Originally Posted By: roadrunner1
This type of thing happens a bit too often at FCA along with its predecessor company Chrysler/Jeep. Not wrong viscosity oil per say, but bringing something into the market without enough R/D.
I am not bashing but I made my mind up after the '97 3/4 ton Dodge I owned I would never own another, it doesn't seem to matter who owns them these type of things keep popping up.
I have a very good friend who is a retired engineer from Ford. One of his jobs with his team over the years was to completely disassemble a competitors car/truck and compare individual parts to what ford was using. His own words were Chrysler/Jeep parts had a much higher failure rate than anyone else, whether it was window regulators or knobs on the dash or electronics under the hood.
I am well aware they make some very nice looking vehicles currently, but with the unintended roll away investigation currently and the 1/2 ton diesel problems it just seems as much as things change they somehow stay the same.
In defence of the WK2, very little of the hardware is Crysler designed, Merc body, VM Motori motor, Merc/ZF gearbox, Bosch CAN. The only other time I recall when Chrysler produced good cars was when they teamed up with Mitsubishi. But that's off topic. Let's get back to oils. This has all the makings of a KFC debacle. Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC. They thought some customers were turned off by the bad health implications of "Fried". Keeping the reason a secret ensured that everyone was alerted to KFC thinking fried food is bad. By FCA keeping the reason for the viscosity upgrade a secret, they are ensuring that everyone will consider the brilliant VM Motori a flawed engine. Bad move Chrysler! Come clean!
This type of thing happens a bit too often at FCA along with its predecessor company Chrysler/Jeep. Not wrong viscosity oil per say, but bringing something into the market without enough R/D.
I am not bashing but I made my mind up after the '97 3/4 ton Dodge I owned I would never own another, it doesn't seem to matter who owns them these type of things keep popping up.
I have a very good friend who is a retired engineer from Ford. One of his jobs with his team over the years was to completely disassemble a competitors car/truck and compare individual parts to what ford was using. His own words were Chrysler/Jeep parts had a much higher failure rate than anyone else, whether it was window regulators or knobs on the dash or electronics under the hood.
I am well aware they make some very nice looking vehicles currently, but with the unintended roll away investigation currently and the 1/2 ton diesel problems it just seems as much as things change they somehow stay the same.
In defence of the WK2, very little of the hardware is Crysler designed, Merc body, VM Motori motor, Merc/ZF gearbox, Bosch CAN. The only other time I recall when Chrysler produced good cars was when they teamed up with Mitsubishi. But that's off topic. Let's get back to oils. This has all the makings of a KFC debacle. Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC. They thought some customers were turned off by the bad health implications of "Fried". Keeping the reason a secret ensured that everyone was alerted to KFC thinking fried food is bad. By FCA keeping the reason for the viscosity upgrade a secret, they are ensuring that everyone will consider the brilliant VM Motori a flawed engine. Bad move Chrysler! Come clean!
