1997 Dodge Intrepid — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 467 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Fuel system88 (18.8%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 1995–1997.
• Steering67 (14.3%)
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)54 (11.6%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 1995–1999.
• Engine46 (9.9%)
• Electrical system34 (7.3%)
• Suspension24 (5.1%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 1995.

Other / uncategorized: 16 classifications (3.4%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (10,193 records, model years 1995–2004) are most frequently classified under: engine, steering and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).
• Manufacturer communications (1,116 records, model years 1995–2004) are most frequently classified under: powertrain (transmission & drivetrain), body & structure and electrical system.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 82reports included a mileage
• 85,491average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1995 688 records for 1995 688
2. 1996 593 records for 1996 593
3. 1997 434 records for 1997 434
4. 1998 539 records for 1998 539
5. 1999 1,130 records for 1999 1,130
6. 2000 1,156 records for 2000 1,156
7. 2001 724 records for 2001 724
8. 2002 392 records for 2002 392
9. 2003 163 records for 2003 163
10. 2004 162 records for 2004 162

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 25mention a crash
• 26mention a fire
• 20mention an injury
• 2mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 2
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 84
• Investigations NHTSA 4
• Owner complaints NHTSA 344

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Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0442 in 2 records
• P0455 in 2 records
• P1494 in 2 records

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.