[FlyingPhil]

Two weeks ago, my wife was parking the Durango. She applied the brakes as she maneuvered into the parking spot. The vehicle immediately surged forward. She applied the brakes again, and the vehicle surged foreard again and climbed a snow bank before stopping. She thought that it must have been her, that she'd stepped on the wrong pedal. My wife has driven all sorts of vehicles and never had a problem like this. Then, two days ago, being particularly aware of her foot placement, again, parking, applying the brakes caused the SRT to surge. This time, she appied the brakes the second time with much greater force, and the vehicle stopped.
My wife is a small lady, with small feet, wearing her running shoes. Even when I try to depress both pedals at once, with my size 12's, I struggle. Anyone else seen anything like this?

 

[FlyingPhil]

She's not a two foot driver. I do have adaptive cruise control, but it was not on at the time. This issue has so far happened only when parking face in to a snow bank or wall. I tried to simulate it this morning...and came up with ANOTHER issue!! Lots of snow here, with snow falling. Started the Durango, checked the mirrors, selected reverse, and immediately started to back up. After travelling about 5', the rear parking sensor sounded, the car stopped immediately, with the gear selector indicator flashing. There was nothing behind me. I cleaned off the parking sensors, and was allowed to continue. Not a big deal backing out of the garage, but what if I'd been backing onto a road? Having the vehicle suddenly stop in the middle of the road might not end well! Our new operating procedure will be to select reverse, count to three, then continue.

 

[FlyingPhil]

I appreciate the input. My wife said the adaptive cruise control may have been armed while she was parking. I'm trying various configurations to get it to do this again...with me in the seat.

I have had your second issue with it auto stopping in reverse. I live Michigan, and the sensors get dirty pretty quick right now here. Fortunately, at least for mine, it will give me a wipe sensor message along with sounding the close proximity sound, when they are dirty. I have had that happen with both the front and rear sensors. I don't have the tech package so it doesn't auto stop in forward, but it will in reverse. When it does this it will emergency brake, until you hit the brakes manually, and then start backing up again. When you start backing up again, it will still give the proximity alerts, but should allow you to move. This will work like that clean or dirty. So if you truely don't have anything behind you, then just apply the brake and go again. You can of course just hit the park button on the console to turn off the feature too. Using the button when the sensors are dirty, the alarm won't sound everytime you stop. Then when you get to where your are going you can clean them off.

I have my snowblower to the left of the rear of my DD in my garage. Depending on how close I park to it, that will engage the emergency stop backing out of the garage. Every time it does that it scares me into thinking I hit something.



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