Tail light, brake light or signal failure on the 2005 Chrysler 300C
Only 7 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 tail light, brake light or signal failure gets reported
There are 7 reports of tail light, brake light or signal failure on the 2005 Chrysler 300C, 7 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 85,000 miles. It is the 12th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 79,000 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
Putting it right typically runs $100–$900 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.
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chrysler 300c. While driving approximately 25 MPH, the steering wheel became extremely difficult to control and there was an abnormal clicking noise inside the steering wheel. The hazard lights also shut on and off intermittently. Whenever the contact shut the engine off and restarted the vehicle it would function normally; however, the failure continued to occur intermittently. The dealer did not diagnose the failure. The failure and current mileages were 43,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 chrysler 300c. While driving approximately 25 MPH, the steering wheel became extremely difficult to control and there was an abnormal clicking noise inside the steering wheel. The hazard lights also shut on and off intermittently. Whenever the contact shut the engine off and restarted the vehicle it would function normally; however, the failure continued to occur intermittently. The dealer did not diagnose the failure. The failure and current mileages were 43,000.
My turn signals at first were not canceling, and then stopped working completely. However, the right turn signal is stuck in the on position and flashes continuously. Also, after driving for one mile an alert signal starts dinging continuously to let you know that your signal is still on and it never goes off. I have had to remove my turn signal bulbs completely so they would not continuously flash on the outside. This whole situation is unsafe because I do not have any use of my turn signals, and even though I use hand signals people just aren't looking for that . I have even been pulled over by the police for failing to use my turn signal even though I was using my hand signal. Also, in an emergency situation I have no use of my hazard lights(flashers). I have looked online to see if there are any similar complaints concerning chrysler 300's and I found thousands people with the same issue or in the beginning stages of the signals failing to cancel. *tr
Also reported on the 2005 Chrysler 300C
Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure
Other fuel system problem
Other engine problem
Other powertrain problem
Shifter, linkage or stuck-in-park failure
Airbag inflator rupture
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 7 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 7 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 tail light, brake light or signal failure happen on the 2005 Chrysler 300C?
Across 7 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 80,000 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 tail light, brake light or signal failure on the 2005 Chrysler 300C?
7 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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