2015 Dodge Challenger Steering Problems

“I was making a left hand turn on a 4 lane city street and hit a pot hole after hitting the pot hole my steering wheel began to shake. I pulled into a parking lot and noticed my front passenger tire was bowed out and the car could no longer be driven. After having a tow truck come to the scene I was told the steering knuckle had broken in half and the wheel almost completely detached.”

“Electric assist steering gear, rack lost the electric assist. Electric assist failed, stopped working while driving. The electric assist motor adds the power assistance to the steering making it easy to turn the steering . Failure of the electric assist makes the steering dramatically difficult to turn the steering even the slightest. It is nearly impossible to control the car or even provide any steering input that changes the direction of the wheels in any meaningful or purposeful way. …”

“The steering column starting making a low pitched whining sound for the past 4 months. The car was stopped and parked and the warning came on about the servicing the power steering and now the car has no power steering. Codes: u11e8-00- & u0001-00- and the car is now 1500 miles beyond the warranty. We are going to push to the get this fixed under warranty but at 37k miles this shouldn't happen, and after researching online this apparently is a common problem with the power steering module located on the the rack and pinon and the whole thing will have to be replaced. …”

“The contact owns a 2015 Dodge Challenger. While driving 45 MPH, the steering wheel seized. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the power steering shaft needed to be replaced, but the part was not available. The contact waited until the vehicle was repaired, but the failure recurred. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 9,102. Ma 10/6 updated 11/29/2017”

“The contact owns a 2015 Dodge Challenger. While driving approximately 35 MPH, the steering wheel seized and caused the contact to crash into a curb. The vehicle was towed to the dealer on several occasions where it was repaired, but the repaired parts were unknown. When the contact retrieved the vehicle, the failure recurred intermittently. The vehicle was towed back to the dealer. In addition, the brakes failed to respond. The contact mentioned that the vehicle could no longer be driven due to the failure becoming worse. The approximate failure mileage was 13,000.”