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Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure on the 2011 Dodge Durango

Only 3 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 3
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 27th

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

There are 5 reports of control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure on the 2011 Dodge Durango, 3 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 27th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 3 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 53,841 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

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 2011 has 5. 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 Dodge Durango control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure
    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 (this one) 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

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

Vehicle is having issues starting, either by remote start or by pushing the start button. There have been many documented cases of this on the 2011 model year. All have been attributed to the failure of the "totally integrated control module" ticm. Contacted the dealership they say it is not under warranty and there is no recall for it either. The dealership states repairs have to be paid by me. *tr

38,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1029947 filed 2014-01-02

Problems starting car. Intermittently the vehicle would crank but not start. Didn't matter if the car was in a garage or outside. Could take upwards of 20 minutes to get the engine running. Diagnosed as tipm failure and module replaced. *tr

53,841 miles NHTSA complaint 1101426 filed 2014-08-23

Check engine light came on when customer went to start vehicle made a tipping noise when wipers turned on themselves. Drained first battery (indicator warning lights concern). Tipm shorted internal to asd relay power PCM shorted on grounded side to tipm.

94,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1347963 filed 2017-01-11

Also reported on the 2011 Dodge Durango

Other electrical problem

204 reports median 63k

Alternator or charging system failure

198 reports median 82k

Fuel pump failure

98 reports median 66k

Other engine problem

82 reports median 64k

Other brake problem

53 reports median 69k

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.

Questions this page answers

At what mileage does control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure happen on the 2011 Dodge Durango?

Across 3 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 55,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure on the 2011 Dodge Durango?

5 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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