2005 Chrysler Town & Country Powertrain & Transmission Problems

MY TRANSMISSION WANT MAKE MY CAR GO IN REVERSE, AND WHEN I PUT IT IN DRIVE IT WILL GO BUT FOR A LITTLE WHILE THEN IT GROWS COULD YOU GUYS HELP ME, WHAT SHOULD I DO.

DON'T GET ME WRONG I LOVE MY CHRYSLER T&C LX STOW AND GO. I ONLY HAVE 4 PROBLEMS WITH IT. THIS ONE IS FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND IT SCARED THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF ME! LAST NIGHT ON MY WAY HOME ON THE HIGHWAY I WENT TO PASS A SEMI AND GOT ABOUT HALF WAY AROUND IT AND MY CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON AND I HEARD A LOUD WHINNING NOISE AND NEXT THING YOU KNOW MY RPM WERE FULL BLOWN AND I WAS NOT GAINING SPEED I WAS STUCK AND NO WHERE TO GO AS CAR WAS APPROCHING A HEAD ON COLLISION I HAD TO SLAM ON MY BRAKES AND PRAY NO ONE WAS COMING UP BEHIND US AND GET BACK BEHIND SEMI!! HE WAS BLOWING HIS HORN AND I WAS FREAKING OUT. I MAD IT SAFELY BEHIND SEMI WITH SECONDS TO SPARE BEFORE ME AND MY 2 DAUGHTERS WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD OR SMASHED INTO TREES. I PULLED OVER AND AFTER CATCHING MY HEART AND PUTTING IT BACK IN MY CHEST GOT OUT AND CHECKED TRANNY FLUID IT WAS FULL AS IT IS SITTING THERE WHINING I COULD NOT IMAGINE WHAT WAS GOING ON. I GOT IN AND IT TOOK A BIT FOR IT TO KICK IN GEAR BUT IT DID . THAN IT SLIGHTLY SLIPPED IN 3RD ON WAY HOME STILL WHINNGING. I WENT TO AUTO ZONE THIS MORNING WHILE STILL WHINNNING AND SLIPPING HERE AND THERE AND HAD CODES READ TRANSMISSION MALFUNCTIONED. AND GEARS 1 AND 3 MALFUNTIONED TOTALLY DEFECTS SOMEWHERE. STILL SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS!!

UNSTABLE DASH, WARNING LIGHTS, CUT OFF WHILE IDLING, TRACTION CONTROL CIRCUIT. AS DESCRIBED IN MANY POSTINGS FROM OTHER CUSTOMERS AS FAR BACK AS 1996. AS DESCRIBED IN THE POST. THESE PROBLEMS ARE WELL KNOWN TO CHRYSLER AND THEIR DEALERSHIPS BUT YOU RECEIVE NO HELP IN SOLVING THESE PROBLEMS WITHOUT SPENDING $$$$ AND STILL NO RELIEF. HTTP://FORUM.CHRYSLERMINIVAN.NET/SHOWTHREAD.PHP/22167-2005-CHRYSLER-TOWN-AMP-COUNTRY-W-INSTRUMENT-CLUSTER-FLICKERING-AMP-ELECTRICAL-MAYHEM.

WHEN BRAKING RATHER HARD TO SLOW/STOP QUICKLY, TRANSMISSION HESITATES TO DOWNSHIFT SO WHEN STARTING TO ACCELERATE AGAIN, ENGINE REVS UP BUT TRANSMISSION DOES NOT ENGAGE. THEN IT WILL ENGAGE SUDDENLY WITH A HARD JERK WHICH CAN BE DANGEROUS. ALSO, WHEN BRAKING HARD TO SLOW QUICKLY AND BECAUSE THE TRANSMISSION DOES NOT DISENGAGE AS IT SHOULD, THE ENGINE SOMETIME KILLS WHEN I HAVE SLOWED. IN AN INSTANCE WHEN THAT HAPPENED, I WAS MAKING A TURN AND, OF COURSE, LOST POWER STEERING SO BARELY AVOIDED HITTING A VEHICLE WAITING ON THE STREET INTO WHICH I WAS TURNING SINCE STEERING WAS VERY HEAVY TO ACCOMPLISH. BROUGHT THIS UP TO A TECHNICIAN WHO SAID, "YES THOSE VEHICLES ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR TRANSMISSIONS FAILURE TO DISENGAGE AND OCCASIONAL SLIPPAGE ON STARTING AND THEN SUDDENLY ENGAGING WITH A VERY HARD JERK". *TR UPDATED 5/10/2015 *JS

MY 2005 CHRYSLER TOWN/COUNTRY CAME TO A COMPLETE STOP ON A RESIDENTIAL STREET AFTER MY HAND/PURSE RAN INTO THE KEY IN THE IGNITION. I COASTED TO A STOP. LUCKILY, SINCE IT WAS ON A SIDE STREET WITH NO ONE BEHIND ME I WAS ABLE TO REMAIN CALM, PUT IT INTO PARK AND STARTED THE VEHICLE BACK UP WITH NO PROBLEM. THERE HAS NOT BEEN A PROBLEM SINCE THEN. I HAVE MADE SURE TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD ON MY KEYCHAIN, ONLY HAVING 2 KEYS AND NOTHING ELSE. I CAN NOT IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED HAD I BEEN ON THE FREEWAY GOING 70 MPH!!! THAT IS WHY I AM SUBMITTING THIS COMPLAINT. THE KEY SURELY SHOULD HAVE A SAFETY FEATURE BUILT INTO IT THAT WOULD NOT ALLOW IT TO TURN THE VEHICLE OFF WHILE IT IS BEING DRIVEN AND IN GEAR (DRIVE). A SIMPLE BUMP SHOULD NOT MAKE THAT KEY MOVE INTO A NON-DRIVABLE POSITION. I THINK A DEFECT LIKE THIS COULD INDEED CAUSE A FATAL CRASH AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED. MY DEALERSHIP ASSURES ME ALL MY RECALLS ARE UP TO DATE. *TR

NUMEROUS TIMES, UPON FILLING GAS TANK, VEHICLE STALLS IN FIRST FEW MILES OF DRIVING. HAS ALMOST CAUSED NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS. APPARENTLY THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM, THE NHTSA REALLY NEEDS TO PUSH FOR A RECALL. I CANNOT FILL UP TOTALLY FOR REAR OF GETTING HIT. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING 35 MPH, HE ATTEMPTED TO ACCELERATE BUT THE VEHICLE ENGAGED INTO AN IDLE MODE WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE AND CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 75,000.

MY AIRBAG HAS CAME ON AND WILL NOT GO OUT . THE PLACE WHERE I BOUGHT THE VEHICLE, REFUSES TO HELP AND CHRYSLER WILL NOT HELP. .MY VAN LEAKS TRANSMISSION OIL. IT GETS STUCK IN A GEAR. I BOUGHT A LEMON. *JB

MY CAR WAS PUT INTO DRIVE WITH OUT THERE BEING ANY KEY IN THE IGNITION ROLLED FORWARD I TESTED IT AGAIN TO SEE IF THERE WAS SOMETHING I DID NOT DO AND AGAIN ON A FLAT SERFACE NO KEY IN THE IGNITION NOT FOOT ON THE BRAKE I WAS ABLE TO GET IT INTO DRIVE. *TR

STARTED WITH ERRATIC JUMPING OF INSTRUMENT NEEDLES SYNCHRONOUS WITH ELECTRICAL POPPING IN SOUND SYSTEM AND FLICKERING OF ALL LIGHTS. HAS GOTTEN PROGRESSIVELY WORSE TO NOW, KILLING THE ENGINE SUDDENLY WHILE UNDER POWER CONDITIONS, LEAVING VEHICLE WITHOUT POWER STEERING AND NECESSITATING SHIFTING TO NEUTRAL WHILE AT FULL ROAD SPEED, AND RESTARTING THE ENGINE TO REGAIN OPERATIVE CONTROL, ALL WHILE IN OPERATION ON THE ROAD IN TRAFFIC. THIS HAS HAPPENED ON FOUR OCCASIONS DURING THE PAST THREE WEEKS TO THIS DATE. VEHICLE ALSO HAS ELECTRICAL "HICCUPS" RESULTING IN DISENGAGEMENT OF TRANSMISSION UNDER OPERATING CONDITIONS, WHICH HAS SO FAR (SIX INCIDENCES) RE-ENGAGED WITHIN TEN SECONDS PURSUANT.THIS MORNING, JULY 11, 2013, WHILE AWAITING A TRAFFIC LIGHT, THE ENGINE KILLED AND THE ENTIRE SYSTEM LOCKED UP FOR SEVERAL MINUTES, INCLUDING INABILITY TO MOVE SHIFTER, NO RESPONSE TO KEY IN IGNITION; COMPLETE SHUTDOWN. APPROXIMATELY FOUR TO FIVE MINUTES LATER, IT SUDDENLY UNLOCKED, WAS ABLE TO BE PUT IN NEUTRAL AND RESTARTED, AND DRIVEN AWAY WITH NO INDICATION OF ANY DIFFICULTY, AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED. ALL OF THE ABOVE EVENTS HAVE BEEN SIMILARLY INTERMITTENT AND UNPREDICTABLE. IT IS APPARENT TO ME THAT SOMETHING IS DEFECTIVE IN THIS VEHICLE, AND I HAVE ENCOUNTERED SEVERAL OTHER OWNERS OF CHRYSLER TRUCKS AND MINIVANS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE. CHRYSLER SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE PARTS IT INSTALLS IN IT'S PRODUCTS AND NEEDS TO ADDRESS AND CORRECT THESE VERY REAL AND EXPENSIVE SAFETY HAZARDS AT THE FIRST POSSIBLE MOMENT. *TR

DASH LIGHTS FLICKERING, GAUGES JUMPING. HEADLIGHTS TURNED OFF DURING DRIVING AT NIGHT. TRANSMISSION SHORTLY DISENGAGED. DANGEROUS SITUATION! CHRYSLER CAN NOT FIND THE PROBLEM. NHTSA CASE EA11010 IS OPEN. NEED URGENT SUPPORT. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY. THE CONTACT STATED WHILE DRIVING IN REVERSE INTO THE DRIVEWAY THE VEHICLE STALLED WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A LOCAL MECHANIC WHO PERFORMED A DIAGNOSTIC TEST THAT LOCATED THE FAILURE IN THE TRANSMISSION. THE TRANSMISSION WAS REPLACED AND THE MANUFACTURER DENIED ASSISTANCE WITH THE REPAIR BECAUSE THE EXTENDED WARRANTY EXPIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 99,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 100,000.

I WAS THE SECOND OWNER OF A 1998 TOWN AND COUNTRY AND THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS GREAT UNTIL MY 2 YEAR OLD CLIMBED INTO THE DRIVER SEAT, PULLED THE VEHICLE OUT OF PARK AND INTO NEUTRAL. HAD THE BACK SLIDING DOOR NOT BEEN OPEN FOR ME TO JUMP IN AND PUT THE VAN INTO PARK IT WOULD HAVE COASTED INTO THE NEIGHBORS FRONT PORCH. ON ANOTHER OCCURRENCE I WAS LOADING THE VAN WITH SOME ITEMS FROM THE REAR WHEN I REALIZED MY DAUGHTER AGAIN GOT INTO THE DRIVERS SEAT TO PRETEND DRIVE. I REALIZED THAT SHE WAS THERE AND WENT TO THE FRONT BUT WAS TOO LATE. SHE PULLED THE VEHICLE OUT OF PARK (NO KEYS...THEY WERE IN MY POCKET) AND RAN INTO THE ANOTHER NEIGHBORS FENCE AND TRASH CANS. I WAS FURIOUS THAT THE DEALER I SPOKE TO SAID THE SHIFT INTERLOCK WAS NOT INSTALLED UNTIL 2000 AND REFUSED TO HELP SO I TRADED IT IN FOR A 2005 WITH ONE PREVIOUS OWNER. I THOUGHT WE WOULD BE ALRIGHT SINCE IT IS SUPPOSE TO HAVE A SHIFT INTERLOCK (THE DASH EVEN STATES TO PRESS THE BRAKE TO SHIFT OUT OF PARK) BUT JUST TODAY MY DAUGHTER, NOW 4, CLIMBED INTO THE DRIVERS SEAT (WITHOUT THE KEYS IN THE IGNITION) AT MY SISTER-IN-LAWS HOUSE AND DROVE MY 2005 VAN INTO HER SCHOOL VAN. I NOW NEED TO REPLACE THE FRONT BUMPER. CHRYSLER HAS YET TO DO ANYTHING AND I AM NOT THE FIRST TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS. *TR

THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION WAS STUCK IN LOWEST GEAR AND WOULD NOT DOWN SHIFT AND THE VEHICLE WAS UNABLE TO ACCELERATE OVER 40 MPH. CHRYSLER DEALER STATED "REQUIRES RELEARN" AND HAD THE TRANSMISSION REPAIRED. *TR

THERE WERE NO EVENTS LEADING UP TO THIS PROBLEM. CAR WAS TAKEN REGULARLY FOR OIL CHANGES AND REQUIRED MANUFACTURER MAINTENANCE AT THE DEALERSHIP. CAR WAS BEING DRIVEN AND WHILE PULLING ACROSS HIGHWAY IT JUST DOES NOT GO. THE CAR CONTINUED TO RUN BUT THE TRANSMISSION WOULD NOT ENGAGE AND PULL THE VEHICLE. ACCORDING TO THE DEALERSHIP, THE PUMP PROBABLY WENT OUT AND CAUSED THE DAMAGE TO THE TRANSMISSION. THUS, THE ENTIRE TRANSMISSION IS BEING REPLACED. THIS IS A 3 YEAR OLD VEHICLE AND HAS 80,000 MILES. THERE WERE NO WARNING LIGHTS NOR ANY OBSERVABLE SIGNS THAT THE VEHICLE WAS IN ANY DISTRESS. MAYBE A FACTORY DEFECT BUT EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.

WHILE VISITING A RELATIVE MY 2005 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY WAS PARKED ON A DRIVEWAY THAT SLOPES DOWN A BIT. WHILE LOADING THE CAR AND IN A MOMENT OF INADVERTENCE, MY 2 YEAR OLD SON WAS ABLE TO OPEN THE DOOR OF MY VEHICLE AND CLIMB BEHIND THE WHEEL AND SHIFT THE CAR FROM 'PARK' INTO A DIFFERENT GEAR. MY SON WAS ABLE TO DO THIS WITHOUT THE KEYS IN THE IGNITION AND (OBVIOUSLY) HE WAS UNABLE TO REACH ANY PEDALS. THE RESULT WAS THAT THE VEHICLE STARTED MOVING DOWN THE DRIVEWAY, CROSSED A 2 LANE STREET AND STRUCK THE SIDE CURB AND A MAILBOX ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STREET CAUSING DAMAGE TO MY CAR AND THE MAILBOX THAT WAS TAKEN DOWN BY THE CAR. AFTER THIS INCIDENT I CALLED CHRYSLER AND INFORMED THEM ABOUT THIS ACCIDENT AND THAT IN MY OPINION THE SHIFT-BRAKE-INTERLOCK SYSTEM SHOULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS ACCIDENT. THE SHIFT-BRAKE-INTERLOCK SYSTEM IS AN IMPORTANT SAFETY FEATURE THAT PREVENTS ANYONE FROM SHIFTING GEARS WITHOUT SUPPRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL. CHRYSLER DID ASSIGN AN INVESTIGATOR WHO INSPECTED MY CAR AT A LOCAL CHRYSLER DEALERSHIP. THEY DECLINED MY COMPLAINT 'THE INSPECTION REVEALED THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF A MALFUNCTION WHICH WOULD CAUSE THE VEHICLE TO MOVE ITSELF.' AS OF TODAY, THE VEHICLE STILL HAS THE ISSUE WITH THE SHIFT-BRAKE-INTERLOCK SYSTEM AND MYSELF AM ABLE TO EASILY MOVE THIS CAR FROM 'PARK' TO 'NEUTRAL' OR ANY OTHER POSITION WITHOUT KEYS IN THE IGNITION AND/OR WITHOUT SUPPRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL. I FEEL THAT CHRYSLER DID NOT INVESTIGATE MY COMPLAINT THOROUGHLY AND FEAR THAT I'M PERHAPS NOT THE ONLY PERSON THAT IS AFFECTED BY THIS PROBLEM. I'M THE FIRST OWNER OF THIS VEHICLE, THIS CAR WAS NEVER IN AN ACCIDENT AND HAS BEEN DRIVEN VERY CAREFULLY SO I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS SAFETY HAZARD AND THE DANGERS THAT THIS COULD BRING TO OTHER PARENTS/FAMILIES WHO PERHAPS ARE DRIVING AROUND WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THIS IMPORTANT SAFETY FEATURE DOES NOT FUNCTION CORRECT ON THEIR TOWN AND COUNTRY. *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY. THE CONTACT STARTED THE ENGINE, BUT THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT SHIFT INTO DRIVE OR REVERSE. AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS, THE VEHICLE WOULD SHIFT TO THE APPROPRIATE GEARS WITH A LOUD NOISE COMING FROM UNDERNEATH THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER AND THEY REPLACED THE BRAKE SYSTEM. AFTER THE REPAIR, A LOUD NOISE CONTINUED TO BE HEARD FROM UNDERNEATH THE VEHICLE WHEN SHIFTING INTO REVERSE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER ON A SEPARATE OCCASION FOR THE LOUD NOISE; HOWEVER, IT WAS NOT PRESENT AT THE TIME OF SERVICE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED AND THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE LOUD NOISE STILL EXISTS UNDERNEATH THE VEHICLE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS UNKNOWN AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 34,000. UPDATED 09/04/08 *BF UPDATED 09/09/08. *JB

THE FIRST TIME THIS HAPPENED I ALMOST HAD A HEAD ON COLLISION WHILE TRYING TO PASS. WHEN PUSHING THE GAS PEDAL TO THE FLOOR TO PASS, THE VAN WOULD NOT ACCELERATE. NOT ONLY CAN I NOT ACCELERATE TO PASS, I CANNOT ACCELERATE TO AVOID AN EMERGENCY SITUATION. APPARENTLY THE TRANSMISSION IS SLIPPING. WHILE THE DEALER HAS REPLACED PARTS IN THE TRANSMISSION IT HAS NOT FIXED THE PROBLEM. THE VEHICLE IS UNDER WARRANTY, BUT CHRYSLER DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO FIX IT. *TR

TL*CONTACT OWNS A 2005 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY MINIVAN. THE CV JOINT IS FAILING. WHILE DRIVING 5MPH, THERE WAS A CRACKING/POPPING SOUND. THE CV JOINT FAILED AND HAD TO BE REPLACED AT 42000 MILES. THE FAILURE HAS REOCCURRED. THE CONTACT IS AWARE OF THE SAFETY RISK INVOLVED SPECIFICALLY SINCE THERE WAS NO WARNING INDICATOR LIGHT PRESENT. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 25000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 42000.

I HAD TO PAY $115.88 TO QUINN CHRYSLER-DODGE IN BARTLESVILLE, OK TO RECEIVE A SOFTWARE CORRECTION FOR THE "POWERTRAIN CONTROL MODULE AND TRANSMISSION CONTROL MODULE" ON MY 2005 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY MINIVAN . THE DEALER TOLD ME THIS REPAIR WAS A KNOWN PROBLEM AND RESULTED IN THE TRANSMISSION SHIFTING ERRATICALLY. I BELIEVE THIS IS A SAFETY HAZARD AND CHRYSLER SHOULD CORRECT THIS PROBLEM WITHOUT CHARGE TO OWNERS. *JB