I still own a transmission shop and Chrysler is still the backbone of my business along with Nissan which has become the Chrysler of Japan. Also a lot of gm 5.3 and 6.0 V8’s because for the last decade and a half gm apparently can’t figure out how to make a non defective lifter.
It's kinda puzzling actually... you'd almost think it's a conspiracy or something. Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep have a bad reputation for quite some time now but somehow people keep buying them... and yes, it keeps a lot of mechanics busy, so they won't be complaining. But imagine if everybody would smarten up and only buy Honda or Toyota, how many mechanics would be out of work!
@@tylermills79 The problem with Nissan is they started collaborating with Renault... sharing stuff with a French car manufacturer is not good for reliability. As far as French shitboxes go Renault is the least worst, but compared to Japanese manufacturing it's shit... never buy anything that has Peugeot or Citroën labeled parts, it's going to break.
@@MickayGChrysler has just never in its entire existence been able to figure out quality control so they’ve always been the sickly weakest manufacturer of the bunch. Which is a viscous circle of not really having the money to fix a lot of the engineering disasters nor having the money to figure out better quality control systems. Chrysler is just barely hanging on even in the best of times so nothing really changes. That’s how a V6 they’ve been making since the early 80’s still has the exact same problems and fails in the exact same way as it has for over 30 years. But they make really good looking cars. They’re very good at making cars that look high quality just not so much at actually being high quality.
“Mr Justin, can I borrow you good Sir….” As a resident of the U.K., I don’t know if the practice of referring to someone as “Sir” is an American or Floridian ‘thing’, but I like it! I have heard you use it to many people, many times. It always seems so respectful. You’re a good guy, Ray.
Back in 72 my friend had his trans go out in his ‘Cuda, had it fixed and bought a lifetime warranty. Warranty lasted less than 2 years. They said they would no longer warranty it. Demanded his warranty money back and got it.
Ray you really need to get that third lift back in order edit: also my Grandma always told me "If you do not learn something new everyday your day was wasted."
I have a 95 grand caravan that has the bolts for the motor mounts were all missing. Made a terrible noise. Went to the wrecking yard got all the bolts got all bolted in sounds nice now. Shifts better to.
That's what I like. You don't take all the mountings and charge the customer. Just what's needed. THAT'S a huge difference from all the unserious shops. Respect!
That is one way to look at it but the other way to look at it is - two failed, is the third far behind? Saves money for now but more labor to replace it later.
The company that I used to work for made OEM castings for locomotive production. When they wanted to compete for other projects, they would use reverse engineering to build their own version. I always thought it was wrong, but businesses do it every day. Love your videos.
Ever since you did the collaboration with I See Cars, you have become a Chrysler haven for repairing them. LOL Ever since I saw the engine fluctuating back and forth that much, I diagnosed the motor mount or mounts had failed. I have replaced several motor mounts on my cars over the years.
Used to work for Chrysler, in the Mopar Parts Division until 2009. Many sundry parts were sublet out to various manufactures. Motor mounts were usually sublet to Anchor Industries, Beck Arnley or Westar. Often, all three to keep up with demand for production. There was always a contract for A/M replacement parts at the end of production demand. Dependant on the contract, markings, logos, and/or part numbers had to be removed from tooling. Many times A/M parts are actually made by OE manufacturer. Unfortunately, sometimes that includes Made in China.
Lolol my 17 caravan has a slew of issues. Motor mounts, transmission yesterday desided it didn't want to move on occasion. The dreaded oil cooler is still ok why I have no clue. The trims on the passenger side door left and drivers seat trim has passed away (too much gas mabe) time for plugs and coils. But besides that it's great so I'll dump about 5000.00 in it and keep going cause that's cheaper than a new break down special.
7:26 dude!!! My Aunt has this same sound for a while now and I kinda thought/ has to be, the motor mount, and I can send this video to her and say “look!!!! Told you so!!” 😂 thank you.
206th! Happy weekend Ray,Lauren,Dave,and not to forget Justin. Wouldn’t you be able to notice a problem as the mounts got worse? It might be just me, but anything that doesn’t feel or sound normal, it goes to the mechanic. I’ve been with him so long, diagnoses of my concerns aren’t billed. He gets enough of my money keeping the fleet in tip top condition. 5 cars and 2 motorcycles. Most things are found during visits for preventive maintenance. Another fine video Ray. Roger in Pierre South Dakota
I'm surprised often how Chrysler does often not have parts - that is a very common vehicle still in production. They parked my Neon for a few weeks once when some fastener they said was leaking fuel but out of stock - said they had put a new order in to the factory that made it as it was custom.
Last Mopar product I had was a ‘75 Dodge maxi van B2500 , owned it for 9 years . Had the 360 motor with Rochester 2 barrel . Oil changes , plugs , wires , wipers when due or needed . After a guy in a 70 T- bird decided to go too fast and hit my front end when he lost it on an icy road , I had to replace a resister on the circuit board in the dash , no dash lights or turn signal lights . Other than the body disintegrating in the rear it was a great van . My partner in business bought it from me and drove it another 9 years . Good motor and trans , he did replace the trans 2 years before he sold it . Stay safe , have fun. I must of got a good one .
Saw the title, and my first thought "It has to be a Dodge". Yep, I was right! My work vehicle is a 2016 Caravan, just 168K miles. Last month, I notified Fleet Management that the vehicle was shifting badly and jerking on acceleration. Sure enough, ALL of the motor mounts were shredded, one to the point of the main load bearing literally flopping around inside the rubber surround. What I see happening in the near future is the company spending a LOT of money as they've purchased about a dozen Pacificas and Voyagers as wheelchair vans, and we run them for hundreds of miles 10 or more hours a day.
In my part of the country, southern Arizona, it's all the plastic that takes a beating from the heat and UV light. But in Florida the underside of vehicles take a severe beating from the constant rain, humidity, and salt water environment that turn them into rust buckets in 7 years like that car.
Yesterday, I did a rear brake job on a 2017 Mazda CX-5 with an EPB. After one of your last videos where the discussion was about parking brake vs e-brake I did an experiment. If I held the EPB button up for about 1-2 seconds it would brake hard, into the ABS on the rear wheels. It felt like it was also activating the front brakes, as well, but don't know that for sure. So, it was usable as an emergency brake.
My grandfather used to use a broom handle to check for noise in his cars and trucks . i used it to detect screeching bearings in my old 71 Celica's alternator
My first car was a 1981 Toyota Celica with a 22RE engine and a 5 speed manual transmission. Its still the best car I've EVER had to date....my 1981 Celica will always beat even my 2024 Sentra. Reading your comment made me slightly depressed.
any solid object is still a good diag tool even today as they can pinpoint where the noise is coming from of course a mechanics stethoscope will do the same and is easier to use
@@deplorablelibertarian it was my first car also. my 15 year old brother bought it no engine no seats missing doors and all he did was buy a custom stearing wheel . I bought for $50 and $400 into at the wreckers back in 77 and sold it a year later for $1000 was the ST 2lt engine
Hey Ray... another "what I would've done" viewer here :) Even though that driver side mount looked okay, I would've changed it anyway, You're already in there, a mount isn't that expensive and if those two are gone that third one cant be far behind... I'd say the best way to go for the customer, minimal extra costs.
For places like the stuck torque mount I have used a 2x4 cut to a suitable wedge shape and driven it between the two metal crossmembers to open up the space.
I hand a 2009 Dodge Caliber with that Nissan CVT transmission. The transmission fried on a 500 mile round trip. I limped it home and ended up replacing the tranny with a lower mileage used one. The reason the original unit died was because the heat exchanger filter was clogged, preventing proper fluid circulation. The transmission got extremely overheated and self destructed. All I would have had to do to prevent failure was to replace that filter at the same time as servicing the transmission. Live and learn. New stuff gets added to vehicles every day. Educate yourself and save mucho cashola.
Parts come from the same supplier as oe with slight differences sometimes. The switches you replaced from std motor are the same as oe sourced. I used to work for them
Some after market companies usually get the OEM tooling or the OEM tooling data. When a factory or special tooling for wear items like that gets built by the OEM the OEM will eventually sell it to an aftermarket company and license or sell the tooling data once they no longer manufacture new vehicles with that part.
There’d be a lot fewer wars and less violence if everyone had a loving spouse unit they respected. Like Lauren! 💙 Lucky Ray. 😅 That, and having employees that are actually useful, and not just the intellectual equivalent of packing peanuts, helps too! Hi Dave! Hi Justin! Don’t let Ray kill himself on the job! 😃 You gotta watch out for each other out there!
24:15 since they are cast they could press the oe parts into a 2 piece mold. Also got to say I'm getting milwaukee tools this Tuesday. Im getting a real world demonstration on the one tool I'll probably rely on the most. Getting an m12 charger radio and placing a secret back up battery in it. Only doing oil changes and wheel rotations for right now. Hopefully depending on what happens at the dealership I'm working at I will either be a ford technician or a kia technician in the shop that is eventually going to be built in 2 years.😂😂 construction hasn't even started yet 46:47 my impala had a torque mount that popped apart like that. It made a world of difference. Just cruising around at 30 mph I loved pressing on the gas and just feeling the force from the engine go to the ground tightly
As a customer, its so disheartening when you pay for all the work that they did previously and then more failures happen. Absolutely NOT blaming you Ray! Its probably pretty normal for high mileage vehicles and Stellantis products. 😂 I say this as a 2015 JKU owner.🤦🏻♂️
Hey Ray! Gimme a "love" for this comment 😁 But seriously, I think you're a very intelligent, detail-oriented and versatile mechanic and if I were only within a 1000 mile radius, you'd be my mechanic of choice. Unfortunately, I don't live anymore in my beloved Florida. Anyways, I wish you, my dude, and your family all the best. Positive energy! Edit: where's the video where you replace the broken shaft in your truck? I'd like to see that.
I never did like the 2nd and 3rd gin Pacifica they became just another minivan.. I had a 06 it had a3.0 v6 and it had what they called an auto-stick trans so when you moved the shifter over to manual mode it put the engine in performance mode. It surprised a lot of people.
Which is why you had 2 months of only occasional reminders. At least I didn't have to use your middle name RAYMOND ...........-.............!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😅😆
I've got a fancy upper crust Chrysler Dodge product...I have 2017 jeep Renegade with 80k on it with the 1.4 turbo 6 speed manual it runs great and zero issues.. I love my jeep/Fiat/Dodge,/Chrysler/ Stellantis product!!!
I remember when your son broke his collar bone the first time. I see the car didn't get blown off the back of the rollback. I figured there would have been alot more customers trying to get flooded vehicles back on the road.
Talking to my mechanic the other day when I took it in to get the lug nuts changed out because they are the ones that are not solid and the caps were all separating and falling off. I said something that all the mechanics should join together and complain to the engineers about using better parts that are not cheap.
3:30 I think there is a service bulletin about this. P0456 can set intermittently because debris can get trapped in the Purge solenoid. Then work it's way out. Other than that the esim is a very common cause
In an emergency situation, you need to hold the brake switch until the vehicle comes to a complete stop-rather than just pushing or pulling it once for Parking.
Sloshing water behind the dash was mentioned in their list of things to fix? Better get to that as blocked scuttle drains will soon flood the carpet and ruin the electrics.
The OEM buys the parts and 3 years later the parts maker starts selling them as replacement parts. I had a ford I needed a weird ass exhaust tube/pipe that went from the back of the engine to the catalytic converter, it was a Canadian company that made it - Ford price was $400+ aftermarket $120 with shipping from Canada to the US. Only difference was the sticker with the Ford part number.
After seeing the end result in the video, I noticed what I figured would be the result... The drivers side mount moves more than the passenger side... Why, because it's 160,000 mile tired... I would have replaced all three, along with the grommet on the transmission... That van should last another 100,000 miles...
Third party companies will 3D scan the component they want to duplicate, then use that CAD model to machine a mold blank that will be used as the negative for the sand cast mold.
@ 4:31 The statement, that electronic parking brakes, aren't emergency brakes, is a misnomer. While their main design, is for parking, they also serve as an excellent emergency braking system. If you're in doubt, read the owner's manual.
E brake or Parking brake ... youtube channel '' Garage 54 '' is a Russian channel that does a lot of car stuff and they tested this. They have lot's of videos like overfill the oil what will happen? or using springs as wheels... but for the test about the break this is the video name........ We engage electronic handbrake at speed (in some cars you never heard of) - what will happen?
They can clean and laser scan a part and then have another company create molds from that scan with minor changes to pour molten aluminum into the create a part that works.
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