Caravan shut down

Asked by GuruX6VLV Nov 16, 2018 at 04:26 PM about the 2000 Dodge Caravan

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Have a 2000 dodge caravan. It died today just shut itself down. Had to tow it
to shop. They hook a scanner to it and it runs. Any ideas. Remove scanner
and it shuts down.

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KenF answered 6 years ago

Does the scanner show any codes? Usually if a sensor triggers an engine shutdown you'll see a code or two.

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GuruX6VLV answered 6 years ago

They didn’t mention any codes. There thinking it’s some kind of ground since it runs with scanner hooked up.

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