Just off the top my head I remember reading that it had been serviced
several times for brakes, suspension, broken tranny and motor mounts,
ball joints, Collision damage several times.
All of this was in a just 10 months time as I recall.
I had specifically asked about this stuff before signing the papers
and was told that no major service work had been done other than the
previous owner had replaced the exhaust on it for a "Performance Oriented"
upgrade at a cost of $500.00.
And that was all that had been done to it.
Thank God for CARFAX!
Ron-
01'Dakota Sport 3.9 4X4
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Battles" <jbattles@bankfinancial.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:40 AM
Subject: DML: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RT fever...
>
> Ok, I can see that. What kind of abuse shows up on a carfax? I abuse my
> truck pretty regularly... What do you think I'd see?
>
> --
> - Josh
> Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L
> www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html
>
>
>
> ""ronald bruce taylor,jr"" <taylor9565@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:BAY4-DAV109lg464i9k0003f4c1@hotmail.com...
> >
> > '99 I had,...... had been severely butchered!
> >
> > I only had that thing for about 4 day's, the sales manger had flat out
> lied
> > about the Dak's history, and I bought the load of crap he gave me about
> that
> > Dakota.
> >
> > The next morning, a friend volunteered to run a CARFAX report on it
> because
> > something didn't seem right about that DAK!..........2 day's later He
> > got
> > the report to me and I almost had a heart attack.
> >
> > It turned out that Dakota had been seriously abused and had a report on
> > it
> > was 3 PAGES LONG!........ALL this information had been with held from me
> > after I had asked about the trucks history........
> >
> > Basically the sales manger and salesman BOTH flat out lied to me on
> > every
> > question I asked.
> >
> > I walked into the dealership, report in my hand and by the time I was
> > done
> > the sales manager aggreed to take it back in on trade with FULL credit
> > for
> > the sale price I had bought it for it.
> >
> > 30 minutes later I drove out of the dealers lot for the last time with
> > my
> > BRAND NEW 01' that I have now.
> >
> > My 01' had a sticker price of $24k, by the time I was done with these 2
> > bozo's I had it for invoice price PLUS the $1k rebate.
> >
> > 1 month later a friend of mine from work finds out his Nieghbor had
> > bought
> > that Dak and he was having problems too.......seems the PCM went south
> > due
> > to some abuse the truck had been thru.
> >
> > AND REFUSED TO START!
> >
> > Glad I got rid of it!
> >
> > Ron-
> > 01' Dakota Sport 3.9 4x4
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Josh Battles" <jbattles@bankfinancial.com>
> > To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 5:58 PM
> > Subject: DML: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RT fever...
> >
> >
> > >
> > > ""ronald bruce taylor,jr"" <taylor9565@msn.com> wrote in message
> > > >
> > > > My 99' sounded Great!.........nice throaty RUMBLE!
> > > >
> > > > Who ever did the work on the exhaust didn't do a bad job, they just
> > > > booggered up the exhaust where the O2's were redone and the
> > > > dealership
> > > > refused to fix the problem.
> > > >
> > > > That's why I traded it back in for my 01'
> > > >
> > > > Ron-
> > > > 01'Dakota Sport 3.9 4X4
> > >
> > > You traded your truck in for a new one because an exhaust shop didn't
> weld
> > > in the 02 bungs correctly and hosed your sensors? Call me crazy, but
> that
> > > just doesn't make any sense to me.... Or, have I misunderstood the
> post?
> > >
> > > --
> > > - Josh
> > > Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L
> > > www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
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