2017 Chrysler 200
This year drew an ordinary 43 complaints for a Chrysler 200 — the model's median is 342. What they were about is the unusual part: 14% of them mention stalls, against 4.6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 43 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 342 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stalls — 14% of this year's complaints, against 4.6% across the model's other years (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: stalls, shifts.
- shuts — 11.6% of this year's complaints, against 3.4% across the model's other years (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: shuts, shuts off, warning driving.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
THE VEHICLE LITERALLY CUTS OFF WHILE I AM DRIVING I HAVE TAKEN IT THE SHOP AND WHEN THEY PUT IT ON THE MACHINE IT DOESN'T REGISTER ANY ERROR CODES OR MALFUNCTION CODES. HOWEVER, IT STILL SHUTS OFF. I HAVE CHILDREN AND DON'T WANT TO BE IN AN ACCIDENT WHEN I KNO…
Engine stalls while driving and displays message that I need to shift to park to restart. This has happened several times. I have not taken it to a mechanic yet but stopped driving it because it is unsafe. * This problem is mentioned here several times.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V332000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chrysler 200 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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