I'm not sure whether or not you got an all out lemon, but you didn't get
the cream of the crop. :) If the new tranny doesn't work, I'd request a
brand new truck......There's just no excuse for this much trouble outta a
new truck!
-Ryan
99 DA RC R/T
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Finkeldey" <alanfink@bellatlantic.net>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 9:27 AM
Subject: DML: 00 4.7L (Kind of Long)
> 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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