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Old 15 Aug 2004, 03:45 am
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Default Problems I've had in my 2.5 years of ownership

The 1st problem I encountered was last March,'04.... which was almost 2 years since I purchased the car, and had about 30k miles on it.
The steering started binding when crankin the wheel to the right when pulling out of a parking space or something slow like that. The left strut would emit a noise so I figured the strut went bad.
The night before my scheduled appointment at Chrysler service, my power doorlocks decided it wanted to lock themselves, continuously all night long.(don't worry-I took the batteries out of my remote controls just in case your figuring that the batteries in the remotes were just going dead and was making the remote go crazy), and still-it continued to attempt to lock all the doors, even though they were already locked.
.....So I get to the dealership and tell them what my doorlocks and front-left strut is doing and they check it out. They inform me that the relay in the tailgate latch went bad, and that is what caused it to go crazy..... part ordered- cool. They then tell me that the noise I'm hearing is actually comming from the rear sway bar-and the upper-right bushing is bad. I told them that that was a different noise that's been there since day-one with me and I thought nothing of it.... it was the noise in the front that was bothering me, especially if you went over a speed-bump at low speed and heard the strut compress and decompress.
Turns out I did have a bad bushing since day-one and was pleasantly surprized when they replaced it and the noise was gone. Yet - a couple of days later.....the noise in the front-left strut was back. I took it back in where the suspension specialist took a test drive with me and confirmed something was wrong with the front-end.
Further investigation of the front suspension revieled that the whole rack & pinion had gone bad, and needed replacing... free of charge thank God!!!!
Then, just three days ago, my doorlocks went bizurk again.... it was attempting to do the same thing as before, only it was averaging about 3 attempted locks per second......that's right, in ONE minute, it tried to lock itself approx. 90 times. It drove me so insane that I called the service dept., scheduled another appt., and asked them what I could do about the situation until my appt.,which was scheduled two days later, since in a 12 hr. period, the doorlocks had attempted to lock themselves approx. 500 times.... that's is the honest to god truth!!!! They told me to pull a fuse until the service. Sure enough, the tailgate relay went bad again and had to be replaced-only they had the part in-stock!!! Apparently, Chrysler is having a big problem with these relays going bad and now the dealership has them in their inventory...that's bad!!!!
O.K...... end of story....... what's gone wrong with yours????[xx(]
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