I’m amazed that an auto manufacture would actually do the right thing and not only recall their screw-ups, but to put a stop sale order on them as well. It’s something Chrysler certainly wouldn’t do.
For instance. My Dodge was built with no anti chaffing sleave on the throttle cable, (which ended up frayed and eventually broke. I went to the dealer and was told I was lucky that it was the $55 cable instead of a $75 one. I learned that day that there was several recalls on the truck that I had never known about. (One recall was the throttle linkage that I’d been fixing it with rubber bands for years.)
Since I had an Hydraulic clutch pump under my hood, they wanted to charge me $125 to install the replacement linkage. (Even though I have the inner fender well cut out; which would make replacing it even easier.) They would not just give me the linkage so I could put it on myself. Well, I just had to put a new rubber band on it the other day.
Another thing I should mention, the new cable I bought had an anti chaffing sleave on it, but the original did not. How come they didn’t recall that?
Another thing I would like to mention. Chrysler put out a recall on the shock towers because they were cracking. But to get the truck fixed they wanted to take the truck from me for about a week (so they could send it to an auto body shop to have extra brackets welded on) and not even give me something to drive.
So I told them to hell with it and I’d fix it myself if it did crack. Tell me, wouldn’t it make sense – if you build the truck with shocks that are too long, wouldn’t the shocks bottom out and cause the towers to take a beating? Well it makes sense since the after market shocks are shorter. (Get what I’m saying?) It didn’t make sense to beef up the shock towers and leave the original shocks on the truck now does it? IDIOTS
Oh yeah, after looking at the dates of the recalls at the Chrysler dealer, it was apparent that Chrysler was well aware of the fact that they were selling vehicles with parts that they where going to recall later. (As I noticed the recalled was dated in something like 1996, but there was a recall on the same part on 1998 models as well.)
Kind of the opposite of Toyota, wouldn’t you say?
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