They might be the best selling, but their A404 traansmissions don't last very long. Ours went out at 87000 miles. Seems kinda low milage for a modern transmission. Maybe, sometime the engineers will figure it out. Curious about the lifetime warranty on drive train though. Chris

 

When the 1st a604 were made in late 1988 and failed as soon as they came off the truck. So the a604 as come a long way. The transmission you need to watch out for is the NAG 1 thats in the LX body. 300c, charger, and magnum. This transmission went thru 47 changes before germans gave it to dodge and whole diff transmission in theirs.

 

We have two dodge vans now and really like dodge products, obviously. A 1998, that we just recently replaced the tranny in and a 1989 with a turbo. We are thinking about a new dodge van, but with all the tranny problems, are leaning toward a kia instead. Your opinion please.

 

I had work for KIA for a few years along with dodge at the same time, At that time I was repairing more KIA transmissions and enginesthan dodge transmission. What I am trying to tell you ALL cars products have problems not just dodge.

 

How do you know what kind of tranny you have? I have a new 07 SXT. Other than the hard downshifting it seems OK.

My previous Caravan was a 96 w/3.3. I kept that one 11 yrs and 105K and never had any tranny issues. I did maybe 3 oil/filter changes on it and that was all the service that tranny ever saw.

 

Well since you are under the caravan post, If you have a 2.4, 3.3 or 3.8 engine you could have a 40TES or 41TES transmission. The 2008 caravans will have two transmissions 41TE and 62TE auto. But you have a manual trans there are two. 5 speed or the 6 speed.