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Weird... my engine just died while driving.
After driving for approximately 10 miles on mixed highway and secondary roads, I was turning right into a mall parking lot and... nothing. Dead.
Mid-turn I noticed the steering became extremely heavy, the dash showed nothing but the oil light. I coasted into the parking lot and turned everything off.
I checked the oil level and the dipstick showed a correct level (oil changed at the dealer last Monday). There was no smell of anything burning.
I got back in the car and it fired up immediately. No CEL, no warning lights of any kind. It ran perfectly after that.
I've got 14k miles on it. I'm clueless as to what happened. Why would only the oil pressure light come on, the engine shut down, and then no sign of an issue? Strange.
Mid-turn I noticed the steering became extremely heavy, the dash showed nothing but the oil light. I coasted into the parking lot and turned everything off.
I checked the oil level and the dipstick showed a correct level (oil changed at the dealer last Monday). There was no smell of anything burning.
I got back in the car and it fired up immediately. No CEL, no warning lights of any kind. It ran perfectly after that.
I've got 14k miles on it. I'm clueless as to what happened. Why would only the oil pressure light come on, the engine shut down, and then no sign of an issue? Strange.
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It is a known fact that the 2010 R/T and SRTs do this. I beleive it had something to do with rollover protection. Shutting off fuel pumps and electrical to prevent fires.
Bet ya made a hard right turn and were going to pass an exit or driveway.
Bet ya made a hard right turn and were going to pass an exit or driveway.
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Interesting. I left a red light, took a 180 degree left turn, slight downhill road to the mall entrance. At the mall entrance there is a pothole that you have to avoid so the turn in is sharper than it need be and it's a slight uphill.
No where NEAR a roll over situation. But it is interesting that there may be a known issue. I'll bring it up with my dealer.
No where NEAR a roll over situation. But it is interesting that there may be a known issue. I'll bring it up with my dealer.
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Hi, sorry to hear, welcome to our world:
http://www.challengertalk.com/forums/f171/engine-stalling-35997/
http://www.challengertalk.com/forums/f171/engine-stalling-35997/
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Cliff notes for Engine Stalling thread: This is happening to many Challenger owners, no fix yet, dealership will test drive and say they can't duplicate the problem. There are no TSBs for this issue. I have a case open with Chrysler and their fix is to keep taking it back to the dealer. This will happen mostly while making sharp right hand turns. Happened to me 7 times within about a 1000 miles. 6 while turning right and once while turning left. Found a kink in my Catch Can lines and replaced them. Hasn't happened since I replaced them after 500 miles of driving. Knock on wood. Is this a fix for everyone? I don't think so, but for now it seems to have fixed my problem.
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Oil light probably just turned on because ignition was on but the engine wasn't running (like when you put the key into a normal car, turn it, but don't start it).
Happened to my 5.7 2005 magnum also. Picked it up used with 20,000 miles used. 1st owner was a lady who just put-putted around. I lived in Watertown at the time and it died twice on me as I had to only drive and idle it around a few blocks per day. Once weather struck I took it out on 128 and romped on it repeatedly when I could. Never did it again. HEMI's dont like to sleep.
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Is this happening with automatics and/or 6-speeds?? Mine has not done that (yet) to me, but i haven't put many miles on mine since i bought it. It's funny tho, one time my truck ('04 Hemi Ram) just up and stalled on me for no reason. I had just turned a corner and let off the gas at the speed limit and the engine just quit. Hasn't happend ever since. I just got the Challenger out of winter hibernation so i'll be driving it alot more, hope this doesn't become a problem.
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Happened with my new R/T first time i drove it, also happened on a right hand turn, and it was a fairly slow turn at that. Since that one time though it hasn't happened again. I had read that the dealer can load an updated factory tune, but hasn't repeated itself so i haven't really worried about it.
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Sean65 the same thing just happend to me the other day..doing the exact same thing...lol I thought WTF! Turned her off and restarted all good haven't been able to replicate.
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Its happened on my 2010 R/T Classic 4 times now with no codes, been to dealer each time for the issue, could not dup any event, they changed battery the last time as the car would not start, had to jump start it, batt was dead, we will see if that was the issue, I doubt it myself
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Has happened on my car 3 times with a stock tune and a diablo tune. Freaky. I didn't do any hard turns/acceleration. Big potential for accidents and is always in the back of my mind when I drive now
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