Lucky! mines mexican made like most 1500's

I think thats because chevy tried to get fancy and made things too complicated..more to go wrong and fail. Like my old lincoln town car...it had so many gizmos and most of them didnt work half the time....like the stupid air ride

 

Air ride suspension? We put some on our RV..Phew that stuff's awesome. Kinda expensive, but def. softens up the ride a LOT.

Yeah Dodge designed a pretty good truck if you ask me. Just wish they would care a little bit about things like the cracked dashs (I must of missed that year - my dash is fine) and the plenum. But then again, I don't think Ford/Chevy/etc. would do much if anything if they had design flaws, which I'm sure they do.

 

I know all this but when I say the 3 American companies I mean Ford, Chevy, and Dodge because they are based in America. Not where the majority of the vehicles are made but they are based here. Where as like you said Honda and Toyota are based in Japan but they make quite a few vehicles here.


That's why I think the bail out was so ridiculous. If we are going to bail out these jobs should at least belong to American people.

 

the dashes werent defective on the 94-98 style the leter style ones were the bad ones....
as far as the air ride it was nice when it worked but they are prone to failing pumps and leaky airbags as well as leaky lines and moisture freezing in the lines....I had all of the above happen on my lincoln in the two years I owned it.. and so did many others ..swapping the bags with crown vic springs was common..all the other gizmos like the automatic truck closer and even the premium sound system with amp (like the rams optional ones) were prone to issues

 

The transmission, the LSD in the rear end, the pleneum, the dash, the evap core and heater core(heater core was good I just did it while I was in there), the water pump, and a bunch more I'm sure I'm forgetting. Then I had a ton of stuff like transmission gauge and cooler that just added up. There were a bunch of little things that added up like that. Those are a lot of the big ticket items. Now some of that was labor too. I upgraded each of them also so it wasn't like I just replaced them. Did I really need a $3600 transmission from APS? Probably not however, I didn't want this problem again. Same with the LSD I probably didn't really have to have a Auburn unit or the APS pleneum kit, or any of the other parts I upgraded. I also had quite a few other things go around that time like ball joints, u joints, etc. It just was a ton of stuff that went wrong all at once.

Like I said though that's not really why I want to get rid of it. I have all that stuff fixed. That's just why I doubt I will buy another Dodge again in the future.

 

but what does that mean? does it help america at all? many toyotas and chevys were one and the same....I remember A friend from gm who was management back in the 80's telling me a story about when toyatas were so hot that they ran out and couldnt make them fast enough....so toyota bought the identicle chevy novas and rebadged and retrimmed them as toyata cameries....no one wanted to buy the chevy version ironically...
also dodge is based out of italy now...they are owned by fiat just as ford owns much of mazda and chevy owned much of geo and suzuki....It really doesnt matter were they recieve their mail the auto companies are all international....