NHTSA Complaint #10155331 — 2005 DODGE MAGNUM

I PURCHASED MY NEW 2005 DODGE MAGNUM R/T ON 12/20/04. MANUFACTURER DATE 9/04. VEHICLE CONTINUES TO PULL RIGHT. HAS PULLED TO THE RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING. MUST KEEP CONSTANT PRESSURE TO THE LEFT ON THE STEERING WHEEL. IF I LET UP, VEHICLE TRAVELS RIGHT. LANE DOES NOT MAKE DIFFERENCE. WITHOUT CONSTANT PRESSURE TO LEFT, VEHICLE WILL TRAVEL ACROSS 3 LANES TO RIGHT AND KEEP GOING RIGHT. FIRST COMPLAINT AT 4400 MILES 5/05. DEALER REALIGNED. SECOND COMPLAINT 7900 MILES. DEALER REALIGNED. THIRD COMPLAINT 15900 MILES. BOTH FRONT TIRES SHOWING EXTREME WEAR ON OUTSIDE. TREAD IN THAT AREA ON DRIVER FRONT ALMOST GONE. REQUESTED TIRE REPLACEMENT. DEALER TOLD ME THEY CONTACTED DAIMLER CHRYSLER ABOUT MY COMPLAINT. TWO NEW TIRES WERE MOUNTED, AT NO CHARGE TO ME, ON REAR OF VEHICLE. OLDER REAR TIRES MOVED TO FRONT. REAR TIRES DID NOT SHOW ANY ABNORMAL WEAR. VEHICLE CAME WITH CONTINENTAL TIRES. REPLACEMENT TIRES ALSO CONTINENTALS. VEHICLE ALIGNED AGAIN. ON DRIVE HOME, VEHICLE CONTINUED TO PULL TO RIGHT. TOOK VEHICLE TO REPUTABLE, NATIONAL COMPANY FOR A COURTESY ROAD TEST. THEY CONFIRMED VEHICLE PULLS TO THE RIGHT. RETURNED TO DEALER A COUPLE OF HOURS LATER WITH THE COMPLAINT THAT THE VEHICLE STILL PULLING TO RIGHT. MANAGEMENT IS CONTACTING THE "DODGE TECHNICIANS" TO SEE WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT MY VEHICLE. I WAS TOLD BY THIS DEALER THAT THEY HAD EXPERIENCED SIMILAR PROBLEMS WITH ANOTHER 05 MAGNUM, THAT THEY WERE TOLD BY THE "DODGE TECHNICIANS" THAT THE VEHICLES ARE WITHIN SPECS AND WITHIN TOLERANCES." WITHIN TOLERANCES OF WHAT? I KNOW THAT IF I LET GO OF THE WHEEL, OR DO NOT APPLY CONSTANT PRESSURE TO THE LEFT, THIS VEHICLE WILL RUN OFF THE ROAD! THE EXTREME TIRE WEAR I EXPERIENCED WAS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE FRONT END OF THIS VEHICLE. AT PRESENT MY VEHICLE HAS 16000 MILES ON IT. LEFT FRONT TIRE THAT WAS REMOVED WAS EXTREMELY SCARY AS TO HOW IT HAD WORN SO BADLY. I AM NOT IN POSSESSION OF THE REMOVED TIRES. *JB