Hello everyone, I have a 99 Durango 4x4 5.2 and of course its had many pcm problems and Id like to see what you guys think about my curret situation. So last saturday I used my auto start to warm up my D and a few minutes later when I walked out to it, it was dead. It would not start when I tried so the first thing I did was check for power at the coil and there wasnt. I had a Summit Racing SuperCoil installed and I tested it just incase and the readings were exactly what the spec said(and I do have a resistor wired in to compensate for the lower resistance of the primary winding). So since this has happened many times before and I just had to put another reman pcm in a few months ago for the same problem I had another one sent under warranty. New pcm installed still no start. Now I was out of town so my father put the pcm in and tried it. He said it coughed a little but not much. Had it towed to the Dodge dealership and they said there was power to the coil so they put a new coil on and said it started and died after 3 seconds with no restart and they say it has no injector pulse now. i spoke to the guy I ordered the pcm from and he said it was possible that the VTSS was not reset properly so the security thing armed and would not allow the vehicle to start just as was happening now. I then went to dealership and they told me that the Central Timer Module had gone bad causing the CTm to fry the PCM. Im calling bulls*it on that. Everybody I talk to says that is impossible and I dont understand how that is possible. $700 in labor and $700 for the new pcm(which I am getting since im sick of the reman ones constantly failing and they guarantee it for 50,000 miles) and $360 for the CTM. First of all I want to say it came in without that problem. I want them to put the PCM in first and try it because I doubt any fault with the CTM. The tech told me that he has never replaced them both before but thats what dodge said must be the problem when he talked to them about this mess. So I know this was long and I would like to hear what some of you master techs think about this diagnosis they gave me. Thanks.

 

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honestly i think your remote start is frying your PCMs if they are truely going bad,

if you look around these forums a bit you will see that remote starts and aftermarket alarms/security systems cause all kinds of weird electrical/computer related problems in these trucks, pull it out and see what happens.