1999 Dodge Durango: fuel pump failure

Filed Oct 5, 2020 · Electrical, Engine · 113,000 miles · VA

Phantom misfire can drop engine RPM and stall. Every possible sensor replaced. Fuel pump, injectors replaced. Entire ignition system replaced. There has never been a check engine light and while the phantom misfire happens a professional code reader shows no misfire and no history of events. Can happen at anytime, any speed. At slower speed the engine will cut off while driving causing a dangerous problem with loss of steering and brake hydraulics. Condition has been happening for over five years and I'm into this demon for thousands of dollars.

Filed May 11, 2014 · Electrical, Engine · 220,000 miles · CA

Engine shutdown, out of the blue. Nobus appeared on odometer. All gauges were on 0, but all other electronics worked. Starter would crank, but ignition would not ignite. I'm not sure if fuel pump went on or not. Vehicle would not start back up for apx 20 minutes. A couple days later, it happened again, then twice in one day. The quickest, but temporary, solution is to cool down PCM. An ice pack works great! But this is not always convenient. Needless to say, problem is worse on hot days. Once this happens, you need to replace PCM because solder joints are broken within. When unit cools, metal contracts, and contact is made again, and truck will start. But keep in mind-the solder joints are still broken. When unit heats back up, metal will expand, and connection will be lost again, causing engine shutdown and no bus to electrical ignition system. The very first time this happened, I had gone over a bump, which is probably what initially "broke" the solder joint. A new PCM can run $400. One from a junk yard could work, but there's always the risk that, it too, has the same problem-maybe that's why the truck is in the junkyard to begin with! And if it was in front end collision, good chance it won't be any good either! I've owned my durango for 13 years, and it has never really left me stranded. But now that it has this problem, combined with bad design of front hub assy, vehicle is very unsafe and it's time to retire it - even though motor still runs strong.

Filed Apr 9, 2012 · Electrical, Engine · 154,000 miles · MT

Vehicle dies at stop light. I push it to the side of the road to investigate. Vehicle engine cranks but doesn't fire. On odometer display it says no bus. Fuel pump not coming on when ignition is turned on . I walk to parts store and buy fuel pump relay ,or circuit breaker. Put it in , fuel pump comes on engine starts . Wife is driving it two days later . Vehicle dies in busy intersection . Nice people push her off the road way. She calls me , I tell her to take circuit breaker to parts store and get new one. She replaces breaker ,she's on the road again. So now I do some reading find out circuit breakers just get hot stop working , cool down and work again. So some thing is drawing too much current. Replace the fuel pump and filter , big pain in the you know what. Vehicle dies two days later. Nice man pulls me off the road. I leave vehicle sit for an hour . Vehicle starts back up. So I just go on vehicle dies on me all the time. Fast food lines ,busy intersections, it dies every where , every temp. I don't let mommy drive it anymore. I don't trust it to carry my baby anymore. I cant sell it . I have read about people having same exact problems . They say replace fuel pump ,did it. Replace computer , did that. Several years ago dealer ship put new computer in cost me $1200. All for a problem similar to this one. Vehicle died at stop lights , but started up right away. I have replaced so many parts , every thing is new. I cant trust it . Its very unsafe . I cant knowingly sell it to some body. Thanks dodge.

Filed Apr 1, 2012 · Electrical · 146,672 miles · AL

I was pulling a boat to the lake when the vehicle just cut off , I lost all power such as power steering ,power brakes .this could have cause a major accident ! Once I got on the side of the road and opened the hood I moved around the wires on the computer , I heard the fuel pump engage and then I started it . It ran a few minutes and did it again ! Both times their was a bus error on the odometer . As I have studied this problem ,computers (PCM) are overheating and causing connection problems . This is going to cause people to have accidents and get people killed ! Dodge needs to fix this problem ! There are many !

Filed Sep 22, 2011 · Engine · 205,000 miles · IN

Tl* the contact owns a 1999 dodge durango. The contact stated the vehicle stalled intermittently. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who performed a diagnostic test but did not generate any failure codes. The dealer replaced the ECM, PCM, crank sensor and the fuel pump. The failure seemed to be corrected however, the vehicle began to stall two months after the repair. The manufacturer was notified of the failure who informed the contact to file a complaint. The VIN was unavailable. The failure mileage was 205,000.

Filed Mar 23, 2011 · Electrical · 197,000 miles · CA

I own a dodge durango that is the worst vehicle I have ever purchased. It suffers from "shut off when it wants to syndrome" and the company won't even acknowledge that the problem exists even though it is the number one complaint about this particular model on the internet durango sites. To make matters worse they don't even know what causes it to do that therefore making repairing the vehicle impossible. It is basically a death trap as when the engine shuts off so does the power steering and the brakes!!! The odometer reads nobus. We have changed several things such as the PCM about 6 times, crank shaft sensor, cam sensor, shut down relay, and fuel pump relay. We still have the same problem. We believe that this is a very serious problem that can cause many accidents. As for us we are tired of investing money so that the vehicle keeps doing the same thing of shutting down and not starting. Then having to get it towed home is not so cheap. If we can get a solution from dodge that would be awesome. Thank you

Filed Feb 21, 2011 · Engine · 100,125 miles · WA

1999 dodge durango 5.9l:, vehicle dies when letting off the accelerator. Have replaced the idle air control valve, cam and crankshaft sensors, computer control relay fuel pump relay and the cap and rotor along with the distrubutor. Still stalls mostley in the afternoons temputre makes no differience. Last time stalled in busy intersection almost got hit by a speeding car.

Filed Sep 14, 2010 · Electrical · 143,048 miles · OR

I own a 99 dodge durango, 5.9 liter, the events to the failure were stalling while driving on freeway, at stop, in intersections, without warning. When attempting to restart, dash cluster would not function, read no bus on odometer, and show I had no fuel on gas gauge. Also when it would stall I would lose brakes and power steering, making it hard to get out of the way of traffic or move to the side of the road. The first time it happened I had my wife and 2 infants with me on the freeway doing 65 in the middle lane. Not only unexpected, extremely dangerous. Since then I will not allow my family in this car. Things that were done to correct the issue were fuel pump, cap and rotor, plugs, wires, crank sensor, and PCM. I have receipts for all work and parts. Old PCM not available due to core.

Filed Jun 13, 2010 · Electrical · 154,242 miles · IL

Owner of dodge durango 2 weeks ago my car stopped all of a sudden on the highway, I waited at least 15 minutes thereafter car started again. Truck allowed me to make close to my home,before stopping again. Although this time I waited 30 minutes before vehicle would started again. I finally arrived home parked the vehicle in the driveway. Next morning truck started but could not make it out of my driveway, it continue to shut down. I decided to have it towed. Repair station installed fuel pump, partial injection cleaning and idle, I drove the truck for 1 hour parked in the driveway, woke up next morning truck would not start, few minutes later started up again, I took truck to repair shop but they were unable to id any problems.thereafter, truck stopped again, I decided to tow to dealership whom replaced crankshaft sensor, tune up and full injection cleaning for 950.00 but truck still continues to stop, now dealer tech has stated PCM needs to be replaced which will cost 800.00 this is totally insane, based on all the $ spend, it could have been a down payment on another truck. Dodge daimler chrysler should be held responsible for all repairs and through investigation, especially since no one can identify root cause, also not to mention occurrences are jeopardizing people lives due to the vehicles continues to cease working at any given time.

Filed Jun 2, 2010 · Electrical · 100,000 miles · TX

I purchased a 1999 dodge durango and the vehicle shuts off when driving without notice. It is unsafe and dangerous. This happens everytime the vehicle is driven. I have invested thousands of dollars to fix and not even the dealer can fix. I have replaced the PCM, sensors, fuel pump to no avail. The vehicle is just sitting in my driveway, I cant do anything with it.

Filed Feb 9, 2010 · Engine · 120,000 miles · NM

Tl*the contact owns a 1999 dodge durango. She stated while driving at any speed from 5 MPH or more, the vehicle would stall without warning. The vehicle was taken to the dealer several times who replaced the fuel pump, crankshaft sensor and the power train control module (PCM); to no avail. There were no further repairs to the vehicle and there were no recalls. The contact was concerned about the safety risk since the vehicle stalled continuously. The failure mileage was 120,000 and the current was 128,227. The VIN was not available.

Filed Oct 27, 2009 · Steering · 134,800 miles · CA

Car auto-stopped while conducting driving lesson for my 15-year-old stepdaughter. We were traveling 40mph on a country road at the time. She drifted off the side of the road, said the steering wheel was stuck. I told her to apply the brakes. She said she was and they weren't working either. We went through a stop sign and were very nearly t-boned by cars from both directions. My stepdaughter sensibly did as I instructed and pushed as hard as possible on the brake, managed to stop the car before plunging into the river in front of us. I had been having problems with the car for six months previous to this incident. Two diagnostics reported that the vehicle was auto-stopping but not why this was occurring. A local mechanic suggested it was probably the gas gauge sensor in the fuel pump which made sense to me because everything but the gas gauge worked whenever the car auto-stopped. It would typically restart within 15 minutes or so. I assumed we had solved the problem when the mechanic replaced the fuel pump. I know now that the fuel pump was not the problem although I don't know what is wrong with the car. I have researched this on the internet and found there are hundreds of other people going through the same difficulties with 1999 dodge durangos. My wife, stepdaughter and I were very lucky not to have been seriously injured during the driving lesson. This situation needs to be addressed before someone is hurt (if they haven't been already).