I plan on keeping mine until it falls apart or gets hit and totaled. My plan is to pay off the truck and Caliber, then build my 6 car garage, then hopefully a new Challenger if dodge is still in business and I have a job.

 

The paint has a 10 year warrenty on it as well, (except the grocery cart ding/chip), so with that most ppl running their trucks to death should be good to go for quite a long time!

 

According to the owners manual the anti-corrosion warranty is 3 yrs unlimited milage, and the outer panels warranty is 5 yrs 100k miles with this caveat....
3.2 ENIRONMENTAL FACTORS NOT COVERED
"Your warranties don't cover damage caused by environmental factors such as airborne fallout, bird droppings, insect damage, chemicals, tree sap, salt, ocean spray, acid rain, and road hazards. Nor do your warranties cover damage caused by hailstorms, windstorms, tornadoes, sandstorms, lightning, floods and earthquakes.
Your warranties do not cover conditions resulting from anything impacting the truck. This includes cracks and chips in glass, scratches and chips in painted surfaces, or damage from collision."

The way I see it, if the paint just happens to fall off the panels by itself in the first 5 years it's covered, otherwise your screwed.

 

I read the book and I think dodge may try to pull some shady stuff on the powertrain warranty. It talks about how a warranty is for covering manufacturers defects and not for parts wear out. They may try to say your truck with 200k miles and bad rings is not a defect, just worn out and is now customer pay. Any dodge reps on here that could go into further detail? Regardless I plan on driving it till the wheels fall off bolting them back on and driving it again.

 

One thing most people don't realize about the lifetime powertrain warranty, is that you have to get your vehicle inspected every 5 years at a dealership. The inspection has to be within 60 days of the 5 year anniversary. If you do not get it inspected during that time frame, the warranty becomes void. There are pages in the book for the dealer to fill out at each inspection. There are pages all the way out to 30 years. Unless you are only drving your truck to church and back once a week, there is no way the engine and tranny are going to last 30 years. I expect them to replace my engine when it goes belly up in a decade or so.....

 

Not doubting you as i havent read the book myself. My dealer told me 10 years to the paint/body and hes a stand up guy as far as im concerned. Its possible my dealership added warrenty time, not real sure but i know some dealers will do that. I saw a ford dealership in the houston area offering a lifetime warrenty on their trucks sold...

 

wear is not a defect, just an effect. nothin shady there. a cracked block due to an unforseen design flaw is, wether its at 10k or 300k with a lifetime warranty they cover it.

 

I'm just wondering if Chrystler sells out will our lifetime warenties still be honored or will we be screwed...

 

If they go under we're screwed in more ways than one...if they merge we should still be ok.

 

If it fails, it is due to materials or workmanship. It doesn't say anything about normal wear and tare isn't covered. It covers quite a bit. even CV boots on front wheel drive axles.
http://www.dodge.com/crossbrand/warr...e_warranty.pdf