My truck must have been built on a Monday, its been nothing but a lemon. [&:]

Anyone else experience delayed engagement in reverse/drive when the truck is first started in the morning? After what feels like the torque converter filling up the truck is fine the rest of the day, shifts fine. It seems to be getting worse and its doing it during the day now. Our local dealer isn't so great at diagnosing I've come to notice with this truck, and they claim there's a bulletin for a 6 second delay when cold. They say thats normal.But what about 15+ second delaywhen its cold..and now even warmed up?

 

yheah when it's cold outside (which lately with the lows being in the 90s around me it hasn't been), the truck has like a severe delay with engaging to reverse. I'll put it in reverse and then start to back..but it'll go really slow and then it'll fully engage and then like pop really fast going backwards...kinda weird
Mine hasn't been 15 seconds or more...that's weird...i'd take it to the dealer.

 

I don't remember that ever happening to me last winter. Matter of fact I remember starting it one morning after 2 feet of snowfall and my school kindly plowing me in (they love leaving the snowbanks in front of the cars for some reason). Just put it in 4lo and started rocking her back and forth, no delays between drive and reverse, got it out in no time. Maybe try a different dealer?

 

put a shift kitin it and the problem will go away. there is a ring in the tranny that needs to be removed because it is blocking the fluid. when you first start up the truck put it in neutral for 15 seconds before any other gear. if the problem goes away it is that stupid ring. only way to fix is with the shift kits.

 

I can handle that

 

Yeah they tried this on mine even though my truck didn't fall under the TSB. I though it fixed it, but a couple days later it was back and worse.

 

I wasactually considering this...
I wonder if Chrysler will pay for warranty work if I take the truck to an actual transmission shop. We have two good ones in town. I'd probably need permission of some sort...

 

Ahh so Im not the only one. I just bought an 06 dak with only 13k miles. Love it but the first thing I noticed is when I put it in reverse it shifts really slowly then pops into gear like mentioned.

So this is something we can take in under warranty? or will i get in there and have them tell me its not a big enough issue to warrant repairs?

 

ha thats funny you say that because my transfer case was leaking for a while i guess when i bought my truck, and every one and a while i would drop her into drive and then the box around the D symbol would go away and it would stay in Neutral, and i would have to put it in park then do it again, it went away after the transfer case got fixed........