2010 Chrysler Town and Country: steering wheel locks up

Filed Apr 30, 2021 · Electrical · 132,798 miles · SC

Vehicles is shutting down while driving. No codes shown. Mechanic can find reason. It's been happening for a month. Steering wheel locked when of. I'm able to restart it right away after putting it on neutral.

Filed Feb 15, 2020 · Brakes, Electrical · 180,000 miles · NC

Driving along and all of a sudden the car turned off, steering became tight, and steering wheel locked. After checking into the situation, the ignition key was in the off position, upon trying to restart the engine it says bad key and vehicle would not start, wheel wouldn't turn and vehicle was disabled.

Filed Dec 15, 2019 · Steering · 55,000 miles · NY

Danger! While in motion, three or 4 times since buying town & country in dec 2009 the power steering froze & I had to muscle the wheel to complete the turn. Now that my daughter is driving I am scared to death for her. I took the car to service & they found no codes & nothing wrong.

Filed Dec 14, 2018 · Engine · 86,377 miles · PA

Engine stalls while driving, unable to steer as steering locks. Then difficult to restart. Doesn't happen any specific time. Been happening on multiple occasions.

Filed Dec 13, 2018 · Electrical · 119,000 miles · MI

Tl* the contact owns a 2010 chrysler town and country. While driving approximately 30 MPH, the vehicle shut off and the steering seized without warning. The vehicle was able to be restarted. The dealer and manufacturer were not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 119,000. The VIN was not provided.

Filed Oct 21, 2018 · Acceleration, Driver assistance · 119,000 miles · TX

Vehicle stalls while driving the car on city street and highway. No warning and it loses all power. Steering wheel locks and the only thing I can do is brake to stop the car. This has happened 3 times now with my kids in the car with me. Not safe at all and for some reason my VIN is not in the recall about this issue.

Filed May 18, 2018 · 130,000 miles · OR

When driving in town the rpms will suddenly drop to 0, the van is unable to accelerate and the power steering locks up. Sometimes the esp message pops up on the dash. I have to pull over, put the van in park, and turn the vehicle off and then back on. So far this works but it will do this multiple times in the same trip. Has happened when moving, while stopped and when turning through an intersection. I'm absolutely terrified this will happen at a critical moment and cause my children and I to get into an accident.

Filed Feb 10, 2018 · Brakes, Electrical · CO

Vehicles turns off while being driven and different speed and brakes and steering wheel locks up

Filed Jan 28, 2018 · Steering · 93,000 miles · MI

This has happened to me 3 times within the last few months. At random times. I was driving 25 miles or under when my steering wheel locked while driving. It happened twice in my neighborhood and once on a city street coming up to an intersection. I was unable to turn the wheel at all! My traction control light on my dash board came on as well. I came to a stop. Turned the car off and turned it back on and the steering wheel was no longer locked and dash light was no longer on. Went back to normal with no issues. Very concerning!

Filed Nov 30, 2016 · Electrical, Seats · 49,000 miles · GA

Tl* the contact owns a 2010 chrysler town and country. While driving 40 MPH, the vehicle stalled, the steering wheel seized, and the instrument panel illuminated. Prior to the failure, the front driver side seat independently shifted back and forth without warning. The contact mentioned that the vehicle was previously serviced per the federal safety agency campaign number: 14v373000 (air bags, electrical system), but the failure recurred. The vehicle was taken back to the dealer two more times where the ignition valve and battery were replaced, but the failure recurred. The vehicle was taken back to the dealer, but was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 49,000.

Filed Aug 24, 2016 · Brakes, Engine · 55,000 miles · AR

2010 town and country can has been stalling while driving the steering locks as well as the breaks. It usually happens when I'm going between 20 to 35 MPH.iit will completely die in the middle of the street and the worst is crossing a busy intersection! I have taken it to several mechanics and unable to find the problem some of them just ignore this dangerous problem. It has shut off in the middle of rush hour with my kids in the van. There has been several town and country van owners with the same problem. When will chrysler corp or anyone going to address this issue before someone gets killed? This has been an on going problem since last year with no help!

Filed Jul 13, 2016 · Brakes, Engine · 98,304 miles · NY

I took my van in for a simple valve change because it was using a lot of oil on 2/15/16. A week and a half later I received my van back and it stalled in front of a tractor trailer truck. Van was returned to the dealership and they claimed to repair /install new gas pump, egr valve, gaskets, crank sensors etc. I received my van back on 4/2 claiming everything was repaired. The van was no longer stalling. On 4/3 while driving on the parkway, in heavy traffic my brakes, steering wheel locked and van shut off while driving. Just missed going over the guard rail. Again took th van back to the dealership, contacted chrysler customer service which made the dealership owner very irate. My van was in the dealership from 2/15 to june. I got the run around about we are doing everything to repair your vehicle. Guess what, it is still not repaired the van continuously stall anytime you made a hard turn. It was at the point of no return. The longer the dealership had it the worse the van got. Meanwhile all of this extra stress is starting to affect my health. I paid for a $42,000 van and even chrysler has no idea of how to fix it. I got fed up in june and asked to have the van returned back to me. After more than 3 months they were ever so happy to return the vehicle back to me. As of now I still don't have all the receipts of exactly what was done to the van. All I know is that I would never buy another chrysler again because of the treatment received and their uncaring attitude about the safety of the vehicle. At this point I found out that I am not the only one with this stalling issue. I feel chrysler is aware of it and don't know how to go about correcting it. The vehicle was in the dealership at the time on 2/15 for a recall for the ignition node(r03). I don't know if the recall initiated all the action or incompetence. I have towing receipts in excess of 100 miles.