general problems of the 2002 Chrysler Pt Cruiser

Tl-the contact owns a 2002 Chrysler Pt Cruiser. The contact stated that while attempting to start the vehicle, all meters, gauges and lights on the instrument cluster panel failed to function. In addition, the interior lights failed to function. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 135,000. Oo.

My wife's car has had issues since we got the car. I have had the battery replaced and it is still not holding a charge. I found that while jump starting the car, you get sparks as you attach the cables. This is evidence of a short somewhere in the vehicle. The issues that I have found are nonfunctional interior lights, mirror controls, door locks, and radio. I have found recall information on vehicles with this same year, make, and model. Upon calling daimler Chrysler I was informed that this vehicle was not involved in this recall. I MA having the same issues as vehicles in this recall.

I unlocked my car doors with remote, and drove to the store, it was dark out so I had my head lights on. When I came out of the store and tried to unlock my car, it would not work. So I manually unlocked the doors with my key. It was very cold weather at that time and my heater would not work as well then I turned on my car to go home, and my lights would not come on. And so I was towed home. The next day I took it in to a Chrysler repair shop and they did a quick check on it and said that it might be the electrical and they would have to go through the entire electrical to find the problem. They checked everything out without tearing the entire car apart and said that they could not find a problem with it. There went $100. 00 of my money to find out that they could not find the problem. I don't know what else to do to get the car repaired with out having to spend $1,000. 00 plus. . . . Which is a quote by the Chrysler repair. I have not been able to drive my car at night, due to no lights and now that we have hot 90 to 101 degree weather, I can not drive my car during this period of time due to not being able to use the air conditioner or to roll my windows down. I have spent over $3,000. 00 in repairs for my car and I have only had it for just two years. There is one thing after another with my car, the problems are having to replace parts and sometimes having to replace those same parts a year later when they have just ran out of the warranties. I have service records for all of these problems and it is almost 2 inches thick. I am on disability and it took me over a year to save the enough money to buy this car and I have no more money to fix it again. . . And I have to take it through deq here in oregon and it will not pass their test due to exhaustion problems with the emissions leaking as well.

Fog lamps stayed on when 2002 Pt Cruiser was turned off. After dissembling of the switch box the internal switch had arched enough that it welded itself together causing the plastic to melt and smoke. I used a real relay to rewire the circuit with a switch on the dash. This is in addition to rebuilding the front suspension and now I have a oil leak. Great car from Chrysler. I only have 74,000 on the car.

2002 Chrysler Pt Cruiser multfunction switch smoking and short circuiting resulting in fog lamp failure.

Multi function switch shorted out causing lights to remain on. Leaving my wife unable to attend her chemo therapy session on time, due the need to get car jump started. After several days mis function was notice,brought to dealer and repaired by same at no charge .

Dome lights do not always go out when doors are closed. Sometimes dome lights come on when signals are used. Could run battery done if not noticed.