I'm glad to finally hear that someone is suffering from the same
problem! Mine acts up mostly in the same range as yours does, but does
seem to get worse the harder I accelerate. How many miles do you have
and have you taken it back to the dealer?
Al
Jason Clifford wrote:
>
> I also get some bad, stuttering shifts. Mostly on the 2-3 shift, especially
> when tranny is cold. It only does this under moderate throttle at about
> 2500 rpm. Never had it do this under full throttle or anything close. I
> think this tranny is weird, I can accelerate (slowly) from about 20 to 40
> without the rpms hardly changing at all. I've never noticed this on any
> other automatic, and it seems it would build up a lot of heat by absorbing
> all that power I'm not putting to the ground.
>
> I want a 5 speed!
>
> Jason
> 2000 CC 4x4 4.7 auto
>
> Al & Jeanna Figols wrote:
>
> > I just signed on to this list today and already I have a question for
> > all of you '00 4.7L automatic equipped Dakota owners. How does your
> > transmission shift? I ask because mine seems to have a chatter between
> > shifts sometimes. It seems the harder you accelerate the sloppier it
> > shifts. The other day while pulling a trailer I had to floor it to get
> > out into traffic and between the 1st and 2nd shift it acted like it hit
> > the rev limiter even though it barely hit the red line. The dealer
> > first said that they were waiting for a TSB, but I feel like it is more
> > than that. It's been to the dealership 4 times! I feel it is a computer
> > problem because it doesn't happen all of the time. I'm curious if
> > anyone else has or is experiencing this. I had a 1990 Chevy truck with
> > 240K miles on it that shifted better than my new Dakota does with only
> > 14k miles.
> > Thanks,
> > Al
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