1999 Dodge Intrepid SE from North America - Comments

I too have the 99 Intrepid with the 2.7 engine which sucks. I now have it sitting and need my SECOND engine put in. Oil light NEVER comes on when oil level is low. No warning no nothing it just seized up. Both passenger and driver as well as rear passenger windows work when they want to. Transmission problem as well. If anyone knows of a lawsuit pending please contact me.

Wattsaap@hotmail.com.

My fiance's car is also a 1999 Dodge intrepid 2.7. He bought it brand new in 1998, at first I thought it was the coolest car, very spacious and no problems. Ran great, the sound system was great, everything was great. We finally finished paying for the car last year and then all the problems came. I couldn't understand how a car less than 100K miles could have all these problems. We have replaced 2 sensors and like everyone's been saying the windows work when they want to. The passenger window comes out of it's socket when you put it down so we just don't. I'm not paying how ever much it cost to fix it. He had to replace one the cooling motors and now the car is shaking. The lights inside the panels are always flickering. Anyway I'm glad I found this site too and I too will never go for one of these cars... If there's a lawsuit, we're definitely in. Please email me at jackie99c@aol.com.

Oh my gosh, I can't believe how many problems are wrong with this car. I own a 99 Intrepid (bought used from a rental car agency). Worked fine for a while then the motor on the windows needed to be replaced (ended up doing this twice). Then yesterday, oil light came on, and drove on about 3 miles to the closest gas station, when I got there, checked oil, and when I went to put oil, smoke came out and car would not restart. After reading all the comments on this car, I'm afraid our mechanic is going to tell us we need a new engine. This is just sad, as we just finished paying for the car. If there is a class action law suit, then please add me in!!!

Sorry if this goes in twice, but I found a site that people can check to see if there is a class action lawsuit on this car. Go to.

www.bigclassaction.com/submit_form.html.

Lets all get in on this!!

Email amrie21@hotmail.com.

Wow! I too wish I had seen this site before so that I would have ammunition at the dealer for all the repairs that have been made. I have a 1999 Dodge Intrepid that was purchased new and immediately had problems with all of the windows. The window motors were replaced on each of the windows under warranty at least twice. Over the last two years I have had the oil light flash within 3000 miles of having the oil changed. Dealer could not find a leak and never informed us of any of the problems reported with this vehicle. I am no longer taking it to the dealer for repairs as of this past month. Just picked up the car today after having the AC evaporator replaced. The mechanic could not find an oil leak even though the car was 4 quarts low and had just been changed two months ago. Per the mechanic it is a good thing that we use Synthetic oil or the engine would have ceased up by now as has been reported by so many of you. I will now take care to check my oil frequently because of the information from this site. The car now has 79,000 miles so I am praying that I don't start having some of the other problems that have been reported. We have had the oxygen sensor changed recently. Windows have been working for the last year, but as reported by others it is sometimes miraculous and fixes itself! Biggest problems have been windows, air conditioner and now the mysterious disappearing oil. It is really a shame that this car has so many issues as I love driving it, love the leg room and trunk space it offers, but I too will never buy another Dodge/Chrysler product. Count me in for any class action lawsuits.

My 1999 2.7L Intrepid has been a great car. It has 139350 miles on it and has had SOME of the problems listed herein, such as the window motor x1, driver's side window bracket x1, dome lights x2, speed sensor x1, A/C & heat fan motor x1, and the thermostat housing x1 - but fortunately I have not had any problems with the engine or tranny. Knock on wood! I have been a faithful user of the product Energy Release, which I put it the oil, transmission, and power steering. While I cannot say that is what makes the difference, I know I have not had all the problems with the "big ticket" items as many have had on this thread. I do think I will go ahead and change to synthetic oil now that I have read these posts. Thanks and good luck!

I too am the owner of a 99 intrepid. My real problems started after I had put about 30000 miles on the car. First of all when I purchased the vehicle, the front passenger's window was not working. The dealer offered to fix it at no charge. But shortly after the front passenger's window was fixed, the front driver's window stop working. This was fixed at my expense. Still today both windows work when they feel like working. I also had to put oil in it every two to three days despite having the oil changed on a timely manner. Sometimes a day after having it changed it would need more oil. The oil light would come on a lot. This would happen even after I had the oil changed. Sometimes when I checked the oil, there would be brown sludge on the oil stick. After constantly dealing with the oil, the next problem was trying to find out why the check engine light would constantly stay on. The dealer had his mechanic clean filters in the engine, but that didn't work. The cam sensor was replaced and the check engine light went off for two days. It has been on every since. The last diagnosis I received about the engine was that the Cadillac converters were going bad. I imagine if this would have been fixed before the motor quit, there would have been another problem waiting in the wings. The dealer offered to put me into another car and junk this car. I declined the offer because I wanted to get this car fixed since I don't owe that much on it. I think I may take him up on his offer since I have found this website. I figured something was possibly wrong because just about every Intrepid I see on the road is smoking like the one I have.

Michelle.

Well, just another parked 1999 Intrepid 2.7 l. We also have had to deal with the same kind of problems. Engine, PVC Valve, Starter. All Of this started about 35,000 miles. The Engine seized. But with ours, the Dealership gave up silly reading results. Like the fourth cylinder lost compression. So on and so on. The starter is or was going out in it. We also had a problem with the driver side rear door lock. We've had to replace the motor in that twice. Now we have a $15,000.00 Yard decoration. As a lot of us do. We are still making payments and will be for another year and a half. We also agree with a lot of you. There should be something done about this. And soon. Let us know as well.

The Morgan's

chevreddog@aol.com.

Well this is my second post to this site on my 1999 Dodge Intrepid. Last year was the AC/window motors etc. Well now its more serious. I held my breath when my car hit 100,000 miles. Sure enough, I got into my car one day and started it and it clicked and then got louder. I shut it off and called a tow truck, seems the timing chain blew in it, I had had some clicking that was intermittent, but the mechanic could never find the problem. WELL it was serious.. he wanted to put a new engine in - it was so bad. I couldnt afford one from all the calls I made, not even a junk one. (single mom who needs a reliable car) well my mechanic had to take the motor apart THREE times to get all the damage fixed, send out parts of it to a shop to be ground or something like that. After $1000 in parts alone, I get it back.. and it dies on the drive home with the oil light coming on and the check engine light. Towed it back again. SO I pick it up later in the week... assured it was fixed, now it was the cam shaft sensor - another $53.00. Broke down on the way home AGAIN. THIRD time.. he fixed it...again...drove it towards home.. and broke down for the THIRD time... oil light sensor came on and it just died on the freeway, I was barely able to get off to the side of the road. He has it in his shop one more time and today is giving me a loaner car. This has been going on for ONE FULL MONTH. I can't even get it running long enough to get more than one appraisal to trade it in - and they insulted me by offering me $700 while I owe $4000 - that's with it RUNNING.

I am looking at a Honda.. I will never EVER own a DODGE again..

Hope everyone floods them with calls of complaints..that's the only way they will listen.. and if I understand right, the 2004 is the last year for Intrepids.. I wonder why??? NOT!!!

One stranded Intrepid Owner...

A month ago, I would have told you I'm the proud owner of an Intrepid, and intend to buy another one someday. I have never had any major problems with it in the 3 years I have had it. Not until this week, when the timing chain on my apparently infamous 2.7 liter V6 engine failed, leaving me with the choice of paying out $6000.00 to have the engine fixed or replaced, or eat the $7500 balance on the car and tack it onto the price of a replacement.

Did you remember to check your oil and have regular changes? This is the first question everyone wants to know. Well I can tell you that up until this week, I was proud of myself for this very thing. I'd seen my parents' car blow an engine when I was younger due to a broken oil warning light, and was determined not to suffer the same fate. People would give me odd looks when, at the gas pump, I regularly checked my oil levels and color. I was proud of that. I had regular oil changes. In fact, I had an oil change and inspection just 1 week before the engine died.

I have searched the Internet and found an alarming number of others have suffered the same fate. Many, right after an oil change. I have been told, and have now read, that these engines tend to "sludge up" due to poor design, and that this is the reason why they aren not making it anymore.

So my question is, if they know it's so bad they are not making it anymore, why has there been no recall? I see letters and complaints in the hundreds (and probably thousands I haven't seen), yet I see nothing that Daimler Chrysler has done to alleviate the situation in terms of a recall. As this failure can apparently happen while moving at sixty-five miles per hour on a crowded highway, I must wonder how this incredible safety concern is ignored.

I am certainly going to seek out any standing lawsuits and join the ranks.

Brought a 1998 Intrepid 3.2L ES brand new for all the same reasons:- good styling, spacious, well appointed and good reviews. Since then it has had many of the same problems and glitches that have plagued most of the other contributors to this site. Within the first three years, all the power window motors were replaced, (some twice), the headlights quit, the rear floorboards became pond after water leak in the body, the panel lights flicker at random, the power seat stopped working and the "comfort package" developed a mind of its' own by ignoring the control settings on the dash and venting air when it felt like it. This last part was much appreciated during a September visit to Florida. My own view of this particular problem is it's probably a sticking airflow valve in the dash, but why should I diagnose my car and help out the dealer.

Later, one of the transmission speed sensors failed and left me with nothing, but second gear and a blank dash. Soon after it was fixed, the other speed sensor went and we repeated the process again, (why not offer to replace both when the first one went, I wondered later?). Now, with 63,000 miles on the clock, I can only hope that my original choice of model will keep me away from the dreaded oil sludge problem found on the 2.7L. Overall; a good-looking car, let down by poor quality parts. Oh wait a minute; isn't that what Chrysler products were renowned for?

Good news, if you use lucas oil in the 2.7 engine it will solve a lot of issues with premature engine failure.

Some of todays oils for some reason lack enough viscosity, lucas oil fixes this very fast.

Well hello there fellow owners of the very expensive "Intrepid Lawn Decoration".

We bought a 1999 Intrepid in December of 2001 shortly before the birth of our first child. You couldn't beat the price, and it was definitely roomy and pretty powerful. It ran great for the first couple of years (we bought it with about 50,000 miles on it).

Neither one of the back windows work and the drivers side works when it wants to. We have had to replace the speed sensor after the car just died going down the road at about 45 mph, luckily we were able to limp home with it. The AC/heater only blows on the highest setting. You have to check the oil every time you drive it because it runs a quart low all the time. Also, when he went to change the brake pads, he discovered it needed new calipers. During that process, he discovered that the emergency break was rusted and corroded so bad that he had to bang it off with a hammer.

Now for the good news... we need a new engine! My husband and 18 month old daughter broke down in NY state and were stranded on the side of the road for several hours while I rented a car dolly and had a neighbor drive out to get them. My husband changes the oil in both our vehicles every 2,000 miles, so this car has been taken care of very well. I have been calling salvage yards all morning long and have been told that these motors are extremely hard to come by and when you do find them they cost about $2700 for anything with under 50,000 miles.

After reading all of the posts here - I have no hope. This is crazy that we've all had the same problems. We haven't even gotten the 2 recalls on the car fixed yet - they should recall them to fix the engines!

Has anybody had any luck with the class action lawsuit???

If anyone is seriously pursuing that avenue - please e-mail me at laciejonsmom@hotmail.com I would be more than glad to take part!

Hello fellow 1999 Intrepid owners! Good grief! What a nightmare this car has been. We thought we'd love it when we got it in 2000...we did for about 50000 miles, then the motor went! This is on top of all the other problems, the window motors (all 4!) going out, the speed sensor going, O2 sensor, AC only working on high. Well, last year in April, we had a new motor put in... Guess what! We had to have ANOTHER motor put in in May THIS YEAR! Luckily, the motor was still under warranty and we didn't have to pay for another one. But the inconvenience of having to do without a car was a pain. We had to constantly put in oil with the first new motor, about once a week! When will it end? As soon as I trade that sucker in this week! If anyone gets a lawsuit going, I am all for it. Please contact me at LWatson1971@aol.com.

Brought 1999 off the lot - 0 miles - brand new, everything has gone wrong - every sensor - a/c - belts, transmission, now engine - faithfully changed oil every 3000 miles (exactly) replaced it with 3.2 engine - now it runs, but runs hot... I love the look, hate the car.

Cbrint.

Here's another junk Intrepid... We bought the 98 intrepid in Nov. 2002 with about 68,000 miles on it. Ran good! (here comes the good stuff!) For a while... then went downhill quickly... like a rocket ship to earth. Had the thermostat housing replaced for over $200. had the driver's side window motor replaced for over $200. BOth speed sensors in transmission replaced for $275. Starter replaced at over $600. Battery replaced x2. Oil light flickers all the time when your apply the brake. Is always low on oil. Paint around windsheild is flaking off. Brake lights are out. Now the engine is running hot and the A/C works, but blows out hot air. I know there is more that I'm missing, but that's a good summary. If anyone has any tips or other info, email me caa1277@bellsouth.net Thanks!