Hi, I purchased a 2008 Dodge Dakota SLT in Nov of 2008, the first truck died twice the first night I had it. I call the dealership and they exchanged it for another one. The second truck has been nothing but problems with chimes going off. I first chime was when I would start the truck and there was nothing lighting up on the dash. I took it to the dealer ship and found out it was asking for an oil change but not showing me anywhere. The oil change was actually early too. They changed the cluster like they did in your truck, a few months went by another chime started up again, but this one would come on every few minutes, nothing once again showing on the dash. I took it back to the dealer and the head tech had never seen anything like this before. He hooked it up to his computer and the truck was telling him some option was turned off, my truck does not have this option on it After talking to Dodge engineering they decided to change the PCN (main computer). 3 months later the problem came back, I took it in again after an hour or 2, the head tech the chime was coming on every time the break was being pressed. So they order an ABS component, I got it changes today! The chime is still there, still driving me nuts. Did they ever figure out what was wrong with your truck? My dealership has no clue and now is waiting for engineering to call them back. They have changed 3 things in the truck and wasted my time, I’ve owned the truck for a year and half, it’s a lemon. Another thing the oil change message has never come on EVER!! They haven’t reset the oil change message for 3 oil changes now.

Anyone ever have anything like this happen to them??

 

I will move this to the 3rd Generation Dakota Sub-Forum.

 

no weird demand they fix it and dont leave till they got it done

 

I had a similar problem on my 2001 Dakota. Turns out it was a sensor that was part of the headlights and interor lights. It was annoying as heck, you would be driving down the road and the chimes would start sounding for 30 seconds and then shut off and 2 or 3 minutes the same thing.

At first they couldn't pin point the problem and then one of the mechanics had another truck that had a head light problem and he pulled the sensor out of it and put it in my truck and the chimes stopped.

So they ordered a new sensor and it was about $230.00

I hope this helps.