to the red H. i pulled off the road with smoke coming from under the hood and waited another couple of hours before checking the coolant again. the coolant was low and this time when i refilled it i put a paper bag under my car (like a friend told me to do when i was looking at used cars to purchase)–no leaks. i waited again for the car needle to drop all the way down to C (more hours) so i could attempt to drive it home. needless to say i didn’t make it even though i was driving at about 20MPH with the hazards on. this time when the needle jumped back to H i pulled over and left the car, thinking that i would go back and have it towed to the dealership to be repaired–and again keeping hope that since the car had never actually died on me i was in good shape and that (as my shady trees told me) it was only a matter of having the thermostat replaced. boy was i wrong! besides the run around i’m now getting from the dealership and the corporation’s “senior agents” about whether or not the part (what the dealer says is a plastic piece called the “coolant housing”) is actually covered under my powertrain warranty, i’ve been told by the dealership that they can’t tell me anything more about what needs to be fixed or what caused the malfunction until i pay the high amount they’re quoting to fix this plastic part. i’ve been online all day trying to find out what a “coolant housing” is and how it affects the engine. now, after countless google searches, i’ve come across this page where everyone seems to be complaining about the same thing–cars with 2.7 engines that overheat or die without warning–and i am extremely nervous about it. add to that, when i started the car this morning and backed it up to turn it around so the tow truck could hitch it, i noticed that the red oil light–which first came on a couple of months ago and disappeared after a few days–is now on again. what do i do? do i get the plastic thing fixed even though i feel in my gut that they’re going to tell me that something else is wrong? if sludge in the engine is the biggest complaint and my car engine never knocked or cut off, do i pay for that flush that cleans all that sludge out (more money) and hope that buys me more time with this apparently defective engine? or do i just look forward to paying off a loan on a car that i soon will not be able to drive like a lot of other folks? do i only get considered for this case if my engine dies or can i pursue something to mitigate what’s already happened and what i’m currently still dealing with? i feel helpless and i don’t like that feeling!

I have a 2005 Dodge Stratus 2.7L engine which I purchased August 2008. I took the car back to the dealership 11/10/2008 because of an oil leak; they replaced the cam shaft position sensor. I also told them my dash lights flickered and they could not find anything wrong therefore did not fix the problem. I continued losing oil from my vehicle. Took the car back 1/28/2009 for oil leak; they replaced head gasket. Took my car to Walmart for an oil change 4/18/2009 and they told me the car was leaking oil. May 4, 2009 I checked my oil and it was below the add mark. Went back to the dealership and they checked car with some type of ultra violet light and told me there was not an oil leak. They filled my car with oil and had me come back every 200 miles for over a month and could not give me an answer as to why my car was losing oil. About every 1000 miles I have to add a quart of oil to my car. Prior to buying the Stratus I had a 2002 Dodge Neon which I purchased from the same dealership and never had a problem with that car. This is very frustrating to me that I now have a vehicle that I still owe over $8000.00 for and no one can fix the problem.

I have a 2004 dodge durango and a 2005 seabring convertible both have started burning oil early on and the dodge at 86 thousand miles the check oil light went on and it was out of oil I thought it was supposed to tell you when its low not out same with the seabring only at 55 thousand miles

2001 Sebring – another bad engine. They are telling me $6500 to replace the engine. Is there any hope of getting Chrylser to help pay the expense?

The Issue i described early on my 2002 intrepid was result of bad water pump with oil sludge present after review not oil pump like earlier mentioned. How do i get on this class action lawsuit.

bought a 2002 intrepid with 2.7l motor back in 2004. Head engine seized up today and blew the head gasket. Upon findings by a mechanic, sludge build up at the oil pump was the problem. minimum of 2000.00 to replace head gasket or 4000.00 to 5000.00 for rebuilt motor. This is crap and why isn’t there a lawsuit for all of us affected to get aboard on and fight Chrysler for the 2.7L engine failures that are really wide spread and abundant.

We were returning home from a trip and our 2002 Chrysler Sebring LXi starting running hot and stopped on the interstate. Had it towed back home to a mechanic and he wants $1475.28 to replace the water pump and he won’t guaranteed any part of the job. What a bummer!

My sebring with 138k klmts just decided to stop working on the highway when my teen son and i were going on vacation,I also use my car to help save kids from drugs paulchristie.ca you would think Chrysler would help us all get our cars fixed,I now have no transportation,no job,things are getting worse,Thank you Chrysler for being such a bunch of LOSERS……….

I have a 2002 Sebring Convertible Limited. It is beautiful. Bought it a year and half ago with 34,000 miles. I do a lot of highway driving. Now it has 67,000 miles and it just died suddenly last week. No warning. Out of the blue on the thruway, all warning lights came on at once and it died. It was dangerous as I was merging from one thruway to another (most dangerous merge in my city) and it was rush hour traffic. This is not only a costly defect, but potentially dangerous. Chrysler should do something to fix this!! I still owe $10,000 on the car. It is now a very expensive lawn ornament. It will stress me out every month when I write the check to the bank to pay for a car I cannot drive.