Hi all!! I'm a fairly new member (Jan. '07) of the forum and new owner of a black '05 Crossfire SRT6 convertible, which I purchased the first week of January of this year. The car had 2,800 miles on the odometer and I got a great price. The wealth of information on this site is amazing, as I spend at least 30 minutes a day browsing through the forum, learning everything I can about the car.
However, the short couple of months with the car has been disappointing thus far.
The first month was great but since, it has been falling apart on me!! I took it in to service in the middle of February when I heard a loud pop from the rear and the car started making a weird rattling noise when depressing the gas. As it turned out, the rear differential gave out and needed to be replaced, which the dealer did. It took about a week and a half as the part had to be ordered (6 days) and installed. I was told by the service department that it looked like the first owner of the car "dragged the sh** out of it!" and the differential took the grunt of that abuse. Anyway, it was disappointing to hear and I must say, I was ticked that this 'problem' was not known by the dealer. Well, maybe it's hard to know until it gives! Perhaps the car was one of those "track experience" cars? Who knows!!! After the differential was replaced, the car was great for about 3 weeks!
The car is back in the shop now because the convertible top stopped working! I tried to fix the problem myself by reading some of the threads here but nothing has helped. It's now been a week and the dealer has no idea what the problem is!! They thought it was the 'actuator', which they ordered and installed, but that did not work. They've been in contact with Chrysler in Detroit on a daily basis trying to diagnose the problem but thus far nothing has worked! Oh, so frustrating!!
The car has 5,000 miles! Are you kidding me???!!! Am I really going through all of this with a car with so few miles? I've owned mostly Japanese cars in my life (S2000, Civic, Sentra) and not once did I take them into service! I am trying to be optimistic here!
Ok, thanks for letting me rant & vent!! Any thoughts from you guys? Anyone had a problem similar to this? I know it will eventually be fixed but the thought of the car potentially being in the shop for the next month (or more) is killing me. Any help is greatly appreciated!
gr8len