2012 Chrysler Town and Country: sudden loss of power

Filed Nov 15, 2025 · Electrical, Engine · VT

Vehicle randomly shuts off while driving. No warning lights are illuminated. Shutoff can occur at any speed and causes loss of power steering, braking etc. Shutdown requires immediate pull off to the side of the road. Once key is turned off and back on, car restarts.

Filed Oct 8, 2025 · Electrical, Engine · MI

My van will frequently lose power and die while I am driving it, with NO WARNING. I have to pull off and put it either into park or neutral then turn the key again to get it started again. This has happened more than 40 times over the last 15 monnths. My speeds have ranges from 25mpg in town to 65 mpg on the highway.Most recently on Saturday, October 4, 2025.

Filed Jan 6, 2025 · Electrical · MO

While in motion at various speeds, this vehicle has, on numerous occasions over the last year, abruptly lost power in the middle of traffic disabling the power steering and braking making stopping and steering out of traffic almost impossible. Most of the time the vehicle restarts after turning the key fob off and on. On the federal safety agency website I have found numerous reports of the same or similar incidents reported with this vehicle. It is logical to the most casual observer that there is a problem with the ignition system, most probably, the key port and/or the ignition control module. How many of these incidents have to be reported before it is obvious to the experts in the agency to that there is a safety problem with these vehicles being left powerless in motion, in traffic? Or maybe a more appropriate question is: how many people have to be injured or killed before the "experts" and/or bureaucrats decide to do their job.

Filed Jan 30, 2023 · Electrical · MI

MOVING STALL Complete shutdown of the vehicle without warning while driving. Dash dials completely blank, loss of power steering, brake assist and engine power. Presumed loss of airbag function also. The issue first happened a few weeks ago but started to re-occur multiple times in recent days. Last occurrence captured on video (see attached GIF). Fortunately it was possible to bring the vehicle to a stop without incident in each case, but the potential for a injury is obvious. Prior to the issue a worsening problem over previous year or so was observed in that while in Accessory position, the slightest touch of the inserted key fob would sometimes cause similar shutoff ('off ' position).

Filed Oct 19, 2022 · Electrical, Engine · WY

Starting in 2019 our 2012 Chrysler Town and Country had stalled out while driving. The entire engine cut out with no warning, losing all power steering, and even braking seemed hard. The vehicle would not start and would only crank over. The only solution was to disconnect and reconnect the battery and the vehicle would start. Problem did not happen again until June of 2022 when my wife along with her mother and our two children were traveling to Los Angeles, CA from Wyoming and the vehicle died while driving on the interstate putting them in situation which could have been deadly. Vehicle would not start again after that and only fix was to disconnect and reconnect the battery and vehicle started again. This has happened another 3 times since June of 2022. Our vehicle has approximately 138,000 miles on it and has had no other issues. From reading other complaints it sounds like this is related to a faulty TIPM. However since it never throws a code, no one can tell what is causing the issue since it cannot be replicated and happens randomly without warning. Latest incident occurred around Oct 1, 2022.

Filed Jul 14, 2020 · Engine · 120,000 miles · NY

While driving even a slow or fast speeds it happens. This has been going on for months no warning the car will stall.. I lost power steering that is how I know the car had stalled. Then another time I did not go any where when I hit the gas again the that is how I knew the car stalled. It is a very dangerous thing for the car to be doing I have brought it to my mechanic on many occasion can not seem to find anything wrong

Filed Jun 11, 2020 · Acceleration, Electrical · 138,000 miles · WI

I will be driving the van and it will randomly shut off it only dose it at low speeds at like 20 -40 but I lose power steering everything until I put it in neutral and start it again.

Filed Jun 11, 2019 · Engine · 85,000 miles · GA

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 chrysler town and country. While driving 5 MPH, the vehicle lost power and an orange warning icon illuminated. The contact powered off the engine. The vehicle was restarted and was able to drive normally. The vehicle was taken to alm kia south (located at 4310 jonesboro rd, union city, ga 30291, (678) 827-8900), but was not diagnosed or repaired due to the diagnostic fee. The vehicle was also taken to an independent mechanic, but was not diagnosed or repaired. The vehicle was not taken to a chrysler dealer. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 85,000.

Filed May 9, 2019 · Engine · 64,000 miles · FL

Rough idle and bucking at stop or slow speeds with loss of power at speed when shifting between 4 and 5. Like it miss's 5 altogether and goes straight to 6th gear. Took to shop with #4 cylinder misfire code. They replaced #4 coil but issue returned next day. Same problem and same code. Said most likely cylinder head issue and my be covered by recall. Could not find info of recall for this issue but did find many other complaints about the same thing. My car has 64000 miles on it. Shouldn't be having issue like this. Will a recall be forth coming on this issue or am I stuck with it? Respectfully. (xxxxx). Parts of this document have been redacted to protect personally identifiable information pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).

Filed Feb 5, 2018 · Electrical, Engine · TN

So me and my family we're heading to a birthday party on u.s. Highway 64 going to huntsville alabama and we was about ten minutes out from our city in winchester tennessee and all of the sudden the van turns its self off at approximately at 50 miles an hour and lost all power to vehicle and power steering was out then there was a simi truck behind us and I guess he thought we was slowing down on purpose and blowed his horn and passed by.we managed to get the van to the shoulder in the grass and called a tow truck. The tow truck driver tryed to boost the van up and it started then died again so we had to have it towed in. We called chrysler and they didn't help at all but to tell us to take it to the dealership which they was closed so I fixed it my self and all it was is a bad alternator.there should be some kind of warning when this stuff is going to happen because it was a scary situation at a high speed with your family with you.

Filed Mar 23, 2017 · Airbags, Driver assistance · 79,000 miles · MI

While driving at various speeds the van will shut off we will lose power steering and brakes you lose all power as if the key is off,I will jiggle the key and it will start back up or it will power up, you shift into nuetral and turn the key and start back up it is intermittent and it could happen while driving slow or driving 70mph down the highway.

Filed Oct 19, 2016 · Electrical · 68,187 miles · MI

Driving on the highway started to lose power and was lucky enough to be able to pull into a repair garage where the vehicle died. Had to have a new alternator put in. Had no warning..