Cruise Control Problems of Dodge Dakota

On October 5, 2016 at approximately 12:45 p. M. , l engaged the cruise control at a speed of 55 miles per hour. When I pressed on the brake pedal the truck accelerated to a speed of 60 miles and higher. I tested the cruise control system twice more and it did the same thing. The vehicle never slowed down. This is a safety hazard. I was on dam neck road where the speed limit is 55 miles per hour. This is a city street. After this occurred my engine light came on, which clearly indicates a mechanical problem. I think there may be other vehicles that could have this same malfunction and cause a serious accident or death.

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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.

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Keys partly slip out of ignition causing electrical failures. While in motion, if you bump your keys with your knee or hit a bump in the road, multiple dashboard warning lights appear and gauges, including the speedometer, will give inaccurate or nonexistent readings. Cruise control and other systems may fail. Vehicle must be pulled over and turned off to clear the electrical failures. This failure can occur multiple times in one trip.

01/26/2015 @ 1545 +- hours pst. Driving on cruise control when I came to a 3 way stop. Tapped brake to come off cruise. Came to a complete stop behind 4/5 vehicles. Advanced at idle rpm (750). I was the 2nd vehicle in line when my engine rpm's started increasing. Applied hard brake, rpm continued to increase, enough to over ride the rear wheel brakes causing/allowing the tires to spin. I turned the ignition off, shifted to park, re-started the engine. After restart every thing performed as designed.

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The contact owns a 2007 Dodge Dakota. While driving 70 mph with the cruise control activated, the contacts husband decelerated. As he applied the brakes the vehicle increased to 20-25 miles per hour. The contact has notified a local authorized dealer. The mechanic stated that nothing can be done to repair the vehicle unless the service engine light illuminates. As of August 10, 2007, the vehicle is being serviced and the contact is waiting to find out the cause of failure. The failure and current mileages were 5,000. Updated 02-01-08 the consumer stated the truck did not slow down once the brakes were applied but after 2 to 3 minutes the vehicle accelerated. Updated 02/01/08.

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Front left door snapped off. I can't open the drivers door from the inside. Also, both seat belts snapped, the air and heat doesn't work, the brakes locked up, which affected the steering. The transmission was replaced three timed, the vehicle would loose power and the engine would die. The catalytic converter rattled. There was a rough idle and then the vehicle would stall. The cruise control was inoperative, the tires wore out prematurely. Also, I had difficulty getting the vehicle out of park. The idler arm is in the process of breaking, the ignition broke after the keys became stuck, the fuel pump failed and the bearing and bushing needs to be replaced.

While stopped at a red light today (behind another vehicle) my 2002 Dodge Dakota was rear ended. Rather than just being simply pushed forward, the vehicle abruptly and suddenly accelerated while my foot was on the brake!! perhaps the computer reset for acceleration? my cruise control was on, but I was at a complete stop! my 2 yr old daughter was in the car, and luckily no one was hurt.

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This is my 2nd submission (odi #10116332); no result first time. The cruise control on my 2004 Dodge Dakota quad cab truck accelerates going downhill. I have had it into the dealership four times now, they can't find what is wrong, and say it "performs as designed". It's supposed to accelerate going downhill?!.

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The cruise control on my 2004 Dodge Dakota quad cab truck accelerates going downhill. I have had it into the dealership 3 times now, they can't find what is wrong, and the last time they said it "performed as designed". It's supposed to accelerate going downhill? never have had one do that before.

The cruise control on my 2004 Dodge Dakota quad cab accelerates going down hill. I've had it to the dealer who indicates this is a common problem with this vehicle and similarly equipped durangos. They tell me that there is no fix. I, then, contacted daimler Chrysler customer assistance and received a call from a nice lady who told me that Dodge was not aware of the problem and referred me to another Dodge dealership. I contacted them. They suggested that I go back to the original dealer and find out if they had contacted dealer support. They did and were told that Dodge is indeed aware of the problem but isn't going to fix it. I contacted daimler Chrysler customer assistance and received an apology, but no indication that they will do anything to improve the safety of my vehicle.

I have been working with Dodge Chrysler daimler to resolve a problem with our cruise control. The safety issue is that you are never sure how the cruise control will respond. Sometimes you notice cars and truck whizzing by and you're holding up the traffic. Based the dealers repeated attempts to diagnose and fix the problem and the manufacturer's bulletin on how to try to remedy the problem by "re training the computer", I believe the real fix goes back to the computer program and sensors used in the system. Can you please check into this issue for me and let me know what your advise is? copy of part of the correspondence to dealer follows: Dodge country of appleton 4400 west college avenue as you can confirm we have had our 2003 Dodge Dakota in three or more times now to try and fix the cruise control. (VIN 1d7hg38xx3s185514). There are basically two main symptoms: 1) unexpected shift into high gear when the vehicle is on cruise control - these events do not seem to coincide with any specific road condition. 2) non - responsive cruise control - the vehicle speed drifts down 10 mph or more off of set point on a very gradual incline with no response at all by the cruise control. Once you reach level road the speed will very slowly creep up over what seems like several miles. This does not happen consistently or repeat under any specific road condition. Sometimes at 60 - 70 mph on both gentle and steep inclines the cruise works fine. Speed may only drop of one or two mph and the engine doesn't even shift into a higher gear. Yet under identical conditions, sometimes at the same speeds of 60 - 70 mph the cruise will respond by kicking into the next higher gear and other times the cruise will not respond at all let the speed drop down 10mph. Too slow a speed is just as dangerous as too fast a speed. Another person I asked with an identical vehicle indicated similar problems.

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When the cruise control is being used,my 2001 Dakota qc will surge. The tachometer will jump a little and the vehicle will jerk slightly. The pickup has been in the shop for 6 weeks with no answers!.

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Cruise control loses speed up long inclines.

Consumer states while driving with cruise control on vehicle began to accelerate. Consumer tapped the gas pedal ,and there was no response. Consumer reset cruise control, and 2 miles later vehicle accelerated again while in cruise control.

While driving with the cruise control engaged the vehicle suddenly began to accelerate. The consumer had to tap the brake pedal to get the vehicle to decelerate. About two miles later the vehicle began to accelerate again.

When cruise control in activated vehicle will continue to accelerate.

When put car on cruise control it malfunctions, and involuntarily speeds up.

When cruise control is activated, vehicle will rev up to 4500 rpms, and sometimes vehicle will down shift, consumer contacted dealer, and they were not willing to do anything.

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Cruise control failed to DE-activate when brake was applied. Brake was stepped and released 3 times, cruise control still failed to DE-activate. Was able to finally get cruise control to deactivate after pushing in both clutch and brake at same time. Cruise takes 3-5 seconds to deactivate when just clutch is pushed in. Truck was taken to dealer twice for this problem, they couldn't find anything wrong. Onboard computer not showing any problems. I have had cruise control in other cars, this is not the way it it supposed to work.

When cruise control was engaged at speeds between 60 and 75 mph vehicle would surge, and speed would increase and decrease. The throttle position sensor was found to be defective.

While driving with cruise control set at 65 mph, truck accelerated up to a speed of 85 mph before driver was able to disengage the system. Truck will be seen by the dealership. Truck was corrected for the same problem in February. Please provide any further information.

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.

Consumer was traveling at 60mph, hit brakes and cruise control didn't disengage. Driver steered vehicle into a ditch to avoid an accident. There were no injuries. Consumer will be contacting dealer.

Had been running on cruise control for about 3 miles when vehicle rapidly accelerated to about 70 mph. I depresseded the "coast" button, reducing the speed to 60. I had no further cruise control incidents/failures.

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Cruise control will not disengage when applying the brakes or switching it off. After applying brakes to slow down for a curve, the cruise control would engage itself as soon as the brakes were released.

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The cruise control fails after one to four hours of operation and will not re-engage, nor will the acceleration feature work.

Cruise control will not disengage when manually trying to disengage. Driver has to slam on the brakes. Consumer says this is unsafe. If someone would pull out in front of consumer, it could result in a terrible accident.

Vehicle idles high, lunges. Tt.

Although the cruise control was set the vehicle would speed up to another speed.

Cruise control sticks when trying to disengage. Dealer has been contacted.