Cruise Control Problems of Dodge Stratus

The contact owns a 2003 Dodge Stratus. The contact stated that there was an abnormal noise from the dashboard as the air bag warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that the air bag needed to be replaced. In addition, the horn and the cruise control failed. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 65,000 and the current mileage was 69,000.

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The contact owns a 1997 Dodge Stratus. While driving approximately 45-50 mph on normal road conditions, the cruise control was activated. When the contact depressed the brake pedal, the cruise control failed to deactivate. He made several attempts to disengage the cruise control mechanism, but was unsuccessful. The gear shifter was placed into neutral and the vehicle suddenly began to slow down; however, the engine revved highly. The vehicle has not been repaired. The failure occurred whenever the cruise control was activated and the vehicle was in motion. The failure mileage was 150,000 and current mileage was 175,000.

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The contact owns a 1997 Dodge Stratus. While driving 70 mph the cruise control failed to engage when activated. The mechanic was unable to diagnose the failure. The current mileage was 128,000 and the failure mileage was 105,000. The VIN appeared to be invalid.

The contact stated cruise control would not go off. This happened on 8-26-05. She had the cruise control was set at 60 mph, but instead it kept climbing higher. The consumer did not have any problems with the cruise control prior to this occurrence. The service dealer had to cut the wires to get the cruise control to go off. The brakes were ruined because she had to ride the brakes for so long. The service repair shop said the module to the cruise control was bad. He disconnected the cruise control. He told her to call the NHTSA and report this because he had never seen anything like it. The consumer did not have the money to have the module replaced. The consumer felt that she should be reimbursed for the cost incurred. The consumer she is experiencing back pain from being jerked around in the vehicle.

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The caller's son was driving and without warning the throttle stuck. He tried to pull the foot pedal up with his foot but it did not stop the vehicle. He went through a stop sign and almost lost control of vehicle, but finally got the vehicle to stop by turning off the ignition. The caller said the brakes were on fire. The fire department was not called. The vehicle reached the speed of 80 mph. Dealer has not been contacted yet. Will take vehicle to her own mechanic. Manufacturer said there was no recall and she should take the vehicle to dealer to get it repaired. The problem was the cruise control modulator.

Brakes failed to disengage the cruise control set at 70 mph. Consumer continued depressing brake pedal until he smelled rubber burning. When this occurred the ignition switch was immediately turned off. Vehicle started to slow down, but the failure continued when the ignition was turned back on. Ignition was then turned back off, and vehicle coasted to the median. When vehicle was at a complete stop consumer put the vehicle in park before restarting. Cruise control disengaged, and the failure had corrected itself. Dealership was not notified, the cause of the failure was undetermined. . . .

Cruise control locked up. Was not able to disengage cruise control. Dealer stated cruise control cable was inoperative.

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I had my cruise control on while coming home last night around 8:00 pm. When I applied my breaks when I entered a town my car accelerator was stuck. I turned off my cruise control and I it was still stuck. I took the country route home. When I pulled into my drive and put the car in park it max out the rpm and I quickly turned off the engine. I did notice that Dodge has a bulletin about the speed sensor loss of cruise control (4/99) does that means I have to pray for my life. I forgot to mention that I was being a semi when this happened and he was stopping for a red light and I was not. Thank god I had enough common sense on what to do.

Consumer state that while driving on the NY state for about 2 1/2 hours, the cruise control was set at 65 mph, as consumer was pulling into a passing lane without accelerating to pass a slower vehicle, the speed jumped to 80 mph very rapidly, consumer then hit the accelerator two or three times without any results then turned off the cruise control and the slowed down back to normal.

While driving 60 mph with cruise controlon vehicle accelerated. Consumer tried to turn cruise control off, but would not turn off. Consumer applied brakes hard. Finally was able to slow vehicle down. Took out of gear, and engine was revving, shifted back and forth from drive to neutral to disengage cruise control, and was able to stop vehicle.

Cruise control, which was not being used at the time and which was not operable [had not been working prior to the accident] suddenly and without prior warning caused the car to accelerate as if the accelerator pedal were floorboarded. Driver avoided other traffic but ended up in a field. Car was totaled. Inspection of the circuit board inside the cruise control servo unit was found to be faulty.

Whenever consumer is driving on highway at 50-70 mph with cruise control engaged and the vehicle approaching a down hill slope, the vehicle would accelerate to 4000 rpm, but the speed would remain the same. Consumer would commence to disengage cruise control with button, which failed to deactivate. Applied brake pedal which deactivated cruise control. Vehicle been in/out dealer shop on three occasions, and informed that nothing could be found.

Cruise control was engaged, consumer applied force to the brake pedal, cruise control was disengaged, the engine statred racing. The vehicle then jumped forward, causing the consumer to have a near accident. Please provide further details.