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Q: How long should a replacement remote last on a truck this old?

Realistically, a long time if you treat the battery right. The remote system on the 2000 Durango is not complicated. There is no rolling-code encryption that degrades, no software pairing that expires. The most common failure points are physical: the CR2025 going flat, the rubber button pad cracking or wearing smooth, or the plastic housing cracking from being dropped. If the electronics inside are intact, the remote keeps working.

Q: What if the replacement remote stops working after a few weeks?

Call me. Every remote I program is covered. If it stops locking, unlocking, or drops its pairing, I come back and sort it out. One thing to know about the 2000 Durango specifically: if the remote works fine right after programming and then goes dead again, the most common culprit is the truck's own battery.

Q: My Durango remote only works when I hold it right up to the door handle. Is that the fob or the truck?

That is a classic sign of a weak battery before the fob drops out entirely. The CR2025 in these remotes has enough juice to trigger the receiver at close range long after it is too drained to reach normal distance. Swap the battery first. If range comes back, you are done. If the range is still short with a fresh battery, the issue shifts to the remote's internal antenna or the vehicle-side receiver.

Q: Can I program a second remote myself so my wife has one too?

On the 2000 Durango, there is an onboard add-a-remote procedure that some owners have had success with using the ignition and door lock cycling sequence. It does not require a dealer or a scan tool. The catch is that the procedure wipes all previously paired remotes and re-registers everything fresh, so both remotes need to be present and programmed in the same session. If you only program one, the other stops working.

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He called me around 9:15 at night from the parking lot of a 24-hour laundromat in the Westwood area of Rancho Bernardo. His 2000 Dodge Durango wouldn't respond to the remote at all, and he needed to be across town for his next janitorial shift by midnight.

The truck started fine with the key. That detail matters. It told me right away this wasn't an ignition or immobilizer problem. The remote fob was just not talking to the truck.

When I got there, I checked the fob battery first. The CR2025 inside was reading low enough that it had likely caused the remote to drop out of the vehicle's memory entirely. On these early 2000s Dodge remotes, a voltage dip can do that. The fob doesn't just go weak, it loses its pairing.

I swapped the battery, cleaned the contacts, and ran the re-pairing procedure to register the fob back to the truck. Locked and unlocked, tested the panic, walked around the whole vehicle to confirm range in every direction. Everything came back solid.

He was on the road well before midnight. The truck never had a starting problem at all. It was a remote issue, a low battery that cascaded into a lost pairing, and it got misread as something bigger because it happened at night in a dark lot when he was already tired and running late. A tow and a dealer visit the next morning would have cost him a day of work and a lot more money. He just needed someone who could show up, read the actual symptoms, and fix the real problem.

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Do you use OEM or aftermarket remotes on a 2000 Durango?▼

Good question, and the answer matters more on older vehicles than people think. For a 2000 Durango, the remote is a standalone unit that handles lock, unlock, and panic. It does not carry the ignition transponder function, so the pairing process is simpler than on newer systems. That said, aftermarket remotes from unknown sources can be inconsistent, especially for a vehicle this age.