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Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure on the 2003 Dodge Durango

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 5
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $700–$3,000
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 28th

When control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure gets reported

There are 5 reports of control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure on the 2003 Dodge Durango. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 28th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $700–$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.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 13 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2016, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 140,000 miles.

By volume the 1999 carries the most reports, with 105; the 2003 has 0. 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.

Median
  1. 1998 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 82k
  2. 1999 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 109k
  3. 2000 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 142k
  4. 2001 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 123k
  5. 2002 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 40k
  6. 2003 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  7. 2004 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 83k
  8. 2005 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 15k
  9. 2006 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 80k
  10. 2007 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 55k
  11. 2008 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 115k
  12. 2011 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 54k
  13. 2012 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 79k
  14. 2013 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 60k
  15. 2014 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 68k
  16. 2015 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 14k
  17. 2016 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 3k
  18. 2017 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  19. 2018 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 23k
  20. 2020 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 30k
  21. 2021 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 38k
  22. 2022 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2023 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure
    no odometer readings given
    —

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2003 Dodge Durango

Other engine problem

36 reports median 70k

Other lighting problem

33 reports median 98k

Other electrical problem

28 reports median 99k

Other suspension problem

26 reports median 24k

Other body or interior problem

22 reports median 35k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 5 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 5 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.

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