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From: tomorrow on 27 Nov 2009 23:50 On Nov 27, 10:34 pm, "Stephen!" <N...(a)spam.com> wrote: > "tomor...(a)erols.com" <tomorrowaterolsdot...(a)yahoo.com> wrote innews:779d0a42-343d-4352-afb8-d3fff1b909f9(a)s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com: > > > This is true. However, my brother owns a first-gen Durango that > > currently has over 270,000 miles on it and is daily transportation for > > two of his teenagers. And my buddy Clayton had a second-gen Dakota > > (that the first-gen Durango was based on) that he sold with 240,000 > > miles on it without ever having had any notable problems with it. > > Ours (and *MANY* others... Take a look at the NTSB reports) suffers from > severe oil sludging. I didn't say there was nothing wrong with yours, or anyone else's in general. You intimated that the reason I hadn't ever had a lemon vehicle was because I had never owned a Dodge Durango. I merely pointed out that if I had owned a Dodge Durango, that was insufficient cause to assume that I would have had a lemon. I work with two women who have had severe problems with the brakes on their Honda Accords. They have the massive repair bills to prove it. I have never claimed that as evidence that Honda Accords are terrible cars, nor have I ever mentioned my brother and friend's experiences with their Dodges to claim that Durangos or Dakotas are great vehicles. I did think that one of the women with the brake problems with her Honda, who also had major transmission problems with it, was nuts to trade it in on a new Honda Accord; but she did anyway. The funniest part about it was that she had talked to me about it for a long time, and finally she said what changed her mind about buying a new Honda was that the dealer "confided" in her that "all the Hondas" around the year hers was built had bad transmissions and bad brakes, not just hers. Good reason to buy another one!
From: don (Calgary) on 28 Nov 2009 00:08 On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:34:32 GMT, "Stephen!" <NO(a)spam.com> wrote: >"tomorrow(a)erols.com" <tomorrowaterolsdotcom(a)yahoo.com> wrote in >news:779d0a42-343d-4352-afb8-d3fff1b909f9(a)s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com: > >> This is true. However, my brother owns a first-gen Durango that >> currently has over 270,000 miles on it and is daily transportation for >> two of his teenagers. And my buddy Clayton had a second-gen Dakota >> (that the first-gen Durango was based on) that he sold with 240,000 >> miles on it without ever having had any notable problems with it. > > Ours (and *MANY* others... Take a look at the NTSB reports) suffers from >severe oil sludging. I thought it was just the 2.7 that was plagued by sludge. I had a Sebring with 60,000 kms on the clock when the engine seized. The problem, oil sludge. I was aware of the history of the engine and had the oil changed religiously and in the blink of an eye it turned into a very expensive lawn ornament. Now to be fair, my commute to work was ridiculously short and I know that was a contributing cause. All the info I read indicated the sludge problem was specific to the 2.7. Is it a problem with the 4.7 too?
From: Bob Mann on 28 Nov 2009 08:57 "don (Calgary)" <hd.flhr(a)telus.net> wrote in news:gcb1h5duh0e8n8lo3upvmlb5oj42gqftor(a)4ax.com: > All the info I read indicated the sludge problem was specific to the > 2.7. Is it a problem with the 4.7 too? > If it is, my Jeep will be gone quickly. -- Bob Mann Cap'n, ah need moor pow'r.
From: don (Calgary) on 28 Nov 2009 11:56 On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:57:39 +0000 (UTC), Bob Mann <bobmann(a)mtsremove.net> wrote: >"don (Calgary)" <hd.flhr(a)telus.net> wrote in >news:gcb1h5duh0e8n8lo3upvmlb5oj42gqftor(a)4ax.com: > >> All the info I read indicated the sludge problem was specific to the >> 2.7. Is it a problem with the 4.7 too? >> > >If it is, my Jeep will be gone quickly. After my Dakota!
From: Bob Mann on 29 Nov 2009 11:04
"don (Calgary)" <hd.flhr(a)telus.net> wrote in news:s9l2h51e2uom3mkbqpq8imgke75v41o3c4(a)4ax.com: > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:57:39 +0000 (UTC), Bob Mann > <bobmann(a)mtsremove.net> wrote: > >>"don (Calgary)" <hd.flhr(a)telus.net> wrote in >>news:gcb1h5duh0e8n8lo3upvmlb5oj42gqftor(a)4ax.com: >> >>> All the info I read indicated the sludge problem was specific to the >>> 2.7. Is it a problem with the 4.7 too? >>> >> >>If it is, my Jeep will be gone quickly. > > After my Dakota! > Actually, I've been thinking about downsizing to a Patriot anyway. I like the power but the gas mileage is poor. The Patriot does all I need it to do. -- Bob Mann Cap'n, ah need moor pow'r. |