I agree with Jon completely, and would like to add:
1) I'd bet if you checked any auto newsgroup, you'd hear a lotta bitchin'
about their products, no matter what brand.......
2) The average car has over 14,000 parts. If 14 parts fail on your new
car, it is still 99.9% reliable :^)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: DML: I love my Dak, But........ (a little long - sorry)
>
>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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