Hoping to get some feedback from any members who may have dealt with this. First let me say I travel a lot for work so this has been extremely inconvenient for me.
I have just over 20k miles on the truck now. 2020 Laramie with 5.7, no etorque. About two weeks ago I remote started the truck, came out and it wasn’t running. Did it again and all I hear is a loud click coming from under the good, maybe ignition switch? Well then it doesn’t start. Get inside, brake pedal has a ton of pressure in it and it still just clicks when trying to start the truck. No warning lights or anything out of the norm on the gauge cluster. So I needed to get somewhere fast, took my wife’s car and came back within 30 minutes, then it starts working again. Fast forward to yesterday and it’s doing the same thing at my hotel when I have to get somewhere. I start googling and find some videos of dodge journeys having the same symptoms but their fix won’t work for me. Open, close the door, cycle through off/acc/run 5 times, then let the gauges settle, try to start but hold the run button down for 10 seconds or so. Doing this does however flash this message for a split second and says the blind spot system needs service (something like that). Anyway I try a million different sequences trying to get it to work and finally I walk about 40 ft away from the truck, try remote start again and it works. So then I think maybe it’s proximity related?
Get to dinner last night, try to leave and it does this crap for another hour straight. This time it magically starts working after I play with the parking brake switch... not even engaging or disengaging because it won’t let me, just toggling it. Starts right up and I’m on my way. I’m writing this knowing I’ll probably be fighting it here in about an hour trying to leave again but I will be getting it to the dealer today with a video of me showing it all. I love this truck but unreliability with starting is a big issue and I can’t even make it happen long enough to have it towed to the dealer.
Does ANYONE know what’s going on??? Please help!!!
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I have just over 20k miles on the truck now. 2020 Laramie with 5.7, no etorque. About two weeks ago I remote started the truck, came out and it wasn’t running. Did it again and all I hear is a loud click coming from under the good, maybe ignition switch? Well then it doesn’t start. Get inside, brake pedal has a ton of pressure in it and it still just clicks when trying to start the truck. No warning lights or anything out of the norm on the gauge cluster. So I needed to get somewhere fast, took my wife’s car and came back within 30 minutes, then it starts working again. Fast forward to yesterday and it’s doing the same thing at my hotel when I have to get somewhere. I start googling and find some videos of dodge journeys having the same symptoms but their fix won’t work for me. Open, close the door, cycle through off/acc/run 5 times, then let the gauges settle, try to start but hold the run button down for 10 seconds or so. Doing this does however flash this message for a split second and says the blind spot system needs service (something like that). Anyway I try a million different sequences trying to get it to work and finally I walk about 40 ft away from the truck, try remote start again and it works. So then I think maybe it’s proximity related?
Get to dinner last night, try to leave and it does this crap for another hour straight. This time it magically starts working after I play with the parking brake switch... not even engaging or disengaging because it won’t let me, just toggling it. Starts right up and I’m on my way. I’m writing this knowing I’ll probably be fighting it here in about an hour trying to leave again but I will be getting it to the dealer today with a video of me showing it all. I love this truck but unreliability with starting is a big issue and I can’t even make it happen long enough to have it towed to the dealer.
Does ANYONE know what’s going on??? Please help!!!
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