I was driving to work and my front axle broke. I also had two previous problems with the truck were it would accelerate on it's own to 80 miles a hour and the only way to stop was to shift into neutral, emergency brake and press on the brakes and pray. I was out of a car over thirty days between the two times trying to repair the acceleration.
2001 Dodge Dakota acceleration complaints
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Although the cruise control was set the vehicle would speed up to another speed.
When cruise control in activated vehicle will continue to accelerate.
When slowed to near stop as when parking, vehicle suddenly accelerates as if accelerator has been heavily depressed -- foot is on brake, not on accelerator. . Does not occur every stop. No warning when vehicle suddenly accelerates. Last time this happened, vehicle accelerated when being parked,and almost ran through business store front. Operator tried putting two feet on brake = no results...operator barely able to throw into nuetral to stop vehicle. Massive damage to frame of truck. Fortunately, no persons injured or real property damaged. Concern is for future driving when vehicle is repaired. This seems very dangerous.
Consumer states that vehicle pulls to the left when driving, on numerous occasions the vehicle has jerked to the left in such a manner as to take control away from the driver, it was found that the tires had never been balanced, a front end mechanic informed consumer that there was a problem with the front end of the vehicle, consumer states that now the front tires jump or cup during sharp turns to the left, the rear end was also replaced.
I was in iowa buying cattle, pulling 24ft trailor on interstate hwy in process of passing 18 wheeler when engine quit. The truck was taken to a dodge dealership in iowa nov. 17, 2001. The name of dealership, harlan auto plex. Shop foreman suggested wiring harness replacement. Regional service manager in kansas insisted the problem was defective throttle position sensor. 17 days later and 3 different throttle position sensors plus other parts tried the reginal manager allowed the dealership to replace wiring harness. Dodge sent to them the wrong wiring harness and truck motor had to be torn down again to install correct wiring harness. The truck has been in iowa in shopt 19 days and I live in tx. On 12-3 I was notified the truck was fixed as dodge told the dealership to get the truck out of their shop. I drove over 1,000 miles again to pick the truck up to find it torn down again. They have now notified me the truck is fixed, but there is no way to know if it is reeally fixed and won't know until back on the interstate. This could be very dangerous. Dodge will not pay for any of these travel expenses incurred nor help in anyway getting the truck back to texas.
Vehicle suddenly accelerates when it is in idle. Dealer has been contacted. Ak vehicle has been at dealer sevearl times, however the problem has not been corrected.
Cruise control failed to de-activate when brake was applied. Brake was stepped and released 3 times, cruise control still failed to de-activate. Was able to finally get cruise control to deactivate after pushing in both clutch and brake at same time. Cruise takes 3-5 seconds to deactivate when just clutch is pushed in. Truck was taken to dealer twice for this problem, they couldn't find anything wrong. Onboard computer not showing any problems. I have had cruise control in other cars, this is not the way it it supposed to work.
Intermittently vehicle will accelerate suddenly and unexpectedly without warning. Dealer has inspected vehicle on several occasions. However, problem could not be duplicated or corrected. Please provide additional information.
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