I spoke to Matthew (ID # MH1376) at Chrysler Customer Care today, very nice chap, took down all my info and promised to send it upstairs for Chrysler to consider expanding the vehicles covered under this warranty extension. Disappointing, but it suggests that others with similar problems ought to register their complaints (nicely!) with Chrysler Customer Care as well as file a NHTSA complaint. If anyone has further suggestions regarding how to handle getting Chrysler to do what it ought to have done from the git-go, please share.

Thanks to all for the tips on measuring tranny fluid levels. The nylon fish tape from Harbor Freight will most assuredly work... good suggestion! No Harbor Freight in Hawaii, but I get to the mainland a lot.

Apparently the car was assembled in Germany, I don't know where I got Belgium from.

Regarding five-minute epoxy v. regular epoxy. The key to making this repair with the top still installed on the car, is to get the window reasonably "tacked" in place first and then add regular epoxy (float it in from the exterior (cover the areas underneath in case of dripping) after the window is tacked into place. Five minute epoxy is useful for the initial "tacking" but it to likes to run everywhere until 3-4 minutes into the mix at which time the smart guy mates both epoxy-coated surfaces and then stands there an holds them in place for the ten slowest minutes of his life... while hoping that what's been done is enough to tack the window in place so subsequent epoxy applications can be made. Slow-setting epoxy isn't realistic for the tacking part of my approach to this repair but is useful for the rest of the work....

Once tacked, I strongly suggest not being in a hurry; apply just a bit more epoxy around the outside rim of the window, add more then next day, etc. Using a syringe is the easiest way for me to do this, look on ebay or somewhere and buy 30-40 of them, you'll use them all the time for all sorts of tasks. (Epoxy will not go thru a needle tip... suggest opening of about 0.5-1mm as the most realistic caliber -- some cheap syringes can have their tips trimmed with a scissors to get to this size opening.)

This will produce a repair that's usable. It won't look as good as OEM, but it's not horrible. Also, once done, remember to re-check every now and then to add epoxy where and if needed. After taking all the time needed to do this, you really don't want the glass to completely fall out again just because you were too busy to check on it every now and then. Mine's remained in place for three years and running but I'd still like Chrysler to do the right thing and replace the whole top and window like they ought to have done from the git-go.

Otherwise, Chrysler will never get another penny from me, not that they care I suppose.