Loss of braking on the 2000 Dodge Durango
7 crashes 1 injury 8 of the 15 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When loss of braking gets reported
Owners of the 2000 Dodge Durango report loss of braking at a median of 110,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 65,000 miles and a quarter after 130,000 miles, from 9 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 17th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 50,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 135,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 86,785 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
0% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47,615 miles | 66,700 miles | 110,493 miles | 131,000 miles | 134,400 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 7 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $400–$3,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 9 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2012, at a median of 20,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 110,000 miles.
By volume the 1999 carries the most reports, with 21; the 2000 has 15. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Approximately 20 occurrences of anti-lock brake failure in hard braking situations, resulting in one accident in 2002. As the brakes are applied, they will cut out and a humming noise can be heard from the motor/front of the vehicle. Sometimes the braking will kick back on after a moment or two, other times the brake pedal must be released and reapplied in order to achieve normal braking. On the may 2, 2003 incident, I was attempting to stop at a red light, traveling 25 MPH, clear and sunny day, 52 degrees. The light changed quickly and I began braking. As I depressed the brake harder, the brakes seemed to give out and I heard the humming noise. The durango slowed to about 2-5 MPH but maintained that speed, even with the brake pedal fully depressed. As I was about to roll into the intersection, I released the brakes and quickly reapplied them. The durango shot forward briefly, but the brakes then kicked in normally and I was able to stop all forward momentum. Most of the above incidents have been on sunny days, dry conditions with an average air temp of 60 degrees. We have mentioned this to the dodge dealership that maintains our…
When brake pedal was depressed while driving at 30 MPH, ABS brakes locked up, brakes failed to stop vehicle, resulting in extended stopping distance, and a rear end collision the brake skid mark was 20 feet long. Consumer felt that this failure was the same defect as stated in recall 99v341000 concerning rear brake tube.*ak
When brake pedal was depressed while driving at 30 MPH, ABS brakes locked up, brakes failed to stop vehicle, resulting in extended stopping distance, and a rear end collision the brake skid mark was 20 feet long. Consumer felt that this failure was the same defect as stated in recall 99v341000 concerning rear brake tube.*ak
Also reported on the 2000 Dodge Durango
Control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
Other engine problem
Other suspension problem
Other powertrain problem
Other body or interior problem
Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 15 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does loss of braking happen on the 2000 Dodge Durango?
Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 110,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 65,000 miles and a quarter after 130,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is loss of braking on the 2000 Dodge Durango?
15 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed