Nicolecolie Posted May 2, 2023 Report Share Posted May 2, 2023 I bought a 2013 dodge journey from a dealership roughly a year ago. Roughly 4 months later the battery swelled up turns out the alternator went bad. So brought it jn they fixed it. Then I needed an oil change so much brother who is a mechanic changed it along with the filter which he said it's probably one of the worst filters he's changed. After that I had noticed sometimes my journey would kinda chug when slowing down to stop. So he changed the spark plugs which were horrible completely rusted very bad like they had never been changed before. At first we thought this would help. Nope just keeps getting worse. To the point where if I can keep it going or let off the brake it sometimes is fine but recently after it did it I was able to turn it back on but every time I put it in drives dies immediately. So then I put fuel injector cleaner. Heet. All the small things first. When I hooked it up to code reader no codes. Brought it back in to the dealerships mechanic claims he couldn't feel anything it never did it once. He also got no codes. My brother thought maybe the solenoid for the took converter. Anyone have these problems and ever get it fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2late4u Posted May 2, 2023 Report Share Posted May 2, 2023 engine size and mileage info would help? jkeaton and larryl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larryl Posted May 2, 2023 Report Share Posted May 2, 2023 The old dreaded took converter problem...... 2late4u and jkeaton 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsteves5 Posted May 3, 2023 Report Share Posted May 3, 2023 This does sound like the torque converter could be staying locked. See this thread: DodgeaWrench and Nicolecolie 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolecolie Posted May 7, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2023 The miles when it started was 129000 now at exactly 131000. Engine size. I'm not sure right off hand but I did check out the other forum someone posted and we are going to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5rebel9 Posted May 7, 2023 Report Share Posted May 7, 2023 1 hour ago, Nicolecolie said: The miles when it started was 129000 now at exactly 131000. Engine size. I'm not sure right off hand but I did check out the other forum someone posted and we are going to do that. In the North American market there are only 2 sizes of engine. The L4 2.4 or the V6 3.6. Posting the engine size will also tell us here which transmission it will have for us here to offer more help. 2late4u 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustDodge Posted June 16, 2023 Report Share Posted June 16, 2023 On 5/3/2023 at 5:50 PM, tsteves5 said: This does sound like the torque converter could be staying locked. See this thread: May I ask, I have a similar issue too. Coming to a stop it’s like a surge or jerk. The car may still run or just completely stall. It’s starts back up fine until it stalls again. Doesn’t happen every time but often too many. I also have an issue where the transmission slips into 3rd and 6th gear. I think the stalling was just results of the known slipping issue or at least part of it since I had no issues prior. Therefore my question being would this fix the slippage or would that just need a solenoid pack replacement? If I floor which I shouldn’t be in the times I have, it drives fine. No slippage or anything until cruising speeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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