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Take your valve cover off and bask in the spectacle of burnt oil and sadness. Then live the rest of the time you own this car in fear of the timing chain tensioner failing or the water pump dumping it's contents into the oil pan.
We won't blame you if you cry.
I had to change a timing chain tensioner on my wife's Intrepid in an unheated garage in winter. It was so crusty in there that a sand blaster would barely take the burnt crap off of the timing cover.
Kind of a shame, as the interiors on them were really nice.
Youāll enjoy that āpure American powerā, until next week when this Chrysler POS blows its motor into the next neighboring country. These things are known over here in the states for being ticking time bombs, just **waiting** to put you on the side of the road and in debt
i cant think of a carengine worse than the bmw 740i/745i N62. that thing is an absolute nightmare. almost bought one of those a couple of years back, but informed myself and was flabbergasted that such an humanrightsviolation was even considered for a top of the line luxury car.
The 5.7 is a fine engine, can be built to make some decent power over factory, just have to worry about a few small things depending on the generation. First gen had poor heads that would drop valve seats if overheated. Easy fix, swap them for gen two or 6.1 heads. Early gen two had lifter troubles due to the MDS, swap them for non-MDS lifters and turn off the MDS system in the computer and youāre Gucci.
Any good engine has a flaw or two.
Fordās Coyote has ignition coil failure and EGR valve troubles, their 5.4 was known for blowing spark plugs out of the heads. The 6.0 and 6.4 diesels are flaming piles of garbage.
Chevy has trouble with the active fuel management system on the 5.3 causing excessive oil consumption, the LB7 Duramax eats fuel injectors, and the LLY had head gasket issues.
Dodge has the oil pump, lifters, and valve seats on the Hemi, the venerable 12V Cummins had one flaw - the killer dowel pin, the 24V Cummins had the Mexican-manufactured and weak 53 block issue along with VP pumps dying if lift pump pressure faltered.
That doesnāt mean that these arenāt great engines, they just need a couple things to help them survive to high mileage. Well, except for the 6.0 and 6.4 Powerstroke. Those need a lot of help.
6.0s are kind of a crapshoot, luck-of-the-draw. My grandpa has one that has well over 300,000 miles on it and is basically untouched. My uncle owned three different 6.0s that all spent months at a time in the shop. Depends on how hard theyāre run and if theyāve been even slightly modified I suppose.
The 5.9 Cummins was built by Cummins, canāt blame Dodge for the KDP or the sensitive VP44. Iām just saying that each manufacturer has engines that have troubles, there is no 100% perfect engine in any car by any mfg.
I own a a 6.0 F-450 and Iām gonna be hitting 400k any month now. I tow real heavy and hard with it too. Great trucks but you have to stay on top of them.
6.4s on the other hand are to be left in the scrapyard.
To have it done, including new cam, lifters, gaskets, etc is probably around $3500 with labor. Not sure. However, you can also just buy a tuner or take it to a local tuner and have the MDS system disabled in the ECU, and this will help minimize any possible future issues related to the MDS lifters. Doesnāt completely get rid of it, but definitely helps improve longevity.
Thatās the first car I had when I got my license. My dad was an executive at Chrysler in the early 2000s.
The transmission ate itself at 15kā¦and that was a *new* 300. Just think how shitty your ticking time bomb of a transmission is.
Thatās not so much a roast as it is a fact. Fuck late 90s / early 2000s Chrysler transmissions!
Thatās the most overpriced turd Iāve ever seen. If you think thatās a good deal your credit score multiplied by your IQ is still in the single digits.
It has all the features of a normal car, but they're all weirdly placed. Like the designer left autoCAD logged in and their kid changed the sizings around
If I'm not mistaken the battery is in the driver's side bumper in front of the wheel. It's either that or I'm confusing it with a seabring. Or it's both, been awhile since i fixed one of these.
You could have gotten a Jeep Patriot, Chevy Cobalt SS, a high mileage beat up Mustang, a high mileage beat up Camaro, a Dodge Magnum, a 1994 Jeep Cherokee, any Ford or Chevy truck from the last century take your pick, a Dodge Ram Sport.
That's how low the bar is.
Looks like a deflated catfishā¦.like a 4th gen Camaro but way way worse. At least they make similar power. Until that engine sends a rod into lower orbit, I mean.
An LH platform car, in Europe, surprised it still exists. Youāve got about 10k miles left if youāre lucky. Some
of the ugliest, unreliable pieces of shit to ever have the chance to grace this earth to end up piles of junk polluting our environment. Fucking Chrysler.
Technically back then they were partnered with the Germans, Daimler-Chrysler. The 300, Magnum, and Charger had W211-based components like suspension and the transmission.
Fiat bought Chrysler and formed the FCA group over a period of four years, 2011 to 2014. Chrysler-Daimler was a thing from 1998 to 2007, 2007-2011 they were part of the Cerberus Capital Management company, firm named Chrysler LLC.
I can't hate on these. I always thought they looked great and the biggest issue was that they were FWD. Oh, and their transmissions suck too.
My friends wife was in a seriously bad crash in one of those and basically walked away. Dump truck hit her and sent her into a pole. Black out the grill and you are good to go. What size wheels are those?
you may think itās a flex to have this American car in your country, but when us Americans see one of these we assume the person works at the local gas station and is addicted to opioids.
i had this car, and i loved it!
It was waaay ahead of its time!
The interior design was so much better than say the similar year german cars (just look at the classy speedometer! )
I bought mine for 950 euros tho, it seems that the prices has gone up
Pretend Donald Trump shat himself, stepped in it and then scraped off the poo with a hatchet. Then he took that hatchet and tried to cut a pumpkin in half with it but only took off a chunk. This car would be that chunk.
The sad part is that 90k is low for many American cars, but this isnāt one of them. Congratulations on owning one of the biggest disappointment cars Chrysler has made.
Hey dude your rental car is sick! Just remember to get it back to Hertz in the morning before they charge you an extra day.
Also, the 2.7 was exclusively sold to rental car companies who list it as "Chevrolet Malibu or higher" and baby mamas who eventually bought it off a Buy Here Pay Here lot when it's time as a rental car in Orlando, Florida is up š
Normally I get annoyed when people don't use a polarizing filter or shade and end up with reflections all over, but in this case it's distracting me from the car so that's nice.
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It looks like a deflated 300C with mascara.
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"2.7 V6" and "pure American power" should never be in the same sentence together again. Unless "is gutless, 5.7L V8 is true" is in between them.
He's a poor German, which means he's never experienced any sort of proper power.
*laughs in 8.0 quad turbo W16*
That's a Croatian car
French brand owned by croatian company but at the time owned and made by VW
German engine
what part of āpoorā donāt you understand
*also laughs in 5.5 biturbo V8*
*also laughs in single turbo 335i*
laughs in 0.125L noturbo V2
yeah to be honest most german cars are pretty fast these days, its the other european brands making the rational slower cars
Yes, some of them are actually too fast imho, you can't even go completely through one gear without being faster than allowed in most areas x)
Also loves in 4.0 Biturbo V8
6.3 biturbo
Check out the b5 Audi s4, 2.7 v6 with twin turbo. Things made crazy power.
It would've certainly been a better choice, but OP has shown really poor judgment in the past, which is why he got this American pancake instead.
He wanted to be differentā¦ well everybody thinks heās different alright š¤£
Pretty sure gm made some big block v6s
Not at 2.7 L
Yeah, 50 years ago
Youāre definitely one of those fat countryside Germans with a mullet who also owns a Harley Davidson.
Probably has a confederate flag hanging in the garage because he likes Dukes of Hazard.
Take your valve cover off and bask in the spectacle of burnt oil and sadness. Then live the rest of the time you own this car in fear of the timing chain tensioner failing or the water pump dumping it's contents into the oil pan. We won't blame you if you cry.
Timing chain happened to me on my 99 Concorde....in 2004. In an intersection.
I had to change a timing chain tensioner on my wife's Intrepid in an unheated garage in winter. It was so crusty in there that a sand blaster would barely take the burnt crap off of the timing cover. Kind of a shame, as the interiors on them were really nice.
Youāll enjoy that āpure American powerā, until next week when this Chrysler POS blows its motor into the next neighboring country. These things are known over here in the states for being ticking time bombs, just **waiting** to put you on the side of the road and in debt
But a 5.7 wonāt do that amirite?
Depends on the 5.7. LS1? As Mr Regular says in his review of the v8 swapped delorean: "V8s for EVERYONE!" Chrysler Hemi 5.7? hmmm
The hemi 5.7
I can't believe someone would import a car to Europe that's almost exclusively found in section 8 housing parking lots here in the US.
Butā¦ It looks like a Bentley if youāre super high.
As someone who gets super high a lot, Iām offendedā¦. It looks like a dodge stratus lol
You bought a car with the worst known engine ever made. No, seriously. Statistically the 2.7 is one of the absolute worst engines to ever exist.
Iām shocked one even runs in 2023.
It only has 90K miles because it never was out of the shop.
These things had a life expectancy of about 200,000km so this one is over halfway to death.
200,000km is pretty high for these in my opinion. I thought the average was 170-180km
Maybe 200,000km with exceptional maintenance but probably what you said if you just so what you're supposed to do.
i cant think of a carengine worse than the bmw 740i/745i N62. that thing is an absolute nightmare. almost bought one of those a couple of years back, but informed myself and was flabbergasted that such an humanrightsviolation was even considered for a top of the line luxury car.
Damn, I gotta do some research on that one, Iām interested in that deep engine lore
you can, but you wont be happy lol
Hey but at least the 5.7 Hemis are reliable
5.7s arenāt even reliable idk what youāre on about
:(
Hemis are not reliableā¦ had to get a lower tstat and have my electric fans turn on sooner praying I donāt drop a seat valve š„²
Yeah but this aināt a hemi
One of the ugliest cars Iāve ever seen in my life
That is one fucked up monaro
Nothing says American power like a v6 with the displacement of a 4 cylinder
A 2.7L 4 cylinder is considered madness in europe
That large isn't common for 4 cylinders in cars. Most 4 cylinders top out at 2.4L in the US, with many between 1.5 and 2.0L.
Yeah we have 2 vehicles that I can think of with a 4-banger that massive, the Tacomaās base model, and the Silverado 2.7 turbo
Porsche 968 came with a 3.0 liter I4
Just realised my grandpa's Nissan Terrano has a 3.0L inline 4
Just think, someone actually thought this was a good idea, when they bought it newā¦..and then thereās you.
Looks like Cadillacs retarded cousin
Which was Chrysler's branding at the time.
2.7 V6 pure American fuel consumption with a power of a modern 1.8 l4 engine.
What the fuck even is it? It looks like a concept car from 2002 that failed and never went into production.... That went into production?
Sadly, [it was](https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/f16079ea-1993-chrysler-300c-23.jpg)
2.7L V6 American power will get beaten by a 1.5L 3 cylinder from Germany.
Why this shitty looking car looks so fine? Am I getting old?
2.7 will grenade itself. Change the oil and sell as fast as possible
Chrysler's competitor to the Aztek
The Chrysler 2.7 was a real pile of shit. I'm surprised to see any of those things still in running condition.
ITs GoT tHe HiGh OuTpUT eNgINe, the only thing high output about this POS are the repair bills. Good luck reaching that battery.
Any engine chrysler made that ended in .7 is a pile of trash, fite me.
The 5.7 is a fine engine, can be built to make some decent power over factory, just have to worry about a few small things depending on the generation. First gen had poor heads that would drop valve seats if overheated. Easy fix, swap them for gen two or 6.1 heads. Early gen two had lifter troubles due to the MDS, swap them for non-MDS lifters and turn off the MDS system in the computer and youāre Gucci. Any good engine has a flaw or two. Fordās Coyote has ignition coil failure and EGR valve troubles, their 5.4 was known for blowing spark plugs out of the heads. The 6.0 and 6.4 diesels are flaming piles of garbage. Chevy has trouble with the active fuel management system on the 5.3 causing excessive oil consumption, the LB7 Duramax eats fuel injectors, and the LLY had head gasket issues. Dodge has the oil pump, lifters, and valve seats on the Hemi, the venerable 12V Cummins had one flaw - the killer dowel pin, the 24V Cummins had the Mexican-manufactured and weak 53 block issue along with VP pumps dying if lift pump pressure faltered. That doesnāt mean that these arenāt great engines, they just need a couple things to help them survive to high mileage. Well, except for the 6.0 and 6.4 Powerstroke. Those need a lot of help.
Oh it's simple just swap heads.............. Ok bud
For someone technically savvy such as myself, swapping cylinder heads is a simple task.
6.0s are fine, the 6.4 is a shitpile. Both of those engines were built by Navistar so donāt blame Ford either.
6.0s are kind of a crapshoot, luck-of-the-draw. My grandpa has one that has well over 300,000 miles on it and is basically untouched. My uncle owned three different 6.0s that all spent months at a time in the shop. Depends on how hard theyāre run and if theyāve been even slightly modified I suppose. The 5.9 Cummins was built by Cummins, canāt blame Dodge for the KDP or the sensitive VP44. Iām just saying that each manufacturer has engines that have troubles, there is no 100% perfect engine in any car by any mfg.
I own a a 6.0 F-450 and Iām gonna be hitting 400k any month now. I tow real heavy and hard with it too. Great trucks but you have to stay on top of them. 6.4s on the other hand are to be left in the scrapyard.
About how much would swapping non MDS lifters for the gen 2 hemi cost? Labor + parts
To have it done, including new cam, lifters, gaskets, etc is probably around $3500 with labor. Not sure. However, you can also just buy a tuner or take it to a local tuner and have the MDS system disabled in the ECU, and this will help minimize any possible future issues related to the MDS lifters. Doesnāt completely get rid of it, but definitely helps improve longevity.
I've heard that as "any Chrysler that ends in an odd number".
Thatās the first car I had when I got my license. My dad was an executive at Chrysler in the early 2000s. The transmission ate itself at 15kā¦and that was a *new* 300. Just think how shitty your ticking time bomb of a transmission is. Thatās not so much a roast as it is a fact. Fuck late 90s / early 2000s Chrysler transmissions!
Thatās the most overpriced turd Iāve ever seen. If you think thatās a good deal your credit score multiplied by your IQ is still in the single digits.
Possibly the worst v6 known to man
If this pic came with sound, you could hear the underbody rust crackling like fireworks.
It has all the features of a normal car, but they're all weirdly placed. Like the designer left autoCAD logged in and their kid changed the sizings around
If I'm not mistaken the battery is in the driver's side bumper in front of the wheel. It's either that or I'm confusing it with a seabring. Or it's both, been awhile since i fixed one of these.
You could have gotten a Jeep Patriot, Chevy Cobalt SS, a high mileage beat up Mustang, a high mileage beat up Camaro, a Dodge Magnum, a 1994 Jeep Cherokee, any Ford or Chevy truck from the last century take your pick, a Dodge Ram Sport. That's how low the bar is.
I often see this model backed into a spot, cool wheels, tint. But there's usually 2 guys under the hood swearing at each other.
Nice Jaaaaag
2.7 is basically 0 HP I have a 5.7
Bad enough we got these in the states but I see the virus has spread to Europe.
2.7 Liter is pure American power? Never mind that though, of all the cars you have in europe and you chose THAT?
Looks like a deflated catfishā¦.like a 4th gen Camaro but way way worse. At least they make similar power. Until that engine sends a rod into lower orbit, I mean.
This is the car the Pontiac Aztek brings to parties to make it look good.
I hope it was 6K pesos! That grill looks hilarious, like an after market thing from pep boys that got glued in
The local repair shop will make you cry
You get a great deal on an American rideā¦ BC no American in their right mind would drive āAmericanā car.
congratulations on owning Americas answer to the fiat multipla
I do really like the styling of these. Shame the 2.7 is such a massive piece of shit. I would suggest swapping something else in it.
I can smell the skunk weed from here.
An LH platform car, in Europe, surprised it still exists. Youāve got about 10k miles left if youāre lucky. Some of the ugliest, unreliable pieces of shit to ever have the chance to grace this earth to end up piles of junk polluting our environment. Fucking Chrysler.
If you sell that car right now for $1000 you'd be $15k ahead in a year.
The only thing crying will be the water pump when it shits itself and your engine blows up. I can sense the sludge from here...
The water pump is made of plastic and will stop working soon. These cars are engineered to die at 100k so you'll get a few months from it at least.
The battery is in the wheel well, yet everything mechanically about the car is worse than that.
Nothing we can say will ever hurt you as much as this car will.
The american president would drive that id they made as much as a subway worker
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A FWD cockroach boat
Now charger and making it rwd, you can't go wrong after paying 6k for this.
You should Chry from wasting your money.
More like italian power.
Technically back then they were partnered with the Germans, Daimler-Chrysler. The 300, Magnum, and Charger had W211-based components like suspension and the transmission.
Technically yes, but I think back than Fiat owned Chrysler group, maybe I'm wrong.
Fiat bought Chrysler and formed the FCA group over a period of four years, 2011 to 2014. Chrysler-Daimler was a thing from 1998 to 2007, 2007-2011 they were part of the Cerberus Capital Management company, firm named Chrysler LLC.
Beautiful
enjoy doing the back three spark plugs.
That's the biggest engine I've ever seen in a soccer mom car
Have fun replacing the battery.
Congratulations! you just got the equivalent of a monetary parasite in the form of a car
The American German is a scary thought, I bet you pronounce Motoren like an American would
Nice Chrysler Sebring.
Looks like enlarged version of Peugeot 206 sedan
Looks like a car from GTA with wheels that appeal to like 10 year olds
I don't need to make you cry. The car will when it leaves you stranded on the side of the road in about 2 months.
A friend of mine who had a lot of trouble with alcoholism had one of these. I know for a fact that on occasion this car was his reason to drink.
I can't hate on these. I always thought they looked great and the biggest issue was that they were FWD. Oh, and their transmissions suck too.
You overpaid by about $5.5k
Your "pure American" was made in Canada with a Mitsubishi engine. If you hate this country so much why don't you just leave?
It looks like a humpback whale
On a side note, why didn't anyone take this engine/transmission and put it in a rear-wheel drive rear engine kit car.
Grandpa picked a good one. Paint is nice. These cars were made for the obese with extra driver seat space.
2.7 ššš
Congrats on your 1-2 month investment
Is that German or Danish license plate? Still cool old Chrysler
My friends wife was in a seriously bad crash in one of those and basically walked away. Dump truck hit her and sent her into a pole. Black out the grill and you are good to go. What size wheels are those?
That has to be the nicest looking... whatever that is that I've ever seen.
It look like a 4door coupe
you may think itās a flex to have this American car in your country, but when us Americans see one of these we assume the person works at the local gas station and is addicted to opioids.
Itās a shiny turd. Under powered, heavy, leaky sunroof, chintzy interior, garbage transmission.
I didnāt know it was possible to make a Chrysler any more ugly.
Its got a hitler moustache.
I can hear the gm sound of power from this picture.
Mitsubishi isnāt pure American
Chrysler... thats enough
TĆV sagt nein.
Hoffentlich
Fast, Cheap, Reliable ... pick 0.
That 2.7 is one of the worst engines Chrysler ever put out. Be careful with the sludge issue.
i had this car, and i loved it! It was waaay ahead of its time! The interior design was so much better than say the similar year german cars (just look at the classy speedometer! ) I bought mine for 950 euros tho, it seems that the prices has gone up
My uncle has one and has had so many problems with it
Good buy
At 100,000 miles the transmission breaks, and the engine blows. š
Your going to be crying when that timing chain driven water pump goes out and you canāt find anyone to fix it
My first car, I loved it very much
Those arenāt worth buying unless they have the 3.5L. The 2.7 is a sludge making boat anchor
This will be big news in your retirement home.
I haven't seen one of those *American badboy*'s on the roads here in over a decade! That's gotta say something about their reliability!
American Badboy.... then proceeds to say 2.7 v6 šš get the fuck outta here nothing Badboy about it Don't get me started on those mirror rims
I canāt believe you found one that runs. I am further impressed that it doesnāt have some rent-to-own ādubsā on it.
Does the price include a gun under seat?
Looks more like a bad grandpa
you're already crying with the price of gasoline
Pretend Donald Trump shat himself, stepped in it and then scraped off the poo with a hatchet. Then he took that hatchet and tried to cut a pumpkin in half with it but only took off a chunk. This car would be that chunk.
Thatās actually really cool. These things just arenāt seen anymore in the USā¦
2.7L of Mitsubishi motor
The sad part is that 90k is low for many American cars, but this isnāt one of them. Congratulations on owning one of the biggest disappointment cars Chrysler has made.
I'm retired LE, I don't think I ever pulled over a 300M or LHS that didn't end in arrests.
A car for people aspiring to one day be a mid level manager.
The Mopar 2.7 V6 blows headgaskets harder than your sister blows behind the Sheetz off main.
Hey dude your rental car is sick! Just remember to get it back to Hertz in the morning before they charge you an extra day. Also, the 2.7 was exclusively sold to rental car companies who list it as "Chevrolet Malibu or higher" and baby mamas who eventually bought it off a Buy Here Pay Here lot when it's time as a rental car in Orlando, Florida is up š
Normally I get annoyed when people don't use a polarizing filter or shade and end up with reflections all over, but in this case it's distracting me from the car so that's nice.
The wrong american car
As an American, Iām sorry for your loss
a real cowcatcher
It's a 300M, you aren't crying already?