While in Virginia last week, I rented a Dodge Caliber. It's a cool looking car.
How stylish!
With HUGE freakin' blind spots!
The decision to change lanes may as well be made with a coin flip as a glance out either side.
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Haha... a Google search for "the caliber sucks" lead me here. I must say that I agree. I have one as a rental right now while my car is getting fixed and I can't stand it. The blind spots really are just the beginning. I've probably only driven it about 15 miles and I'm already going through withdrawal from my car.
my mother has had one for 2 years now, what a mexican piece of garbage.. 30,000 kms lower ball joints and rack had to be replaced as well as both rear wheel bearings and VVT-i solniod, now at 70,000kms (out of warranty) rack is going again, front wheel bearings, one lower ball joint and outer tie rod, vvt-i solniod is coming back.
don't feel guilty about bad mouthing this car, no one in north america beifited from this car (jobs !!!) it is built bumper to bumper in mexico as far as i know. thanks Dodge !!!
I searched for "dodge caliber sucks" as I ended up with a rental from Dollar. This car looks cool from outside but it is a textbook example of poor design.
The windows are tiny. I feel like I am sitting inside a coffin The mirrors are tiny seat settings never seem right. pickup is awful and it groans. i did not find a tach here. the car design is such that, it has massive blind spots. sitting at the driver seat, you lose 15 degrees of your view to the right.
glad i could vent ;) thanks for this post. oh the interwebs
This is an example of a poorly designed, cheaply built car
I'm stuck with this until my car is fixed.
Cheap for the following reason:
Suspension creaks over dips and bumps. Crappy MPG for a 4 banger/low output engine. C'mon a Civic can do much better. I don't think I'm doing any better than 24mpg for all highway. Poor aerodynamics and visiblity hurts highway fuel consumption. No passing power except on small hills. bouncy suspension. Interior ergonomics sucks, turn signal stalk too far back, and it has a bunch of play. all the stalks and steering wheel feels cheap. seats are horribly flat. rear bulb is already burned out.
"why does the dodge caliber suck" was my search query. In addition to the design flaws identified here, the drive train is the weakest, noisiest that I've experienced in a very long time. Total POS.
I have a 2009 Caliber, bought August 2009 new from Dodge. I got it through Cash for Clunkers when my 10-year-old Ranger needed a transmission. Well, that program should have been called Old Clunker for New Clunker. I replaced the damn transmission in January 2011. I'm replacing it again this week. You can't see where the front end is or where the back end is, or anything to the right. Try braking over a rough spot in the road - the car actually lurches forward. The highway on-ramps are not long enough for this POS to get near highway speed. 0-60 mph in "pack a lunch and eat it" time. TOTAL PIECE OF CRAPOLA. I'll NEVER buy another thing from Dodge. As soon as this turd is paid for, I'm setting it on fire and buying another Ranger.
We purchased our 2007 Caliber in October of 2006. In December of 2008 the alternatori literally fell apart. The mechanic who replaced it told me he had never seen that happen before. Shortly after that my end tie rods went. In August of 2010 our alternator went out again. Now we are getting a check engine code for the TCM and our alternator (two years from the second time) is going again. The AC is out. One one of the back windows no longer goes down amd the back windshield wiper is toast. We paid this car off in April of 2011. We are now looking to trade it in for what little we can get and replacing it. I will never purchase a Dodge again.
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Haha... a Google search for "the caliber sucks" lead me here. I must say that I agree. I have one as a rental right now while my car is getting fixed and I can't stand it. The blind spots really are just the beginning. I've probably only driven it about 15 miles and I'm already going through withdrawal from my car.
my mother has had one for 2 years now, what a mexican piece of garbage.. 30,000 kms lower ball joints and rack had to be replaced as well as both rear wheel bearings and VVT-i solniod, now at 70,000kms (out of warranty) rack is going again, front wheel bearings, one lower ball joint and outer tie rod, vvt-i solniod is coming back.
don't feel guilty about bad mouthing this car, no one in north america beifited from this car (jobs !!!) it is built bumper to bumper in mexico as far as i know. thanks Dodge !!!
I searched for "dodge caliber sucks" as I ended up with a rental from Dollar. This car looks cool from outside but it is a textbook example of poor design.
The windows are tiny. I feel like I am sitting inside a coffin
The mirrors are tiny
seat settings never seem right.
pickup is awful and it groans. i did not find a tach here.
the car design is such that, it has massive blind spots. sitting at the driver seat, you lose 15 degrees of your view to the right.
glad i could vent ;) thanks for this post. oh the interwebs
This is an example of a poorly designed, cheaply built car
I'm stuck with this until my car is fixed.
Cheap for the following reason:
Suspension creaks over dips and bumps. Crappy MPG for a 4 banger/low output engine. C'mon a Civic can do much better. I don't think I'm doing any better than 24mpg for all highway. Poor aerodynamics and visiblity hurts highway fuel consumption. No passing power except on small hills. bouncy suspension. Interior ergonomics sucks, turn signal stalk too far back, and it has a bunch of play. all the stalks and steering wheel feels cheap. seats are horribly flat. rear bulb is already burned out.
"why does the dodge caliber suck" was my search query. In addition to the design flaws identified here, the drive train is the weakest, noisiest that I've experienced in a very long time. Total POS.
While the car does in fact "suck" you are an idiot for proclaiming that the car is made in Mexico.You are a very uneducated fool!
I have a 2009 Caliber, bought August 2009 new from Dodge. I got it through Cash for Clunkers when my 10-year-old Ranger needed a transmission. Well, that program should have been called Old Clunker for New Clunker. I replaced the damn transmission in January 2011. I'm replacing it again this week. You can't see where the front end is or where the back end is, or anything to the right. Try braking over a rough spot in the road - the car actually lurches forward. The highway on-ramps are not long enough for this POS to get near highway speed. 0-60 mph in "pack a lunch and eat it" time. TOTAL PIECE OF CRAPOLA. I'll NEVER buy another thing from Dodge. As soon as this turd is paid for, I'm setting it on fire and buying another Ranger.
We purchased our 2007 Caliber in October of 2006. In December of 2008 the alternatori literally fell apart. The mechanic who replaced it told me he had never seen that happen before. Shortly after that my end tie rods went. In August of 2010 our alternator went out again. Now we are getting a check engine code for the TCM and our alternator (two years from the second time) is going again. The AC is out. One one of the back windows no longer goes down amd the back windshield wiper is toast. We paid this car off in April of 2011. We are now looking to trade it in for what little we can get and replacing it. I will never purchase a Dodge again.
Sadly the car is made at the Belvedeir plant in Illinois.
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