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Update on dies in flight. Techs where I work found same DTC for crank sensor. Inspected wiring, performed wiggle test and replaced crank sensor. I drove the car another month and sold it. I did inform new owners the crank sensor had been replace for dying problem. They were ok with that. Just took delivery of a new Subaru XV Crosstrek. The Journey was too big for just the 2 of us and we had been talking about selling it anyway. Thanks for letting me vent, but I guess I'll have to move over to a Subaru forum.

DIED IN FLIGHT UPDATE. Since last post I have talked to 2 top driveability techs at our dealership and we called the Star Center and talked to a tech there who talked to one of the engineers. The two techs I know personally both told me they had never heard of a flash update for my concern. The Star Center tech said the same thing and told us the car was not fixed. They all said it would probably die again. They were right. It sputtered, but did not die 3 times near Albuquerque then did the same thing just south of Flagstaff. Then as I was coming down a 6% twisting mountain road near Black Canyon City, AZ it died with no warning. It restarted without trouble just like 2 weeks ago. It continued to die with no warning more and more often the last 100 miles home. At least we didn't get killed when it died in freeway traffic. We were finally forced to take side streets home for safety's sake. Needless to say, it is going to the shop tomorrow morning. This thing is unsafe to drive. My question to them will be: Who is going to drive this death trap 300-800 miles to make sure it is fixed? More later. Sorry for the long winded post.

My son-in-law just emailed me a pic of the invoice and it says they found code P0339(s). I'll look it up at work tomorrow. The irony is that I work at a Dodge dealership. I'm the mechanic in the body shop, but I haven't done any driveability type work for about 15 years so I'm out of the loop. I'll take the info to the driveability techs and get their opinion and report back here.

New to forum. I have a 2012 Journey w/2.4L. Last Saturday my wife and I were on our way from Mesa, AZ to Colorado Springs, CO when it died going down the interstate. After stopping, it started right up again and went another 70 miles then died again. This is 5:30 PM on a Saturday so Chrysler Customer Service wasn't much help. We eventually made it to Colo Springs. The further we went the more often it died and took a little longer to restart sometimes. It was towed to Dodge dealer on Monday and Tuesday morning I got a call from the service advisor saying they had looked at the veh and performed some kind of PCM flash update, drove the vehicle and pronounced it fixed. Has anyone had a similar failure? What fixed it? I find it hard to believe that a software problem could cause it to just quit running. The check engine light was on the whole way after the initial failure. She said it was a crankshaft position sensor code, but was generated falsely. I have to go back in a week and a half and bring it back and I have absolutely no faith that it will get me home. Sorry for the long winded post.