The truck was literally running better than the day I got it at this point.

This is where the fun begins.

I get the truck to the mechanics and tell him I just need him to look over the ac system I installed and charge it with r134a. He says "no problem, come back in a few hours." So I do, and when I walk up to the truck he asks "You ever have any problems with it starting?" "No I have never had any problems with it at all. Why do you ask?" "Well its dead, completely dead, wont start, and we’re getting no codes, only NoBus. Ive never seen this before" WTF??? I go home look it up and NoBus is either PCM, 5v relay on cam pos sensor or crank sensor. I tell this to mechanic, he starts checking sensors not getting anything. He says cam pos sensor, Ill do it tomorrow. The next day I get there the sensor is broken off in engine, hes going at it with a torch and a pick, and Im standing over his shoulder. Just about to get it out when… PLINK! OH NO it fell out the back INTO the oil pan, we need to drop pan and retrieve said part. "Just fix my truck man" After this he replaces cam sensor, new oil pan gasket. still no 5v relay. I look in the cab… THE IGNITION ISNT ON FOOL!!! "oh that might be it" magically he starts getting 5v relay reading on cam and crank sensors. So its a bad PCM after all. I noticed he didn’t ground out the accumulator, which most likely caused the short in the PCM to begin with. I buy a salvaged one for 0 hoping it works as I’m incredibly low on money. He calls and says truck is working.

This truck is my livelihood, I dont make money if its not on the road, it was out for a few weeks at this shop. I take it back in the night because I need it next morning, dont even have money to pay shop.

The speedometer and odometer isnt working, ABS, brake, and engine light are on in dash. Constant dinging warning me ABS is out.

Few days later I notice large puddle of oil in driveway. The gasket they "replaced" is hemorrhaging oil, I check level and is a few quarts low.

Now the question is this: Do I have to pay for these repairs? He wants me to pay for oil, oil pan gasket, cam sensor, an extra on shipping PCM (when I know LKQonline ships for free) and like 4 hours labor. When all I went in for was AC charge. He never gave me estimate, there was no paperwork, I never signed anything or agree to pay to fix the parts he broke.
He doesnt have any information, as I was sure to empty glove box before I even left it there. I dont know what to do or what legal actions he can take against me, PLEASE HELP.

They wanted 90 per rotor, and 70 for the brakes. Keep in mind, this is ONLY FRONT!

And 550 to swap them out. Plus, they already had the truck on the lift and said they could do it right there.

At auto zone, quality rotors are 30 dollars each. That’s 60 dollars less for ONE!
Brakes, only 40 for quality, but, i have a lifetime warranty, so they are FREE. Still, 35 less than what they quoted.
550 is the overall estimate including tax, parts, and labor…

So my fiance and I were recently in the market to buy a new vehicle. We wanted to get something a bit bigger than the Kia we owned. My fiance fell in love with the Dodge Caliber. It wasn’t quite in our budget to get a new vehicle…but we visited a local used dealer…who believe it or not had just bought an 07 Caliber! It had only 17k miles!

There is a joke about the ideal used car being the one that’s owned by an old person that drives it only to the grocery store…well this was close! We were told by the dealer that he had bought it at an estate sale. The vehicle had been bought new from a local dealer, by a 77 year old man to go fishing with his grand-kids. Well in 3+ years he put only 17K miles on it! The vehicle had been checked out by 2 different mechanics and was in IMMACULATE condition.

The car had a 3 year 36 thousand mile warranty…but the dealer believed so much in the quality of the vehicle (as did we) that we opted not to extend the warranty. Our thinking in buying a near new used vehicle, is that there wouldn’t be any catastrophic repairs to make, because Dodge makes a high quality product. When the dealer doesn’t even push a warranty…you know you’re getting a good vehicle! (or so we thought)

Well 6 months later the check engine light comes on, so we take it to the local dealership (Stew Hansen’s Dodge in Des Moines Iowa) and they tell us the entire transmission is shot and needs to be replaced…and although it’s basically a brand new car…sorry it’s out or warranty!

So we appeal to their common sense, that this is obviously outside the otherwise high quality standards that Chrysler-Dodge represent, to which they half-heatedly agree…and offer a ‘co-pay’ or 70…which I believe anybody with any understanding of vehicles would still believe is unacceptable for a near brand new vehicle with 25 thousand miles!

I have tried for days now to appeal to Dodge-Chrysler’s common sense…that although this is slightly out of warranty, this does not (or should not) represent an otherwise quality vehicle. My very first car was a Dodge Status..my sister and her husband both currently drive Dodge’s and my fiance’s family has owned 3 Dodges in the past. I have never had an instance when I did not feel Chrysler-Dodge meet even basic quality standards…but I’ve been shut out, leaving me just plain confused that they won’t step up, and in this day in age try and keep me as a loyal patron.

Perhaps I naively believed that Dodge was better than just their guarantee…but all I’m hearing from them now is "you know what…we just don’t make great cars…and you shouldn’t drive one outside of their warranty"

A warranty of course is about ‘presumed risk’…and if my Caliber had been owned by some crazy moto-cross racing dude who took it off-roading, and towed his bikes, and had thrown on 80K miles…we wouldn’t have bought it! Because the presumed risk is pretty high….but when you’re shown documentation that the ONE previous owner was an elderly man, who unfortunately didn’t get to enjoy the vehicle for as long as he should have…but put no extreme wear and tear on it…that risk is VERY low! There is no fathomable way we believed Dodge-Chrysler would make a product…that under these circumstances would need a transmission replaced at 25K.

Upon doing some research I learned the 07 Caliber’s were some of the first to use the "Jatco" transmission. A technology bought from Japanese manufacturer Nissan, and implemented into Dodge-Chrysler products. Well there are wide-spread reports of their first generation not being of great quality, which is why the 2.0 version was implemented in the subsequent years. Funny thing is…Nissan offered an extension on the warranty of this transmission up to a 10 year 100,000 mile guarantee on all vehicles using it. Why is it that Nissan can step up and understand their may have been something faulty with the transmission…but Dodge-Chrysler just refuses to do the right thing?

I keep seeing all these new commercials for Dodge and Chrysler. They’re flashy and have rapper Eminem, and try to persuade us that the company has turned over a new leaf…but I’m not sure I like this new ‘hip’ dodge-Chrysler…maybe I liked them better before when they actually took care of me as a customer

-Robert Dopf
Robert-Dopf@hotmail.com
515-991-1888

Also, how will I know if the tranny will be rebuilt properly? I don’t want a half past 6 job, I want a quality rebuild where everything is replaced.

The k includes hauling and installation.

Thanks

Also, how will I know if the tranny will be rebuilt properly? I don’t want a half past 6 job, I want a quality rebuild where everything is replaced.

The k includes hauling and installation.

Thanks

Also, how will I know if the tranny will be rebuilt properly? I don’t want a half past 6 job, I want a quality rebuild where everything is replaced.

The k includes hauling and installation.

Thanks

Also, how will I know if the tranny will be rebuilt properly? I don’t want a half past 6 job, I want a quality rebuild where everything is replaced.

Also, the 00 includes hauling and installation.

Thanks