-The side panel on the drivers side door came off. It had to be put back on with expensive little plastic plugs that the dodge dealership supplied me with. How nice of them. (sense the sarcasm) I mean, seriously, $3 for a tiny plastic plug? Yeah, okay, thanks dodge! How about you made the side panel with a little more quality and then you probably wouldn't have to charge 3 dollars for a piece of plastic.
-The blinkers eventually stopped turning off on their own. The right one will turn off now, but must be forced up. The left one won't turn off unless you do it yourself. It could blink blink blink all day. I was informed that fixing this would be over $100. Forget that! I'll save my money for larger problems I sense are coming.
-The farbic on the seats are starting to peel away. I fixed this by getting seat covers. All better. :)
-When it rains the car makes a loud roar when I press down on the gas pedal. I'm guessing it just has human like characteristics, it doesn't like the rain!
-Once on my way to school I was driving up a large hill and the car decided it didn't feel like running anymore and just died, right there. Luckily I rammed her into park and put on the e-brake. No one was hurt. Except myself who was late for school. It took a good 10 minutes for it to run again.
-When I go over 50 miles an hour the wind comes through the little slit at the top of the windows and makes whistle noise. I solve this annoyance by turning up the radio (no CD player, OR tape player in my car) On the freeway, I want to ram it into a tree its so annoying. I hope you liked the Andy Griffith theme song (or large exotic birds), you'll be whistling to it all the time.
Overall, even though sometimes I feel like taking a bat and bashing the car into tiny little pieces, I still love my dodge neon. It was affordable ($2,000) and it's comfortable (the heat and air conditioning work well so far) Although if someone offered me a different car I would probably take it, but until then, It's dodge neon for me!
Also, the car is mighty fast. I can beat anyone to a stop light. Of course it's no Nissan or mustang, but it gets the teenage craving for speed taken care of. :)
When you were going up the hill and rammed it into park and hit the emergency brake I hope you were not moving when you put it into park, if you were say bye bye to the tranny in a little bit, and it doesn't matter what brand of car it is if you shift it into park while moving it will ruin your tranny.