This will now be the 5th transmission I have had to put into this vehicle. The warranty has now expired and chrysler has refused to cover the $5000 it will cost to repair the car. They claim no prior record of transmission problems with this model vehicle. Between failure, I have returned to the dealership many times complaining about the way the transmission shifts . It has never shifted smoothly but they could not find anything wrong until it came time to replace the unit when it completly failed.
1992 Dodge Stealth transmission complaints
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Transfer case and transmission in learning are notorious for this failure had vehicle "checked" prior to warranty expiration (time vehicle still within mileage) chrysler unwilling to help
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The male output splines were prematurly striped inside the transmission that leads to the transfer case. This is caused by clutch particals and weather getting into the transmision case, and wearing the splines down prematurely. This happenes on "all" models of this car , and it happenes inevitably. And the car cannot drive at all unless this problem is fixed, and the repare is a $7,000 transmission. This is a problem from when the car was made, and there are hundreds of people who have it.
I have had endless problems with this car ever since I bought it. Abs, air bag,rotors(5 times at least), fuel line, power steering leaks, transmission, rear end leaks, engine leaks, doesn't drive safely around corners, grinding noise for the past 2 years, ringing noise, tires, etc! Probably close to $15,000 in repairs over the past 5 years!
The 4th gear synchronizer in the manual transmission has not worked since I bought the car last fall. I can't get any solid answers about how to fix this problem from the dealers.
The transmission and transfer case failed on the car just 1,000 miles after the powertrain warrenty expired. I have heard that dodge/mitsubishi had a lot of failures on these cars and in 93 built them with stronger parts. I feel some if not all of the repair costs should be covered and was wondering if the federal safety agency dot had any other complaint/recall requests or class action suits that I should know about?
The transmission in question is made by getrag. The manufacture listes this as unserviceable. The amount of problems associated with this trany are incredable. What can we do as consumers to protect ourselves from a faulty manufactured part?
While traveling at 10 MPH the transmission locked up and the vehicle went sideways.
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