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2002 Dodge Durango Repair Question


Topics covered: Battery, Body, Engine.
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Asked on September 16, 2012

My car wont read when its in park or neutral so it wont start how can i fix this or can it even be fixed?

This has been going on for awhile now and ive gotten it started plenty of times i just had to keep trying to start it and shift it through all the gears and eventually it works, but now my mom took the car out of town and it wont start at all and shes been tryin for about 2-3 hrs now and thats the longest its taken.
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Replied on September 16, 2012

Most probably the Park and Neutral switch is bad. If you can't get it started by wiggling the gear shift, you would need to manually apply battery voltage to the starter solenoid to get it started.

Tiny Answered by KHLow2008 (expert)
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Replied on September 16, 2012

well can it be fixed by reseting everything with the computer

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Replied on September 16, 2012

No, it is not the computers fault.

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Replied on September 16, 2012

do the reverse lights work when your in reverse?

Tiny Answered by cadieman (expert)
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Replied on September 18, 2012

yea im pretty sure they work

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Replied on September 18, 2012

When you are able to start, does the P or N indicator show?

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Replied on September 18, 2012

yeaa it shows, thats the only time when i can start it but foor some reason it doesnt show all the time so i cant start it

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Replied on September 18, 2012

Park and Neutral Position switch or it connection is bad.

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Replied on September 18, 2012

could it be fixed without taking it to a shop?

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Replied on September 19, 2012

The range sensor switch is inside the transmission and requires the valve body to be removed. Are you able to do that?

Which engine do you have?

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