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Terry Mar
Dodge Dakota
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1/25/2002
14:09:42
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Looking at buying a 4x4 4.7 2002 Club Cab. What do I need to look out for? Any mechanical/reliability issues? Will be taking it off road, after modifications. From everything I have seen and read, compared to a Tundra it seems to be a better truck? What do you think?
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Howdy
Dodge Dakota
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1/25/2002
14:36:11
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Terry, I have a 01 quad cab 4x4 4.7 and I love it. So far I have had NO problems with mine. I use it to tow a pop up camper in the summer time and I use the 4x4 quite often. I don't go 4 wheel'n though. Can't afford the repairs if I break something! No complaints here though. I bought my through autobytel.com
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4wDakota
GenIII
1/25/2002
15:19:44
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Check over the paint good before you buy. If its one of those dealers who lets you test drive it for a day then run it by a paint and body shop and have them look over it. They do have a history of bad paint/missing clearcoat. Mechanically it will be sound.
98 CC 4x4, 5.2 Auto 3.55LSD
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Joel
Dodge Dakota
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1/25/2002
16:58:36
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I do not have a new dak right now but have been surfing this site for a month or two. The problems I've seen repeated here are
Ball joints rattling after quite a few miles (20k+)
Warped rotors (to be expected on most domestics not dak spacific)
Power steering pump problems
Stalling at idle (ROM FLASH TSB fixes problem)
Now I don't know if all newer dakotas are going to hit the ball joint and power steering pump problems. I've been wondering if a PS cooler would eliminated the problem with the pump.
Keep in mind these problems shouldn't keep you from buying but you asked :) Every new car or truck I've owned hasn't been flawless. If you go into this thinking everything should be perfect and no problems whatsoever then your in for a surprise because NOTHING is perfect, not even air planes are perfect.
What you do is take them in stride, problems listed are minor (except ps pump).
Joel
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kevster
Dodge Dakota
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1/25/2002
21:20:02
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Hello, I like my two Daks, 2000 CC SLT+ AND MY NEW 2002 QUAD CAB 4X4 SLT+ 4.7 AUTOS. and i have 36,000 on my 2K and no probs. 1600 on my quad.. I love em both awsome trucks..
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