Like so many others,I'm having problems with my car not starting or shutting off without warning.The dealership could not figure what was causing this to happen and thy didn't seem to care..So,I took it to a mechanic who said that it was a pcm problem.I took it back (twice) to the dealership who had put on the re manufactured pcm less than a year ago.They wanted me to spend another

600 dollars to replace the faulty pcm because they said the warranty had expired.I feel this is unfair because I brought the car to them with this problem be fore the warranty expired.i am a single parent and it is nerve- wrecking not having a reliable vehicle to transport my children in.The Dodge Durango

is a big disappointment and I would not recommend anyone to purchase one.

MelW

Jackson,MS,USA

Another unhappy Dodge Durango Owner. I will never own another American vehicle.

Sorry America, we build sh*&^% cars!!! The imports have better resale and fewer problems. I am like all of you here, Truck shuts down out of the blue, won't start for 5-25 minutes. Mostly happens when it is hot, wiggle wires, lift the hood, ... doesn't make a difference. This is VERY DANGEROUS!!! Dodger should step up to the plate. Have also had transmission problems, A/C problems, and the OIL Consumption problem.

I have been having the same problem as everyone else, I was reading your complaints and decided to try and cool the computer on the passenger side fender. I had a 14 hour trip to take with the vehicle and did not want to be stranded. If you look at my photo's, it is crude I plan to clean it up especially in the front. The tube is a 4" drainage tile that I found laying around, I had to crush it so that it would bend properly and I had to slit it to get it around the tube beside the radiator. I had to cut away part of the black material between the headlight and the radiator and push it through and then duct taped it back. You will have to pop out the plastic rivet that holds the air cleaner intake and rotate the tube back toward the engine ( I rotated it back once I was done it was snug but its mostly back). I made the 14 hour trip yesterday at 70+ with the A/C running with 90+ temperatures and no problems. I am planning on going to JC Whitney and seeing if they have an electric radiator fan that will fit and I will put that in front of the tube in the front of the car. I did have some rain, but the ribs in the tube and the fact it makes so many turns no rain appeared to have made it to the computer. Biggest cost will be duct tape. Good Luck

This problem is back from the past! Take truck in, tech's can't get it to die. After trying to get me to come pick up my unfixed vehicle, I tell them it doesn't have to be driven, it can die while idling. Eureka! It happens for service department. I'm not some paranoid consumer who is making this up. No problem. It's "your central timer module". One week later and $516 less, I'm back on the road. At least for one day. Drive it to work the next day...truck dies again. Take it back. One week later. "We think it's your pcm, it's probably been causing those other things to go bad." They offered to replace the pcm for just the cost of the part, $587 and throw in the labor for free. I told them of my dissatisfaction for their service and how I had bought two vehicles there. I then asked them to return my old parts, refund me and I would find another place to fix my truck. They supposedly did what I requested and never bothered to try to patch service relations with me.

We purchased a 1999 Durango in 2003, with 57,0000. Ran great for a couple of years, minor things, window motors on two windows, etc, but nothing too bad. Then in Spring 2005 the engine just starts cutting out without warning and the odometer reads some weird code. Many, many trips to dealers, mechanics, etc. Finally had the pcm board replaced with a rebuilt one for $600.00, ran fine for the winter, but come spring and summer it would die without warning. Sometimes I had to jump it with my little reliable 1996 Altima (thank God for that car). Then late 2007 it starts eating oil, a quart a week, then the water pump goes out as well. I had found a new mechanic who replaced the water pump, replaced the intake gaskets which stopped the oil feast, and then to my profound shock and delight he suggested replacing the stepper motor and the vehicle never stalled again. I truly believe that if Dodge would just issue a bulletin about this small defective motor, I could have saved years of anguish and thousands of dollars. Now, the AC stopped working and the speedometer went too, despite the fact we replaced the speed sensor, but at least the vehicle runs reliably again.

1999 DURANGO ENGINE GOES DEAD - PCM - it is the same problem, summer approaching, warm weather, the PCM gets hot, and the engine goes dead. It is incredibly inconvenient, under the sweltering sun. I learned about the solution from reading all the posts. I feel sorry for people, and I, being under the Dodge dealership's mercy, or rather, financial torcher. #1 The problem is the faulty PCM design and/or soldering and/or inferior circuit board component. I found the best price on a remanufactured PCM at a website before or during the winter months, but I misplaced it. Now that the heat is here, I have to find it. The cost is about $250, with you mailing back the core PCM. When I find the website, I will post again, with it's web address. Until then, or to find out what I have found out, for the site's address for getting the Durango's PCM, I will post to http://www.jumpsquid.com/durango-pcm or this might look better, http://www.jumpsquid.com/durango-pcm The other problem with the Durango is the a/c cooling, and in concert with that, the engine cooling. The exterior a/c radiator is rather large, completely covering and in front of the engine's radiator. When the a/c radiator gets clogged with junk, bugs, dirt, etc. and with it completely covering the area of the engine's coolant radiator, the air flow, hence cooling is always compromised; bad design, in my opinion. I have heard of, read of, Durango owners burning up their engine's oil with the constant hot temperatures, then the engine freeze. That is bad. As one AutoZone long-time employee, advised me against buying a thermostat with too low of a temperature rating, 160 F, I think,,, he said, '... those V-8s like to run hot, ... if you keep it too cool, it will mess with your fuel efficiency, ...' . I don't think so, with the huge potential disaster of possible burning-up and freezing an oil eating hot engine, I prefer and reccommend to go cool. There are obvious heating design flaws with this engine and I think that no engine should be fooling around with coolant temperatures near 200F. Any engine causing the coolant to boil in the cooling system, is headed for disaster. As it is, right now, out in my driveway, I cannot let the Durango sit there and idle, with or without the a/c, on. It will eventually burn off all the coolant, then the oil, and then freeze. #2 So, I guess it is sort of good that the Durango does stall from the faulty PCM. Maybe this is telling me that I need to conquer the engine coolant problem first. ....la la la, this is getting long,,, so, back then, last year, I removed/disabled the engine thermostat. I cut-out the center of the thermostat, and replaced the clear-for-coolant-flow metal thermostat mounting ring. A high speed electric cooling fan should be put in front of the sandwiched? radiators. A meticulous cleaning of the radiators, would be very important to do (taking care not to damage the a/c or engine radiator fins (leakage-then disaster)). I plan to do this, cleaning. #3 The third main problem that I can think of is: the weak a/c performance. I read somewhere that there is or might be a valve to stop the coolant flow to the heating coil/a/c air-cooling radiator,,, aka-evaporator, area. Supposedly the coolant flow to this compartment is not really blocked when you want it cool in the cabin. I haven't researched this yet; I don't know if a simple turn valve exists. I do think that halting the flow of coolant to the heater core would be a great help with cooling the cabin.

My 1999 Durango only 50000 miles on it. It work just fine when I first bought. but now I don't know what is going on. run, run and just shut down and I have to wait for a while to start it a gain. first time I thought it was the fuel injection or fuel pump so I took it to tireplus and had the mechanic look at it he said I have to replace the fuel pump It cost me $1200 so I did repaired and then after a month later It happen again. and I took back in the shop He said he couldn't find nothing wrong. and then again He said the same thing. I think the dodge manufacturing should be responsible for this problem. It is very danger when I drive on the express way 70 mile per hour when the engine cut off like that especially with the children. soon or later the dodge manufacturing will get sued.

YEP YOU GUESSED IT SAME PROBLEM AS YOU ALL HAVE WIFE SAID IT JUST QUIT DIDN'T HAVE FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE UNTIL TODAY AND SAW THE NO BUS ON THE ODOMETER BEFORE THAT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO SO I REPLACED THE DISTRIBUTER AND ROUTER BUT NO SOLUTION YET BUT READING THIS I MIGHT TRY TO SHIELD THE PCM WITH SOME CARD BOARD AND INSULATING TAPE SEE IF THAT HELPS OR NOT. DON'T GIVE MUCH HOPE FOR DODGE TO HELP WOULD RECOMMEND NTSB OR ANY OTHER FEDERAL AND STATE AGENCY GROUP TO COMPLAIN TOO THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT CAN FORCE A RECALL THAT I CAN SEE. BE SAFE PLEASE POST YOUR OUTCOMES FOR THE REST OF US AND REBEL YELL REAL LOUD TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN WHEREVER YOU CAN!!!

I bought my used 1999 Dodge Durango back in 2002. I have had to dump $2,200 on replacing evaporator core(right and left) to fix air conditioning. There are problems with the transmission and just this April it had its first electrical shut down while I was driving down the road. Since then, it has done it way to many times to count. I want to replace the pcm, but I am afraid that it might end up being a waste of my money, which I don't really have in the first place. This problem has now become the biggest pain in my a**!!! I can no longer put my three children in the vehicle and am stuck having to borrow vehicles to take them places. All I have to say in the end is I will never buy another Dodge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Durango shuts down without warning, most recently going down the freeway at 65 mph. Total loss of power steering and power brakes. ABS light and check engine light comes on after it dies. Prior to that incident it had only failed to start when parked, or died at a stoplight and wouldn't restart. All these incidents happened when the weather was warmer....never once in the winter.

Pay attention DODGE and recall your crappy computer. Do you need to have documentation of this causing a fatal accident first or what??

This truck should be recalled!! Deaths will occur with this and probably already have. Will start researching that with insurance companies! The Durango shuts down without warning. You have no control of the vehicle when this happens. The oil pressure drops to 0 and the truck then attempts to stall or does stall. If the truck cools or you bet cool air on the PCM, then the oil gauge jumps back up to 40 and the truck runs fine. Have had the oil checked and there oil is running though the engine as it should be although the gauge says 0 and the check gauges light and check engine light comes on. As long as the truck is not running more than 10 minutes, it runs fine, over 10 minutes it becomes a safety hazard and a liability to whomever is driving. I have a 16 year old son that is forbidden to dirve this truck. We still owe $6900 on it and it now makes a nice yard ornament. I am putting a case together to sue Chrysler - this is a serious safety issue for all of us drivers. Please contact me if you are interested in the same. I am collecting names and am pursuing this. We shouldn't have to bit the bullet on this one. Driving is dangerous enough without driving a Durango that shuts down continually and without notice. You lose your power steering, power brakes and it's hell to navigate or even get a truck this large to stop. We have the 4x4 with the 5.9L engine. It's a tank that I used to love until it became too dangerous to drive. Dodge does not want to take any responsibility for this and every dodge dealership you call acts like it's the 1st time they have heard of it. With the thousands of posts that are on the internet, I find that hard to believe. Dodge needs to take responsibility for this. Buy back our trucks or at least give us a large enough rebate on a new vehicle. But they do need to take responsibility. dlannon@alltel.net Please contact me. These trucks are too dangerous to be on the road.

This is a common problem with the Durango, and the dealer claims to know nothing about it. However, a quick search of the internet reveals many sites where customers note that they diagnosed the problem and fixed it themselves. I can strongly recommend Auto Computer Exchange of Florida for a replacement PCM. They will program it and send it to you, and it is simple to install. Only downside is having to wait a week for it to arrive. Don't spend the $1,200 the dealer will charge to replace the PCM. You can do this for about $300.