Owner-reported complaints naming the transmission system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the automatic or manual transmission, including shifting behaviour, shudder, slipping and transmission control modules. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1995 Chrysler Lebaron submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 8 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
TRANSMISSION HANGS IN SECOND GEAR WHILE CITY DRIVING, WILL NOT SHIFT OUT OF SECOND UNTIL SHUTTING VEHICLE OFF FOR ABOUT 30 SECONDS.SAFETY CONCERN IS NOT KNOWING YOU CANT ACCELERATE TO MERGE INTO HIGHWAY TRAFFIC UNTIL YOU ARE ALREADY ON THE EXIT TRYING TO GET UP TO HIGHWAY SPEED AND CANT GET BEYOND SECOND GEAR. *AK
TRANSMISSION FAILED WHILE DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY. *SLC
NO SUMMARY
TRANSMISSION DISENGAGES SPORADICALLY- MOST DANGEROUS AT INTERSECTIONS WHEN CAR WILL PROCEED INTO INTERSECTION THEN DRIVE TRAIN WILL FAIL AND ENGINE WILL RACE AS DRIVER PANICS AND HITS GAS PEDAL WHILE CROSS TRAFFIC IS BEARING DOWN - TRANSMISSION WILL USUALLY RE ENGAGE WITHOUT ANY ADJUSTMENT ON DRIVERS PART. BUT THIS IS NOT A SHIFTING PROBLEM AS TRANSMISSION IS IN DRIVE THROUGHOUT JOURNEY- ITS JUST THAT SOMETIMES IT ACTS LIKE ITS IN NEUTRAL AND LEAVES YOU STRADDLED ACROSS A LANE OR RAIL LINE WHICH YOU HAD STOPPED AT TO JUDGE IF THE CROSSING WAS CLEAR.
CONSUMER WAS DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 35-40 MPH, NOTICED NOISE IN WHEEL AREA, TRANSMISSION BEGAN SHIFTING RAPIDLY, UPON CHANGING THE TRANSMISSION FLUID, CONSUMER FOUND CRUD, AND OTHER METAL PARTICLES IN THE PAN. WAS TOLD THAT A PLANETARY GEAR SET HAS POSSIBLY DESTROYED ITSELF. TRANSMISSION MODEL COMPUTER CONTROLED--604--4SPEED OVER DRIVE. *AK
TRANSMISSION FAILS TO SHIFT OUT OF FIRST GEAR WITHOUT WARNING.
#1/TRANSMISSION SHIFTS ROUGHLY/EXCESSIVE NOISE DURING SHIFTS;//#2/CLICKING NOISE AT LOW SPEEDS ON LEFT FRONT.
ONCE CAR IS PUT IN GEAR THERE IS A DELAYED REACTION BEFORE IT WILL MOVE. TT
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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