Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | |||
| 05/14/2008 | 140000 | 1 | |
| Vehicle's braking system seemed not to be working properly, taking longer distances to stop. a check of equipment showed all mechanical parts to be fit, and adjusted correctly. continued to drive vehicle but then had small accident involving braking while going downhill. at this time it was determined i had no brake lights. diagnostics of the brake light problem determined the combination switch in the steering column was the culprit and had failed, causing loss of brake lights and failure of the transmission to go into coast mode when the brake pedal was applied. this also results in the cruise function to not cancel when brakes are applied. there is no indication of failure through the instrument cluster for this fault. this seems to be a regular problem, as this part is back ordered at the chrysler dealership. because of the seriousness of this fault i feel it should be a safety recall, especially since there is no factory part available to repair the condition. my vehicle is still not repaired. *tr | |||
| 06/21/2000 | 11/01/1999 | ||
| While towing a travel trailer (3000 lbs) from san antonio to corpus christi, air temp 85 degrees, overdrive off, distance 130 miles traveled, all of the sudden the torque converter unlocked and the engine revved up, and the transmission started vibrating. i immediately took my foot off the gas and let the vehicle coast untill the torque converter locked again, about two miles and speed dropped to 50 mph. everthing seemed alright until we traveled another 10 miles down the road and it happened again, it happened a third time about 10 more miles down the road. we towed the trailer exactly 185 miles when we had to stop for gas, tank on empty, and put in 27.5 gallons of gas. i would say the transmission is slipping alot. stayed two days at the coast and tried to drive back to san antonio, traveled 30 miles to a military base with the engine reving and barely doing 50 mph, left the trailer in storage, filled the tank again, took 8 gallons of gas, drove back to san antonio, any time tried to do over 70 mph to pass slower vehicles the transmission would start vibrating. took the vehicle to the dealer and explained the problems, they gave the vehicle back to me a week later stating there is nothing wrong with the transmission. went down to corpus christi on 14 jul 2000 to retreive the trailer, temp 92 degrees, left the base and traveled 11 miles before the transmission torque converter unlocked again. could only do 30 mph back to the base or the torque converter would unlock. took it back again to the dealer and they said there are no problems with the transmission. all they did was put the computer on it , the pan has not been dropped yet, pressure gagues have not been put on it either. they want me to duplicate the problem, the trailer is 185 miles away and the vehicle can not tow it back here. what do i do???*ak | |||
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL - ACCELERATOR PEDAL | |||
| 02/14/2005 | 51000 | 1 | |
| While attempting to accelerating to 40 mph and pulling out a parking lot the throttle stuck in the open position. when this occurred driver immediately put the vehicle in neutral. the engine continued to race, but the vehicle coasted to a complete stop. a friend/handy man found where the throttle was hung, and twitched it back down.*ak | |||
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL - CABLES | |||
| 05/18/2004 | 2 | ||
| Intermittently, while driving the vehicle between 80 to 90 mph, the throttle cable stuck. the dealer replaced the throttle cable twce and the problem contined. *jb | |||