Wiring harness or short circuit on the 2006 Chrysler 300
2 fires 2 of the 3 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.
Only 3 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When wiring harness or short circuit gets reported
There are 3 reports of wiring harness or short circuit on the 2006 Chrysler 300, 3 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 39th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 65,000 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 fire 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 $400–$3,500 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 3 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2012 at 65,000 miles.
By volume the 2012 carries the most reports, with 9; the 2006 has 3. 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.
Tl*the contact owns a 2006 chrysler 300. While driving 72 MPH, the contact smelled something burning and the vehicle became engulfed in smoke. The contact pulled over and exited the vehicle to investigate the issue. He observed that the wires were burning from the front of the vehicle to the rear. He called the dealer to order a new wiring harness, but it is on back order. The current mileage was 61,258 and failure mileage was 61,200.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 chrysler 300. The contact stated that while driving, smoke was emitted into the vehicle through the vents. The contact mentioned that after pulling over, she was unable to remove the vehicle from park and both the tail and brake lights were malfunctioning. The vehicle was towed to the dealer who diagnosed that there was a pinched wire in the trunk which caused the shortage. As a result, the wiring harness would need replacing. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure who did not offer any assistance since the vehicle was no longer under warranty. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 65,000.
While driving, all the warning lights came on and flashed for about 2 seconds. This continued to happen about once a week, or sometimes 3x per day. Once, all the gauges went dead as well. Very distracting and unsettling while driving. My wife had a similar problem with her chrysler town and country van, and sears suggested she replace the battery. Her problem seems to have been solved. Mine continues to be a problem. The fresno chrysler dealer told me they have never heard of this problem, although there are multiple complaints of this discussed on the internet. Here are a few sites: http://www.300cforums.com/forums/srt8-specific-general-discussion/25584-indicator-warning-lights.html http://www.300cforumz.com/showthread.php?t=92854 http://www.carcomplaints.com/chrysler/300c/2006/electrical/flashing_warning_lights_loss_of_electrical_power.shtml they suggest replacing the entire wiring system and the computer, at a cost of $4200.00. Please check and see how many similar wiring harness failures/replacements have been made on 300s and if this is a common problem that needs to be investigated and recalled.thank you *tr
Also reported on the 2006 Chrysler 300
Other powertrain problem
Other engine problem
Airbag inflator rupture
Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure
Other fuel system problem
Shifter, linkage or stuck-in-park failure
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 3 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 3 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 wiring harness or short circuit happen on the 2006 Chrysler 300?
Across 3 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 65,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is wiring harness or short circuit on the 2006 Chrysler 300?
3 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.0 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