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I need help
So I have 2001 Dodge Durango that I’m working on. The issues was the lock/unlock switch wasn’t locking the doors but it can only open it. I checked the fuses and the relay and they are all good, did some more research and it was saying it might the CTM. So I replaced it and now every time I plug it in the alarm goes off and my key fob doesn’t work anymore and I tried turning it on to see if it’ll stop it but the alarm is still going off.ha any suggestions or same problem?
Champion
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From: Atlanta
The dealer will charge you quite a bit, but I'm not even sure if they will reprog one from the junkyard and a new one with prog would probably be over $500. I believe you can buy them programmed online, for much cheaper. Maybe you can send them yours to be prog, or send it as a core and they send you a different one. I've never actually had it done, just repeating things I've heard.
THE ULTI-MOD
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From: Union NJ
CTM typically needs to be programmed, some people get lucky and find a truck equipped exactly as theirs is (and without an alarm) and it works. Since your fobs talk to the CTM for lock/unlock they wont work until you get it programmed.
sounds to me like the donor truck had an alarm system and the CTM is unhappy about the VIN mismatch between itself and the CTM.
sounds to me like the donor truck had an alarm system and the CTM is unhappy about the VIN mismatch between itself and the CTM.
All Star
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The new CTM should work perfectly, except for the key fobs. Every other aspect should be right WITHOUT programming. If it's not, it's a bad CTM. I've gotten a couple bad ones off eBay, had to send them back. I pulled one from a local junk yard for $17 that worked perfectly. After a few days of making sure all was good, I had the fobs programmed to finish the fix.
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The new CTM should work perfectly, except for the key fobs. Every other aspect should be right WITHOUT programming. If it's not, it's a bad CTM. I've gotten a couple bad ones off eBay, had to send them back. I pulled one from a local junk yard for $17 that worked perfectly. After a few days of making sure all was good, I had the fobs programmed to finish the fix.
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All Star
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Has to be done by the dealer, with their DRB3 tool. They charged me a half hour labor. The first one I did a few yrs ago I didn't know was bad, didn't check it out well enough. That one came from Canada, so in the pgming the dealer also set it for USA and turned off the DRLs (manditory in Canada).