# 2000 Dodge Durango Transmission Hesitation

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-dodge-durango-transmission-hesitation/51489>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** transmissions, dodge, durango\
**Created:** [July 8, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-dodge-durango-transmission-hesitation/51489 "2010-07-08T15:17:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![dpotteraz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@dpotteraz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dpotteraz)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2000-dodge-durango-transmission-hesitation/51489/1 "2010-07-08T15:17:09Z")

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I have a 2000 durango, I’ve had it since birth. (it’s, not mine), there was always a little hesitation between gears - even brand new. (auto tranny)  
  
  
  
 Anyway, when gas went over $4 pg., I stopped driving it and it sat for a while, now that I’ve fired it back up, the hesitation in switching gears is really bad.  
  
 It’s at it’s worst from 3rd to 4th I think.  
  
  
  
 In the olden daze - it was often vacuum related, so I did the obvious and drove it a good stretch to let things warm up.  
  
  
  
 So it absolutely does get much much better after it’s warmed up good, way less hesitation between gears.  
  
  
  
 So the question - is there any possible easy stuff to check here? Any chance it could be vacuum, or a particular sensor? It’s really been a great truck, other than a water-pump, I haven’t had to do anything with it. It just crossed the 100K mark.