Stalling while driving on the 2012 Chrysler 200
2 crashes 2 of the 27 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When stalling while driving gets reported
Owners of the 2012 Chrysler 200 report stalling while driving at a median of 40,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 25,000 miles and a quarter after 70,000 miles, from 20 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 11th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 700 miles at the tenth percentile to 80,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 77,525 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
45% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 675 miles | 23,658 miles | 38,000 miles | 67,676 miles | 78,200 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 2 a crash is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$2,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 6 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2012, at a median of 40,000 miles, and latest on the 2013 at 100,000 miles.
By volume the 2015 carries the most reports, with 138; the 2012 has 27. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
The first incident with my brand new 2012 chrysler 200 was failure to start. I went to start my car and turned the key but the car would not start the engine stalled. I started to turn the key again , again did not turn on. After the third time it began. I brought it to the dealer they said they could not duplicate my problem, contacted chrysler to see if there was any report of this but they hadn't had any complaints. The dealer then sent me on my way. On april 1st I was driving my 2012 chrysler 200,658 miles,with my two year old daughter in the car. As I was turning right off of a main street into a the parking lot there was another car moving so at the entrance, I pressed my brakes shortly and put the car in reverse I was not in the other vehicles way so I then proceeded to put the car back in drive but the car would not move. At this time the car was at a complete stop and in the fast moving traffic with my daughters end out in the main street. I have brought my car to the dealer which they have told me they are unable to duplicate the problem and that they spoke with chrysler and asked for reports but chrysler said no…
Tl* the contact owns a 2012 chrysler 200. The contact stated that while driving approximately 10 MPH in a parking lot, the engine stalled. The contact was unaware whether a warning indicator illuminated on the instrument panel when the failure occurred. The engine restarted and resumed as normal. The vehicle was not repaired. There was an open investigation under NHTSA action number pe12016 (engine), which pertained to the 2011 model year vehicles equipped with 3.6l engine. The manufacturer was not notified of the problem. The approximate failure mileage was 1,150.
The first time this incident occurred I was preparing to make a left turn off of a busy road. I had just purchased the car and not really thinking something was wrong with my vehicle when the engine stalled. This incident has occurred very often since september of 2012. I have taken my vehicle to the dealership three times for the car stalling and cutting off during low speeds. I'm suppose to take it back again tomorrow but I'm very disappointed to know by reading other complaints the problem will not be fixed. It's very sad someone or multiple people have to die before anything can be done about these cars. I have four kids and I am terrified for them to ride in the car with me. These cars are definitely not safe to be on the highway! Someone please offer some help!!! *tr
Also reported on the 2012 Chrysler 200
Other engine problem
Other electrical problem
Radiator or coolant leak
Heater core failure
Airbag inflator rupture
Other visibility problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 27 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does stalling while driving happen on the 2012 Chrysler 200?
Across 20 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 40,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 25,000 miles and a quarter after 70,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is stalling while driving on the 2012 Chrysler 200?
27 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.4 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed