2013 Dodge Durango Brake Problems

Mileage when the problem started

• Under 25k
  1346%
• 25k–50k
  414%
• 50k–75k
  27%
• 75k–100k
  518%
• 100k–150k
  27%
• 150k+
  27%

Owner reports

Selected complaints filed with NHTSA by 2013 Dodge Durango owners, lightly cleaned up (personal details are redacted by NHTSA).

The contact owns a 2013 Dodge Durango. The contact stated while his daughter was driving at 15 PMH and coming to a stop with his son in the front passenger seat, the brake pedal was depressed but hesitated to respond, causing a 50-60 feet in stopping distance delay. The brake warning light illuminated. The vehicle lightly crashed into the rear of another occupied vehicle. The contact stated that the air bags did not deploy as it was a fender bender. There were no injuries sustained. A police report was filed. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that the brake booster needed to be replaced. The independent mechanic informed the contact that the failure was associated with NHTSA Campaign Number: 17V572000 (Service Brakes, Service Brakes, Hydraulic). …

Vehicle has been having issues starting, acts like the fob is not in ignition. Vehicle has locked key in ignition and won't release it. Most dangerous concern is vehicle will completely shut down while driving, regardless of speed, and will not restart until completely stopped and put in park. Most recent occurrence was on interstate 80, 73 MPH on 12/23/2022. Everything except for hazards and radio shuts off and goes black. No warning lights, no codes tracked, just completely fails. Cannot use turn signal, brakes, power steering, nothing. Starting issues started about 12 months ago. Completely shutting down while driving started about 7 months ago. Issue is intermittent and does not show a pattern.

since I have owned the vehicle ( I purchased it brand new) this has happened approx 30 times maybe more. Intermittently when you try to brake, the brake peddle is hard as a rock. I mostly notice it when I am at a fairly high speed say 50 mph but the problem is so sporadic not possible to have it replicated for the mechanic. There is a recall for this exact problem but manufacturer insists my vin # is not under the recall. I can never sell this car or let others drive it as I worry, without being familiar with the problem it could result in an accident.

Icy conditions, around dusk. Breaking mechanism failed to work. Got into a car accident because of it. This is the second time that the booster recall has happened. Had to go out of pocket to fix vehicle and have not received compensation for the damages.

Air did employ when it hit a deer at 35 mph , inside light go so dim on the radio and the front, you see the dashboard or the radio

I was driving and the vehicle completely shut off without warning. There are no lights on, on the dash and it is not giving off any codes. The vehicle has shut off three times now. The first time in January, I had just got off of the highway and began to travel again. The truck turned off when I got up to around 25-30 miles per hour. The second time in March, I had stopped and started to travel again and was going about 25 miles per hour coming up an underpass.and the third time was yesterday. I was driving up a city street going about 40 miles per hour and the truck shut off. There was no one on the side of me. It felt like there was no power steering. I was able to wrestle the steering wheel to move to the side of the road. The truck coasted and stopped. I could not press the brake!!!! …

For the past 2 months we have been having problems with this vehicle it's been stalling on me, weather if we are on the highway or in town. Now the amazing thing is that it comes back on, on its own without us touching anything on it, but on the mean time we lose the brakes and steering control at high speed on the highway. The dealer has done all the recalls on it in the past two weeks and still can't find the problem. I think this is something the government needs to look into it before someone dies and mention this because on my way to san antonio the vehicle die on me at 75 miles an hour and I had my family with me that day' I did some research on this vehicle and it seems that there are way too many Dodge vehicles with this stalling problem and the dealers can't figure out what's with them'

This happened while driving to work at about 0745 going north on i35 from temple tx to waco. A 18 wheeler cut me off while I was in the right lane. He passed me then very quickly changed lanes. I stomped on the brakes and nothing happened then I lifted my feet and stepped on the brakes again and nothing happened.then on the third stomp they finally worked. At that time I heard a rushing of air .I hit the brakes again but there was no air noise. The brakes worked fine after that but I didn't get back on the interstate. I drove very carefully the rest of the day. But I have had other times that when I hit the brakes the brake pedal pushed back on my foot. That has happened several times.

I was driving in some pretty hard rain going about 60mph. I slowed the car down to about 40 and when attempting to accelerate again the car would not accelerate. The vehicle then seemed to stall and lose both breaks and steering. I was on a hill so it was very scary. I was able to pump the emergency break and get the vehicle to stop. Something is wrong with this vehicle causing it to not accelerate, then lose power and breaks. I was reading an issue with the alternator May be the case but I am not sure how that would cause loss of breaks. Also my dealership states they already fixed the alternator recall on this vehicle.

I was driving down my street in my 2013 Dodge Durango. I got to the intersection and like any other person I went to stop. I depressed my barbrake pedal and nothing happened. There was also a loud hissing noice. No lights such as ABS was on when I started the car. I thankfully didn't hit anyone and was able to coast and wait for the car to stop. Long story short it had to do with a saftey recall ( the receipt says recall p14) for the brake booster that was not fixed at the dealership correctly. I was very dissapointed in the car overall, I had three problems in about a month with my kids in the car all three times.

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