Mike_Flores
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I've been a Chevy guy all my life. My neighbor used to work for Dodge, so in 07 I bought a new RAM with the 4.7liter magnum. At first it was a nice truck...although even with an aftermarket cold air intake I never got over 15.5 mpg.
Here's the bad part, within the first year it needed new tie rod ends and new front struts. They were covered under warranty, and I also bought the $1800 full coverage extended warranty when I bought the truck. Well, the second year comes (neighbor had long been layed off) and I need tie rods again, and something with the throttle body. Next was sway bar links. Year 3 the truck is out of warranty but the extended warranty should cover everything right? Oh, at this point I was on the 3rd set of 20'" tires (that truck ATE tires like candy). So year three I need struts again. I make an appointment and take it in, they charge me $60 to tell me I needed struts even though I told them that when I took it in. Only this time they're not called Struts anymore, they're shocks. If they were struts they'd be covered under the warranty, I retreived the old receipt that cleary shows they installed STRUTS a little over a year earlier but that didn't make a difference. I went up the chain with Chrysler and got nowhere. I needed a state inspection and didn't have any more time to fight about the Struts vs. Shocks so I demanded and got back the remainder payout of my useless warranty I bought and put that toward new front STRUTS so I could get it inspected. During all this the passenger automatic door lock burned outbut that was the least of my problems. At this point I was soured on Dodge forever. A few days after the inspection I was leaving work, got in that giant piece of garbage and the truck wouldnt hardly move while in drive. I put it to the floor to go 10 miles per hour...and heard a good deal of whining and screaming coming from the transmission.
I limp that lemon home...3 year old truck with 60 something thousand miles on it. The next morning I limp it to the Chevy dealer...and planned on getting a good screwing and a new truck. Well I was shocked with was appologies and "welcome back to Chevy" from the whole staff there. I told them the entire story and they said you're not alone...we take a lot of sorry dodges in on trade! So, even with the failing tranny they give me $4000 over what I owe and in turn I bought a 2010 Silverado extended cab with all the bells and whistles, and the 5.2 liter engine. The engine shuts down 4 cylinders when not needed. That motor is a beast!...very fast, and I get up to 21 miles per gallon! Nicest truck I ever owned, even nicer than the old silverado I traded toward that dodge.
So my message is...DONT BUY A DODGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go back to Ford, or look at Chevy...or anything NOT made by Chrysler.
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