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Captain
Dodge Dakota
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11/01/2003
15:47:57
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Dohh,
your the stupidest moron in the world. That is the worst list of things I have ever read. If you don't like your dakota because it has no protection for the radiator or something stupid like that, sell it. No car is going to be perfect in every department and satisfy everybody's wants, that would be impossible.
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draugluin
Dodge Dakota
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11/01/2003
18:38:04
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to the radiator thing, You shouldn't be sticking your fingers where they dont belong in the first place.
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scott
Dodge Dakota
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11/02/2003
04:27:25
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Dodge's layout from an engineering standpoint is nice. Access to most things is easy and straight forward. No real complaints with that. But for a 3.9 v6 to get 175ish horsepower is not good engineering. I know its a truck and is designed different than say posche's boxer engine but engine could be updated, which they are, i think. Anyway, that's my only dodge complaint. It's not perfect but then nothing is...
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dohh
Dodge Dakota
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11/02/2003
05:19:52
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i dun put my fingers up my bum hole and now theyz smelly.
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Vince
Dodge Dakota
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11/02/2003
19:43:47
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First, let me say I am not a Mopar guy. I have owned, driven and wrenched on damn near everything with wheels, from Model "T" Fords to Northstar Caddys. I prefer Fords, but they do not offer a mid size truck.
That said, my 96 Dakota is evidently a very tough, well engineered truck. I bought it used, with 170,000 miles. It ran smooth, tracks straight, doesn't leak or leave spots, and until I tuned it up last week, had never had a wrench laid on it other than oil changes. I was pleased to see a Distributor, not a batch firing coil pack, a downdraft throttle body, an aircleaner that looks like an air cleaner should, spark plugs where they could be reached. It took me longer to observe and admire than to actually do the tune up.
Did you miss the part about it being the first tune up this truck had apparantly had? There were no electrodes left on the plugs, and very little of the dist cap and rotor electrodes remained. The coil wire had been arcing for so long it burned the paint off the valve cover everywhere it was touching. My local dodge dealer's head mechanic looked at the parts I brought in and said they appeared to be original factory line parts, not dealer service or aftermarket. If the check engine light had not been on, I would not have known it needed a tune up.
I would much rather work on this Dodge than a Triton powered Ford, and I won't own a GM or Jap truck, the Jap trucks are overengineered, in a Rube Goldberg sort of way.
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Jumperalex
Dodge Dakota
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11/03/2003
01:09:23
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A cruise control that can't make up its mind. Otherwise I'm happy with it after a 500 mile round trip tow
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jedd
Dodge Dakota
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11/03/2003
18:39:27
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hey Jumperalex if your RPM jumps 200 RPM when your cruise control is on. Replace your TPS, trottle position sensor cost $ 25 at napa takes 15 minutes to replace. It's a common problem on Daks.
Add that to the list of poor engineering.
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