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After years of making heavy duty transmissions (727, anyone) Chrysler dropped the ball in the 1990’s. Their truck transmissions were not up to par and often let go while the truck still had very low miles. Then there was the front wheel drive transmission debacle. For a few years Chrysler vans were equipped with a horrific transmission that, upon failure, would grenade. It would literally break the case of the transmission and occasionally cause the crankshaft to instantly split in two! That’s right; diverge, fork, bifurcate for crying out loud!
What does this have to do with Toyota? Easy, since roughly 2002 Chrysler has had fine transmissions but ask just about anyone who works on, or teaches, cars for a living and they will tell you Chryslers have weak transmissions. The impression that Chrysler trannies cannot be trusted persists almost ten years on, despite the opposite being true. The problems Toyota has had in past few years will continue to tarnish the company for decades to come.
People will consider a car even though it may have transmission problems. The general public will not even consider a car if they think IT WILL KILL THEM! This might be the best thing to happen to Chrysler since Lee Iacocca!
I had a 1998 Plymouth Grand Voyager that I bought with around or slightly over a hundred thousand miles on it. When I bought it the transmission did not want to shift into 2nd very easily. So I changed the oil, filter, and added some Lucas transmission treatment every year I would do this. Well it lasted until almost 2 hundred and eighty thousand miles. Best of all it was not the transmission that did it in, a lifter or rod finally stopped working and you know what happens after that. I will say just before the motor went it did not want to go into reverse very easily.
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