1999 DODGE DURANGO Complaints

OIL PRESSURE DROPPED. TOOK IN AND EVERYTHING WAS FINE. DID OIL CHANGE. OIL PRESSURE CONTINUED TO FAIL DID ANOTHER OIL CHANGE. SEEMED LIKE SOMETHING WAS CLOGGING OIL FINE. DID COMPLETE OIL CLEANING AND FLUSH. THEN WITH NO NOTICE, BLEW ENGINE..PISTON THROUGH BLOCK AND OIL PAN. NEEDED TO REPLACE ENGINE. MECHANIC SAID HE HAS SEEN 12 TO 14 OF THIS YEAR DURANGO DO THIS. FEELS OIL PUMP IS TOO LITTLE FOR V8 ENGINE. REPLACED ENGINE AND INSTEAD OF PLACING FACTORY OIL PUMP, HE REPLACED OIL PUMP WITH A LARGER ONE. HE SAID IF HE HAD AN DURANGO HE WOULD RECOMMEND AND OIL CHANGE EVERY 1500 MILES NOT THE RECOMMENDED 3000 MILES. SAID THIS PUMP WILL RUIN AN ENGINE EVERYTIME. *NLM

I HAVE READ ABOUT THREE RECALLS FOR MY TRUCK (1999 DODGE DURANGO). I HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN NOTIFIED BY CHRYSLER. I THOUGH THAT THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO NOTIFY YOU,ESPECIALLY WITH ONE OF THEM BEING A PART TO THE GAS TANK. THANKS FOR YOUR WEB PAGE....JOE S. *NLM

DURANGO HAS HAD SEVERAL PROBLEMS. AT 19000 MILES I NEEDED A NEW TRANSMISION, AT 60,000 MILES THE ENGINE NEEDS TO BE REPLACED. DOGE WILL NOT ASSIST IN THE REPAIRS OR REPLACEMENT. THIS IS THE MOST FRUSTRATING SITUATION I HAVE BEEN IN IN QUITE SOME TIME. I WILL NBEVER BUY A DODGE PRODUCT AGAIN. COST OF REPAIR IS $ 5,000.00

THE VEHICLE WAS IMPACTED AT 35 MPH IN THE FRONT CENTER OF THE VEHICLE YET THE AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY AND CAUSED MINOR INJURIES TO THE CONSUMER. DEALER NOTIFIED . *NLM

1999 DODGE DURANGO, JUST PURCHASED FOR 13,500.00. THE NEXT DAY THE CHECK GAUGE LIGHT COMES ON AND THE OIL PRESSURE DROPS TO ZERO. WAS FINE FOR ABOUT 30 MILES AND THE CHECK GAUGE LIGHT COMES ON AGAIN AND OIL PRESSURE DROPS TO ZERO. THIS TIME WHEN IT HAPPENED THE ENGINE WAS RAPPING/TICKING LOUDLY. RESEARCHED ON WHAT THE PROBLEM COULD BE AND FOUND MANY PEOPLE WITH THIS SAME PROBLEM AND DODGE WILL NOT DO A THING ABOUT IT. MOST HAVE LOST THERE ENGINES. MY VEHICLE HAS ONLY 65,000 MILES. WE SHOULD NOT BE EXPERIENCING THIS SORT OF ISSUE.

THE VEHICLES INTAKE PAN GASKET IS DEFECTIVE AND CAUSED OIL TO LEAK FROM THE ENGINE DURING VEHICLE OPERATION. THE CONSUMER IS CONCERNED THAT LEAKING OIL WILL RESULT IN ENGINE SEIZURE. *NLM

WHILE DRIVING, THE CONSUMER HEARD A STRANGE NOISE. THE DEALER DETERMINED THAT UPPER BALL JOINTS HAD TO BE REPLACED. *AK THE SEAL BETWEEN THE TRANSFER CASE WAS LEAKING*JB

VEHICLE STALLS OUT WHILE IN MOTION AT ANY GIVEN TIME. CAME VERY CLOSE TO BEING REAR ENDED BY A TRACTOR TRAILER. IT IS ALWAYS A GUARANTEE THAT AFTER PUTTING GAS IN THE VEHICLE IT WILL STALL OUT APPORX. 2-3 MILES AFTERWARDS, SOMETIMES FOR OVER 45 MINS. AT A TIME. VEHICLE HAD (2) DIAGNOSTIC REPORTS DONE IN WHICH THE FIRST STATED THE INTAKE MANIFOLD GASKETS NEEDED REPLACING AND THE THROTTLE BODY NEEDED CLEANING. THIS WAS NOT TRUE, SINCE BOTH WERE COMPLETED, VEHICLE CONTINUES TO STALL OUT WHILE DRIVING IN GENERAL TRAFFIC OR STOPPED AT A TRAFFIC SIGNAL. THE SECOND DIAGNOSTIC DONE STATED NOTHING WAS WRONG, HOWEVER, AFTER DESCRIBING TO THE DEALER THE MULTIPLE PROBLEMS, THEY SUGGESTED THAT THE PCM NEEDS TO BE REPLACED. AFTER REVIEWING THE COMPLAINTS ON THIS SIGHT THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THE ONE THAT I HAVE , IT APPEARS THAT THIS COULD BE EITHER THE (PCM) OR (CENTRAL COMPUTER MODULE/PICK UP PLATE) THAT IS THE PROBLEM. *NLM DEALER CURRENTLY WORKING ON REPLACING THE PCM, BUT I WILL ALSO QUESTION THE (CENTRAL COMPUTER MODULE/PICK UP PLATE) TO SEE IF THE TWO ARE IN RELATION TO ONE ANOTHER. I PRAY THAT THIS WILL RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM AS I FEAR THAT I AM DRIVING AROUND IN A DEATH TRAP BECAUSE OF THE MULTIPLE CLOSE CALLS THAT I HAVE HAD IN THIS VEHICLE WHILE STALLING OUT IN THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACES. *NLM

TRANSFER CASE IN DODGE DURANGO SLT 4WD(1999) CRACKED IN HALF WHILE DRIVING. TOOK IT TO MY LOCAL TRANSMISSION PLACE AND AFTER FURTHER REVIEW, HE FOUND THE FRONT DRIVE SHAFT HAD WEAKENED(BROKE) WHICH DESTROYED THE U-JOINT WHICH CAUSED THE TRANSFER CASE TO CRACK. WHEN HE CALLED DODGE TO ORDER A NEW FRONT DRIVE SHAFT, THEY SAID THEY WERE BACK ORDERED 2-3 WEEKS. WHEN ASKED IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THIS PART, HE WAS TOLD NO. BUT THE DRIVE SHAFT IS BACK ORDERED. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN AND NOT HAVE A PROBLEM? *JB

THE VEHICLE HAD A DEFECTIVE FUEL LINE ASSEMBLY, WHICH CAUSED FUEL TO LEAK FUEL AT THE CONNECTION, THE FUEL LINE WAS REPLACED TWICE, HOWEVER THE PROBLEM RECURRED. *JB