NHTSA Complaint #753676 — 1999 DODGE INTREPID

SEVERAL DAYS AFTER HAVING THE 3.2L ENGINE REPLACED BECAUSE IT BLEW UP DUE TO UNEXPLAINED OIL DISSAPPEARANCE I EXPERIENCED CONTINUED PROBLEMS WITH THE VEHICLE. MY INPUT AND OUTPUT SPEED SENSOR WAS REPLACED WHEN MY VEHICLE WAS IN FOR ENGINE REPLACEMENT DUE TO ROUGH SHIFTING AND SURGING IN LOW GEARS AND INTERMITTENT TRANSMISSION BUMP. VEHICLE'S TRANSMISSION SEEMED TO WORK SOMEWHAT SMOOTHER. TRANSMISSION KICKDOWN ISSUE WORSENED HOWEVER. VEHICLE WOULD NEED TO BE DRIVING AT 30-35MPH OR SLOWER FOR TRANSMISSION TO KICK DOWN HARD FOR MERGING, PASSING OR TO ENTER THE FREEWAY OR ACCELERATION WAS POOR. TRANSMISSION BUMP STILL SOMETIMES OCCURED. DURING ACCELERATION ACROSS INTERSECTION VEHICLE BEGAN TO VIOLENTLY SURGE BACK AND FOURTH AS VEHICLE WAS SWITCHING BACK AND FOURTH BETWEEN GEARS. THIS HAPPENED FOR SEVERAL SECONDS, I WAS READY TO KILL THE IGNITION BUT IT STOPPED. I STEPPED DOWN HARD ON THE ACCELERATOR TRYING TO INVESTIGATE THE PROBLEM AND ENGINE REVED BUT VEHICLE ACELERATED VERY SLOWLY INDICATING TRANSMISSION SLIPPAGE. THE SLIPPAGE ONLY OCCURED ONCE SHORTLY AFTER AND COULD NOT BE DUPLICATED. DEALER WAS ABLE TO DUPLICATE OR PULL FAULT CODE. DEALER IS GOING TO PERFORM MAJOR TRANSMISSION OVERHAUL/REBUILD AT ONLY 33350 MILES. ADDITIONAL LOSSED TIME FROM WORK BECAUSE OF THESE CONTINUAL PROBLEMS.*AK