Dodge Issues Demon Recall Over Cruise Control That Won't Turn Off
Dodge has recalled the Demon over fears that its cruise control could become impossible to turn off.
Along with other Challengers, Chargers and Chrysler 300s that feature the same powertrain control module, the Demon could develop a short-circuit that locks cruise control on. Even hitting the brakes doesn’t deactivate it, and in some cases the car could even speed up like a runaway train. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was told about a month ago.
Shifting to neutral while on the move is the best way to bypass the fault safely(ish) and allow the driver to take control of slowing the car to a stop, but in the heat of the moment a crash could happen before they could get on top of the situation.
In total 1930 cars are affected. Owners should start being notified through September. Embarrassingly, this isn’t FCA’s only cruise control recall lately. A frankly terrifying 4.8 million FCA cars across 15 model lines were red-flagged just months ago as potentially needing a software update to prevent this exact fault occurring.
Demon owners are advised not to use cruise control until a fix is installed. In fact, what better excuse than this just to stick to the drag strip for a couple of months?
Source: Motor Authority
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Cars nowadays are like buying games from EA….an initial purchase followed by DLC….makes you wonder why they didn’t just do it right the first time.
Its hard to stop a boat on the water.
How does the cruse control even work in a 840hp drag car? cruising at 90 taps break to coast for slower car making a pass hits resume launches into the fricken sun
Might have to start calling it the dodge gremlin
The movie Speed wasnt too far off then, huh
well i’m not bothered…. if my electronics decide to act up, i use a simple mechanical solution called clutch pedal… it can rev its guts out, but i’m stopping no matter what… that same mechanical solution can be used as an anti-theft device in the us, where they need a beeping noise for every little thing? like an open door or the key in the ignition, like i don’t know that my f’kin door is OPEN or where my keys are…
Dodge can do lots of things: power, power and more power but the one thing it can’t do is quality!
Dodge is obviously just trying to get recalls at this point
At least the Tesla does
I guess they’ll be cruising into their next lawsuit.
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