We're not changing the entire control arm anymore. New (updated) ball
joints have been coming our way for almost two months now.
- Bernd
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Terrible Tom
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 10:47 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: Balljoints - CBS story
andy levy wrote:
>
> Anyone else catch the CBS Evening News tonight? They had a piece on
> the
> high (compared to comparable Chevy & Ford SUVs, combined) balljoint
> failure rate of the Durango. They managed to get a Dodge service
> manager at a dealer on tape (face concealed) saying that he's seen it on
> more Daks than Durangos.
>
> The reporter interviewed 2 Durango owners, one of which "only" had bad
> balljoints on his '02 (they showed the truck up on a lift and the right
> front wheel clunking while it rocked) and a woman (who is a reporter for
> a CBS affiliate, which I'm sure helped get the story up to national
> broadcast) whose '00 or '01 had the right front wheel, hub & brake
> assembly and halfshaft fall off completely in traffic.
>
> No comment from DC aside from a written statement about how 99.7% of
> owners are completely satisfied means no safety problem. NHSTA is
> investigating.
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/27/eveningnews/main580233.shtml
> There's video (for how long, I don't know) on
> http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml
>
Lets see - - bad ball joints on Gen III Daks and Durangos... hmm -
nothing new there... wonder who supplies the OEM parts??
Ya gotta wonder about a company who says "you gotta repalce the whole
control arm" when you need new ball joints.
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