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Open Help Requests for Chrysler

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	1996 Chrysler Town & Country 3.8L Hesitation, Stall VIN: 1C4GP54L0T Hello all, I have got this van from the church with a problem I cannot figure out. I am hoping that someone can help me. It has two problems, very intermitten. The first one is that sometimes it stalls at idle. The second one is that sometime it hesitates fro...	View
	2001 Chrysler Town & Country Limited 3.8L Headlights, Dash Lights VIN: 2C8GP64L01 Cutomer complained of headlights going out while driving.This condition tends to upset the customer. I questioned him to get as much info as possible. He tried high and low beam, no change. Dash lights were also out. Fog lights continued to work as well as Par...	View
	1992 Dodge Stealth R/T Turbo 3.0L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Cuts out, Misfire VIN: JB3XE74C3N Hello All, Working on this Stealth, some weird things going on, when the car first came to us it was flooded badly, pulled the plugs and got them dried out and then the car would start and run. Test drove car and it loads up really bad at low rpms, the higher ...	View
	1999 Dodge Caravan 3.3L heat VIN: 2B46P4460X I have a 99 caravan that has 2 temp. control knobs, 1 for passenger side and 1 for driver side. The passenger side works fine but the drivers side stays cold no matter what you put the control on. Another shop has put on a blend motor but that did not fix the ...	View
	2003 Dodge Ram 2500 5.9L drl VIN: 1D7KU38643 This truck has no DRL. When you push down the park brake the red brake light on the dash flashes but the scan tool does not read brake apply. Headlights work nomally with switches. I suspect front control mod. but information from alldata is scarce and very di...	View
	2003 Dodge Grand Caravan Sport 3.8L Unknown VIN: L83R300775 I want to thank all you, who submitted a repair idea. It ended up being a broken valve spring. Again thank you G.T.	View
	2004 Dodge Ram 1500 ST 4.7L sec light VIN: 1D7HU18N54 customer now states vehicle still starts but lights on dash flicker as does sec light and headlights, cd player also inop i have read alot of cluster concerns on these trucks are these similar symptoms.	View
	2005 Dodge Grand Caravan 3.3L Wipers, Radio, Heating Controls, PW and DL VIN: 3GFF15WR34 When key is on engine off everything accessory works. once the engine starts the following things will not work. Wipers and washer, All heating controls, Power windows and door locks. everything else works as normal.	View
	1998 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4.0L Excessive Emissions VIN: 1J4FJ6859W Hello, I am having a problem with this cherokee It came in having failed the emisson test on NoX only not sure of the numbers but it was excessive. hc, co are within limits having looking at scan data i found that it wasnt going into closed loop, temp sens che...	View
	2000 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4.0L transfer case VIN: 1J4FF48S1Y this jeep came in because in 4wd there was a grinding noise from the transfer case area. when it was put into 2wd the transfer case would stay locked in 4wd until i hit a bump. because of the noise and condition of the fluid( looked like tar) i replaced the tr...	View

Fixes & Summaries for Chrysler

	Fix/Summary	Answers
	2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser 2.4L flashers VIN: 3C8FY4BB21 thanks to all of your replies. We have shopkey here, doesnt tell us anything about a seperate flasher relay. It does tell us to remove the flasher relay to remove and replace multifunction switch, and wiring diagrams dont show it as a seperate unit either. ...	10
	1996 Dodge Ram 1500 5.2L no start VIN: 1B7HC16Y2T hello everyone, customer driving down rd. and vehicle quit. towed to our shop and tested. good fire, fuel pressure-55lbs. injectors noiding, still no start. checked for codes and none present. pulled sparkplug and fouled with fuel. injectors hung wide open. ...	4
	1997 Dodge Grand Caravan SE 3.3L Heater Controls VIN: 1B4GP44R0V Thank you Rolando for the cool down test procedure. I performed the calibration using the wiper and A/C buttons and everything's fine. Not sure what caused the module to lose it's calibration, maybe it has a failing module but we will just have to wait and s...	6
	1999 Dodge Caravan 2.4L power steering VIN: 2P4FP25B3X Thanks for everyone's replys. When the vehicle did return we pulled the reservoir off, which was a remote reservoir and it did not have any screen in it. We replaced the aftermarket pump that we had installed and installed an oe pump which solved the problem...	10
	1999 Dodge Ram 1500 Van 5.2L 1-2 2-3 shift VIN: 2B6HB11Y6X i received alot of very good replies and i appreciate everyone , bottom line is the trans needs to come out for rebuild.	10
	2002 Dodge Caravan Sport 3.3L turn indicators, instrument panel VIN: 1B4GP25R62 thank you for all the help, noted defective cluster, we found bad feed wire from battery,bad battery connections, wiring repairs in main harness. main feed for cluster to intellengent power module was bad, cleaned connections rechecked vehicle for symptoms no...	7
	2004 Dodge Durango Limited 5.7L no rear heat VIN: 1D8HB58D44 it turned out to be broken blend door. i consider all 7 of you to be correct.since you all helped me .i did not no anything about the working of this rear system and now i do .thank you.	7
	1998 Jeep Wrangler SE 2.5L Heater Core VIN: 1J4FY29P8W Thanks to all who resonded. This is a fix. I have put in a many heater core but this is the first time that I have run across one that wouldn`t heat up. Checked thermostat it was a 195 degree. Pulled water pump it had an R stamped on it. Mike [...]...	16
	2000 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4.0L Charging VIN: 1J4FF48S1Y Able to get in shop with no charge condition. Scope both inputs to alt and pcm grounding green wire, no charge. Replaced alt. and all is well thanks to all for your help.	12
	2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4.7L No Start, Cuts out, Stall, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1J8HR48P7C I did state in my update that this vehicle was E85 certified - sticker under the hood stated it was an LEV fleet certified for up to 85% ethanol blend. This Jeep did have ethanol in it and thought it had gasoline in it - causing the lean running condition. Thi... Trouble codes: P0300 (Multiple Misfires), P0171 (Lean Bank 1), P0174 (Lean Bank 2), P0420 (Catalyst Efficiency).	18

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