Dodge quality?

[Electric Amish]

My friend has a Dakota and has had electronic lock/window problems as well as a recall on the front ball joints.

Same thing with my friend that has a Durango. The tranny has also just gone out on the Durango, but it does have 100+k miles and he drives it pretty hard (street/highway only)

 

[sciencewhiz]

http://www.jdpa.com/pdf/2005089.pdf

 

[RebelDog]

Dodge trannies are notorious. At the construction job that I held for a few summers during school, my bosses drove Dodge 3/4 ton pickups but they left the equipment towing (backhoes, gangboxes, etc.) to the Fords.

 

[jemcam]

I've had three Chrysler products in a row that I had no problems with:

1998 Dakota pickup.
1999 Chrysler Town & Country (hauled a heavy camper across the country and in mountain terrain with no problem.
2000 Intrepid, used for hauling my boat.

I had all of these vehicles for a minimum of three years each and had no major issues and the interiors did not fall apart.

Stick to people's experience, not their opinions.

 

[Maetryx]

I had to replace my transmission in my 1990 Plymouth Sundance recently. Dang thing gave up after 15 years. 😉

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Tom
I have a Dodge Ram that gives me no trouble at all.

You haven't had it long enough then.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Chrysler products will continue to improive in styling and quality as the Daimler influence takes hold, IMO. My Dodge Dakota has been a greta truck for 5 years, and my new Ram, aside from an issue with a solenoid right after I bought it, has been good.

Have you seen Mercedes quality lately? It's pretty bad.

My best friend's Dad bought a RAM 3500 diesel and he's had it in the shop 3 times in one year. Once because it left him stranded on the side of the road. One of his other sons picked it up after they had it a week and he couldn't get the thing to do more than 55mph on the way home so it went straight back to the dealer. Since the first few trips back to the dealer though they haven't had any other problems that I'm aware of.

 

[jemcam]

I notice that the people who actually own Chrysler products are satisfied with them. Everyone else is telling you what they heard.

Hmmmm. Who to believe?

 

[Papagayo]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
my mom has a caravan.....the engines never dies, but everything else falls apart.....


my mom is just bought a new Sienna, but she test drove a new Caravan first.....she had nothing good to say about it.

Exactly.

Good engine and tranny, poor quality on everything else..

 

[thedarkwolf]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
Chrysler had some tranny problems in the early to mid 90s but they have fixed most of that. The Charger with a Hemi uses a mercedes tranny anyway.

dont forget the 80s and late 70s too

Uh what problems? The 727 and 904 are good trannies and the 413a fwd tranny isn't bad either.

 

[scorpmatt]

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf

Originally posted by: scorpmatt

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
Chrysler had some tranny problems in the early to mid 90s but they have fixed most of that. The Charger with a Hemi uses a mercedes tranny anyway.

dont forget the 80s and late 70s too

Uh what problems? The 727 and 904 are good trannies and the 413a fwd tranny isn't bad either.

i dont know the tranny models from then, are those the autos or manuals?

 

[torpid]

I owned a 5 year old dodge and it was ok. Had about $300-$400 in repair type stuff every year. I call that OK since it was so cheap to buy in the first place. Both consumer reports and JD Power list dodge as subpar in terms of quality. Consumer reports claims that the charger is basically a magnum sedan, which it claims is basically a 300, but it has no reliability info for any of those specific vehicles.

My experience is that total redesigns tend to have poor reliability.

 

[thedarkwolf]

all are 3 speed autos.

 

[Kelemvor]

We have an '02 Durango and love it.