Well Here is and Update on my 2008 Dodge Avenger SXT Sport 2.7Lonly 6000 miles on it



Had to have the door latches changed
Had to have the door latch cables changed
Had to have all 4 Speakers replaced do to them being installed wrong soallfour blewthe tweetersin the dash were fine though.when the volume was on about 3. I havekidsin the car and well I don't blast the stereo butdo enjoy good sound and yes I got the premium sound package. (FYI the dealer told me that a lot of the 2008 Avengers have the speakers Bostons and Regular installed wrong and or defective so they orderd a **** load to cover people coming in. When I took my car in they had 4 ready for me)
While having the speakers changed they broke the handle on the door so yet another trip back to the dealer.
Had to have the Clock fixed because it was keeping time wrong
Had to have the transmission software updated.
I have not posted in so long because i have been back and forth to the dealer since I bought the car in June of 2007.

Thats Six times for problems well 8 trips if you want to include the two oil changes I had done.

Don't get me wrong I like the car but you get what you pay for when it comes to these cars I have been upset for months about all this ****. I really want to love this car and did for the first couple of months Dodge sure as hell does not make it easy though. I went toa dodge dealerand well fell in love with the dodge avenger. I know my comments are negative but come on it's not an isolated case. Everyone who buys one has to bring it back for these problems it seems. My point is this I bought the car with 4 miles on it and so far I have been to the dealer so much! and well if it had 80K on it I would not be complaining. All of they above is fixed I just hope I only have to go back for scheduled maintence.

 

Enough is enough right?

 

Don't get me wrong I understand it's a new model and some bugs need to be worked out but regardless I bought a new car to have a new car not to take it to the dealer over and over like it had 100K on it. Thats all I am saying. So far so good though since all the problems have been work out. I hope.

 

You know I love my car too, Quality control is at it's worst. How do they figure to keep people buying Dodge? I'm disgusted with the amount of people that have problems. If it's not the radio,It's the transmission. A person should not have to run back and forth to the dealer. Even some Toyota's are having big problems too and a few people swear by them. Even my paint on my car was crappy on certain parts,Come on who's checking for these things! Nobody.

 

I'm trying to enjoy my 08 Avenger R/T AWD too and did for the first 2 weeks...then came the transmission problems....I'm told around 4000 miles these cars are needing a new computer program downloaded to try to fix it.But the sad part is that Dodge hasn't come upwith the software yet and may be awhile.[:@] Meantime I'm driving a car that sputters and hesitates and sometimes feels like the engine is going to quit on me. I had the clips on the front doors replaced too but only because there was a recall on them and I had the car at the dealer already. Really wasn't having problems with the clips though.

 

WOW.. I just brought the SXT with 4,350 miles on it. I just had to take it back to have the muffler replaced, the rear passenger door adjusted because I could hear wind driving at 60 mph and the computer flashed for the idle becuase it had a rough idle to it...

Only had it for one day. I feel in love with the car too. Its a sweet ride.. Just hope there is no more problems

 

wow.... everyones car seems to be broke but mine.... only thing ive had to get done was the door latches.. even though mine were fine just cuz the recall, had car since august. and got 6500kilometers on it

 

No you're not the only one. The vast majority of Avenger owners are happy. The few that arent naturally search for forums online and post their complaints, which is just fine.
I got my SXT v6 Avenger last April 2007 and I've put on 5,500 miles (I dont drive to work), I've done the recalls and everything's been great. Get compliments all the time. It's fairly normal for a new model to have a rash of recalls in the first production year, if you didn't expect this while purchasing the avenger, well... I dunno what to tell you.

 

I haven't been here for a while either...I was one of the first to get the Avenger. I got it back in February last year...right off the truck.

Love the car, hate the issues.

I've had mine in the shop at least 10 times in the past 11 months. First it was a recall (Door locks), then it was a cam sensor. Then a crank sensor. Then it was a wire that grounded against the throttle body. Then it was recall number 2 (Reprogram). Then it was recall #3 (Door lock cables). Now supposedly there's a TSB on a fuel filter and sensor that makes your car's Check Engine light come on almost every time it hits a half tank of gas.

What ticks me off is the dealership told me to leave the car overnight so they could fix this latest problem....I get a call the next day saying that they don't have the parts to do it,come pick up your car....and I have a misfire in cylinder #4.

Joy.

 

Update 7200miles
My avenger would not start this morning it's 62 out and well would not turn over after several attempts I got it started and drove to work. I am wondering If it's going to start when I leave today.

FRUSTRATED