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> From: James Hahn <jahahn@umr.edu>
> To: dakota@ait.fredonia.edu
> Subject: QUESTIONS-suregrip/warranty-etc.
> Date: Tuesday, April 29, 1997 03:01 PM
>
> I subscribed to the list last fall and have been quietly reading along
> waiting for my time to strike.
>
> I purchased a 94 emerald green extended cab v8 4x2 3.55 sslip ...
> last November and have
> a long list of mods I would like to make this summer while I am out of
> school.
> The biggest is a differential change from sure-slip to sure-grip.
> Easy right? several posts have been made about best price and how to go
> about it.
> Here is my dilema. I have the 7/70 powertrain warranty with 4 years and
> almost 40000 miles left on the clock.
> I talked to the service reps at my local dealer and one said rather
> convincingly that as long as I keep a receipt and use the factory
> replacement part I could have my 10 year old cousin install it and it
> will be covered under the remainder of my warranty and the other rep said
> 12 months 12000 miles until he was "corrected" by the other rep.
> I cannot afford on my limited income to void the factory warranty.
> On the other hand I cannot afford to not be able to get where I need to
> go (i.e. up a slightly icy slope). A couple hundred pounds of concrete
> patio blocks just don't do the trick all the time and if I don't leave
> home with them and get stuck on the jobsite in inclement weather I am up
> the creek. ( unfortunate personal experiences from this past winter the
> jist of which I am sure you get.)
> Enough b.s. Has anyone else come under similar circumstances regarding
> the warranty or inquired their local service reps with similar replies.
> Before I swap diffs I need to know in no uncertain terms that I am in the
> clear. Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this problem, as
> you can see I have been saving this up for awhile.
>
> More questions to follow....
>
> Jim Hahn
>
Well, there's two ways to look at it. If you have the Dodge
dealership do it, and get a Dodge SG differential installed (OEM), then
it would be the same as if the original diff. failed, was replaced, then
would
be under warranty for the remainder of the 7/70... The above scenario
might
be expensive done at the dealership though...
Another situation, is to have the SG installed by a reputable differential
shop (we have a place called Pro Gear here in San Diego, CA. that I have
had
good luck with on my previous Dakota)...and get a good warranty from them.
If you got a Dodge SG, and had them install it, no one from Dodge
would be the wiser that it was done... So your warranty should be fine.
If you
did void your warranty, it would only void the differential, and not the
entire
7/70... What do you think the service rep. does when I pull my Dakota into
the shop with an open element K&N, Doug Thorley Headers, and a 3" CAT
back exhaust system, to get a warranty repair on my ALT??? Nothing...
Good luck,
Sam ' 95 SLT
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