Three problems related to cruise control have been reported for the 1997 Dodge Dakota. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
Headlights keep failing. Have changed headlight switch several times, but fails again. Transmission won't shift into overdrive. Cruise control is difficult to activate. Sometimes transmission won't shift from 2nd to 3rd gear.
Sometimes the cruise control system will not engage at any speed. Then if does engage sometimes it cannot be manually turned off. When bobby gale Dodge hooked the scanner up to it they had no reading and my cruise control would'nt turn on. So they replaced it with a new switch. The cruise control worked for about a week. Then it started acting up again. And everytime I get ready to take the truck in it works. The five times that I have taking it up to the dealer ship they have been unable to solve the problem with my truck.
The cruise control fails after one to four hours of operation and will not re-engage, nor will the acceleration feature work.
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