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2013 Dodge Avenger Lighting problems

Owners have filed 7 complaints about the 2013 Dodge Avenger's lights with NHTSA - 1% of all its complaints, most recently on March 19, 2026. They describe 2 crashes, 0 fires and 2 injuries. Headlights, tail lights, brake lights, turn signals and interior lighting failures.

Complaints
7
Recalls
0
Crashes
2
Fires
0
Injuries
2
Deaths
0

Lighting complaints

Electrical systemLightsBrakes

Was driving on hwy when vehicle loss power, was able to quickly pull over. Turned vehicle off and restarted vehicle. Got back onto the hwy ,vehicle loss power again, this time it wouldn't turn over. Replaced fuel pump,replaced valve timing sensor, crank sensor, replaced battery, replaced ignition switch and antitheft oem {replaced 5X}, reprogrammed vehicle 3X's, bought new key to program to vehicle. After $1500.00 still not fixed, dealership has had the vehicle for well over a month. The dealership contacted the...

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manufactured company, manufactured company said it was a faulty orc part. The manufacture company was suppose to send the dealership the new orc part and still hasn't done so, dealership says its on back order and there isn't no eta for the part to arrive.

Filed Incident Electrical system · Exterior lighting · Service brakesNHTSA 11725717
Electrical systemLights

The lighting inside is very dim and sometimes blink on and off when in driving motion. My horn starts blowing on it;s on with out touching it in driving motion. Also my car makes a knocking noise coming from the glove box when the car is off on a city street and also when it's in driving motion.

Filed Incident Electrical system · Exterior lightingNHTSA 11390218
LightsDriver assistance

The vehicle was slowing down while driving on the freeway. Etc, esc, and check engine lights went on. The dome light in the car was flickering and the lights in the dashboard went dark and the speedometer was not visible. This happened in broad daylight. *Tr

Filed Incident Exterior lighting · Unknown or other · Electronic stability control (ESC)NHTSA 11325632
LightsBody, doors & structureCrash2 injuries

While approaching a stop sign, I did hit the breaks, I felt a jolt however the car never stopped. The car did skid across a highway, and land in a ditch. There was extensive front end damage, however no air bags deployed. Bothe me and my minor child were removed from the vehicle by emergency response teams. We did both sustain injuries. The vehicle was unable to be driven and was towed.

Filed Incident Exterior lighting · Structure · Unknown or otherNHTSA 10726578
LightsAcceleration & cruise control

I recently reported my vehicle accelerating on its own up to the speed of 82 mph also thinking that this was a weird occurrence that would not happen again. I was wrong. While driving 40 mpg getting ready to enter a turn my car again started accelerating on its own, foot off the gas was not going down hill or any other reason to pick up speed. Also on this same day I started my car and my headlights came on as they should, I noticed my high beams on thinking they were left on from the last time I drove my car I...

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turned them off. Driving down the road the high beams all of a sudden came in. I turned them off thinking it was strange. Again 2 more times on my way home the high beams automatically came on by themselves. I believe there are some major computer issues with this vehicle but again I am sure of chryslers response ahead of time. Called chrysler they just say well if you take it to a dealer maybe they can see if there are any codes. Prior to this my sensor had gone bad, lights not working all kinds of things and the dealer was not able to find out what was wrong because there were no codes. Took to new dealer they used common sense and not waited for only codes to come up and found the sensor was dead. This vehicle is an accident waiting to happen! *Tr

Filed Incident Exterior lighting · Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10610904
LightsAirbagsBody, doors & structureEngine & coolingCrash

I had just merged onto 69 heading home from school. It was around 930pm. I start to pick up speed to blend in with traffic. There was a three car accident that occurred so we all slammed on our brakes to avoid from hitting it. Unfortunately I hit the back of a flatbed tow truck going between 45-50mph. To my surprise my air bags did not deploy. Even though I had a recall on my car a few months back for the airbags not working right, so I took it to my dealership to have my recall fixed. So when I got in this head on collision I was in shock my air bags still did not deploy. *Tr

Filed Incident Exterior lighting · Air bags · Structure · EngineNHTSA 10563888
Lights

Lights were in auto position, drove approx. 6 Miles with them on and running. Mad a stop and shut the car off, when I restarted it and started to drive away I realized my lights were no longer on. Had to put them in the regular on position to run them. Stopped the car many times, restarted it trying to get the lights to work in auto but had no luck. Got home let the car set 30 minutes and restarted the car with the lights in auto and they came on fine. What happens if this happens while driving at a speed of 60mph? Safety issue!!! I am very leary of this car and its safety on many different levels! *Tr

Filed Incident Exterior lightingNHTSA 10522999

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