Steve from Indy

So the key to owning a Dodge Journey now is  to ignore the vehicle’s owner manual and assume the car needs servicing a lot more often than indicated ...and disregard the “dealer servicing only” fluid cap.    Got it, thanks.

Yeah, so I’ll give some credit to Dodge - we heard from their customer care group and they will cover the cost of the transmission and other non-labor items.    Although I’m still disappointed that we only got 70K miles out of the transmission and had to cover the big labor bill, I do recognize Dodge wasn’t obligated to refund a dime.   we’re getting a refund of $2,900 which was welcomed news.     Sorry to those that were upset at my venting - I do understand that stuff breaks.    I’m glad to see that Dodge seemed to agree, in this case, it was a bit premature.

Some positive news - although we still plan to write to Chrysler about having to replace a transmission at 70K miles, Champion Chrysler in Indianapolis just called to say that the Chrysler warranty department agreed to cover the repair to fix the fluid leak (due to bad pan seal).    So that's good.