almost 65000, time to go refill the bottle. only major issue was the replacement of the ball joints and control arms, still running the same factory brakes. and just got gas the other day, 1.59.9

 

46,000 miles. Plastic grill loovers melted in the sun. Dealer replaced. Stock 245/70/16 Goodyears were replaced with 265/75/16 Firestone Destination A/Ts. TM leveing kit installed. Amsoil oil change about every 13K. Not a lick of issues...(knock on wood).

 

Someone at Chrysler needs to have several balljoints stuffed up their a$$hole for letting this slide into a new generation of trucks already infamous for front end problems. Every time I change my oil I push and pull as hard as I can to see if they're starting to wiggle, so far so good...

 

27k, fog light is cracked from heat again, hopefully I'll get dealer to replace it before warranty is up.

 

19k.. fogs cracked... transfer case went twice..... knock senor.... other then that nothing... i love this dam truck and hope to get the power it deserves sometime this coming yr hopefully February...

 

Transfer case went twice?! Were you doing 4 wheel drifts on dry pavement? I'm very surprised...

 

must have mistaken the selector **** with the volume control......hahahaha had to!

 

lol no just the seal.. seal broke twice had to take it back to dealer twice for that.....

 

21,000 Miles, Replaced both front wheel berings, had a leak around tranny pan gasket, and a ball joint all under warranty. Love my truck but what is up with the front ends?

 

21K is early for balljoints...

Everything related to "Dodge Front Ends are ShT"..."Dodge Automatics are ShT"... is to blame on bean counters; engineers are trained to want to make stuff 4x stronger/better than it has to be. They then take their proposals to managers and purchasing teams, and get told to come back when it costs 35% less. Then they hit the test lab and the stats book, and whittle parts down until they barely survive. Often times, well beyond the point that conservative calculations say **STOP!** Not my style. I encountered this same issue at my first job, working as a chassis/transmission designer for a major lawn and forestry equipment manufacturer...if a certain percentage of parts make their warranty life, mission accomplished. Even if the threshold is well below industry standards. Even if that warranty is 250 hours for a "Professional Grade" unit. Or 36,000 miles for a pickup truck. Sheesh.

Granted, probability guarantees a certain number of components will simply fail. But good engineering gets that percentage down around the order of 3 per hundred thousand or better. True "6 Sigma" processes, patented by Motorola in the 80's and embraced by all major manufacturers (supposedly) should hold failures per component (not necessarily per truck) to 3.4 per *million*. That's 99.9997% "GOOD" parts!!!!! Dodge sold about 50,000 Dakotas last year...I'd say alot more than 0.17 trucks had bad balljoints.

**Clarification** - When I say "failures per truck" I mean the compounded chance that any one part will fail. Since there are thousands of parts on a vehicle, one or two replacements or failures per hundred vehicles may actually be statistically expected. But when you have the same component failing over and over, that's a problem.