Five problems related to transmission noise have been reported for the 1996 Plymouth Voyager. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
5 days after purchasing from dealership with 70000 miles, drove 400 miles since purchase and while driving on freeway vehicle started jerking and slowed to 10 mph. Revved engine and transmission making clunking noises. Dealership says they can't find anything wrong with van. Test drove 15 miles in city/freeway. Cannot duplicate problem. Only code they pulled was from a misfire. Couldn't explain the clunking noice from transmission. Forward has problems but reverse worked perfectly fine.
Consumerwas driving and heard a "clunking" noise and the vehicle stalled. Dealer diagnosed that transmission had failed. Ph.
Catastrophic failure of transmission at 54800 miles is shows a serious flaw in quality of the component. Failure occurred at city speeds, but wife had just pulled out on to heavly traveled road(hwy 6) with an appropriate distance between her and an oncoming tracter trailer. Failure of transmission caused the truck to catch up to her, an accident was avoided when she pulled to the side of the road. Our 2 year old and 3 month old children were in the vehicle with her. There are numerous reports of transmission failures on this model and related Chrysler products on the internet. The failure of the front drive axle occurred on a crowded highway. Although the vehicle was still functioning, the noise required full attention from me to assertain the situation while manuevering at highway speeds. When the vehicle was purchased I noted a continuous pulling to the left. I took the vehicle in for various reasons and always had them look for the problem. The problem was varified but the cause was never determined. Since the new axle was put in the vehicle no longer pulls. Obviously a bad axle was the cause and it was doomed to failure. Inspection of the broken part showed a rusty nonuniform ball and socket while the other ball and socket in the assembly was still metalic and smooth. I would also note that the highly respected repair shop that did the work found that the replacement parts indicated in the maual did not fit the vehical, they checked two different model numbers and neither fit. The third attempt purchased from Chrysler did fit.
Our van only has 65,000 miles. When driving down the street we heard a noise and the van jerked and then made funny noises. We brought it into the shop the told us that we need a new transmission. It exploded inside. There should be a recall on all these vans with bad transmission. I hope some day soon something is done about this problem for the customer. This is not very good customer service providing customers defective vehicles.
Vehicle was making a squeaking noise when changing gears. Consumer took vehicle to dealer, and they replaced transmission around januanry of 2000, now, consumer is hearing the same problem again. Consumer feels its to soon to be having the same problem.