3.3 and 3.8 V6's, MUST READ FOR ALL!

Hey, I just got off the phone with the service manager. (Side note to this story, Muscatel's dealership, at the location that I had taken the van to last fall and which is where I brought it back to thinking that was where it had to go, had been bought out about 2 weeks ago. So it is no longer Muscatel, it is Corwin Chrysler now, but the same service manager is still working there. Muscatel purchased a different car lot at a different location in town and has/had moved. He is still in buisness as a Dodge dealership.) Anyway, he (the service manager) had called me to tell me that he and all the big wigs and whoever else is involved (I have a feeling there were some calls made to the daimler/crysler warranty crooks, they controlled the money when this was fixed last fall, and were who the Muscatel people claimed had said to only fix the cam shaft because the block wasn't "broke") had just got done with a long meeting this morning about my vehicles problem, and that they (corwin's) are going to fix it, this is in his words "THE WAY THE TSB STATES TO FIX IT", brand new bottom end is on it's way :grin: I say to him "And this IS NOT going to cost me one single penny?" He says "Nope, they are going to fix it NO COST to you (me)".
WOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Now granted, I am a pessimist by nature due to events of my overall life, so I await the return of my van before I call this a closed case (I WILL know if they are jerkin my chain when I get it back, so I truly hope they arn't being dumb enough to lie to me) But as it stands at this moment, I am much happier now. I just really wish a person in this world didn't have to go thru the stress or headache to get something done the RIGHT WAY the FIRST TIME, instead of having to come back and fight them tooth and nail to get it fixed. They would find that the people of the US would tend to stay with a US manufacturer when buying there goods instead of the current trend of thinking "Hey, US companies just screw everybody so to hell with them I'll buy foriegn. It would help keep jobs in this damn country too.

Overall moral to my story, when you have a warranty covered vehicle break down, research the problem before you even bother with the stealership. Go to a difrent dealership and look up TSB's and recall paperwork (not all recalls occur in the form of TV news reports telling you there is a huge safety issue, some are internal manufacturer stuff that tells dealerships "hey if this problem comes in this is a fix we need to do to it) and definatly talk to ASE certified mechanics at several locations, and not just stealerships, to see if it is a problem that happens alot. AND DON'T BACK DOWN WHEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE RIGHT! If you do your research first, you will have "ammo for a legal cannon" to go to court with. My grandfather always said it best (May he rest in peace) in regards to life and machinery "The squeeky wheel gets the grease" no truer words were ever spoken. If the sheeple of this counrty just stand around with their thumbs up their butts not standing up for themselves then nothing will ever happen, but get enough people squakin and stuff will change.

I will update when I get the van back. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! ;)