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Old May 24, 2010 | 05:52 PM
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I am still driving my 1995 Dodge Stratus which was purchased new by myself. Iam looking forward to performing my 300,000 mile tune up. I now have 283,635 miles on the original 2.5l v6 that has only had the valve cover gaskets replaced, and an oil pan that started leaking at the seam. It has new front and rear spindles. I had to replace both lower control arms when the right side ball joint dropped and quickly cut completely through the mag rim. the Lord was watching out for me big time that day. by the time the tire went flat I was only going about 3 miles an hour at which time the tire exited stage right causing no body dammage and bringing the car to "0" miles per hour. Someone told me that there was a recall on the ball joints but I didn't find it and the dealer told me they didn't know about one. This was about 120,000 miles and just out of the 100,000 purchased warrenty.
If anyone knows of a recall I am up to doing more research. I have done all the maintenance except for the 4 transmissions that have rolled me along.
 
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Old May 24, 2010 | 06:50 PM
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Welcome to the site. I will move this thread to the Stratus section,
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Old May 25, 2010 | 12:10 AM
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I'm not familiar with any recalls on the ball joints. At least nothing comes up for my '00. That's pretty awesome that you're almost at your 300,000mi mark. I'm coming up to my 200,000 mark, with similar maintenance history. Only work that's ever needed done was a TCM gasket at 140,000 (of course the transmission place said I needed a new trans, my buddy told me I needed a 10$ gasket), a wheel bearing at 160,000, and valve cover gaskets at 165,000. I'm at 189,000 now, on an otherwise all original car. Dodge did good choosing the Mitsubishi 2.5v6 for these
 
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