On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 Dester243@aol.com wrote:
> Sometimes, i look back and wonder if buying a dakota was a very bad choice..
> MY front lower right control arm was screwed. took them about 3 hours to fix.
> lucky for me my dealer had it in stock. Otherwise, i'd receive a phone call
> like the last one, "oh, i'm sorry, I didn't know you wanted the truck back
> as soon as possible.." lucky for me i called in that afternoon. I dropped it
> off at 7 in the morning, waited in a 45 minute line (a bunch of caravans in
> front of me) and after calling in at 1230ish "nope, still haven't had the
> time to look at it yet" but anywayz, i wonder how i got carried off.....
> Does anyone else wonder why if dakotas are such a great truck, then why is
> this whole DML filled with problems?
> -Dester
Its just the nature of the beast... When you get a bunch of
people together, some of them are bound to have problems. Its
sort of like the airline business... All you ever hear about are the
few airliners that crash every year. You never hear about the millions
of flights that land safely. Same thing for this list. If everyone
posted a message every time they drove their truck without having
any problems, we'd be swamped! The "problems" posts would be
absolutely buried.
Brand loyalty notwithstanding, when you have a piece of machinery
as complicated as an automobile and you subject it to the unknowns
and the variables of the real world, you are going to have problems.
I don't care if its a Chevy, Ford, Dodge, whatever. Eventually,
something is going to break. Since this is a great forum for
advice, there are natrually a lot of posts about problems people
are having with their vehicles.
Sounds to me like most of your problem may lie with your
dealer. If they're not making you happy, you might want to
try someone else.
-Jon-
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