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| 1995 Dodge Neon Review, G Blamey, From Winnipeg, Canad
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Neon Highline
| | Model of the car: | Neon Highline | | | General comments: | I've just sat here for the last half hour and read shockingly bad reviews of every model and year of the neon. I wanted to add my review to the long line I just described. This car was great until the warranty expired...sound familiar. Of course the first thing to go was the air conditioner, and while it was in getting replaced I was informed that the head gasket had met an untimely demise. Boom - a $2000.00 bill. Luckily for me I have a relentless and retired father who spent hours on the phone and managed to get the cost of the head gasket covered by the manufacturer. Now for all of the annoying incidentals. It's leaking some kind of fluid again, the breaks make squeaking noises akin to the hinges on doorframes in horror movie haunted houses...and that's when it's dry outside. If there's been any rain you could easily wake the neighbours with one footfall on the break pedal. The air noise is atrocious, there is no floor mounted air vent on the passenger side of the vehicle, and in Winnipeg's winter the result of that is that your passenger's feet turn into ice cubes, and the battery has been replaced twice. Now for the weird stuff. After turning the car off and exiting the vehicle it still sounded like the car was running. There's nothing like having all of your co-workers describe your car as "Christine". Apparantly this was due to a faulty "solenoid?" switch. Whatever. It was a first for me in 15 years of driving. Then, the hand brake broke. This is something I've never encountered in a car before. One day I just pulled up on the handbrake and there was absolutely no tension at all. That was $350.00 to replace. The dome light goes on sometime after you open the driver's side door - usually just as you're closing the door once already inside of the vehicle...and now the piece de resistance. For no explainable reason, after driving for sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes 20 or 30 minutes etc, the air will stop coming through the vents. You can hear the fan motor working (which I've also had replaced by the way) but no air is coming out. The mechanics can find no fault for this, so I've had to devise my own solution. It seems that this problem can be rectified by switching the air flow to the dashboard level vents only for about 5 to 10 minutes, then the car is fine. Maybe I am driving Christine after all.. | | | What things have gone wrong with the car: | All of the fluid leaks
Head gasket failures
Battery failures
Hand brake breakage
loud air noise on the highway
The weird problem with the fan |
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