Does the ball joint issue just affect the 4x4
Daks/Durangos?...or my 4x2 as well?
Dealer friend is gonna check out my front suspension
this morning."Green Thunder" just turned 82,000...
--- "Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@texas.net> wrote:
>
> 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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