Automatic Transmission Control Module Problems of Dodge Durango - part 2

Engine surge causes vehicle to lurch. First instance was on March 10th 2006. The vehicle was running, I entered the vehicle put it into reverse and the tachometer jumped to almost 2000 rpms and vehicle lurched backwards then stopped. The second instance was on March 28th 2006 my wife was entering a parking space facing a store and reported stepping on the brake and the vehicle lurched forward jumping the concrete parking block with all 4 wheels, hitting the building then stopping. I believe this really is a problem as I now realize that during the first incident I needed to have the brake depressed to move the gear lever from park to reverse. Maybe related to NHTSA odi id#s 10112496,10125643, 10141521, and 10152704.

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2005 Dodge Durango stalls when driving. The dealership indicated software failure in power train control module, the tech. Performed technical service bulletin #18-013-05.

I have a 2005 Dodge Durango which I purchased 9/10/05. It has a little over 2000 miles on it now. I was turning into my parking lot at work, when all of a sudden my steering column locked up! I was just sitting at the curb trying to put it in reverse, or continue going forward, and the engine would not acknowledge any gear I put it in to. I turned my engine off, restarted it and it "magically" started back up and worked. I immediately parked it and had it towed to the nearest dealership. To my dismay, they stated they'd never heard of such a problem and couldn't figure out what the problem was. I suggested replacing the pcm. They said they could not since it "appeared" to be working fine. I'm very concered about my family's safety due to this problem. I'm scared to even continue to drive this vehicle, because who knows when it will happen again!.

Shaking and shimmy in the front end when driving on roads front end would shake uncontrollably,need to replace both side of upper and lower ball joints and tie rod ends all was worn out at 80000 miles also transmission wouldn't shift,speed sensor bad on transmission,old parts available certified mech did replacement and had to have it re-aligned.

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Pcm was found to be bad. This after the vehicle has stalled and come to a complete stop while driving w/o warning. I have taken it to the dealership 4 times over the past 6+ months. They could find nothing wrong. On the last stall ocassion 3/24/04, a mechanic was able to confirm a bad pcm, this was further confirmed by me visiting Dodgetalk. Com, others had this same problem. Currently the pcm is on backorder it seems there is a huge demand for this part. I know Dodge should have a recall on this. This was just dangerous, it was through the grave of god that on the 7 separate occassions that the stalling occurred that I nor anyone else was injured. Stalling is not an accurate description, more like just stopped while driving.

2001 Durango r/t. Second failure of transmission (11/26/03) @ 35000 miles. Handled by different dealerships and no one knows exactly why or how transmission is failing. Rpm tachometer races between 100 - 800 rpm during driving conditions including load, light load, flat terrain, and occasionally down hill when driving of speeds greater than 45 mph in drive and overdrive. Excessively hard clung when shifting between 1st and 2nd and between 2nd and 1st. 1st failure (2/6/02) was before pcm and transmission flash recalls @ 20000 miles. Service manager insisted that this was a normal thing and his Jeep did the same thing. After much convincing that I would prefer the opinion of a tech instead did they take the vehicle for repair. Vehicle was kept for an additional week than what was promised for delivery. Vehicle was kept in garage for the 2 weeks and when picked up all personal items, electronics, tire jack, etc was missing (~ $2700 worth) and accusing me of leaving my doors unlocked (did not quite understand his point and aurguement since it sat in the dealerships garage for the 2 week duration). Since . . . Transmission does not always go into park and occasionally drive, verbally told not a big deal by dealership service manager due to the transmission being flashed. Noticed vehicle surging with rpm increase after driving a while. Oh, by the way, yea, the ball joints needed replaced at ~18000 miles too (10/2002)!.

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If your Dodge Durango shuts down for no real reason it is your pcm, don't let the dealer tell you different. This is covered under emissions warranty up to 80,000 or at least it was for me, and the dealer did not want to replace it, he had me replace the ecm and it did nothing for the problem, so I demanded they replace the pcm, I did my own research on Dodge forum. They don't want to replace the pcm first because it costs them not you, like it should cost them because they have a faulty pcm problem that they don't want to admit to. . . . . . Good luck but keep fighting to the pcm. If you want to know more from me my email is wkfrimodig@hotmail. Com.

When I pushased my 1999 Dodge Durango the brakes was nosiy. . . Took it back to the dealer. They charged me $90. 00 to do a brake service. After the brakes was used a couple of times they started making nosie again. . . Took it back and dealer stated that it was the pads and they could not do anything about it. Well after that I was fed up with them and took it to a goodyear shop where they replaced the brakes. (stopped the nosie) and also found out the upper ball joints was bad along with the shocks. . . So they was replaced costing me $1,300. 00. So much for the extended warenties that I purchased with the vehicle. . The dealer also charged me for fliud after two sensors went out that was located inside the transmission. . Wich the warenty was to cover the drive train. . This vehicle is a 1999 Dodge Durango 4x4. . . . New tires had to be purchased because of ball joints was bad causeing tires to wear wrong.

Consumer states while driving, the malfunction indicator light came on . Vehicle will not accelerate. Contacted dealer. As a result of the transmission control module.

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While the consumer was driving, the vehicle completely shut off causing the power steering and the power brakes to fail. The dealer replaced the pcm.

Consumer stated the vehicle stalled while driving, after stalling the engine would turn over but not start, the message no bus appeared right when the engine stalled, the dealer replaced the powertrain control module and the pcm crankshaft.

Transmission slips out of gear while driving 35-40 mph, when in reverse it will shift to neutral. Dealer replaced transmission range sensor, tcm and quicklearn. On 30 April 2002 at 5 mph transmission slipped from drive to neutral.

Consumer can be going up to 50mph or more and the vehicle loses all power. It cuts off and dies anywhere without warning. Problem has happened before, but dealer couldn't duplicate problem. Vehicle happened to do it this time at dealer. Consumers were responsible for repair cost of $281 for part. The vehicle is only 2years old. Part that failed was pcm (power control module).

Tire deflated, no visible damage but cause spin out and loss of traction. (tiresize: p235/75r)( dot number: tire size: p235/75r ).

When driving on uneven road surface as I-94 fwy, vehicle expeirences loss of spur traction and brake-out. In three lane trafic, brak-out is a major failure and causes with un-expireanced driver bad exidence. Please check with manufacture, since 5 other owners in my company experiance the same incedent allmost any day.

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Power control module failed resulting in engine failure. Nlm.