I could be your batteries, especially if they are original or pretty old. You would need to have them load tested and if one doesn't come back at 100% then replace them both. This is if you have the V6 which uses two batteries. If you only had the "stuck RUN button" then I would have said to look at that or the START module but with other issues too then that is generally a bad battery. Both batts have to be replaced together.

 

Thanks. They are original batteries as far as I know. That doesn't sound too bad. Not as bad as some of the things I was imagining.

 

Batteries X 2! They are near, at, or over 7 years old. Have them properly load tested, and replace both if either one comes back less than 100%


Don

 

Yep. It was the batteries. They were almost 8 years old. Clearly I should have replaced them a long time ago. Thanks for the help.

 

I am impressed with the batteries lasting eight years. Most only go about four years before they start going down hill.

 

Elwood:
Congrats on having your Durango back on the road.

I sure wish we could make this a sticky to come up at the top of the problem section. The number of folks who "just can't believe" their 7/8/9 years or older battery (ies) could be bad because it started fine the last 883 times is ridiculous!!!!

Even if it starts and runs, that is no guarantee of its health.

Don

 

These will go to 7 or 8 years due to being in the interior of the car.

 

TFH:
Interesting theory. The ones in my '20 SXT built 08/19 are still purring along at 6 years this August. It would not bother me at all to get a couple more years out of them.

Don

 

I got 8 years out of mine.

 

Interesting, was it an Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) or standard lead acid battery?

 

AGM of course. That's all they put in them from the factory. In fact, inside the car or in the trunk as my Charger was, the battery HAS to be AGM.