My uncle bought a brand new 2004 dodge 1500 extended cab pickup, and less than a year later he's had to take it back to the stealership like 5 times... first few times for overheating which they kept throwing parts at and never were able to fix, and then for the auto tranny going out. This was all with just regular driving by his 55 year old wife (not hotrodding it), and the pickup has never even seen a load before. Absolutely pathetic.
Guess what he finally had to do to fix the overheating problem... he had to take it to a radiator guy and have a decent radiator put in it. The crap stock radiator from the factory was only a one or two core radiator and couldn't even handle driving around empty.
Also he's bought a couple of one ton cab and chassis pickups that he put flatbeds on for delivering loads of irrigation pipe. Both of them have the cummins engine and standard transmissions and he's lost the overdrive gear on both of them (one of them twice) and had to take them back to have them fixed. Apparently there's a nut holding that gear on in the transmission and it somehow loosens and the gear just slips off...
Crazy dodge people...
On the other hand though we've got a 92 dodge cummins 3/4 ton manual tranny and an 85 dodge 3/4 ton with the 318 and 727 auto tranny and they're both good pickups. Fugly as all get out, but still good pickups.
Guess what he finally had to do to fix the overheating problem... he had to take it to a radiator guy and have a decent radiator put in it. The crap stock radiator from the factory was only a one or two core radiator and couldn't even handle driving around empty.
Also he's bought a couple of one ton cab and chassis pickups that he put flatbeds on for delivering loads of irrigation pipe. Both of them have the cummins engine and standard transmissions and he's lost the overdrive gear on both of them (one of them twice) and had to take them back to have them fixed. Apparently there's a nut holding that gear on in the transmission and it somehow loosens and the gear just slips off...
Crazy dodge people...
On the other hand though we've got a 92 dodge cummins 3/4 ton manual tranny and an 85 dodge 3/4 ton with the 318 and 727 auto tranny and they're both good pickups. Fugly as all get out, but still good pickups.
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