NHTSA Complaint #10549436 — 2011 DODGE DURANGO

IT BEGAN WHEN THE CAR WOULD CRANK AND NOT START SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE ACTUALLY STARTING. I TOOK IT IN (FIGURING AT SOME POINT IT WOULD JUST NOT START AT ALL AND LEAVE ME STRANDED) AND THEY SAID THEY COULDN'T DUPLICATE IT AND SENT ME HOME. IT STARTED DOING IT AGAIN, SO I TOOK IT BACK IN AND THEY REFLASHED SOMETHING OR OTHER AND SENT ME ON MY WAY. THE REFLASH DID NOT FIX THE PROBLEM, BUT I DID NOT TAKE IT BACK IN, FIGURING I WOULD LEAVE WITH THE SAME RESULT. FINALLY, THE CAR DIED ON ME WHILE I WAS DRIVING IT, WITH MY SMALL CHILDREN IN THE CAR. NO POWER BRAKES, NO POWER STEERING. I WAS ABLE TO PULL OVER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD SAFELY. THANKFULLY I WAS NOT GOING TERRIBLY FAST AND THERE WERE NO OTHER CARS AROUND. I TOOK IT BACK IN AGAIN, AND THEY TOLD ME IT NEEDED A NEW TPIM. AFTER SPEAKING WITH DODGE, THIS IS APPARENTLY A COMMON PROBLEM IN THE '11 DURANGOS. THE NEW TPIM WAS INSTALLED, HOWEVER, FOR SOME REASON, ACTIVATING THE RIGHT TURN SIGNAL NOW FLASHES THE FOG LIGHTS. ACCORDING TO THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT, THIS IS DUE TO A SECOND FAULTY TPIM. *TR