Transmission in park truck in reverse

[TCrouch]

I want to ask if anyone else has had this problem. I stopped to get my mail at the end of my drive. I put the truck in park, opened the door as I started walking toward the mail box the truck door knocked me down. The truck was moving in reverse on it's own I got up and ran after the truck and pushed the brake pedal with my hands to stop it. I looked up and it showed park. I pushed it hard to the park position and it locked into park. This has happened twice. I went on line to the NHTSA to see if anyone else had complained about the same thing. There are several complaints. In one case this guy's wife was killed. I contacted the NHTSA and filed a complaint. They told me Dodge had a camapiaign out (E17) to address the problem. However, it did not cover my truck. They filed the complaint and were very interested in it. I called Dodge and told them what happened. They said the same thing. The customer service rep did transfer me to someone else who was very interested in getting it to the dealer immediatly for repair. I am going to take it in Thursday. I don't think they will find anything wrong, just like all the other cases. The 2500 & 3500's that have Diesel and automatics don't have a real good park detent. Dodge already settled with me on the vibration/droan. I am very scared that this thing will go in reverse on the boat ramp!! And you wonder why the american auto Mfg's are going bankrupt!!!

 

[p-Bar]

I question this also , never had it happen but always make sure that it gets in the "detent" Dodge's fix is to put a alarm on the truck so when you are in park the alarm will sound till you put on the emergency brake. There is a thread on this use the search engine to find it

 

[CUMMINZ]

Parking brake

Set your parking brake before you put it into Park. That has always been a safe move for me.

When you put it in park and take your foot off the brake did you feel the vehicle do its thing and stop totally? Or did it jump out of park after you got out? I have problems with mine being able to get it OUT of park. A cable has been ordered.

 

[CUMMINZ]

There is a relay on the truck that keeps you from pulling the handle out of park until you place your foot on the brake pedal. This relay was replaced on mine but I still had trouble getting it out of park. They ordered this cable. They disconnected something to disable the brake pedal thing and mine comes out of park now everytime.

 

[ChrisTucker]

TCrouch,

I dont think you are going to like there fix for it. All they do is re-flash the computer to blow the horn and flash the lights when the truck is not in park and the door is opened.

 

[JFaulkner]

A friend of mine had his truck do the same thing, only he was leaving work, got in the truck and started it, got out to let it warm up and while he was talking to someone his truck backed into a work truck and tore the dually fender off. Everyone on here keeps saying "use the parking brake" and while I agree that this would keep the truck from moving, it still shouldn't start if it's in reverse. Instead of fixing the actual problem with the transmission, dodge is just putting a band-aid over it by reflashing the computer to set off an alarm. It is a dodge problem, if it was just operator error it would happen with other brands and other models. I haven't ever heard of a Honda, or a Chevy doing this to this many people.



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[AEzzo]

slipping out of park

In my truck if it is pointed uphill it will somtimes not lock into park. To test this now I leave my foot off the brake peddle and try to shift into reverse. About 50% of the time it will pop into reverse. I then put it back into park and test

again. Usually the 2nd time it will stay in park.





I hope that a fix is found because I don't trust it now and refuse to use my shutdown timer.

 

[Nate]

Hmm. I don't have to push the brake pedal to be able to get out of park

 

[AEzzo]

Hmm. I don't have to push the brake pedal to be able to get out of park

I don't know if it's newer trucks only, but when my truck was new I had to have a foot on the brake before it would un-lock from the park position