I just purchased a 98 Dodge Intrepid, and my engine blew up in it. It only
had 83k on it, and i pulled out of work only to hear major rattling and smoking of the engine when i got home. And the sad thing was, I changed the oil once, and i put over 3 quarts of oil back into it before the engine blew up. Luckily, I had a warranty on it, but now my dealer swindled me out of $500 and lied to me about the warranty company. Im in litigations with him now. What a piece of dog turd. I never even got to drive for about 2000 miles. Crap. Ill never buy a dodge again. |
It looks like you got a used car that someone beat the **** out of and
now are paying for it.So you really cant blame dodge for this.You just picked a abused car.This happens to alot of people no matter what brand the car is. |
It looks like you got a used car that someone beat the **** out of and
now are paying for it.So you really cant blame dodge for this.You just picked a abused car.This happens to alot of people no matter what brand the car is. |
bigdan4712 wrote:
> I just purchased a 98 Dodge Intrepid, and my engine blew up in it. It only > had 83k on it, and i pulled out of work only to hear major rattling and > smoking of the engine when i got home. And the sad thing was, I changed > the oil once, and i put over 3 quarts of oil back into it before the > engine blew up. Luckily, I had a warranty on it, but now my dealer > swindled me out of $500 and lied to me about the warranty company. Im in > litigations with him now. What a piece of dog turd. I never even got to > drive for about 2000 miles. Crap. Ill never buy a dodge again. The 2.7L engine is known to have a tendency to sludge up. Oil flow to bearings and timing chain gets blocked and the expected problems happen. This isn't the only engine that does it; the Toyota V6 in Camrys and the Sienna minivan is also known to be a sludger. It's still a small minority of the engines that suffer this fate, but more than one would expect these days, when engines routinely go 200K-300K or more between overhauls. The problems are made worse by Severe Service operation, which in reality covers just about EVERYBODY (take a look at the maintenance schedule, which defines severe service; if your driving includes ANY ONE of the conditions noted, that's severe service). Delaying oil changes is a no-no with this engine, and full synthetic oil is said to eliminate the problem since it hardly builds up any sludge. Engine people say that if you have a 2.7L engine, change the oil immediately, use full synthetic oil, and go by the Severe Service schedule. It's altogether possible that the prior owner was one of those slobs who never changes the oil in their cars. |
bigdan4712 wrote:
> I just purchased a 98 Dodge Intrepid, and my engine blew up in it. It only > had 83k on it, and i pulled out of work only to hear major rattling and > smoking of the engine when i got home. And the sad thing was, I changed > the oil once, and i put over 3 quarts of oil back into it before the > engine blew up. Luckily, I had a warranty on it, but now my dealer > swindled me out of $500 and lied to me about the warranty company. Im in > litigations with him now. What a piece of dog turd. I never even got to > drive for about 2000 miles. Crap. Ill never buy a dodge again. The 2.7L engine is known to have a tendency to sludge up. Oil flow to bearings and timing chain gets blocked and the expected problems happen. This isn't the only engine that does it; the Toyota V6 in Camrys and the Sienna minivan is also known to be a sludger. It's still a small minority of the engines that suffer this fate, but more than one would expect these days, when engines routinely go 200K-300K or more between overhauls. The problems are made worse by Severe Service operation, which in reality covers just about EVERYBODY (take a look at the maintenance schedule, which defines severe service; if your driving includes ANY ONE of the conditions noted, that's severe service). Delaying oil changes is a no-no with this engine, and full synthetic oil is said to eliminate the problem since it hardly builds up any sludge. Engine people say that if you have a 2.7L engine, change the oil immediately, use full synthetic oil, and go by the Severe Service schedule. It's altogether possible that the prior owner was one of those slobs who never changes the oil in their cars. |
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:23:23 -0500, bigdan4712 wrote:
> I just purchased a 98 Dodge Intrepid, and my engine blew up in it. It only > had 83k on it, and i pulled out of work only to hear major rattling and > smoking of the engine when i got home. And the sad thing was, I changed > the oil once, and i put over 3 quarts of oil back into it before the > engine blew up. Luckily, I had a warranty on it, but now my dealer > swindled me out of $500 and lied to me about the warranty company. Im in > litigations with him now. What a piece of dog turd. I never even got to > drive for about 2000 miles. Crap. Ill never buy a dodge again. It's not a Dodge problem, you moron. Things like this happen because you're stupid. -- If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space. Linux Registered User #327951 |
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:23:23 -0500, bigdan4712 wrote:
> I just purchased a 98 Dodge Intrepid, and my engine blew up in it. It only > had 83k on it, and i pulled out of work only to hear major rattling and > smoking of the engine when i got home. And the sad thing was, I changed > the oil once, and i put over 3 quarts of oil back into it before the > engine blew up. Luckily, I had a warranty on it, but now my dealer > swindled me out of $500 and lied to me about the warranty company. Im in > litigations with him now. What a piece of dog turd. I never even got to > drive for about 2000 miles. Crap. Ill never buy a dodge again. It's not a Dodge problem, you moron. Things like this happen because you're stupid. -- If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space. Linux Registered User #327951 |
Yes it is. Because dodge buys ****ty parts and engines from mitsubishi in
japan, is reason why this car needs extreme maintenance schedules. You shouldn't have to be so careful with a car. Thats my dad swears never buy dodge after he owned a 75 charger. It was a piece of ****. it broke down every month. id never buy dodge, and don't jump on dodges side, because i know cars. im not a mopar moron. dodge = trash. |
Yes it is. Because dodge buys ****ty parts and engines from mitsubishi in
japan, is reason why this car needs extreme maintenance schedules. You shouldn't have to be so careful with a car. Thats my dad swears never buy dodge after he owned a 75 charger. It was a piece of ****. it broke down every month. id never buy dodge, and don't jump on dodges side, because i know cars. im not a mopar moron. dodge = trash. |
and also, dont think i put 3 quarts into engine when i changed the oil. i
put 5.5 quarts like it says, and i ended up putting 3 more quarts over the time perioud that i had the car. moron. |
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