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Pulled the plug on a new truck
2021 dodge 1500, 4WD rebel edition. It's their off road package. Loaded with wiz bangs 5.7L HEMI heated seats and steering wheel. All leather interior.crew cab. Pwr seats and windows, pwr lumbar support. Parking assit. 12 in lcd screen, nav, sirus this cool off road pg the shows the pitch and roll of the truck as well as how many degrees and which direction your wheels are turned. Silver with black rebel badgeings, 33 in wheels, 2 inch lift kit. 11,800 lbs tow capicity. Locking rear differential. Tons of storage space. 33 gal tank. Range of about 450 miles. oh and adjustable pedals. I like it
19 speaker Harmon karden system that sounds awesome. And skid plates along the bottom to protect the important stuff
Taking it down to the Gulf in july.
19 speaker Harmon karden system that sounds awesome. And skid plates along the bottom to protect the important stuff
Taking it down to the Gulf in july.
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Don't drive it around in 4wd Auto mode.
Seriously.
Auto mode is for the gomers.
Adds a lot of wear and tear on the transfer case clutch actuator - not worth the trade off if you know what you are doing.
(Auto mode engages when rear wheel speed is sensed to be greater than front wheel speed. After engaging 4wd the system needs to sense if 4wd is still needed, so it will start backing off torque to the front drive shaft every 300 mS, and keep 4wd engaged if it still sees rear wheel slip and revert back to 2wd if there is no slip. You can over heat the actuator pretty easily without realizing it depending on road surface conditions - until it stops working all together to allow the actuator temperature to cool)
My Magnum had better tires....
John 3: 1-21
Reuters, Dec 2020.
Reuters, Dec 2020.
Eliminating a transmission fluid level dipstick and fill tube results in a far greater cost savings than simply eliminating the minor cost of the actual components. Auto Manufacturers have to pay the Government a penalty fee for the projected volumes of wastes that their products will produce. By deciding that transmission fluid is a ‘lifetime fill’, they do not pay the penalty for volumes of waste transmission fluid as they would if replacement was a required / recommended procedure.
It is also a marketing strategy – reduced cost of ownership through reduced maintenance requirements is a competitive issue. Think back to when GM introduced DEXCOOL engine coolant / anti-freeze as a 100K maintenance item, or 100K spark plugs – all the other manufactures had to make changes to be competitive and now we have 5 year / 100k and 10 year 150K engine coolant/anti-freeze.
Additionally, given that transmission performance has an impact on vehicle fuel efficiency (which falls under the banner of (*gasp*) Emissions), a method to make it more difficult to ‘tamper’ with the transmission fluid is needed. It also makes it more difficult for the average person to add the miracle ‘mechanic in a can’ friction modifiers to their transmissions which can lead to performance issues and higher warranty costs to the manufacturers when someone puts in the wrong fluid or some magic elixir and then bitches about how it shifts.
As to the ‘burnt LGBTQ (lol - can't use a common abbreviation for transmission on this forum) fluid question’, if the fluid is burnt, it is due to excessive heat generated by slipping clutches. If the clutches are slipping beyond the desired design intent (some slippage is designed in to mitigate harshness and driveline shock during shifting) then the correlation between turbine input speed and output shaft speed will be off, and a fault will be indicated to the loose nut behind the steering wheel through the illumination of a Malfunction Indicator Lamp. In short, the vehicle’s electronic control modules will do a far better job of monitoring the condition of the transmission fluid than most consumers would.
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