Mystif
03-31-2008, 04:18 PM
This van is an automatic, AC, PS, ABS...
202077+ miles. I am, at minimum, the third owner of the vehicle.
My problems started when the Fuel rail went out. There was a TBS so I took the vehicle to a dealer (Craine Dodge, Little Rock, Ar). When I got it back the rear window washer would not stop unless you unplugged the motor. The end result of that and several other problems that started "suddenly" after going to the dealer lead to a replacement BCM.
After all of that a new problem developed. The vehicle does something that is even hard to describe, but I will try.
You are traveling on the highway, at any speed, and the pitch of the engine changes. The RPMs drop off only slightly, the speed seems to drop off even less, yet at the same time you are pressing against you seat belt like you are decelerating suddenly.
If you do not adjust the gas peddle the vehicle may come out of it on its own or it may start slowing down. Keep the peddle still and eventually the vehicle will stall.
Take your foot off or increasing the accelerator causes the vehicle to resume normal operation.
It may happen 15 times today, three times next week, maybe not again till June. There is no way to tell. Only clue at all is that it is more likely on warmer days.
Additional symptom (seems related, started at the same time) - stalling. Approaching a stop, or while sitting there. Start it again, may stall immediately, maybe at the next stop, maybe not for the next week or more. There is just no way to predict it.
It, whatever "it" is, causes no codes, absolutely nothing.
I have taken mechanics for a ride in it. Some Dodge mechanics, transmission mechanics, my father (mechanic longer than I have been alive, and keeps up with the new stuff), and a mechanic who seems to know if your low on window washer fluid when you are still two miles away.
The typical answer when they experience the sensation is, "I don't know what it is but bring it back whenever whatever it is breaks and we'll fix it."
Fuel pump and filter have been replaced (filter clogged, hole in sock), I have tried all recommended additives, Trani fluid and filter replaced, new EGR.
Again, absolutely NO codes posted on this. Driving around with diagnostic equip on the ODBII-port revealed nothing.
Somebody has got to know what this is and how to make it stop! If that is you please enlighten me.
202077+ miles. I am, at minimum, the third owner of the vehicle.
My problems started when the Fuel rail went out. There was a TBS so I took the vehicle to a dealer (Craine Dodge, Little Rock, Ar). When I got it back the rear window washer would not stop unless you unplugged the motor. The end result of that and several other problems that started "suddenly" after going to the dealer lead to a replacement BCM.
After all of that a new problem developed. The vehicle does something that is even hard to describe, but I will try.
You are traveling on the highway, at any speed, and the pitch of the engine changes. The RPMs drop off only slightly, the speed seems to drop off even less, yet at the same time you are pressing against you seat belt like you are decelerating suddenly.
If you do not adjust the gas peddle the vehicle may come out of it on its own or it may start slowing down. Keep the peddle still and eventually the vehicle will stall.
Take your foot off or increasing the accelerator causes the vehicle to resume normal operation.
It may happen 15 times today, three times next week, maybe not again till June. There is no way to tell. Only clue at all is that it is more likely on warmer days.
Additional symptom (seems related, started at the same time) - stalling. Approaching a stop, or while sitting there. Start it again, may stall immediately, maybe at the next stop, maybe not for the next week or more. There is just no way to predict it.
It, whatever "it" is, causes no codes, absolutely nothing.
I have taken mechanics for a ride in it. Some Dodge mechanics, transmission mechanics, my father (mechanic longer than I have been alive, and keeps up with the new stuff), and a mechanic who seems to know if your low on window washer fluid when you are still two miles away.
The typical answer when they experience the sensation is, "I don't know what it is but bring it back whenever whatever it is breaks and we'll fix it."
Fuel pump and filter have been replaced (filter clogged, hole in sock), I have tried all recommended additives, Trani fluid and filter replaced, new EGR.
Again, absolutely NO codes posted on this. Driving around with diagnostic equip on the ODBII-port revealed nothing.
Somebody has got to know what this is and how to make it stop! If that is you please enlighten me.