Other brake problem on the 2008 Chrysler 300
3 crashes 2 injuries 5 of the 13 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 brake problem gets reported
Owners of the 2008 Chrysler 300 report other brake problem at a median of 60,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 20,000 miles and a quarter after 95,000 miles, from 11 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 9th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 115,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 97,000 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.
36% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17,000 miles | 19,609 miles | 59,132 miles | 95,000 miles | 114,000 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, 3 a crash and 2 an injury 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–$1,800 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 10 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2010, at a median of 35,000 miles, and latest on the 2005 at 100,000 miles.
By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 20; the 2008 has 13. 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.
I stated their was a rubbing type noise in right/left front wheel when turning. The result was nothing. The second occurrence was august 13, 2008 with the same problem. The third time day chrysler resurfaced front and rear rotors. The subsided but occurred again. The brakes drag and pulsate when stopping. I continue to have noisy front wheels while driving forward. When backing the automobile up the front brake pads are not stationary meaning they should not move in brake calipers. The steering knocks when turning. I have complained to the chrysler corporation. *tr
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 chrysler 300. While driving approximately 60 MPH, the contact applied the brakes but the vehicle did not stop until crashing. A police report was filed and the contact suffered a concussion. Due to the contacts injuries, the contact was unaware of the full details of of the crash. The vehicle was towed to a towing company lot but the failure was not diagnosed and the vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 40,800.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 chrysler 300c. While the contact was driving approximately 45 MPH, the front end of the vehicle began to shake during braking. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer on three separate occasions for the same failure where the front brake pads were replaced each time. On the third recurrence, the front rotors were resurfaced with the replacement of the front brake pads. The failure recurred after 11,000 miles. The vehicle had not been repaired for the most recent failure. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and they informed the contact that there were no recalls related to the problem. The approximate failure mileage was 6,681....updated 09/21/11 *bf the consumer stated on august 26, 2011 he paid $834.78 to have the rotors and pads replaced. Updated 12/13/11. *jb
Also reported on the 2008 Chrysler 300
Other electrical problem
No-start or intermittent start failure
Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
Airbag inflator rupture
Other engine problem
Stalling while driving
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 13 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 brake problem happen on the 2008 Chrysler 300?
Across 11 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 60,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 20,000 miles and a quarter after 95,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other brake problem on the 2008 Chrysler 300?
13 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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