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General Schvantzkoph March 4th 06 01:23 AM

Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?
 
This month's Consumer Reports says that the V8 in the 300C is very
unreliable. I haven't had a single problem of any sort with my 300C but
I only have 8000 miles on it so it's a little early to tell. The Hemi is a
cast iron engine and it's working at a much smaller percentage of it's
maximum power then a small engine so I would have thought it would be very
reliable. Is there really a reliability issue or is Consumer Reports wrong?

Art March 4th 06 02:10 AM

Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?
 
I wouldn't worry about it. The hemi also came all optioned up including a
new designed transmission. All it would take is one mistake affecting just
the hemi in early runs and the hemi ends up with a poorer survey result than
the 6 cylinder. In fact, wasn't the factory stopped a few times shipping
hemis? If a few bad ones got to customers before deliveries were stopped to
correct the problem, that could be enuf to mess up the numbers.

It will take a couple of years before you really know what you got,
reliability wise. Of course by then, Chrysler will probably have a brand
new design based on a clean slate. Now wonder they can't get their quality
up to Toyota and Honda levels. Those guys use evolution to design vehicles.
Chrysler uses revolution design techniques.


"General Schvantzkoph" > wrote in message
...
> This month's Consumer Reports says that the V8 in the 300C is very
> unreliable. I haven't had a single problem of any sort with my 300C but
> I only have 8000 miles on it so it's a little early to tell. The Hemi is a
> cast iron engine and it's working at a much smaller percentage of it's
> maximum power then a small engine so I would have thought it would be very
> reliable. Is there really a reliability issue or is Consumer Reports
> wrong?




Joe March 4th 06 02:55 AM

Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?
 
General Schvantzkoph > wrote in
:

> This month's Consumer Reports says that the V8 in the 300C is very
> unreliable. I haven't had a single problem of any sort with my 300C
> but I only have 8000 miles on it so it's a little early to tell. The
> Hemi is a cast iron engine and it's working at a much smaller
> percentage of it's maximum power then a small engine so I would have
> thought it would be very reliable. Is there really a reliability issue
> or is Consumer Reports wrong?


Consumer Reports: New = Untested = Unreliable

Daniel J. Stern March 4th 06 03:13 AM

Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?
 
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

> This month's Consumer Reports says that the V8 in the 300C is very
> unreliable.


Condemner Retards says all kinds of stupid crap.

> I haven't had a single problem of any sort with my 300C


But...but...but it *must* be true! Consumer Reports _said_ it!


fore40 March 5th 06 02:39 AM

Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?
 
I work at a chry/jeep dealer and have seen ZERO problems with this
engine.


Scott S. March 5th 06 09:20 AM

Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?
 
Just dont over rev them, notorious for valve float...crunch!..super chips
allow for over rev.. thats a big problems with them


"fore40" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>I work at a chry/jeep dealer and have seen ZERO problems with this
> engine.
>




General Schvantzkoph March 5th 06 12:58 PM

Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?
 
On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:20:52 +0000, Scott S. wrote:

> Just dont over rev them, notorious for valve float...crunch!..super chips
> allow for over rev.. thats a big problems with them


What do you mean by super chips? Is this some third party firmware
modification for the engine computer?

When you say over rev are you talking about something that you can do just
by flooring the accelerator pedal or is it something that only happens if
you've hacked the car's firmware?


Steve March 6th 06 05:39 PM

Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?
 
Joe wrote:
> General Schvantzkoph > wrote in
> :
>
>
>>This month's Consumer Reports says that the V8 in the 300C is very
>>unreliable. I haven't had a single problem of any sort with my 300C
>>but I only have 8000 miles on it so it's a little early to tell. The
>>Hemi is a cast iron engine and it's working at a much smaller
>>percentage of it's maximum power then a small engine so I would have
>>thought it would be very reliable. Is there really a reliability issue
>>or is Consumer Reports wrong?

>
>
> Consumer Reports: New = Untested = Unreliable


No, Consumer Reports: American = Unreliable


Art March 6th 06 07:53 PM

Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?
 
Having owned an Avalon and a 300M, I am always looking at Toyota and
Chrysler newsgroups. Judging by the number of questions here and the number
of questions on the Toyota groups, it sure looks like Chryslers have a lot
more problems, or Toyota owners don't know how to use a computer.


"Steve" > wrote in message
...
> Joe wrote:
>> General Schvantzkoph > wrote in
>> :
>>>This month's Consumer Reports says that the V8 in the 300C is very
>>>unreliable. I haven't had a single problem of any sort with my 300C
>>>but I only have 8000 miles on it so it's a little early to tell. The
>>>Hemi is a cast iron engine and it's working at a much smaller
>>>percentage of it's maximum power then a small engine so I would have
>>>thought it would be very reliable. Is there really a reliability issue
>>>or is Consumer Reports wrong?

>>
>>
>> Consumer Reports: New = Untested = Unreliable

>
> No, Consumer Reports: American = Unreliable
>




MoPar Man March 6th 06 08:54 PM

Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?
 
Art wrote:

> it sure looks like Chryslers have a lot more problems, or
> Toyota owners don't know how to use a computer.


Or maybe Toyota owners don't even bother themselves with talking about
technical problems with their cars on web-forums/usenet, but instead
they simply shlep themselves over to their dealer and have a latte
while their car gets fixed.


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