So I had our "5 star" dealer do a "performance inspection" over the
weekend. It's a fairly cheap service they offer (they make their
money on the secondary stuff they convince people to have done), and
I was curious to see what, if anything, they might find.
What a waste of time. They told me:
- I need a fuel injector flush (I've got a bottle of injector cleaner
behind the seat)
- I need a tune up (I think they always say this, I'm planning on
doing it anyway)
- I need a new PCM flash from Chrysler.
This last item was the interesting one. I asked, "why?"
"Because there's a new program for it," was what they told me.
"What's it change?"
"We don't know, it just came from Chrysler. The told us it's
'better'."
"I know there's a fix out there for pinging that retards the timing
by four degrees, is that what this is?"
"We've never heard of a pinging problem."
I really hate talking to service advisors, these guys don't know a
throttle body apart from a cupholder.
I told them that I didn't want it anywhere near my truck until they
could tell me what changes it made and why. Even if I don't fully
understand the engineering, I want to make sure they know what
they're doing before they're doing it. Especially since they wanted
to charge me $80 to do it.
Anyone out there have any idea what this might be? It's for the '95
(specs in my sig line).
Thanks.
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Jason Bleazard http://www.bleazard.net Toronto, Ontario
his: '95 Dakota Sport 4x4, 239 V6, 5spd, Reg. Cab, white
hers: '98 Dakota Sport 4x4, 318 V8, Auto, Club Cab, black
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