Van goes crazy

Asked by GuruLM619 Jan 20, 2020 at 06:00 PM about the 2008 Chrysler Town & Country LX FWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

My 2008 Chrysler Town and Country has some crazy things going on. While
driving I can experience just it shuts down, or I get all the dash lights going on
and off the car accelerating very high headlights flashing the flashers flashing
the car dying.. and then I have to pull off the highway or where ever happened to
be. I feel like it's haunted what can I do

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zaxbat answered 4 years ago

Here's the dum answer: its an electrical problem. Almost all electrical problems boil down to the same couple of things. Lack of electricity from blown fuse, bad relay, defective pcm or ecm, broken or shorted wire, bad/loose connection/jack, and/or bad/corroded/loose ground. The other problem is when the pcm or ecm incorrectly command components to do the wrong thing at the wrong time because of a faulty signal they are receiving from sensor(s) in the vehicle. In your case.....hope that it is simply a bad main ground strap for the pcm. If it is simply corroded and or loose you can clean it up and tighten it up and all may be well. Hope for that. Otherwise it can get really involved.

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