yep, it happened to me to.
i'm 3 miles back in the brush ,just coming out of a swamp and my winch is running. luckily the winch is out of gear. so I push the in out winch switch for the winch and every thing shuts off. scared me,long walk home and one big hill I call conoary hill.
I blew a ignition fuse.
80 hrs on a 2016 $18,000 Polaris. testing at home shows it still pops a fuse. no codes come up.
I just walked away and in for lunch now.
I hope your Chrysler and wife are ok
They are both fine today,,,; thanks.
Sounds like you have a dead short in the winch.
I am very happy with Chrysler products I bought during the 90's. A Jeep, a one ton dually pickup and a '99 Dodge Caravan LE. Frankly the products made during their tenuous relationship with Daimler were great. Anything built with Daranelli at the helm sucks. We inherited a 2003 Town and Country Minivan and it's quality and reliability is plain awful by comparison. 55K and it is toast.
Cathy makes the 1,155 mile trip to Ct about 5 times a year. ALONE! The '99 is comfortable and reliable. Even with all those miles. But given it's age and the longevity of those trips, there have been some minor issues on the road after 230K miles.
Wiper motor, fan belt Idler and now the alternator. Which was functioning miraculously when they went back to rescue it this morning. It is entirely possible that the problem was a high drain from the inverter she had on to keep her laptop up. Or just a bad battery cable.