Model years Chrysler PT Cruiser
2007 Chrysler PT Cruiser
This year drew an ordinary 149 complaints for a Chrysler PT Cruiser — the model's median is 115. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.4% of them mention won, against 2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 149 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 115 |
| Involving a crash | 18 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- won — 7.4% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: won, dollars.
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
TAKATA RECALL. AIRBAG WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATES RANDOMLY AND PINGS. I WAS TOLD THE PROBLEM WAS A SENSOR IN THE PASSENGER SEAT BELT AND THE COST TO REPAIR WOULD BE AT LEAST A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS. WHY WON'T THE DEALER FIX THIS AT THE [VIN]'S EXPENSE, SINCE IT…
BLINKER WORKS AT TIMES AND NOT AT OTHERS. BATTERY LIGHT CAME ON WHILE DRIVUMG, GOT HOME NOW IT WON'T START, BATTERY HAS FULL CHARGE BUT THE STARTER IS NOT CRANKING.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chrysler PT Cruiser 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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