Lifetime Warranty Chargers

[TCB09RT]

I purchased my Charger R/T in January 2009, just before the Chrysler bankruptcy from Milosch Dodge, who I must sadly say is no longer with us.
In addition to the provide Lifetime powertrain warranty I purchased the bumper-to-bumper Lifetime warranty with $0 deductable.
My intent was to drive the car hard at every opportunity, not break speed limit laws, never disengage the traction control (well, rarely), and let Chrysler keep it on the road.
To date is put 14,000 miles on the car on the brutal roads of Oakland County MI, driving to work and hauling the family around.
The car will remain bone stock to meet the warranty requirements.
Only Mopar upgrades will be installed by my good friends at Palace Chrysler.
I'll get the cold air intake this spring.
I had to replace the stock Contitracs at 7K miles, went with Michelin Primacys, which I'm not the happiest with, but I think I'll get 12K-14K miles out of them based on the wear I'm seeing with 7K miles on them today.
This is the type of tire wear that the traction control will allow...
As my three year old daughter says, "Make the black car go zoom daddy!!!!"
"You bet princess.  Hold on..."
Anyone else out there putting Chrysler to the Lifetime Warranty test?

[FLG]

99% of us on here have older chargers 66-74.

So WE definatly put the warranty to the test before they had a life time warranty. 

Not trying to push ya away, we can answer plenty of questions but your better off going to the new charger forums. Forgot the link, im sure someone will post it.

[jb666]

I could never participate in a "warranty" like that because IMO "stock is broken", and I never leave things stock.. Therefore my warranty would be out the window...

[BigBlackDodge]

Abuse the car and let someone else fix it when it breaks. That will help Chrysler get back on it's feet.



BBD

[draftingmonkey]

You can go over here for the newer LX platform based Chargers  http://www.lxforums.com/board/index.php?

[Tilar]

Didn't all those fancy warranties go away when they filed bankruptcy?   I swear I heard that on the news when all that was happening... That or I dreamt it after a few Jack and Cokes.   

[dodgecharger-fan]

I don't have the lifetime warranty on my '07, but I have had good experiences with the warranty that I do have.

I took it in for regular maintenance - it was still a company car then and I've since bought out the lease - and mentioned a buzzing sound coming from the front right corner of the cabin - I could hear it when the radio was on as well as on a bumpy road.

They fixed the buzzing - it was a speaker fastener that had failed. I guess they rivet the pseakers in and one had split. They also replaced another speaker under warranty.

I'll have tot test the warranty again because now that the right side is alll fixed up, I'm hearing the same buzz start on the left.

[alcusswhen]

This is the place you need to be [http://www.chargerforumz.com/] your lifetime warranty is still good, so long as you maintain your check ups. Hell the 3/36 on my 07 R/T was void after three days.lol My car has 25K on it and my Connie's are still great, but when I do need tires they will be Coopers. 

[MRCHARGER]

Hey TCB09RT you shouldn't feel like you are being pushed away to a "new Charger" forum. This is dodgecharger.com if it's a Charger it belongs here. I love my 68 and I love my 08. Both are Chargers, both are bad ass, and both make me smile everytime! Glad to see you on the site buddy! If only they could have seen you putting that R/T sideways on John r last night you'd get a little more respect. Keep the pedal to the carpet and the ESP off!

[69charger2002]

welcome to the board!!

[OneofNoneRT]

Hey TCB09RT you shouldn't feel like you are being pushed away to a "new Charger" forum. This is dodgecharger.com if it's a Charger it belongs here. I love my 68 and I love my 08. Both are Chargers, both are bad ass, and both make me smile everytime! Glad to see you on the site buddy! If only they could have seen you putting that R/T sideways on John r last night you'd get a little more respect. Keep the pedal to the carpet and the ESP off!

Likewise WELCOME!

[TCB09RT]

Thanks for the support.
The Charger spirit simply cannot be contained to vehicles produced from 68-70.

[Ghoste]

Be careful going sideays on John R this time of year, you could get rolled sideways into a pothole. 

[r_biccum]

Thanks for the support.
The Charger spirit simply cannot be contained to vehicles produced from 68-70.

The charger spirit died in 74. Enjoy your intrepid badged as a charger, but it is not a charger. 

[Silver R/T]

My 68 Charger is still around. It was built to last. I couldn't say that about new "chargers" I really don't see people driving/restoring these in 40 years.

[skip68]

Thanks for the support.
The Charger spirit simply cannot be contained to vehicles produced from 68-70.

The charger spirit died in 74. Enjoy your intrepid badged as a charger, but it is not a charger. 

I read that the new Charger is based off of the Chrysler 300.   They made the car before it had the Charger name.  So, this is one big reason it's not what we expect a charger to be. It was NOT made to be a Charger.  They just called it that after it was built to help sell it.     Anyway, welcome to the site.  I'm sorry but you do have the spirit, just not the car.   Once I learned that the new Charger was not intended to be a charger and was just named that after it was designed really helped me understand what happened.      I now know that the designer of the new charger was told to make a perfomance family car based off of the 300.  So, this is why it is not anything like a Charger.     Don't be fooled by Dodge as they did not set out to build you a new charger. It does seem that Dodge might now be trying to make the new car live up to it's name with looking at the new concepts.     But we'll just have to wait and see.  The corvette, camaro and mustang are still here and dodge brought back the Challenger but I just don't think we will ever see the Charger with a body that stands out from all others come back.      I do think the new "charger" is a nice car for what it is.  A peppy 4 door family car but it wont make jaws drop with envy when it drives down the street.   Don't take this the wrong way as I mean no harm.  It's just that this has been a very sore subject for 98% of us over this car.   Just stick around a bit and you will get the itch for classic Charger.  Again, welcome to the site and stick around.  

[Ghoste]

You know, there is Dodge advertising from 1969 that refers to the vaunted icon as a "family car".

[SG1022]

You know, there is Dodge advertising from 1969 that refers to the vaunted icon as a "family car".

But we all know that was just ammo for the Husbands/soon to be new fathers.  Inspiring them with hope that their wife wood indeed let them keep their car.

[Ghoste]

Yeah, true.  But also worth noting that the 318 versions by far outsold any other availabe
engine.

[bull]

Thanks for the support.
The Charger spirit simply cannot be contained to vehicles produced from 68-70.

You're right. It went up to 74. Welcome to the site.

[skip68]

 I remember I saw some real racy commercials from back then.     Girls wanting a ride and a few others.       It seemed to me that the cars had sex appeal and had the bad boy image.       I guess the new charger has sex appeal if your "metro"     TCB09RT, I'm just bustin balls.      

[Back N Black]

Man! your a tough crowd. 

[Ghoste]

I remember I saw some real racy commercials from back then.     Girls wanting a ride and a few others.       It seemed to me that the cars had sex appeal and had the bad boy image.       I guess the new charger has sex appeal if your "metro"     TCB09RT, I'm just bustin balls.      

Yes they did and there were a lot more ads for the RT version than the better selling 318 versions.  Which could mean that it was appealing as a family car or there were a lot of poseurs who wanted the "me too" looks.  I don't know.
It's no secret that I'm no fan of the new one based on its styling or the crappy way Chrysler treated us when we didn't all drink the Kool-Aid and start doing handsprings of joy as we raced into the dealers to buy one in every color.  BUT, I also never want to crap on anybody who does like it and I also have to admire its preformance abilities.  I am SOOOOOOO much happier when somebody buys a new Charger instead of a stupid Hondota.
They are a misnamed family car but we should never over romanticize the past and imagine that every 69 Charger out the door was a rompin stompin RT because only the minority had the balls to back up the looks back then.

[skip68]

I remember I saw some real racy commercials from back then.     Girls wanting a ride and a few others.       It seemed to me that the cars had sex appeal and had the bad boy image.       I guess the new charger has sex appeal if your "metro"     TCB09RT, I'm just bustin balls.      

Yes they did and there were a lot more ads for the RT version than the better selling 318 versions.  Which could mean that it was appealing as a family car or there were a lot of poseurs who wanted the "me too" looks.  I don't know.
It's no secret that I'm no fan of the new one based on its styling or the crappy way Chrysler treated us when we didn't all drink the Kool-Aid and start doing handsprings of joy as we raced into the dealers to buy one in every color.  BUT, I also never want to crap on anybody who does like it and I also have to admire its preformance abilities.  I am SOOOOOOO much happier when somebody buys a new Charger instead of a stupid Hondota.
They are a misnamed family car but we should never over romanticize the past and imagine that every 69 Charger out the door was a rompin stompin RT because only the minority had the balls to back up the looks back then.

[/color]

You got me there.   Hey TCB09RT, are you new to Dodge ?  You mentioned the spirit can't be contained to 68-70 chargers.  This means you do know the best years.        Far as a warranty goes, check a site called chargerforums.  That is the place with all the new chargers and info.      

[DodgeByDave]

As far as the "better selling" 318 version I don't know........Now bare with me, as I AM NOT claiming to be an authority on any production numbers and my source for argument is dubious at best......How ever, I think my point is valid



http://www.theautochannel.com/vehicles/muscle/chrysler/chry_68_chrg.frame

We have

PRODUCTION

2dr hardtop 6 cy               906  *I love the venerable leaning tower of mopar but what kind of twisted old fart ordered one in a charger
   
2dr hardtop 8 cyl          74,019   

2dr hardtop R/T 8 cyl    17,665

TOTAL:                       92,590

What I went looking for is a breakdown on the models and didn't really find much, and I do admit I am very lazy and the amount of effort here amounts to beer extraction. Anything further than that for this post would be asinine. Assuming this source is any where near accurate there where also:

Production figures indicate that a total of 19,012 Chargers were powered with the 383 c.i. V-8. 440 c.i. V-8 production totaled 17,107 units

So we have a subtotal of 36,119 non R/T big blocks. If the source is accurate, 53,784 chargers were big blocks, about half.

How many 318 Chargers remained 318 chargers? I have a 68 318 car. It hasn't had a 318 engine in it since at least 1970 (when I bought it it looked like it hadn't had any engine in it since 1970). Part of the reason for the lack of numbers matching anything these days is that these cars were going to end up with hot rodders. Chrysler knew it. The first true "Kit Race Car for the masses" was the Road Runner. Then the gas crisis hit. The Kids that bought the cars to begin with that did all kinds of crazy engine changes sold them because they were getting married or couldn't afford the commute gas to fuel the beast and turned them over to the next crew of crazy kids that did even more crazy engine swaps.

Dude in Monrovia, Idiana that raced at BeanBlossum (formerly Speeds) that was a die hard Fordnatic that got sick of getting beat by Road Runners ditched his Rustang and his Wife Blondie ran the car there for years with a 429 4speed. Very fast, very consistent.

Partial point of back then, part of the trend was to go get the plain jane version with the smaller engine with the intent of scoring insurance and then off to the shop?

Warranty? We didn't need any stinking warranty. We blew an engine and it was off to Joppa George's for a 50 dollar 440 4bbl out of some junk Polara (an old man 4 door car for sure, wouldn't have been seen dead in one of those 14 second 4 door "turd" either  ).

At the same time, even the joe average station wagon was not really. Another uncle of mine showed up one afternoon to show off his new company car, a 1965 7 liter Ford Country Squire estate station wagon . Yeah, the 427 med riser. 4spd. We liked riding with him. Were there a whole bunch more of the average made? Sure! However, back then half the average when applied correctly (stick a 500 inch stock cad engine in a t roadster). alas, I tread of into apples/oranges.

Part of my point though is that these cars aren't even considered with that kind of silly in mind. First, Big brother wouldn't tolerate it. They have their hands full with the modified ricers. I saw a really cool Mini-Cooper sporting some flavor of supercharged Hemi. Fer sure not a production item, however from a state with less than mandatory emissions testing. No way that unit would pass the sniffer in Cali. So the government isn't very kind to us wanting to help improve the product.

Alas, it is a better vanished time. In a way.

Hey, eventually I'll end up with one of these wrecked, cut the body off, do something with an english wheel and express myself. That wouldn't matter if it was 1978 or 2028 (I doubt I'll last much past that, according to "the death clock" dot com that is about right). Hey, brakes are good things. Imagine how many of the vaunted R/T's would be around today if you didn't need the feet of Flinstone to stop? I started to try and sort my wiring issues once via a test board set up and the E tech board we have. After some research I cam eto the conclusion of screw that. There is no logic in messing around with any questionable wiring harness with a nice car. Not if it will stay nice. How many chargers have burned because of the  ammeter feed? Crapola. We all know it. All I can say is I wish I had known about the vega plug years ago.

IDK how well a lifetime warranty covers electrical issues. I know full coverage would (w/fire provision? idk, I have never had more than liability. In racing, if you can't afford to wreck it you had bettered not unload. For daily drivers, I always find a 50 dollar something and when it breaks I sign the title and leave it there).

That is part of the spirit though. Take a 74 and so what it isn't an R/T? so what if it came with a 318? Gimme a weekend and it won't have one and all be bolt in.

I bought a new Dodge Dakota in 1988. 3.9l 5spd. Lasted about 50k before the rearend puked. When I went to deal with the vaunted Chrysler 7/70 I found out the lifetime provision I bought wasn't worth squat, was prorated to the point of pain and had more exclusions than Barry O'bummer's political record. they offered to replace it for 1200 under warranty (ack, it was explained that was about "half price"). It ended up with an 8 3/4 out of some long since crushed 1969 B-Body something or other with very minimal fabrication and no change in length.

At least gimme a break and build something I can work on. If nothing else, use lube if you are going to treat me that way.

Yeah yeah yeah I am not the average consumer. Point taken. Look around. Who is? The first 3 gens were never designed for the average consumer, regardless of what crazy old coot ordered what.

As far as your warranty dude, who knows. I'd expect the worst and hope for the best if you ever have to deal with a warranty. That way you won't be disappointed.