i replaced mine this summer. i spent about $500 getting the front end
rebuilt on a cause of those things. i have receipts, so they better watch
out!
Gabe Couriel
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net]On Behalf Of Josh
Battles
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:33 AM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: DML: Re: Balljoints - CBS story
"andy levy" <andy-dml@levyclan.us> wrote in message
>
> 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
>
> --
> -andy
Very interesting. I wonder if there's gonna be a class action lawsuit. I'd
probably get in on it, I've got documentation that says mine have been
replaced 3 times in 52,000 miles.
-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html
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