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This Dodge Neon I got has been a trip. Everytime I work on something I find it's unservicable and needs completely replaced...

So far; clogged up half decomposed air filter, broken engine mounts, sludged motor and oil passages, every tire on the car was a different size, power steering pump was damaged, O2 sensors were bad, radiator was full of crap (heater core is still plugged), power door locks weren't getting juice, power window switches were damaged by somebody ham fisting them, transmission fluid was black and smelt like burnt toast, the OEM paper trans filter was 30 seconds from becoming more debris in circulation and the starter makes a terrible noise during start up...

Last night I thought I'd change the plugs, too easy. Pulled the first plug cap off the #4 cylinder and the fucking plug came out with it!! Gee that's nice...The #1 plug had the terminal end of the wire weld itself to the plug cap and had to be retrieved with reptile feeding tongs. #2 plug had the terminal wire end collapse into a pile of dust around the base of the plug and needed vacumed out. #3 was fine aside from the fact that all plugs had 2x the service manual's plug gap limit!

I don't expect much from this car for <$3000. But damn would it kill some folks to have a little pride in ownership of their vehicles? I mean fuck it only costs a couple bucks a year to maintain a grocery getter like this! After everything I've had to unfuck on this car it's actually pretty nice. Runs like a son-of-a-bitch and handles like a champ. Anyways...my first used car experience. It's been fun

Gotta love used cars! Most people dont pay any real attention to their vehicles and wonder why they get stranded....especially women.

thats a dodge/chrysler product for ya!

NightBiker07 wrote:thats a dodge/chrysler product for ya!

No kidding...the line at the dealerships's service department has folks camping out with lawn chairs If the vehicle is no longer under warranty don't even bother, they can't help you...and you can't afford to let them try

it has nothing to do with chrysler. that kind of neglect would kill any vehicle. many chryslers werent really chryslers, half the shit was mitsubishi. mitsubishi makes some good shit brotha

i beg to differ, i have seem more chrysler products with un-diagnosable problems than fords and GM's combined. and not to mention their parts cost for stupid shit like bumper covers is abso-fucking-loot-ly re-fucking-dickulous.

MICK wrote:This Dodge Neon I got has been a trip. Everytime I work on something I find it's unservicable and needs completely replaced...

What part of "Throw Away car" do you not understand.

The newer neons are alright, the older ones are junk.

the only kick ass neons are the SRT-4's. !!!

i've always liked the big gm cars, dad has a 96 impala ss, i found a caprice owned by an old dude, it had 385000kms on it, BUT it had a new gm crate engine and trans 5000 + 8000 kms before that! i got it for 2300 Canadian, and if i drive 110-120kph i get 30mpg on the highway! AND the dude didnt know if anyone had ever sat in the back seat, it still had plastic on it! snagged from setting his golf bag in it but i can look past that! I drive alot of gravel, so it helps to have a decent machine, i only get 22-23mpg driving from work to home, but im usually dooing 70-85mpg on backroads with it. And they're cheap as hell to maintain, every fullsize gm car since 78 or something has had the same brakes and balljoints and crap. I've got the big diff in it, and bigger than SS swaybars and springs from a wagon, and cop shocks on it so she handles awesome.

iggys-amsoil wrote:What part of "Throw Away car" do you not understand.

Bro this car has been on death row more times than I can recall. It's had alteast half a dozen appointments with the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico this summer alone. But when I can fix something myself pretty easily it makes me soft. I haven't been able to put the Neon to pasture...yet.

I can understand. I resurrected my 63 chev p/u three times in 28 years. Alot of good memories was sold with that truck.

Roostius_Maximus wrote: I've got the big diff in it, and bigger than SS swaybars and springs from a wagon, and cop shocks on it so she handles awesome.

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I've owned cars from all of the big 3, and had the worst luck with GM's. My '96 9C1 Caprice, my '89 GTA Trans Am, and my '84 Caprice were all fat turds. The crown jewel of my '96 was the steering column breaking one day on my drive to work.

I've had much better luck with Chryslers.