There seem to be little added things each year to I guess entice a sale. 07 brought wider opening rear club cab door, tip start, remote start, three blink lane change and dual position tailgates. 08 brought tire pressure monitoring, oil change and other monitoring electronics and of course 302hp 4.7. 2010 brought the first REAL front end suspension change with far better shock dampening. The bad thing the packages went into the dumper. No more Larime/TRX-4 combo etc.

 

Yep, you nailed it

 

The dealer just changed the oil. Anyway, I have to take it in for inspection.

 

wait suspension changes what got changed lift possible ?

 

Nope high end Jap shocks and I don't remember the name but the springs rates where also changed. Seems a waste for two years of final production. Should had been realized years ago and fixed. But nota. Typical!

 

Well, so far the suspension changes seem to have done the trick. My new 2010 Dak doesn't do the bouncy-bouncy like my 2007 did when going over my local speed bumps.
One hting I noticed, for having all this higher power (supposedly) it doesn't feel like it as the thing tends to really hate downshifting (maybe the ECU holds this off when the engine is new?)
If I really press on the gas, it goes fine - ZOOM- but seeing as how its new, I have yet to push it too hard and have been trying to baby it. However, I have a freeway merge in my daily commute (a near suicidal one too - its the *****'s Pkwy one in Toledo and you merge uphill into THE FAST LANE right after the 475/75 merge) This was what taught me that the 3.7 doesn't really cut it in our gen 3's (I had a 2005 ST with the 3.7 and if some soccer mom was poking along at 40MPH ahead of me on the ramp, I didn't have enough HP to accelerate up to proper speed in time. This almost cost me a collision with semi trucks on more than one occasion. I finally learned that if someone was ahead of me, to just pull-over on the ramp and wait for it to clear so I could get a run at it. When I got the 2007 this was not an issue. With the 2010, I can also do it, but seem to have to coax it to downshift more than I would like. Once it shifts, no problem.

 

Could you all had imagined if the Dakota was offered with the 5.7 Hemi? The sales would have been through the roof for that truck. Another Chrysler Corp blunder that they paid dearly for with Dak sales for the Gen3s in the toilet. Every engine they offered in the Dak was anemic for the weight and size. They literally ruined the Dakota from within. Nice.

 

if the dak came with the hemi, the poor truck would have been detuned alot, look what happened when chevy came out with the ss 454 pick up truck, had only350 horsepower, the newer 4.7 302. and i would think the dak would beat the fullsize

 

Could it be that it's telling you that a lite is burned out and you did'nt notice the little lite on the dash?