Owner-reported complaints naming the fuel system system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming fuel storage or delivery — tanks, pumps, lines, injectors and fuel leaks. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1997 Dodge Stratus submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 11 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
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 1997 DODGE STRATUS. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FUEL FILLER HOSE WAS LOOSE AND WOULD NOT KEEP FUEL IN THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INSPECTED BY A DEALER NOR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS CONTACTED AND THEY OFFERED NO ASSISTANCE. THE FAILURE AND CURRENT MILEAGES WERE APPROXIMATELY 168,000.
LOSS OF POWER AND STALLING. WHILE ON HILLS IT HAS NO POWER ON ME SHUTS OFF ON ME EVERY WEEK. SAID THAT I HAD TO PAY FOR FIXING THAT DODGE DEALER ISN'T RESPONSIBLE FOR CHARGES. *TR
AFTER FUELING VEHICLE, CONSUMER SMELLED FUEL INSIDE OF VEHICLE. PARKED VEHICLE, AND SAW FUEL GUSHING OUT FROM UNDERNEATH. HAD VEHICLE TOWED TO DEALER , FUEL FILTER HAD EXPLODED, LEAKING FUEL ONTO EXHAUST SYSTEM.*AK *SLC
WHILE TRAVELING 35MPH VEHICLE STALLED OUT. WAS NOT ABLE TO RESTART. VEHICLE TOWED TO GARAGE. WAS RESTARTED AT GARAGE AND TEST DRIVEN. NOTHING HAPPENED. HOWEVER, MUCH LATER PROBLEM REAPPEARED. TOOK VEHICLE TO INDEPENDENT MECHANIC, AND FUEL PUMP ASSEMBLY AND FUEL FILTER WAS REPLACED.*AK *SLC
THERE IS A CRACK IN INTAKE MANIFOLD. MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED.*AK
WHILE INSERTING FUELING NOZZLE INTO TANK FILL - PLASTIC HOUSING AROUND TANK FILL JUST INSIDE FILL DOOR COLLAPSED INTO BODY OF VEHICLE WITH NOZZLE AND DRIVERS HAND WHILE REFUELING VEHICLE. *AK
DEALERSHIP FOUND A LEAK DURING MY INSPECTION. NEED TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR REPAIRS. DECIDED TO RESEARCH THIS PROBLEM SINCE MY FATHER-IN-LAW HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WITH HIS STRATUS. I FOUND MANY PROBLEMS LISTED BY OTHERS, WHICH LED TO THIS REPORT BEING FILED. SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE SINCE THIS SEEMS TO BE A DEFECT ON THESE VEHECLES. *AK
WHEN AIR GETS INTO THE GAS TANK IT SETS THE ENGINE CHECK LIGHT ON/OFF DUE TO THE CAP BEING LOOSE. DEALER HAS BEEN CONTACTED. *AK
FUEL PUMP FAILED. *YC
FUEL GAUGE FAILED. YH
SENDER CONTINUALLY FAILS.
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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