Dodge Stratus Reviews

OK, the headlight went out in the car low beam after 3 months of having this car today the dome light went out???? I will fix both and see what happens??? Good grief, I like this car, it had 78,000 miles on it. I am up to 81,000 in 3 months. The woman who I bought it from at a gas station was 83 yrs old, but 4,000 miles a year on it. I have put 1,000 a month on it. I drive it a lot and I feel like I actually live in this car. People keep wanting to hit the car with car doors at malls. It is a big car. I get upset about this. I have only had this car 3 months and 2 people have slightly hit this car with their bumpers.... The car seems like it needs gas every 3 days. It says 22 miles per gallon and 30 miles on miles on highway, maybe because it is cold out the gas is not very good.

Hardly any problems with my 2006 Dodge Stratus SXT - I have been reading all these reviews on the Stratus and see all these problems everyone else has. I want to set the record straight. My car has had very few problems. I find that if you keep up regular maintenance on your car it will be fine. I have 69000 miles on it and just now I had my first check engine light. It was for my brake switch light which cost 150.00 to fix. Now it works great. I love my Stratus and will look for another Dodge when I buy my next car.

So I've had a Dodge Stratus 2000 for 2 years now. So far in the first year the wiring to my brake light has failed, the wiring for my passenger door window and backseat windows have failed, then this year it is sputtering, I have no heat, it keeps overheating as well. I've replaced parts and have had it looked at and nothing has helped. It has died on me a couple times. This is literally a throwaway car. You can drive it for a year then it is literally dying. I will probably never buy a Dodge anything ever again.

I'm not for sure why the hell the belt are always breaking but nonetheless I hate this car!! It sucks! Can't even drive to work when it's raining. Even the slightest rain it always hydroplanes. I have to go 35 mph just to not side.

I bought my 04 stratus in 06. Within 2 months of having it the water pump went out. The transmission started going out at 40000 miles. It did ok for the next 40000 then after that everything started going wrong with it. 80000 miles are on the car now. It sits in my driveway. A hunk of worthless metal. I will never buy another one.

I bought my 1999 Stratus at a govt auction. It's a 4 cyl base and had about 67,000 miles on it. A massive maintenance/repair record was turned over showing many repairs already. Not long after having it I had to replace the blower, the driver rear window quit working, the pass front window works part-time. I've had replaced the bearings all around except driver front (told it would be next), the brakes have been gone through 3x and I'm getting a grinding noise like metal to metal contact and a squeal as though the brakes are going again! The air has quit blowing cold from last summer when it was great. Now I have to get the sys leak checked, evacuated and if good recharged. I wouldn't recommend this line of car to anybody!

This car has sucked from the moment I bought it. I am talking about a 2003 Dodge Stratus. I am convinced this car was constructed in Hell. First off who the hell puts a battery behind the wheel of the driver side. You have the put the car on a lift just to change the ** battery. Second, I have already replaced the water pump, ignition switch, and now a belt on the alternator. Third, Dodge blows ** and I will never buy from you again you communist.

I got my 2003 Dodge Stratus for a graduation gift in 2008. Within 4 days the engine blew because of engine sludge, and it sat in the shop for one month while they rebuilt the engine. One day while dropping a friend off I hit a pothole and it cracked my exhaust manifold and as a result, sometime that Summer, the heat from that melted my radiator fan. A few years later my back shocks started rattling (no big deal just very annoying). On my way home one day my brakes stopped working due to a faulty master cylinder. About 4 months later I changed my drivers side brake rotor because it was ground to a pulp.

We are buying this vehicle from my sister who bought it at a government auction, she was impressed at the amount of mileage that is on the 2004 vehicle and thought it would make for an excellent car. We can't get it to pass emissions though that is not our complaint. The trunk of this car is so heavy and almost too heavy for me to lift, the worst thing is it comes down so hard when you try to close it. I am 100 percent sure that if I'm putting groceries in the car it can slam down on my head and do serious damage. If someone’s hands are there the trunk door will literally break it, if our kids just happen to be standing with us while putting groceries in the car it will literally snap their hands or heads off. And this is no exaggeration. We cannot park on a hill and access the trunk, not for any reason because it is so, so heavy and doesn't hold up at all. It falls down hard slamming the trunk really hard.

We have an 01 Dodge Stratus ES 2.4L DOHC that we got used. Its manufacturing date reads Jan. 1, 2001, so it is a refit 2000 model, still having some parts from the 2000 model such as the. The engine is still very solid as indicated by compression tests, but I believe the previous owners did a very poor job maintaining the car so I am omitting problems that were purely caused by neglect. The biggest problem we had was a sudden breakage of the timing belt, which with this car usually means you have to replace the water pump. It's a tricky job, because you have to remove the passenger side engine mount and raise and lower the engine as needed. You also have to be very careful with the AC lines that are directly in your way because it is easy to break the seals on the expansion valve.