Congratulations on the new truck Curt! I'm sorry to hear that you had to
purchase a new truck so quickly though, I couldn't just go out and buy a new
vehicle in one day like that. Maybe I'm too indeciceive.
-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html www.omg-stfu.com""Curt Coulter"" <curt@cjnetworking.com> wrote in message news:200406180000.i5I00C114433@www4.dixiesys.com... > > Well, I no longer own a Dodge Dakota. I will have some Dakota > bits for sale soon, factory alloys, bedrug, intake pipe. > > What a day. Let me recap previous events of this week. > Driveline vibration surfaced middle of last week. I put it up on > stands, and determined it was something bad. I took it to the > dealer, who replaced the driveshaft u-joints (wanted to just do > the rear, I had them do both). They declared it fixed. I drove > it, same vibration. I took one of the service guys out for a > drive, yep, he sees the problem. They put it back on the rack. > Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle. Declare that the vibration is coming > from the tires, perhaps one of them slipped a belt. > > They declare it is 100% sound. I trailer horses, 500 miles, the > next day. The day after, I take it in to the tire shop, have > them rebalance, check, and rotate tires. Vibration still there. > > Next day, I decide to take it to the dealer, and get a trade-in > value, as I know something is not right. Exactly 4 miles up the > road on the way to the dealer, the transfer case GRENADES, > dropping the driveshaft, etc etc etc, at 75 MPH. > > Fun ride, that was. Wait 75 minutes for a tow truck to come from > a tow shop ONLY 10 MILES AWAY. Get towed the 3 miles to the > dealer. > > Spend the rest of the day searching inventory in the surrounding > 250 miles. Not a single manual trans truck. Consider a > slushomatic, drive a slushomatic. Agonize, and finally buy a > 2003 3/4 ton 5 speed with 17k miles off the lot, after they knock > off 1400 and agree to put in keyless entry free. > > Got 7k trade in on a 2000 loaded dodge dakota with 62k miles. > KBB shows trade-in at 9000, and they took off the cost of the new transfer > case etc. I feel like I've been ass-raped, but at least I have a truck. > Missed towing the horse tonight, but I'm ok for Sunday > and next week. > > End result, I'm happy I guess, payment is the same, just bumped > it out another 4 years :-P, for a much more capable truck. I'm still not > sure how pissed I should be at the dealer. > > /Curt >
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jul 01 2004 - 00:15:17 EDT