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Originally Posted by Mr. iNCREDIBLE
didn't say if they could or couldn't, though I will say I have never had issues with any of my chevy's but Dodge on the other hand.
There are good batches and bad batches, but as a former Chrysler tech I can tell you that there are more bad than good of the 4.7L and 5.9L motors out there, Chrysler quality has always been on the lower scope, it has gotten 10 fold better since Fiat took over, but the history of Chrysler from the 1980s until the mid 2000s was hit or miss on quality.
Might have something to do with all those beer and pot lunch breaks assembly line workers take.  |
Were you a tech for a dealership? problem with that is you are seeing a VERY small percentage of the vehicles actually sold so 1 tech seeing what happens at his dealer. Honestly, check forums and with people I know and vehicles I have had both are very good engines period, maybe for some reason your dealership or area got more of the bad ones, but overall they were not bad, the 5.9 loved the fuel though. Is there a particular issue with one or both you experienced? When my brothers 5.9 was torn down at well over 100k miles the internals were still perfect. From everything I have seen and experienced says you are exagerating, just like if I was to say all GM 5.3s were junk because of the well known issues they had the first few years they were made. Or all Ford 5.4s were bad because of the little well known issues involving spark plugs. And please don't feed me any bull that Chrysler had any worse quality than GM or Ford, i have had plenty of each, especially from the 90s and none of them were great and they all 3 needed work on their transmissions at that time, actually GM was the wiorst, we have had 4 of the wonderful w-bodies that decided to puke their transmissions at just over 100k miles, never had that problem with the Chryslers. Fact is until recently all 3 had spotty wuality problems.