1992 Dodge Spirit from North America - Comments

8th Sep 2000, 23:42

"A roomy, plain looking reliable car"

What things have gone wrong with the car?

The automatic transmission makes a rough clicking noise when shifting the car from park or drive into reverse.

Both front seat window crank knobs keep falling off.

The driver's side window is very stiff to roll upwards or down.

General comments?

This has generally been a safe, fairly well equipped car that has not cost a lot of money to maintain, not too bad on gas, and is very big inside, and comfortable. And the horns' loud too.


14th Nov 2002, 09:04

What is the fix for the driver's side window that is stiff and hard to roll down?

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20th Dec 2002, 17:45

If you take off the door panel, you scan see the rollers on how the window rolls up and down.

I had the same problem on mine in wet weather. It got to the point where I couldn't roll it down

while it was raining and I ended up disengaging it from the track by accident. Once the panel is

off, oil up all the tracks and rollers and it should be fine...

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10th Apr 2003, 12:27

I generously sprayed the tracking areas, rubbers and guides of my doors with a 100% Silicon Spray Lubricant form C.T.C..

I was amazed how it fixed the up/down sticking of my window. It had gotten so bad that I was afraid to snap or damage door components when rolling up or down.

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12th Feb 2005, 15:09

The clicking noise that you are hear when you shift your automatic transmition is the electronics tell the car which gear to go in my dodge spirit dose the exact same thing and so do the caravans and almost all other dodge and chrysler probuct produced in the 90s.

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14th Feb 2005, 14:09

So far so good! the only thing is there was some problem with the linkage the car wouldn't shift into gears and it felt like the car was completely out of power. the drivers side window popped out and I cannot roll it up or down. and why won't my windsheld wipers work they are totally dead? is it the motor?

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29th Mar 2005, 04:54

The windshield wipers might not work because of the following ailment: the trapezoid might be disconnected from the motor. There is a button-like thing that is capped, it forms the connection between the trapezoid and the motor. My wipers died in pouring rain, and I connected them pretty quick. But afterward they kept disconnecting, over and over again. Then we burned the cap with a lighter and connected them. Three years - and the problem has never returned. Check that out. The motor can be checked this way: just turn the wipers on, listen for clicking noises. If you can hear them, then this means, in general, that the motor is functioning.

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12th Mar 2006, 14:38

I have a 92 spirit and when I turn the car off my head lights stay on... I turn the lights off.. but the day time lights still stay on... the only thing I can do is disconnect the battery... I think its something to do with the wiring.. can anyone tell me how to fix this?

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