Other powertrain problem on the 2007 Dodge Nitro 4X2
1 fire 1 of the 12 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 powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Dodge Nitro 4X2 report other powertrain problem at a median of 60,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 10,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles, from 9 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 1,700 miles at the tenth percentile to 140,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 135,920 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.
44% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,680 miles | 7,500 miles | 60,000 miles | 81,700 miles | 137,600 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 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–$4,500 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.
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
I purchased a dodge nitro in october of 2006. Since then I have had it stall out on me, on the highway, twice and re-start automatically. It's pretty unsafe to be driving a car at 80mph on the interstate and have it stall out and restart on you for no apparent reason. I know I am not the only nitro owner who has had this issue. When I explained to the service department at the dealership about this they said since they cannot recreate the problem they cannot diagnose it. I have not called chrysler yet, but I am about to. I don't want to die, or cause the death of others, because my car is malfunctioning beyond my control. Something needs to be done about this.
Approximately 2 weeks after I purchased my new vehicle it began to run poorly. It feels as though it is missing out, transmission slipping or losing power??? I am not sure exactly what the problem is and the service people are not sure exactly what is wrong and they do not know what to do to correct the problem. My vehicle is a 2007 and should not run as poorly as it does. They have reprogrammed something on the computer twice I think from what they tell me. The problem seems to be okay for a few days and it starts running poorly again. There is a recall on my vehicle, it is recall number g25 to reprogram tipm engine stalling, this may help the problem but I am not sure yet. I feel that dodge should stand behind their vehicles. I paid too much for a new vehicle for it to not run properly. I also had a service tech tell me that they were just not as sensitive to the problem that I am having. I hope you will be able to help with this problem. I have also noticed that sometimes when I start the vehicle it does not start properly. It starts but idles roughly and this has done this when it is not cold outside. *jb
This is a follow up on the complaint I made in may. My nitro is still not fixed. It still has serious shifting problems, now steering problems. It doesn't shift right, the motor bogs down, it has even gotten stuck between 1-2 gears under a red light at a very busy intersection. I've taken my truck to two different dealerships and now it's showing unperformed recalls and customer satisfaction notifications but dealership says they were instructed by chrysler not to work on my truck because I filed a lemon law complaint. These are safety issues and I don't think it's right I have to drive a car that is not safe and put my life, the lives of my family and others at risk. One dealership says they did the recall, the other says my truck doesn't need it. Meanwhile it still shows on VIN search that it's unperformed. I have been informed by nitroforum.com that it is a computer software problem. I think that this should be investigated before someone gets killed. *tr
Also reported on the 2007 Dodge Nitro 4X2
Other electrical 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 12 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 powertrain problem happen on the 2007 Dodge Nitro 4X2?
Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 60,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 10,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2007 Dodge Nitro 4X2?
12 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 20 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