[Boomer]

Back in March my wife and I each bought 2005 PT Cruisers. Hers is a 4 door, automatic, 2.4Ltr FI and mine is a convertable, 5 speed, 2.4Ltr FI. Both cars had a shimmy in the front end at take off and when turning corners at slow speeds. We demonstrated this to the dealer and they recognized it as a problem. In fact all of the 2005 FI Cruisers on the lot had the same problem, some worse than others. Chrysler told the dealer to change the front axles. That didn't work, they changed the wheels and that didn't help. Finally the they brought in the factory engineer and he said he felt it too, but that was the way the car was designed.

Of course we protested and I even talked directly to the factory engineer. In June I got a call from the dealer and they said Chrysler told them to change the front drive axel with one for the Turbo. Low and behold the problem went away. This week they changed the one in my wife's and the problem was solved.

The reason for the delay in hers was because the drive axel for the Turbo model was back ordered. Seems they were in high demand.

We were told by the dealer and the factory engineer back in March that we were the first customers to bring this problem to their attention.

We believe that the Dealer stood behind us all the way. Chrysler knew they had a problem and they found the solution.

Boomer