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by r/tguy02 » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:44 am
i doubt that colonel, its probably going to be more like this
dodge salesman: "welcome, we're giving away a free caliber with every purchase of a dart."
buyer: "really...? are you sure i cant just buy the dart? you can keep the caliber..."

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by theColonel » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:48 am
^^^^I stand corrected

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by Midnight_Rider » Fri Apr 27, 2012 1:42 pm
That is rich!
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by catalyst » Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:18 pm
I want to see the 100, the Wagoneer and the new SRT Chalenger.
I'm glad Fiat and Chrysler seem to be working well together.

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by jmoddes » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:25 am
anyone excited for the new dodge dart

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by Midnight_Rider » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:52 am
jmoddes wrote:anyone excited for the new dodge dart

Oh yeah, drove to the auto show in Detroit last January just to see it.

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by Kelevra » Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:08 am
jmoddes wrote:anyone excited for the new dodge dart

I am. BUT I'm holding out for the SRT version. I don't want to jump on a new car and have the SRT come out the next year. My neon is going on 10 years and I love it to death but I'm up in the air.. it'd be nice to have a brand new car off the showroom. ya know? and if I have to get it 2nd hand.. atleast I'll have boost!

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by ragek23 » Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:21 am
I am starting to think the same way. An srt dart would be worth being a neon replacement as a DD.
On another note, has anybody noticed how bad the new Fiat 500 sucks at fuel economy for a 1.4L? I just saw one on display at a local shopping outlet center and it said 27city and 32mpg highway. WTF our neons had better numbers and more power!
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by theColonel » Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:33 am
ragek23 wrote:On another note, has anybody noticed how bad the new Fiat 500 sucks at fuel economy for a 1.4L? I just saw one on display at a local shopping outlet center and it said 27city and 32mpg highway. WTF our neons had better numbers and more power!

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... I'm thinking of buying a Dart SXT as a daily driver, seems to be a lot of car for the money.
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by heydockyle » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:38 am
Dart may very well be my next purchase once the srt is paid off.
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by theColonel » Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:46 am
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by r/tguy02 » Sun Jul 01, 2012 12:11 pm
Still haven't seen any abarths running around just the reg 500
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by bstc00 » Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:57 pm
I see the abarths all the time. Have yet to grive one.
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by theColonel » Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:37 pm
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by r/tguy02 » Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:52 pm
it'd be nice to know what exactly the problem is, why are they hiding it?
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by Midnight_Rider » Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:04 am
I pray that Chrysler Group doesn't "handle" the Pentastar V6 problem like the old Chrysler Corporation did with the 1GN Neon headgasket.

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by Wenuden » Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:44 pm
Me too, since I have one of those engines.
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by racer12306 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:35 am
It is a little hush hush from what I read but it relates to a poor casting of the head and a stud works loose.
I looked into it pretty hard because we have a Pentastar engine in our T&C and I didn't want to get blindsided about it. But it looks like it mainly plagues the Wranglers as they have a slightly different head. The problem presents itself very early so it should be fixed under warranty easily. I believe I saw people with the issue as early as 2000 miles.
At least now they are fixing it without raising a stink. The first people who reported this problem had to be a knife in the side of the dealership to even had the problem investigated.
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by theColonel » Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:48 am
Do you have any idea why it's so "hush hush"? I've heard that it happened with engines assembled in the Mexico engine plant.
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by racer12306 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:55 pm
I don't. All of my information comes from bouncing around various forums of people who had this problem.
It was probably kept quiet in the beginning because it wasn't an official problem. I have absolutely no idea now.
My opinion is that I would rather a company come out and say we screwed up, this is what happened and this is how we are fixing it. Stuff like this is just too shady.
I had also heard about it being more related to the Mexican site but I seem to remember a few of the engines actually coming from a plant in the States, but that could have been a simple inventory transfer if that plant was short on heads and the Mexico plant had extra.
I'm just happy that I shouldn't have to worry about this problem. Our engine purrs like a kitten with 23000 miles on it.
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by theColonel » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:41 pm
racer12306 wrote:I'm just happy that I shouldn't have to worry about this problem. Our engine purrs like a kitten with 23000 miles on it.

That's good to hear ... I want to trade our '09 Avenger with a 2.7 liter, for one with a 3.6 liter ... the added 93 horsepower is great !
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by C1DoG » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:53 pm
theColonel wrote:our '09 Avenger with a 2.7 liter, for one with a 3.6 liter ... the added 93 horsepower is great !
I am thinking I may get an Avenger once the neon finally gives up. which will be awile.

And does anyone know what the lug size is for an avenger? I really don't want to give up my wheels when I do change.

Drove my neon until it was killed in a flood.

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by racer12306 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:53 pm
The fuel economy is even more impressive.
We went on a trip to the beach in June and got 25mpg. It was much higher until we did a lot of idling one day. I'm really curious what it will be on a trip of pure highway with minimal stops.
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by racer12306 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:54 pm
Steve
I don't know the lug pattern for the Avenger but I'd be pretty confident saying it's probably not 5x100.
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by Midnight_Rider » Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:58 am
Possible good news for the economies of Howard and Tipton counties in Indiana due to Chrysler:
http://kokomotribune.com/local/x1752047 ... -abatement
The newswriter gets DCX confused with Chrysler Group in this article- Chrysler Group didn't exist when DCX partnered with Getrag to build this plant. It has been a white elephant for years so I hope that Chrysler does decide to build transmissions there.
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