badfish888
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- Joined
- Jun 27, 2010
- Posts
- 1,092
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- Location
- Va beach
- Ram Year
- 2012 hemi express
- Engine
- 5.7L Hemi
well i call the dealer my lil sister works at and talked to some lady, converstaion went like this,
"good morning, i need a trans service done on a 2004 ram 1500 auto 4x4. i need a pan drop and a filter change, not a flush"
--"i dont know what that is, but i assure you the flush is what you need, it puts all new fluid into the trans, what you want leaves some old fluid in"
"do you change the filter?"
--"no no need to"
"so you going to push pressurized fluid through a old dirty filter element untill it comes out clean?, possible ruining the filter?"
--"it wont ruin it"
" o yeah, how can you tell without pulling the pan"?
-- "our tech's will no"
"o, mopar x ray vision?"
--"im not sure how they do it, but they might do it that way"
i hung up after that and called my sister at her other job
"dont talk to her, ask for pete, shees a ********
i called back and asked for pete
told him what i wanted............"bring it down weel take it right in"
$95 for a pan drop and filter change. but my concern is why the truck was on the lift they called to tell my my tierod ends were going bad. and asked to fix em for 200 a side, i said no thanks just the trans service.
now 12k miles ago when i got bolth front hubs done at a dealer in jersey, they told me the same thing. ive rotated the tires twice since jersey, and i check that stuff, there rusty but i park 5 ft from the ocean at work, the boots arent torn, they dont rattle, theres no play in them, truck tracks striaght...................wtf any other reason they might be (goin bad)???
"good morning, i need a trans service done on a 2004 ram 1500 auto 4x4. i need a pan drop and a filter change, not a flush"
--"i dont know what that is, but i assure you the flush is what you need, it puts all new fluid into the trans, what you want leaves some old fluid in"
"do you change the filter?"
--"no no need to"
"so you going to push pressurized fluid through a old dirty filter element untill it comes out clean?, possible ruining the filter?"
--"it wont ruin it"
" o yeah, how can you tell without pulling the pan"?
-- "our tech's will no"
"o, mopar x ray vision?"
--"im not sure how they do it, but they might do it that way"
i hung up after that and called my sister at her other job
"dont talk to her, ask for pete, shees a ********
i called back and asked for pete
told him what i wanted............"bring it down weel take it right in"
$95 for a pan drop and filter change. but my concern is why the truck was on the lift they called to tell my my tierod ends were going bad. and asked to fix em for 200 a side, i said no thanks just the trans service.
now 12k miles ago when i got bolth front hubs done at a dealer in jersey, they told me the same thing. ive rotated the tires twice since jersey, and i check that stuff, there rusty but i park 5 ft from the ocean at work, the boots arent torn, they dont rattle, theres no play in them, truck tracks striaght...................wtf any other reason they might be (goin bad)???