Have a 2010 journey r/t awd and while I haven't had a ton of major issues with it I find that many of the topics I am reading about are issues that I experience. Have had nothing but Chrysler products the 40 years that I have been driving and have had three vehicles with the 3.5 litre in it. This is the first one that burns oil at all and the engine sounds continually like it is low on oil. Hate (absolutely hate) the kumho 19 inch tires as they are garbage and don't last worth a tinker's damn. Have had more flats with these than i had the entire time I have been driving but what can you do when the only manufacturers that make tires to fit apparently are kumho and toyo. Anyway to get to the point of the post with a little over 77000 km on this vehicle daughter is driving down a dry road and all of a sudden starts to smoke and sounds like a flat tire. Tires are fine and no warning lights on dash. Tows it home. I put the code reader on and everything is fine which obviously it isn't. Try to drive it the 5 km to the dealers and got about 50 feet before determining that wasn't going to work. Towed it in and was talking to mechanic at work..he diagnosed transfer case without evening looking at vehicle. Stupid me not even thinking that awd had a transfer case.....I have had two 4 wheel drive rams before. Anyway new transfer case and labour (under warranty) but will not let the vehicle leave the dealership without 4 new tires on it (2 front were replaced last jan and have 9/32 of tread still on them vs the 11/32 of new tires. Say that mismatch of tires caused transfer case to fail and will do so again so if i want to sign a waiver for the remaining 23000 of warranty I can replace just the two back (which need replacing anyway).
While this hasn't been a bad vehicle, the nickel and diming at the dealer, the really crappy brakes, hostage to one tire manufacturer, absolutely crappy fuel mileage (nowhere near what the estimates were), noisy engine are making me think that it is time to divest myself of this vehicle. As one car salesman said to me the other day (he was a chrysler salesman) you want to look out at the driveway and see that the vehicle you are making payments on is something that you WANT to make payments on not something that is going to cost you over and above those payments continually.
