Other engine problem on the 2007 Chrysler 300
1 crash 3 fires 4 of the 31 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 engine problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Chrysler 300 report other engine problem at a median of 75,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 37,500 miles and a quarter after 122,500 miles, from 30 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 4th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 17,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 150,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 131,646 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.
20% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17,978 miles | 37,275 miles | 76,000 miles | 121,621 miles | 149,624 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, 1 a crash and 3 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 $300–$4,000 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 14 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2011, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2005 at 95,000 miles.
By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 135; the 2007 has 31. 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 2007 chrysler 300. The vehicle was purchased on february 11, 2007 and the malfunction light remained illuminated for two days. On february 17, 2007 and february 22, 2007, the vehicle began to shake while being parked. The owner called carmax and made an appointment to have the vehicle diagnosed. The dealer was unable to duplicate the failure. While driving 50 MPH and greater, the vehicle's shaking intensified. A forensic expert with daimler chrysler stated that two brains were defective in the vehicle and both were replaced. After the repairs were performed, the shaking worsened. On may 7, 2007, the vehicle was towed to carmax where it currently remains. The current mileage is 2,600 and failure mileage was 8. The consumer stated vehicle makes popping sound when shifting gears and check engine light illuminated and then went off. Updated 06/07/07 *tr
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 chrysler 300. While driving 30 MPH, the check engine light illuminated then the vehicle MPH decreased to 10. The dealer did not inspect the vehicle. Approximately one week later while driving 40 MPH, the check engine light illuminated then the vehicle MPH decreased to 20. In addition, the contact stated the vehicle would not accelerate when she depressed the accelerator. The dealer stated that a code on the vehicle caused the failure and they reset the code. Approximately one week later the failure occurred again while driving 60 MPH. The dealer stated that valve body caused the failure. They removed and cleaned the valve body however the failure continued to occur. The failure mileage was 200 and current mileage was 2,156.
My husband is in the military, therefore we are stationed in new orleans, la. On may 25, 2008 we had a terrible rain storm in the city. We live in base housing so we park our vehicles in a parking lot. At about 5:00p.m. The end of the parking lot were my 2007 chrysler 300 limited was parked begin to flood with water. My husband went out to move the car from the before the water got to high. At this time there was approximately 3 inches of water on the ground. He backed the car out of the parking space to move it. One of the neighbors was coming the parking lot at the time and forced my husband to drive out into the street and re-enter the parking lot. As he drove out into the street, I noticed that he immediately stopped. I went out to see what was wrong and he told me the car shut-off. A couple of our neighbors helped him push it out of the street into the parking lot. Not sure what was wrong we called out insurance and they sent out a tow truck to get the vehicle and take it to a near by chrysler dealership. The dealership called on friday to let us know that the vehicle sucked up water through the air intake and hd=ydrolocked…
Also reported on the 2007 Chrysler 300
Other powertrain problem
Airbag inflator rupture
Shifter, linkage or stuck-in-park failure
Other electrical problem
Radiator or coolant leak
Other brake problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 31 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 engine problem happen on the 2007 Chrysler 300?
Across 30 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 75,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 37,500 miles and a quarter after 122,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other engine problem on the 2007 Chrysler 300?
31 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.5 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