NHTSA Complaint #10826051 — 2011 DODGE DURANGO

2 DIFFERENT EPISODES OF UNEXPECTED VEHICLE SHUTDOWN/STALLING. FIRST EVENT WAS IN THE PROCESS OF A LEFT HAND TURN. VEHICLE SHUT DOWN PARTWAY THROUGH THE TURN. LOST ALL POWER STEERING AND BRAKES. STRUGGLED TO KEEP THE VEHICLE OUT OF THE DITCH. PUT THE VEHICLE IN PARK, AND IT RESTARTED IMMEDIATELY, AND CONTINUED HOME UNEVENTFULLY. APPROXIMATELY 2 MONTHS LATER, THE VEHICLE AGAIN UNEXPECTEDLY STALLED AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT. THE LIGHT TURNED GREEN, AND I TOOK MY FOOT OFF THE BRAKE, AND THE VEHICLE STALLED. AGAIN, IT RESTARTED UNEVENTFULLY AND I CONTINUED TO WORK. THE VEHICLE APPEARS TO BE WORKING NORMALLY OTHERWISE. ACCELERATION AND FUEL ECONOMY ARE NORMAL, AND THERE ARE NO EPISODES OF HESITATION/STUTTERING/MISSING. THERE WAS NO WARNING OF THE STALL EITHER TIME. BOTH EPISODES WERE APPROXIMATELY 5 MINUTES INTO MY DRIVE, AND THE VEHICLE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MOSTLY WARMED UP EACH TIME, BUT PERHAPS NOT ALL THE WAY. THE "EXACT" MOMENT OF THE STALL SEEMS TO COINCIDE WITH REMOVING MY FOOT FROM THE BRAKE, ONCE TO TURN AND ONCE TO ACCELERATE. THE DURANGO WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER THAT SAME DAY EACH TIME, AND THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT ERROR CODES.