Re: Grand Voyager Death Trap


"Shrike" <hauntedriver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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After five burst tyres apparently caused by the weight of the vehicle
I've had a succession of power failures on my 18 month old 2.8 diesel
Chrysler. It's broken down perhaps ten times in two months. Worst of
all today, the power died on me when I was driving at 70mph with a car
full of kids, resulting in everybody getting thrown forward, car
skidding as speed dropped suddenly to 30mph, and car behind swerving
sharply to avoid hitting us.


Sounds like the car's transmission downshifted into "limp" mode,
this is often caused by a faulty speed sensor in the transmission.

The dealer who sold us the car has been bullshitting us for months
saying they could find nothing wrong. We had the car looked at by an
independent specialist and he found that the car was leaking power
overnight and that internal electrics had been wrongly wired.

When I discussed this with the Chrysler dealership one of their
tecnicians admitted off the record that all Voyagers were prone to
electrical problems because of the drain on the battery. They have too
much it for the battery to cope with.

They are bullshitting you. The battery doesen't supply power to the
electrical system, the alternator (generator) does. The battery is only
used for starting. And starting a vehicle doesen't take a huge amount
of power unless it's below freezing, or there's a problem with the
engine and you crank and crank and crank on it.

This was supported by a Chrysler
call out expert who attends vehicle breakdowns. He said they were
forever attending call outs.


Since his job is attending callouts, why wouldn't he be forever attending
call outs?

Why would people with a Voyager that's working perfectly well be
bothering the dealership all of the time? They aren't. The dealership
only sees a small fraction of the vehicles sold by the manufacturer. Thus
they have a distorted view of the vehicles.

From the sounds of it, I would guess your vehicle has a grounding problem,
they probably didn't tighten the ground connections properly on the
assembly line. That will affect many electrical systems in a vehicle and
cause problems similar to what you described (and worse)

It's too bad, though, since it's such a small mistake that has such a large
effect.

Ted


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