Other powertrain problem on the 2006 Chrysler 300
3 crashes 1 fire 4 of the 182 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 other powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2006 Chrysler 300 report other powertrain problem at a median of 80,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 104,000 miles, from 168 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 25,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 136,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 111,110 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
13% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24,790 miles | 55,000 miles | 80,000 miles | 104,125 miles | 135,900 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, 3 a crash and 1 a fire are 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 $400–$4,500 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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 13 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2016, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2005 at 90,000 miles.
By volume the 2006 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
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.
Dt: while driving on the highway at 35 MPH the front right passenger side axle broke off with the wheel intact. This happened without warning, no previous incidents. The vehicle skidded to the side of the road, and this was where the vehicle came to a stop. No other vehicles were involved. Witnesses called police who quickly arrived on the scene. The vehicle was towed to a garage. The vehicle was left behind at the garage, and the consumer wanted to continue her trip and got a rental car to proceed further. The consumer was instructed to file complaint by the insurance adjustor. *ak
I purchase a 300 touring on nov 5 2006. This was a brand new car with only 4 mile. The check engine light came on the first time on nov 17. I contacted the dealership and took the car in. I was told that they did a diagnostic test and didn't see any code indicating that anything was wrong. The light was reset and the car was return to me. I drove it again for several days and the light came back on again for the second time nov 23 2006. I contact the dealership again and took the car in. I was told that when the tech started the car he didn't see the light on. I was told to take the car home. When the problem started the car had less than 1500 miles. I don't feel safe driving this car. I have the feeling the dealership is just resetting the light and not trying to fix the problem. I did notice on your site that this was a problem with the 300 touring. *jb
On 1/25/06 I lost all acceleration on my 2006 chrysler 300c 4dr. Sedan. The engine was running, pressing the accelerator revved the engine but their was absolutely no acceleration. Luckily there was a shoulder, I was in the right lane and was able to coast over before being struck by the truck behind me. The vehicle was "repaired" by the dealer (mcdonough chrysler in east brunswick, nj) and returned to me on 2/10/06. The same thing happened to my wife while driving south on us route #1. This time there was no shoulder and the tractor trailer behind her only avoided hitting her by swerving to the left and going around her. When the vehicle was towed the tow truck operator made a comment that he tows "about 20 of these cars a week." this may be an exaggeration but it would seem to indicate a serious problem. *nm
Also reported on the 2006 Chrysler 300
Other engine problem
Airbag inflator rupture
Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure
Other fuel system problem
Shifter, linkage or stuck-in-park failure
Other electrical problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 182 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 other powertrain problem happen on the 2006 Chrysler 300?
Across 168 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 80,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 104,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2006 Chrysler 300?
182 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 2.8 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