1996 Plymouth Voyager: jerking or lurching

Filed Dec 19, 2003 · Transmission · 71,800 miles · CA

5 days after purchasing from dealership with 70000 miles, drove 400 miles since purchase and while driving on freeway vehicle started jerking and slowed to 10 MPH. Revved engine and transmission making clunking noises. Dealership says they can't find anything wrong with van. Test drove 15 miles in city/freeway. Cannot duplicate problem. Only code they pulled was from a misfire. Couldn't explain the clunking noice from transmission. Forward has problems but reverse worked perfectly fine.

Filed May 8, 2001 · Engine, Fuel system · MI

Front motor mount very bad and engine rocks back and forth and sometimes jerks when coming to a stop. Heater doesn't work on all setting for air. Steering bad, knocks on rough streets and makes bad noise when turning the steering wheel. Smell fuel inside of the vehicle when putting fuel in the tank and sometime smell it when regualar driving.

Filed Jan 25, 2001 · Transmission · VA

The transmission started slipping at 26,000 miles and at times, somewhat jerking into gear. The problem appeared to be worse when the car was cold and when you were shifting into higher gears, it wasn't as noticeable on downshifting. The problem was supposedly fixed but reappeared in less than 20,000 miles. The problem wasn't as noticeable the second time and we thought maybe it just needed an adjustment. We were informed that there was metal in the transmission fluid and the whole transmission had to be replaced. The van is a low mileage vehicle with easy town and highway driving miles and the vehicle has never towed anything. The vehicle appeared to have a factory installed defective unreliable transmission.

Filed Jan 24, 2000 · Transmission · MN

Our van only has 65,000 miles. When driving down the street we heard a noise and the van jerked and then made funny noises. We brought it into the shop the told us that we need a new transmission. It exploded inside. There should be a recall on all these vans with bad transmission. I hope some day soon something is done about this problem for the customer. This is not very good customer service providing customers defective vehicles.

Filed May 27, 1999 · Electrical · OR · fire

My minivan had a slight jerk and the tachometer and speedometer went to zero, the engine was still running and all lights were on so I continued, when the car was restarted the guages registered correctly. 10 days later the same thing happened on acceleration. Then the guages all pegged at high end and blue smoke poured from under the hood. The resulting fire burned out my started, battery and wiring harness. A chrysler dealership is repairing the problem, but under my auto insurance instead of vehicle warrenty. This same symptom of the guages going to zero was reported to my by a friend who owns of a 1997 dodge caravan. This fire was extremely scary and I wanted a record of it in case of reports by other owners of similar problems thank you.

Filed Apr 5, 1996 · Brakes · CA

Front brakes grab/lurch and grind. Uncertainties on how to remedy the problem.