Wanna buy a truck?

[gymtime]

What to do.....What to do?

I've got a 2000 Dakota Ext Cab, V8, 4wd. I'm not sure yet, but it looks like it's going to need about $2,000 worth of transmission work that will not be covered by warranty. Should I:

a) Pay for the repairs and keep it.
b) Pay for the repairs and sell it/trade it in?
c) Fuck the repairs and trade/sell it for whatever I can get?

Whaddayathink?

 

[naturally anabolic]

fix it, and a brand new new tranny cost 2,000$...so unless it needs a whole new tranny i would look at the shop you go to unless you go to the dealership in which case i will tell you they throughly overcharge

 

[Y_lifter]

No surprise huh? Oh well hindsight is 20 20 ...
Question, why is the tranny not covered by the powertrain warr?
Abuse?

 

[naturally anabolic]

me thinks gymtime took on some sand dunes and lost...

 

[supersizeme]

what did you do to the tranny? and is the thing paid for yet? is it a lease? hard to say without knowing where you are financially with it.

at first glance, i would go with option #1.

assuming you're financing it, depending on how long your car note is, and whether or not you've been paying over on your payments, you would probably end up losing a shitload more than $2K if you try to trade it in after only 2 years of having it. but if that doesn't matter to you, and you want to get rid of the truck, go for it. i'd eat the cost to fix the transmission and continue paying it off.

 

[gymtime]

No surprise huh? Oh well hindsight is 20 20 ...
Question, why is the tranny not covered by the powertrain warr?
Abuse?

Long story. Short version is that about a year after I bought it, I found out the previous owner, who bought it for his son, drove it into a lake. Apparently the repairs came to close to $6,000, which for some reason was covered under the warranty. But after that, the full warranty went to a "limited warranty", which is one step away from "no fucking warranty at all."

My fault. I should have looked up the history when I bought it. But the guy bought it new and had only owned it for six months. How much history could there be? Anyway, lesson learned. Funny thing is, up until this transfer case thing, it's been a great truck, no problems at all.

 

[gymtime]

me thinks gymtime took on some sand dunes and lost...

If only I had a cool story like that, I don't. This is a common defect with Dodge Truck transmissions. I found this out from my local garage whom I trust. He said he wouldn't touch it and that I need to take it to the dealer. So it's going in tomorrow. That's when I find out what's up.

 

[curling]

Why isn't the tranny covered? Most dodge warranties are 3yr/36k miles. Are you already over that?

 

[Drizzt]

If you are a mechanic of any sort I suggest pulling the tranny yourself and having it repaired. This is TONS cheaper than paying some cock eater to take it out and put it back in and charge you 1grand in labor doing so. I have tore the tranny outta my firebird 3 times so far and I pull it and take it to this one guy who rebuilds it for 300dollars which is a helluva lot cheaper than the 1200hundered that they told me at the local stop and rape. I suggest pulling it or get a friend to pull it its really not difficult at all. Lates.

Drizz

 

[gymtime]

what did you do to the tranny? and is the thing paid for yet? is it a lease? hard to say without knowing where you are financially with it.

at first glance, i would go with option #1.

assuming you're financing it, depending on how long your car note is, and whether or not you've been paying over on your payments, you would probably end up losing a shitload more than $2K if you try to trade it in after only 2 years of having it. but if that doesn't matter to you, and you want to get rid of the truck, go for it. i'd eat the cost to fix the transmission and continue paying it off.

Not sure what the problem is. I find out from the dealer tomorrow. But my garage says there's a problem in the transfer case, and it will be pricey. That's all I know.

I purchased it and I'm about a year and a half into the loan (5 yr). I bought it when interest rates were high. I'm stuck with about 11%. Plus it's more car than I need. I bought it because it looks cool, no other reason. I don't haul a lot or take it out four-wheeling. It's basically a commuter truck and the gas is starting to get pricey as well. I've actually been thinking about selling it at some point, but not this soon.