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#51 of 55 Continuing saga of "the thump." by luvmymagggie Aug 25, 2009 (6:00 am)
For starters to all Magnum owners, I saw a very short interview of a Chrystler executive Winter of 2008 and this is what he said re status of Chrystler at that time: "we lose money every time we build a Dodge Magnum," I am not kidding. Wonder what that meant ? What did he mean ? (That statement sticks in my mind)   Anyway here is my concern re my 2007 Magnum SXT 22Kmiles, purchased from a dodge dealer in Bellevue, WA with 12K June 2008. Build date May, 2007:   At 13kmiles started hearing a "rattle" as soon as all is warmed-up to operating temp coming from somewhere down under. Local dealer here in Ellensburg, WA not able to find anything conclusive. Still living with this rattle, for now. (Rattle sounds exactly like a loose exhaust hanger wiggling. This is not the case. )   Most important concern for me now is the "thump" I too am getting when trans downshifts from 3rd to 2nd especially when slowing down to a stop when exiting a freeway. Getting a bit more pronounced very recently. Local dealer here did find a "flash code" re the thump I was getting on upshift from 2nd to 3rd and that is all OK for now, so far.   Local dealer and I have good working relationship and they called me back re my email to them about the downshift "thump" and they want to look at it today.   Although only 22K miles, today I will request an ATF fluid flush and filter clean. filters are re-useable (they clean them.) Hopefully an ATF change out might fix the problem. Also, maybe they did some more research and might be another code adjustment.   I will get back to all of you to share my results.
#52 of 55 my gear is stuck by cabeebo Sep 21, 2009 (6:51 pm)
I drove around for an hour, came home and parked the magnum. It ran just fine. An hour later I try to leave and it's stuck in park now. There are no lights on the dash, the brake lights work, the fliuds are fine. Its just stuck in park and will not budge. What can I do to fix this problem? Replies to this message: cmiles97 (Nov 10, 2009 7:35 am)
#53 of 55 2006 Magnum R/T AWD by canadamike Sep 29, 2009 (8:45 pm)
My car is at the dealership now (2 wks), clunk and shudder from 1st to second when releasing the gas pedal after accelerating. The dealer did a trans flush to no avail. Then the service mgr tried to tell me that the clunk was "normal"! I took the tech for a test drive, he agrees, not normal. Gonna check the whole drive line, incl the u joints. Will keep you posted. By the way, the car has 160,102 kms. So it is now over the 160 power warranty, Chrysler Canada is looking at this under goodwill warranty and issued a case number when I called the 800 line to complain.
#55 of 55 Re: my gear is stuck [cabeebo] by cmiles97 Nov 10, 2009 (7:35 am)
Replying to: cabeebo (Sep 21, 2009 6:51 pm) I drove around for an hour, came home and parked the magnum. It ran just fine. An hour later I try to leave and it's stuck in park now. There are no lights on the dash, the brake lights work, the fliuds are fine. Its just stuck in park and will not budge. What can I do to fix this problem? ----------------------- 2006 Mag SRT8 (25,000 miles) same problem last Friday. No indication lights & stuck in park. Had to have Chrysler send a tow truck. The driver (independent tow company) says this problem happens often with Dodges. The trasmission lock module failed. He had to lift the rear of the car climb under to pull (a cable?) to release the car from park to nuetral. Luckily the car was not in the garage. By the way the wife's Honda and my company car (accord) have a key override to release to park.   The dealer confirmed and replaced the module luckily still under warranty. I thought I would own one Chrysler product that did not require towing.

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