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Stalling while driving on the 2013 Dodge Journey

Only 4 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 4
With an odometer reading 4
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 $300–$2,500
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 25th

When stalling while driving gets reported

There are 4 reports of stalling while driving on the 2013 Dodge Journey, 4 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 75,000 miles. It is the 25th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 4 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
47,000 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 $300–$2,500 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 8 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2014, at a median of 40,000 miles, and latest on the 2009 at 82,500 miles.

By volume the 2010 carries the most reports, with 55; the 2013 has 4. 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. 2009 Dodge Journey stalling while driving 82k
  2. 2010 Dodge Journey stalling while driving 81k
  3. 2011 Dodge Journey stalling while driving 76k
  4. 2012 Dodge Journey stalling while driving 45k
  5. 2013 (this one) 47k
  6. 2014 Dodge Journey stalling while driving 40k
  7. 2015 Dodge Journey stalling while driving 62k
  8. 2016 Dodge Journey stalling while driving 52k
  9. 2017 Dodge Journey stalling while driving
    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.

Tl* the contact owns a 2013 dodge journey. The contact stated that while driving at 10 MPH, the vehicle began to jerk uncontrollably while the engine stalled. The ABS warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was not diagnosed or repaired. The contact received notification of NHTSA campaign number: 15v675000 (electronic stability control, service brakes, hydraulic). The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 40,000.

40,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1245176 filed 2015-12-14

Tl* the contact owns a 2013 dodge journey. The contact stated that while driving at 10 MPH, the vehicle began to jerk uncontrollably while the engine stalled. The ABS warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was not diagnosed or repaired. The contact received notification of NHTSA campaign number: 15v675000 (electronic stability control, service brakes, hydraulic). The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 40,000.

40,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1245177 filed 2015-12-14

My car stalled on me while driving. The first time (2014) it happened I was making a turn on a city street. I took it to the dealer and they couldn't find anything wrong with it while under warranty. It just stalled while driving last week for a second time. I was waiting on a light on a city street. My car was completely dead I couldn't put the hazard lights on. I was in the middle of a school zone. I tried starting it and nothing. Two gentlemen had to push my car out of traffic. This is very unsafe, imagine had I been on the highway someone would of hit from me behind as I had no power at all. There was no way of warning the cars behind me as I had no power. I replaced the battery in 1/2021 and alternator in 3/2021. I have seen many complaints on the dodge forum website I believe something has to be done for safety issues. Also my bluetooth system is not working that is also a safety issue. I did complain to dodge and they couldn't do anything about it. I have seen a lot of complaints on the dodge forum website. My dodge journey is currently at a shop under diagnostics. It makes it unsafe for me to want to drive it at this point.

54,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1740354 filed 2021-04-12

Also reported on the 2013 Dodge Journey

Other body or interior problem

56 reports median 92k

Other engine problem

45 reports median 94k

Other brake problem

45 reports median 62k

Other driver assistance problem

32 reports median 66k

Other electrical problem

26 reports median 46k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 4 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 4 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 stalling while driving happen on the 2013 Dodge Journey?

Across 4 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 45,000 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 stalling while driving on the 2013 Dodge Journey?

4 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