Driving down the road and every light on the dash lit up, the wipers came on, the heater was shutting on and off. Van is in the shop now with no answers on what is wrong.
Those of you with this issue, how was it resolved?
Electronics started malfunctioning while driving, shutting off all inside cabin electronics including panel, radio, a/c and turning on windshield wipers. At first it did not malfunction every time but now it doesn’t run 1 minute without malfunctioning. Sometimes my brake, head, and signal lights will not work and the complete panel and gauges will not go back up including gas, speed RPM etc. until I shut down the car and wait a few minutes to turn it back on making it completely unsafe.
I brought it to the local dealer and as expected, and mentioned by others online, they said they have never heard of anything like it. They stated that my car has 9 different computers and that they are reading malfunctions on all of them and decided to reset the module that controls all of the interior electronics. $100.00+ nothing changed apart from the fact that it is now happening more frequently.
I refuse to get into the path of spending thousands of dollars on this repair just on the guessing game of replacing part after part without positive results. Please help!
Driving the van down a hill street during rush hour and most of the electrical systems failed. Wipers went to full speed, every check light came on. No steering, radio died, brakes did work because they are not electrical. Shut it down and restarted. Nearly caused multiple wrecks on the hill and ramp to highway. Took it to Falls Motor City who did not find any faults. Said they never heard of such a thing. Basic conclusion I was nuts.
Driving the van down a street and most of the electrical systems failed. Wipers went to full speed, every check light came on. No steering, radio died, brakes did work because they are not electrical. Shut it down and restarted. Called Falls Motor City who said they never heard of such a thing. Basic conclusion I was nuts. Took the car back...Then it happened again.
Control panel goes off, wipers start working like crazy, turn signal and wipers switch doesn't work, garage remote door opener and buttons of sliding doors doesn't work as well. Next day everything works again, until it'll happens again.
- shamil,
Sunny Isles Beach, FL, US
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Bought van new and electricals quit the day we drove it home. All electrical (windows, air, heat, gauges, blinkers, radio, etc) except for the windshield wipers and they come on and cannot be turned off. Have taken it back to the shop 4 times and they replaced the computer one time but nothing the remainder times. Only started it up each day they had, it trying to duplicate the problem, and it did not do it while they had it. So they call me to come and pick it up. Said I would have to drive it there while it was doing this for their system to identify the area that is malfunctioning.
Problem is you never know when it is going to do this and dealership is 100 miles away so difficult to get it there doing that because it starts and stops it at random. I have pictures and videos that I showed the dealership but they do not care. Chrysler corporation has been no help getting this fixed. I have to drive 200 miles to a oncologist once a month and this is very dangerous on the interstate with no working blinkers or air/heat. Do not want to be a death statistic for Chrysler to acknowledge this problem and fix it.
Update from Apr 2, 2015: Have had van in shop at least 5 times for same problem. Kept in shop last time for over a week and said could not duplicate problem. As soon as started it, failed again. Mechanic could not find problem so told me it was un fixable and made me take it because chrysler would not authorize a rental. They think it needs required but will not try that because if it does not fix the problem chrysler will not reimburse them so they basically do nothing.
I bought the car Dec 23 2013. It's a 2014 model. I drove the car on highway, went to work Dec 24 2013. The car suddenly the computer system not working as in totally not working, it was scary that time. But the car still running so I bring to the dealership but driving in the road very scary, I said scary because all my signals, stop lights and hazards not totally working wile driving going to dealership. Can you imagine that only one day old the car has a major problem already!
My car still in service one week already. This car sucks, from now on I don't want to buy Chrysler or American car, too many problem.... This is my last car for American make or Chrysler made. I recommend do not buy Chrysler, their car is sucks!!!!!!!! This car supposed to be a gift for my baby and my wife for x'mas but it's going to nothing.....
This Town Country is not safe to drive, this car is crap!!!!!!!
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Driving down the road and every light on the dash lit up, the wipers came on, the heater was shutting on and off. Van is in the shop now with no answers on what is wrong.
Those of you with this issue, how was it resolved?
Thanks.
- Carolyn A., New Richmond, WI, US