Other electrical problem on the 2007 Dodge Nitro 4X2
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 21 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 electrical problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Dodge Nitro 4X2 report other electrical problem at a median of 10,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles, from 19 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 85,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 2,300 miles at the tenth percentile to 85,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 81,175 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.
79% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,280 miles | 2,895 miles | 7,500 miles | 22,600 miles | 83,455 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 1 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 $250–$2,000 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.
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
My car shuts off and then turns back on while in motion. The car will completely turn off including all electrical components then turns back on. When it turns back on all the lights on the dash like the ABS and SRS lights light up and turn off as like if I just started the car. This has happened to me three times. The third time the car did not turn back on (I think because I was almost stopped the other 2 times I was going between 30-65 MPH and the engine started back up automatically). I had to put it in park and restart it the 3rd time. It has been to the dealer 2-3 times for this issue and they are unable to diagnose a problem. Therefore I have notified the manufacturer and you the NHTSA in hopes of resolving the problem. There are several other owners with the same problem that can be found at http://www.nitroforumz.com/showthread.php?t=18 thank you. *jb
My dodge nitro has shut off twice while the vehicle was in motion. This can be a potentially dangerous and deadly situation. After reading the dodge nitro forums/blogs, there are a lot of people having the same problem and dealers are unable to find a problem. *nm
On 2 separate occasions while driving between 35 to 50 MPH the electrical system just ceased generating power for about 5 seconds and then all instrument panel indicators would illuminate simultaneously,only for vehicle to gain electrically power and continue as if nothing ever happened. *jb
Also reported on the 2007 Dodge Nitro 4X2
Other powertrain problem
CV axle or driveshaft failure
Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure
Other engine problem
Other fuel system problem
Torque converter failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 21 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 electrical problem happen on the 2007 Dodge Nitro 4X2?
Across 19 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 10,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other electrical problem on the 2007 Dodge Nitro 4X2?
21 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 35 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