How many miles on the engine Eric ?

Another piece of junk Chrysler…..Cant believe they are still in business

Your mic is a damn good mic. If you have a good enough sound system that drizzle can be heard. Amazing.

I know a guy who blew threw 2 of those 3.6 engines. Only cause a moron with a lead foot. No one let's him drive there cars and even the company doesn't let him drive a company vehicle since he blew the engine on a Toyota.

I was shaking my head the minute you said she'd been driving around with overheating problems and having to constantly add water. Chryslers have a sh*t product but this was preventable. Operator error.

Almost bought one of those but price was too high compared to the grand caravan. Ended up getting a 2017 grand caravan with 7.5k miles on it in December 2021, stupid low miles at a price that was equivalent to the same van with 60k miles. I guess it was a sitter, has 16k on it now and running like a top.

We owned one Chrysler product, a Dodge Grand Caravan in the 90’s. Never again. I had the transmission rebuilt twice within 75,000 miles, as well as a top end rebuild. Junk!

I judge a manufacturer’s reliability by how far out of warranty it makes it before a stupid issue arises, if it even makes it out of warranty. With that being said most of all modern cars suck in one way or another. I think the golden age of reliability we will never see again was late 90’s to early 2000’s Toyota and Honda. Even though they used tiny fasteners that always sized dissimilar metals into the aluminum blocks with our north eastern winters. They never really broke down parts would just go bad.

Millions of chrysler minivans on the road that have been properly maintained and are problem free.crap on em if you want but when taken care of they are good vehicles,especially for the low prices they can be had for.any car that can go 10 years with zero problems is certainly not bottom of the barrel.

I am starting to hear that the 3.6 V6 are starting to show increasingly frequent head failures, more specifically, cracked heads.

Where was she putting the water in? In the oil fill?

Tom Petty and Ratt. Shop music hasn't changed in 30 years. I'd think if she gave it a good cooking the oil or coolant would have the telltale stank, if you got your nose back, that is.

Engine is done and now way I would even mess with opening it up for a rebuild. Used engine route is indeed the way to go for this car. It just makes financial sense.

So what is the cost of a new engine.

It's a Dodge what do you expect . Enough said.

Blue light is very difficult on your eyes and more difficult to focus in and out of (as in looking at gauges then the road) hence ships and aircraft have soft red lighting during night navigation. Why would Chrysler fit such a retina searing gauge cluster? But it is Chrysler….so they probably did absolutely no research.

These old school mechanics that actually diagnose rather than just throw parts at it are so hard to find. I can do parts roulette myself, sadly the only shop close to me like south main just closed. The owner was such a good guy, told my gf her head gasket was blown (over heating, water in the oil the usual) he said well we can fix it but if you've been saving for a new car that would be the best route as the car wasn't worth the repair cost. I wandered in awhile later after buying an old car that had a lot of miles 91 Caprice, I changed the oil which was disgusting and it started smoking out the exhaust bad. He said ah hell just change the oil again and dump in a can of restore that thing was probably used to that sludgey goop filling all the worn valve guides etc… I did and have put another 25k miles on since. Granted it's a band aid but aside from a total rebuild which it will need soon I'm sure he bought me another 3 years without even looking at the car. No smoke still runs great even with the lifter tap it's had for 40k lots of power even at almost 200k on the clock not bad for a 305… R.I.P Mike you were a great guy.

That's what you have to do sometimes Mr.O I've had a few folks want to repair a vehicle that the motors were junk from the factory and more often than not it was more beneficial to get a new used one for cheap repair spectrums were like the Yugo of the day. I do remember when Chrysler's were the standard to behold from the 60s to the 80s.

pulled out the chris cuomo on that cooler 🤣😀

I got a YouTube reply to a comment.Did you send me a reply to text you ? Seems fishy and from a Texas area code.

My first work experience was in the shop at a Chrysler dealership. The mechanics would just complain about how crappy the cars were they were working on. This was in the mid-80's with the K Cars. Nice to see nothing has changed.

Awesome

Eric sure is thorough, he even checked the van for Covid!