1998 DODGE DURANGO Complaints

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM SUDDENLY WENT OUT ALL GAUGES RADIO ETC FRONT AREA. CHECKED ALL FUSES AND NOTHING WAS BURNT OUT. RESTARTED ENGINE FOUR TIMES BEFORE RESET AND THEN WAS OK. HAVE HAD RECURRING LOCKING OF BRAKES AND GRINDING LOSE OF CONTROL AT LOW SPEEDS AND ON WET ROADS. DISC BRAKES HAVE NO WEAR INDICATORS ON PADS AND IT RESULTED IN BEING WORN DOWN AND ATE INTO THE FRONT ROTORS BEFORE I WAS AWARE THAT THE PADS WERE SHOT. I HAD TO BUY NEW ROTORS AND PADS AND THE REPLACEMENT PADS ALSO DID NOT HAVE INDICATORS. THE DEALER STATED THAT WAS THE WAY THAT THEY WERE MANUFATURED AND I THEN STATED THAT THIS WAS A SEVERE AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS AND DEADLY OVERSIGHT AND THAT IT SHOULD BE CORRECTED. I CONTACTED CHRYSLER AND THEY STATED THAT THEY HAD NO RECALL ON THIS AND THAT THEY HAD NO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS OR BULLETINS ON THIS. MY BATTERY ALSO SUDDENLY WENT OUT WITHOUT ANY WARNING AND IT CAUSED THE ENGINE TO DIE. I COULD NOT RESTART THE ENGINE AND A NEW BATTERY HAD TO BE INSTALLED. POWER WINDOWS WENT OUT AND COULD NOT BE OPENED OR CLOSED BY DRIVERS SWITCH.

WHILE DRIVING IN NEIGHBORHOOD ANOTHER VEHICLE PULLED OUT IN FRONT. CONSUMER SLAMMED ON BRAKES AND FRONT WHEELS LOCKED UP, VEHICLE SKIDDED AND SLAMMED INTO THE VEHICLEIN FRONT. CONTACTED DEALER WHO SAID THAT BRAKE PADS NEVER TOUCHED THE DRUMS. ALSO, REAR ARM ACTUATOR POWER WINDOWS WILL NOT GO UP OR DOWN. *AK

WHILE DRIVING IN ONE LANE AND APPROACHING A STOP LIGHT ON A 35MPH ROAD. ON WEET STREETS, AND WHILE TRYING TO SLOW DOWN, FRONT BRAKES LOCKED UP AND VEHICLE SLID INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE. *AK

ANTI-LOCK BRAKE SYSTEM IS NOT WORKING. WHEN APPLYING BRAKES, WHEELS LOCKED UP CAUSING VEHICLE TO DRIVE STRAIGHT THROUGH AN INTERSECTION. *YC

DURING WET CONDITIONS 1 BRAKE WILL LOCK UP CAUSING THE OTHER 3 BRAKES TO FAIL TO OPERATE. THIS HAS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES, ONCE CAUSING ME TO SLIDE INTO AN INTERSECTION. I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WITH A 1997 DODGE DAKOTA WHICH, I ASSUME HAS A VERY SIMILAR BR

ENGINE CHECK LIGHT ILLUMINATES, INDICATING A MALFUNCTION WITHIN THE SYSTEM. CAUSE UNKNOWN. DEALER CANNOT IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM. PLEASEW GIVE ANY FURTHER DETAILS. *AK

CONSUMER WAS DRIVING AT 15 TO 20 MPH WITH A TRAILER ATTACHED TO THE VEHICLE, AND THE TRAILER CAME UNWELDED FROM THE TONGUE OF THE TRAILER AND TOOK OFF. CONSUMER WAS ABLE TO GET THE TRAILER BACK, AND THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME, THE TRAILER CAME UNWELDED. *AK

WHILE DRIVING ENGINE CHECK LIGHT ILLUMINATED, INDICATING A MALFUNCTION WITHIN THE SYSTEM, SHORTLY AFTER A NOISE OCCURRED IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT, THEN THE VEHICLE COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN, CAUSE UNKNOWN. PLEASE GIVE ANY FURTHER DETAILS. *AK

ACCIDENT--TOYOTA COROLLA GRAZED FRONT LEFT CORNER OF BUMPER AND HIT TIRE. TIRE BLEW, UPPER AND LOWER CONTROL ARMS WERE PUSHED BACK.

WHEN MAKING A TURN VEHICLE WOULD FEEL LIKE IT WAS LOSING CONTROL . OWNER TOOK VEHICLE TO THE DEALER AND WAS ADVISED THAT THE BALL JOINTS WERE BAD, THE BOX IN THE STEERING COLUMN WAS CRACKED. MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED. *YC