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#84 of 104 Re: Shimmy when shifting [tim185] by uggy

Jul 20, 2011 (2:53 pm)

Replying to: tim185 (Jul 20, 2011 1:51 pm)
might as well! Chrysler never put out to the public how, shall we say, "sensitive" the early, and perhaps, recent, PT tranny's are! Mine blew up, and it costs as much as the car to get a new one, a used one was put in and it blew up too. I WOULD NEVER BUY A PT OR ANY CHRYSLER EVER AGAIN. I have a little Nissan Versa with a lawnmower type transmission that just hums along! If you DO NOT do these things, it is just a matter of time before the tranny blows out completely for you! Read deeper in Edmund's about PT transmissions. GOOD LUCK, Uggy

#85 of 104 04 PT Crusier 5speed by trrjar

Aug 21, 2011 (7:06 pm)

My check engine light has been on since we bought it back in April or May of this year...we've had it checked on quite a bit but everyone says the same thing it's fine nothing is showing up...around about 3 wks or so ago it started having trouble going into reverse but no problems with any other gears....What could be the problem with it??? Any idea's????

#86 of 104 pt cruiser law suit by dkaczmarek

Aug 29, 2011 (5:01 pm)

does any one no if thiers a class action law suit against chrysler for these problems we all have incountered. i have a 2003 pt bought it new by the third year i replaced the timing belt then the conputer now the car shakes they said its the transaxel i have spent around 6000.00 and the tranmission is to be about 2500.

#87 of 104 Re: pt cruiser law suit [dkaczmarek] by uggy

Aug 29, 2011 (9:39 pm)

Replying to: dkaczmarek (Aug 29, 2011 5:01 pm)
Blood from a stone. I had an 88 ramcharger that I loved. The paint evaporated off of it above the passenger and the driver on the roof! Then, it started to leave the body turning it white from gray. The Maintenence Manager brought in a Chrysler rep and this guy said this, "You must have driven through something! Something aerosol!" (!?!). My reply, "Like what? a picket line of pissed off hairdressers?" (at the time, Chrysler had blamed the hairspray of their assembly line workers for the big paint problems they were having!)They would do nothing, he was very rude and declared that I had exceeded the 50,000/5 yr. paint warranty by one month! I explained that it TOOK A MONTH FOR HIM TO GET THERE, & DRIVING BACK AND FORTH TO WORK TOOK IT OVER THE LIMIT, WHILE I WAITED! He did not care. I contacted my states Attorney general, and got harumphed. Years Later: I discovered Chrysler was experimenting, (along with the other big 3) with "enviromentally Safe" undercoatings that were EXPECTED to cause the degradation of the surface paint! Ford had better success, but GM and Chrysler did not. And now the rest of the story: the paint on my PT Cruiser is fine, but it has been 9 months trying to get a transmission in it that will work! My brother seeks a new car, today he looked at a Chrysler 300, I hit him with a brick... Good Luck!!!

#88 of 104 Replaced tranny with one from Stratus by tiver43809

Nov 18, 2011 (7:15 am)

2001 PT Cruiser Automatic
My daughter hit something which broke the bell housing on her tranny. He friends replaced it with one from a boneyard which came out of a Stratus. They guy said it would work. They got it in ok but it will not shift out of first. Someone told her that there is a "linkage conversion kit" she needs to buy for the Stratus tranny to work in her PT Cruiser. She is bringing me the car on Saturday to fix it. (sure wish she would of done this to start with) Any thoughts? This is all I know and I could not find anything about a "conversion kit"
 
Thanks
Terry the Dad

#89 of 104 Re: 04 PT Crusier 5speed [trrjar] by iamterryb

Nov 21, 2011 (7:54 am)

Replying to: trrjar (Aug 21, 2011 7:06 pm)
If the car has problems going into reverse then it usually indicates that there is something going on with the transmission.

#90 of 104 Re: Replaced tranny with one from Stratus [tiver43809] by tiver43809

Nov 22, 2011 (1:35 am)

Replying to: tiver43809 (Nov 18, 2011 7:15 am)
Figured it out. Where the linkage attaches you can turn the nut underneath to adjust it.
 
Thanks anyway
 
Terry

#91 of 104 Re: 04 PT Crusier 5speed [trrjar] by cicc

Jan 17, 2012 (7:06 am)

Replying to: trrjar (Aug 21, 2011 7:06 pm)
I had a same problem and it was a computer in the car.If your light on not pass a smog-test,and had to replace a computer.about 800-900 dollar

#92 of 104 help by cheeks5

Apr 13, 2012 (4:00 pm)

I have a 2001 Pt Cruiser and it has been leaking the transmission fluid, about two weeks ago it the check engine light came on and the car started to get stuck on first gear....i checked the fluid level and it was low... i added fluid and it worked fine but it started doing it again after a few miles of driving it. Yesterday a friend of mine that's a mechanic checked it and cleared the codes and the check engine light turned off and the car was working perfectly fine but after a few miles of driving it the light came back on and it started getting stuck on first gear again but he cleared the code once again and it worked fine again. Has anyone had this problem? Please help...i need answers

#93 of 104 Re: pt cruiser law suit [uggy] by sandra35

Sep 18, 2012 (3:32 pm)

Replying to: uggy (Aug 29, 2011 9:39 pm)
I have a problem with my 2002 pt cruiser, where it down shifted to 2 nd gear from 40 miles a hour on its own i slowed the car down to a stop shut it off and when i did it started rolling when it was in park. started the car no gears at all in the car automatic trans. So had it towed still no gears n no park also. called chrysler 1800 number cust serv, said theres no recall and no warranty. That chrysler never noted a problem with there transmissions in the pt cruisers..... no help at all . so i know im not the only one

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