BombOut800
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hondaguy. You did way too much research on the toyota and not enough on a dodge/chrysler/jeep. The trans they used in the 05 cummins diesel(not sure about the 08's) was like a 20 year old antique. People with stock trucks no chip, nothing aftermarket. Never pulling anything but a jet ski trailer are having trans problems in the first 50,000 miles. The trans in the jeeps could possibly be a good trans. But a converter, a valve body, a shift enhancer, and some shift points need to be changed to make that possible. That would make it stand up for a while without problems. All dodge cars, trucks, vans, and suv's have bad trans setups from the factory. Now if you baby it everyday all day, im sure it will be fine for a long time. Keep hammering on yours and you will see what we are saying. I just know i have had a jeep and plenty of friends with dodges. They all had power window problems, they all had trans problems, and they all had some sort wiring and oxygen sensor problem. I also had two friends that had the 4.0 inline 6 grand cherokees that had wiring problems and the dealer had to actually cut and splice the wiring harness!! You want to know what that spells??? T..R..O..U..B..L..E! Dont get me wrong i loved my jeep but i promised myself after my last one.... i would not and could not ever buy another dodge products unless it was a cummins with a built trans! Which a bulletproof one cost around $7,000 maybe even a little more. Im not saying toyotas are garaunteed a better vehicle all im saying is.. i know a lot more people with toyotas and they mud ride all the time, they drive them hard as heck, and they put up with it. I had a buddy with a 99 4 runner. Stock motor and auto trans with a trd supercharger with a 8lb lower pulley, 23's, all kinds of sound system yada yada.... etc.. He droves the livin $%$#$ out of it and he never had one problem. Never left him stranded. Never slipped a gear. Never cracked the frame. Never replaced the catalytic coverter after the trd exhaust. Never had to put a rearend in it. Nothing!!!!!!!!!! It took every bit of the abuse he gave it. My jeep which was all wheel drive got drove everyday like i stole it. It held up for 20 some odd thousand miles and it started going where? Downhill.. The resale value was 8 grand lower than when i bought it.(not even a year and about 30,000 miles later) My friends 4 runner with 100,000 more miles and 3 years older than my jeep sold for the same amount. Even minus the wheels and sound sysytem. Crazy right? Do a little more research buddy. If your dakota doesnt have a bad miss or rough idle.... its coming. Hopefully not anytime soon. But hey you might have a toyota by then! Think about it. Just don't sit on it too long, it may be too late. A trans repair doesn't sound cheap on the pocketbook. Don't talk too much about a catalytic converter getting stopped up. Checked yours lately? I wonder what your trans fluid and motor oil looks like? Just better hope the ball joints dont ever have to be changed. Man its exciting! Like i said think about what your driving. It may say dodge, but from what ive learned and seen, about the only thing they dodge is the factory warranty. After that... downhill! WOW! Lifetime warranty for a dodge car, truck, suv, or van. Read the fine print you may be surprised. It may say jeep but is it actually trail ready? Maybe after a 150 point inspection, a oil change, and trans fluid change, gear oil change. Man, thats too much to deal with. I'd stick with the toyota.
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. Look into some of the prices of ABS parts on Toyotas, I priced out a master cyl for a 07 Taco one day just for laughs when they first came out in late 06 and almost choked to death on a mint, $2700 for the master cyl cause the ABS HCU is built into it. The thing I've always told people is this, It might take a LITTLE longer for toyotas to break some things but they WILL still break and when they do you WILL pay out the **** to repair it. I don't want to give the wrong opinion here I talked my mom into buying a 4 Runner just because my step dad wouldn't let her even look at the Grand Cherokee or Durango, and I threatened to kill him if she bought an Exploder or Expedition. I just want to make it perfectly clear that TOYOTAS DO BREAK, If they didn't there would be no service depts at Toyota dealers like mine.
s will say about Dodges trannies, they are not the same as they were 10yrs ago. Not saying they are perfect but they won't have any more problems then other brands now. Believe it or not its your problem.
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