It just seems every time I drive her car I find my self asking "how long
has it been doing XX or making YY noise?" ...the response is always "I
don't know". I do my best, but it seems she is better at wearing stuff
out than I am at fixing... ;-)
Aaron Wyse wrote:
> I've never had a problem with vehicles that would be classified as severe
> service/ abuse giving me trouble unless they weren't being maintained. If
> it's being well maintained, odds are probably good you're not as hard on it
> as you think.
> Aaron
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Oliver" <barrysuperhawk@insightbb.com>
> To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 3:41 AM
> Subject: Re: DML: 4 Banger Milage
>
>
>
>>Tom Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>They also have weak auto transmissions. I had a 94 Spirit (bot used in
>>>1996 with 11K on it) and my wife had a 1996 Voyager (bot new and dealer
>>>serviced) and both trannys went at about 60K. The diff exploded on the
>>>Spirit. I will never buy another fwd auto trans again. Mopar fwd autos
>>>are notoriously weak when coupled with V6's. They have cooling problems.
>>
>>
>>Not that I would want to disagree, but my GF has a 96 stratus, and other
>>than wearing stuff out [100k miles] it has been relatively trouble free.
>> I haven't done anything more complicated than brakes, a waterpump
>>that was weeping and misc front end parts on this car. The amazing
>>part of this is that it gets driven like a baja 1000 truck all of the
>>time. Everything is either full throttle, or max braking. As an
>>example, she burns through a set of brake pads about once a year. [So
>>far I have put on 4 sets since she has had the car.] I would have to
>>categorize the use that car gets as "severe duty" in every sense of the
>>term. Even at that level of abuse, it seems to be holding togeather
>>pretty well... I would have no qualms whatsoever at buying one of these
>>cars.
>>
>
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Feb 01 2005 - 00:18:31 EST