thought this might be of interest to the list.
on Thursday June 20 I picked up my brand new Dakota 4.7L RC. Saturday
morning I go out to drive the truck and wammo the malfuntion indicator light
is on. Sunday it goes off but I bring it to the dealer anyway. they check it
out and give me the everything looks ok but if it comes back bring it in.
Light comes on again Tuesday night and again the tranny gets locked in third
gear until I shut it off and restart it. They change the transmisson range
sensor. No light for a while but when coming to a complete stop idle drops
to near stall and over compensates requiring me to put some serious pressure
on the binders to keep it from rolling (surges to about 1500 RPM) bring it
in and they some how get it to not surge so high but still nearly stalls. I
was told to drive it like this for a while and see if it clears it self up.
Keep in mind we aren't even at the two week point yet and everyone in the
service department now knows me by name and face. Tuesday morning light
comes on and transmission stick in third gear again. At this point Im
thinking maybe Its time to get some fresh ideas on it and see what the DC
engineers think. The star center offered no input that the techs at the
dealer didn't already try. I had a meeting with my salesman and the service
manager and was told the engineers wanted to replace the transmission
controler. that was done yesterday and the service manager drove it home and
said he had no problem. he took a snapshot of the transmission while driving
with the computer and faxed it to the engineers. If this does not fix it
they want to replace the transmission with a brand new one (they will take
it from the line and ship it out). Im not writing this as a poor me and my
truck story or to bash DC (yet anyway lol) I understand that these things
can happen. What I am writing for is to get some feed back to see if I
should take the replacement trannsmission if needed or if I should go
through the long drawn out arbtitration process. I am having a hard time
with the "seal" being broken on a just two week old truck.
Thanks for your time
Alan Finkeldey
00 4.7L
Connecticut
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