Excuse me, I haven't been bashing other carmakers, and like I said in
earlier posts, I know Dodge has made mistakes and that other companies
make good vehicles, but from my experience and my friend's experiences it
seems that overall Dodge(Trucks anyway, don't know a lot about the quality
of their cars) has made fewer mistakes than some of the other truckmakers
out there....I know of several people who've owned Fords and Chevies with
no problems also know of several people who've had them blow up before
they have 50K on them. My 2 older brothers have owned nothing but Fords
for as long as I can remember, they've had a couple that never gave any
trouble, also had a couple that were nothing but trouble, had to have them
worked on every couple of months, so mixed results there, non one in my
family has ever had good luck with Chevy trucks, one brother had a chevy
van and had to have the engine and transmission rebuilt before he put 50K
on it, had a chevy truck that had trans fall out of it at 57K, my uncle
had a chevy that had 4 trans in it before 50K, as far as GMC cars go I
know of people who've had pretty good luck out of them, especially the
buicks and Oldsmobiles, anyway what I'm trying to say is that every
manufacturer has some good designs and some bad designs, it just seems
that as far as their TRUCKS go Dodge makes fewer mistakes and has a better
design than the rest...
>
> I think some of the trannies may have been built by Mitsu (the 3-speed
> autos maybe), but the 4-speeds were the problem and I'm pretty sure they
> were a CC item. Anyway, my mother also has a '96 Grand Caravan, and to
> date with 37K miles we've had the following problems:
> --sliding door lock malfunctions (replaced)
> --heating/cooling knobs broke (replaced)
> --CD/Cassette unit failure (replaced) (same thing happened on the head
> unit in my Dak and they use the exact same unit)
> --Thumping from rear (not the famous gas tank TSB--still unresolved)
> --flickering interior lights (unresolved)
> --winshield wipers come on on their own (their is a TSB on this but not
> fixed yet)
>
> --there may be more, I'm not positive
>
> Now, as for the late 80s/early 90s caravans, my mom had a '91 Grand
> Caravan. During it's short 10 month life it had 3 new trannies put in and
> was scheduled to receive a fourth when my mom was plowed by a tow truck
> which total it. So we replaced it with a '92 since CC themselves promised
> that the tranny thing had been fixed. WRONG!! Although it was better, we
> still had to replace the tranny in the '92 twice. Now this was along with
> many other small items fixed under warranty. You can't tell me that that
> wouldn't have cost a lot of money, especially after you add in all the
> labor. My point is this: every car maker makes some very fine cars and
> some not so fine cars. Mechanical failure is almost certain when you mass
> produce vechicles at the rate they do. I'm tired of all this crap about
> DODGE being so superior to other car makers. I owned an '89 FORD
> Thunderbird for three years (from 50K to 82K miles) and never had ONE
> SINGLE PROBLEM with it! My dad has owned several BUICKS and loves them and
> has had no trouble. I hate the narrow-minded view that some of you
> possess. It's okay if you want to talk about how much you love Mopar and
> how "good" the quality of their vehicles are, but it's not necessary to
> bash all other manufacturers.
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> Andy
>
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