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- From: borowski@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Don T. Borowski)
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:50:44 GMT
- Subject: Re: Voyager xmissions: good? bad?
- Message-ID: <31160111@hpspkla.spk.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Company, Spokane, Wa.
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- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- References: <1992Jul22.201638.26245@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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- In rec.autos.tech, eliot@chutney.rtp.dg.com (Topher Eliot) writes:
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- >I'm ready to buy a used Grand Voyager or Grand Caravan. A while back there
- >was a writeup in Consumer Reports about problems with the overdrive xmission
- >that they first started putting in these beasts, I believe in 89. Does
- >anyone know when, if ever, Chrysler fixed the problem in the units being
- >manufactured? How can I tell if the one I'm looking at is a potential lemon?
- >Is there a single standard fix, or was it a collection of problems? Blah,
- >blah, you get the idea.
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- I think you would be OK if the transmission had been replaced with a later
- unit. The latest version of the transmission (without the "Ultradrive"
- name) share only 20% of the parts with the original design.
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- Donald Borowski WA6OMI Hewlett-Packard, Spokane Division
- "Angels are able to fly because they take themselves so lightly."
- -G.K. Chesterton
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