I agree, but they say it's the way all of the '00's w/the 4.7L are and
there isn't a fix available for it yet.
Al
Advanced Grinding and Machine wrote:
>
> You have complaints you dealer should be fixing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Al & Jeanna Figols
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 1:10 PM
> To: Dakota list
> Subject: DML: 4.7L auto tranny
>
> 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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