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2009 Dodge Avenger Visibility problems

Owners have filed 7 complaints about the 2009 Dodge Avenger's visibility & wipers with NHTSA - 10% of all its complaints, most recently on February 13, 2024. Windshields, wipers, defrosters, mirrors, backup cameras and glare.

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Visibility complaints

Visibility & wipers

The contact owns a 2009 Dodge Avenger. The contact stated while driving at various speeds in the rain and snow, the windshield wipers shuddered and stopped working. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, where it was diagnosed that there was corrosion detected and that the wiper motor needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired, but the failure recurred. While driving, the windshield wipers stopped in an upward position. The vehicle was taken back to the local dealer, who was unable to diagnose or repair the vehicle. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was approximately 60,000.

Filed Incident Visibility / wiperNHTSA 11571617
Visibility & wipers

I got this car may 13 2019 every since I had this car the wiper stop working when iam driveing in rain and snow. I took this car back to dealership in 2019 2020 and 2021 and they send me home and say there nothing wrong with the wiper. Now it 7/2022 it rain and the wiper stop again we could gotten kill on highway from columbus going back to spitzer moter tomorrow for the 4th time

Filed Incident Visibility / wiperNHTSA 11474334
Visibility & wipers

Wipers will stop in middle of windshield, or be jerky when moving. If stopped, moving wiper control to next position, or turning wipers back off, then on, will make wipers move a bit more. In a rain storm, have to constantly move wiper switch to make wipers move. Visibility is a disaster. Makes driving in a rainstorm very dangerous.

Filed Incident Visibility / wiperNHTSA 11013948
Electrical systemVisibility & wipers

Tl* the contact owns a 2009 dodge avenger. While driving approximately 70 mph, the contact attempted to roll down the front passenger side window when it suddenly slid down into the door. The contact was unable to roll the window back up. The contact took the vehicle to a certified mechanic who diagnosed that the mechanism that held the window up failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. While driving approximately 45 mph, the failure recurred to the front driver side window. The contact took the...

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vehicle to the certified mechanic who diagnosed the same failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failures. The approximate failure mileage was 82,000.

Filed Incident Electrical system · Visibility / wiperNHTSA 10985767
Electrical systemVisibility & wipers

Tl* the contact owns a 2009 dodge avenger. The contact stated that after shutting the vehicle off, the sun roof would erroneously open and water would leak into the vehicle. The contact indicated that after turning the heater on, a knocking noise emitted from the vents. The manufacturer was notified of the failures. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The failure mileage was 25,000.

Filed Incident Electrical system · VisibilityNHTSA 10671106
Visibility & wipers

Window hesitates to roll up on the passenger and driver sides. *Tr

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 10621986
Visibility & wipers

Have 10400 miles on 2009 avenger, rolled up window and heard a noise then window fell down, some type of cable broke or came loose, warrenty expired 2 weeks before this happened. Will be contacting chrysler about this problem. *Tr

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 10462926

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