2002 DODGE DAKOTA Complaints

FRONT END AND WHEEL VIBRATED WHILE DRIVING. UPON INSPECTION BY THE DEALERSHIP THEY INDICATED THAT THE BUSHINGS DETERIORATED, AND ONLY BOLT REMAINED. ALSO, FRONT END WAS LOOSE. *AK

WHILE DRIVING 30 MPH CONSUMER HEARD A NOISE COMING FROM THE FRONT DRIVER SIDE WHEEL. CONSUMER TOOK VEHICLE TO DEALER MORE THAN ONCE, BUT PROBLEM STILL EXISTS. MECHANIC WAS UNABLE TO DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. *AK

WHILE MAKING RIGHT HAND TURNS CONSUMER HEARD A LOUD NOISE COMING FROM THE FRONT END. DEALERSHIP WAS NOTIFIED, BUT DID NOT RESOLVE THE PROBLEM. *AK

BRAKE ROTORS ARE WARPED. STARTED AT APPROXIMATELY 20,000 MILES. WAY TO EARLY TO BE WARPED. HAVE READ OF MANY OTHERS WITH SAME PROBLEM. ALSO HEARD NOISE FROM FRONT SUSPENSION, THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE BALL JOINT OR SUSPENSION PROBLEM, BUT DEALER STATED THAT IT IS OK. READ QUITE A BIT ABOUT BALL JOINT PROBLEMS ON SAME VEHICLE. *JB

WHILE DRIVING CONSUMER LOST CONTROL. DEALERSHIP INFORMED CONSUMER THAT THE PROBLEM PERTAINED TO THE FRONT UPPER BALL JOINTS. *AK

I OWN A 2002 DODGE DAKOTA PICKUP. AFTER HEARING AND READING CBS NEWS PIECE ON THE DURANGO AND DAKOTA HAVING FAULTY BALL JOINTS, I HAD MY LOCAL DODGE DEALER CHECK THE UPPER BALL JOINTS ON MY TRUCK. ONE UPPER JOINT WAS LOOSE AND THEY RECOMMENDED IT BE REPLACED. THE COST WAS $188. I FEEL SINCE THERE HAVE BEEN OVER 700 COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS, THAT DAIMLER CHRYSLER SHOULD RECALL AFFECTED VEHICLES AND FIX THE PROBLEM. THE FACT THAT DODGE HAS HAD SO MANY COMPLAINTS AND IT TOOK A CBS NEWS REPORT TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IS TRAGIC. WHAT'S MORE TRAGIC IS THAT IT PUT THE LIFE OF MYSELF AND MY SON IN DANGER. I FEEL THAT DODGE SHOULD REIMBURSE MY $188. *JB

POPPING NOISE IN THE FRONT BALL JOINTS OF MY 2002 DODGE DAKOTA. I NOTICED THIS THE DAY I BOUGHT THIS UNIT. AND JUST TODAY (3-4-04) I FOUND OUT ON CBS THAT IT IS A MANUFACTURER DEFECT. AND WOULD LIKE VERY MUCH TO HAVE THE PROBLEM RESOLVED BEFORE SOMETHING BAD DOES HAPPEN ON THE HIGHWAY. *JB

VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO DEALER 4 TIMES FOR POPPING AND CRACKING SOUND HEARD IN THE FRONT OF VEHICLE WHEN MAKING TURNS. ALSO, CONSUMER HEARD A POPPING AND CRACKING NOISE WHEN DRIVING ON BUMPY ROADS. BALL JOINTS WERE CHANGED. HOWEVER, AFTER 500 MILES THE PROBLEM RECURRED. *AK

WHEN MAKING A LEFT TURN THERE WAS A POPPING NOISE IN THE STEERING. DEALERSHIP REPLACED THE STEERING SHAFT SECTOR, RACK AND PINION, AND UPPER AND LOWER BALL JOINTS. *AK

I BOUGHT MY 2002 DODGE DAKOTA NEW IN MARCH OF 2002. EVER SINCE APPROXIMATELY JULY OF THAT SUMMER, I HEARD THE NOW INFAMOUS CLUNKING NOISE IN MY FRONT END. IT WASN'T UNTIL LAST FALL OF 2003 AND SEVERAL VISITS TO 3 DIFFERENT DEALERSHIPS, THAT THEY FINALLY SOMEWHAT FIXED MY VEHICLE. I HAVE SINCE SEEN THE REPORTS BY CBS NEWS IN REGARDS TO THE BALL JOINTS AND THAT HAS PUT FURTHER CONCERN IN THE RELIABILITY OF MY VEHICLE. EVEN THOUGH SEVERAL PARTS, INCLUDING THE BALL JOINTS HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY THE DEALERSHIPS (NONE OF WHOM SAID THEY COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS, OR EVEN CLAIMED THAT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT WHEN I SAID I HEARD THE NOISE), I STILL HEAR THE CLUNKING AND FEEL THAT IT WILL NEVER BE FIXED. I HAVE PUT IN SEVERAL COMPLAINTS AT CHRYSLER, SO MY PROBLEMS SHOULD BE VERY WELL DOCUMENTED, BUT FEEL IT IS CHRYSLERS RESPONSIBILTY IF ANYTHING FUTHER WOULD HAPPEN TO MY VEHICLE, OR ANY OTHER FOR THAT MATTER. PLEASE CONTINUE TO DO YOUR INVESTIGATION INTO THIS MATTER BEFORE SOMEONE DOES GET SERIOUSLY HURT.