American engineering can hardly be singled out - we've seen plenty of engines from foreign automakers be absolute disasters in their early years, especially from some German makes. In any event, I'm curious as to why so many are acting as if the Hurricane hasn't been in production for a year already. I actually think it was quite smart to introduce it in the Wagoneer a year ago to sniff out any weaknesses.
Yeah, a year is a long time to test a brand new engine for flaws on an extremely small user base of an SUV.
Yes, that’s it. Ram engineers and management sat around thinking, “How can we devote our resources to designing a system that can screw over customers?”
It’s one thing to be upset about the lack of a dipstick. It’s another to impute sinister motives to that decision.
You say that as a joke, but it's more common than you would appear to think. How many parts are tied a serial number of the device, of the vin of a truck.
How many parts require you to run dealership level tools to do "calibrate" it but in turn does nothing.
We can't even get the firmware updates for uConnect 5 software, and they push updates out that brick the radios and entire trucks the past month.
None of that is in interest to the consumer and is 100% anti-consumer to the point thye made empty legal threats against this site for having LINKS to OTHER PLACES that have the FREE software updates available.
I'm not saying FCA is evil, who knows maybe they are. Just pointing out anti-consumer things such as removal of a dipstick.
They could argue and say it's an extra $15 for a dipstick from the factory but no, they are saying use this sensor instead, if it fails come to the dealership and we will charge you fix it. The less control you have the better, the more mysterious they make these trucks the more money they can make on repairs, making them turn into junkyard trucks at 10 years becuase it's ungodly expensive to fix due to the electronics not being able to be replaced, and special software being held hostage by the manufacturer.
How many things will people allow to be changed that limit\remove control people used to have before people wake up and realize that is going on.
A fuel gage that no longer shows what % you are at, and just a low fuel light that comes on at the end? When does it stop? How far is too far? Are you okay with owning nothing and paying to rent a truck that can be turned off if Ram says you didn't do x\y\z? Slippery slope imo.