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I forgot to ask but is towing covered on the standard 7 year 100K warranty?

I'm going to look it up now but I thought someone might know.

The police called the tow truck because I was blocking traffic so I don't know if there's a certain tow company I have to call.

$85 bucks to tow the vehicle for 5 miles. Unbelievable!

Ken

Festive!

Well, now, wait a minute. If it "wouldn't crank over", then there certainly was a problem in the starting system. Did you mean to say it will crank over but will not *fire*?

You're right, that's a crock.

DS

The 7/100 is powertrain only. $85 is cheap, you're lucky. Most towing outfits around here charge $100 just to pick up the vehicle, mileage is extra @ .50 a mile

mike hunt

NJ Vike wrote:

I picked up a 97 Intrepid with the 3.5 engine a few years back, and before I'd had it a week, the cam sensor went. But it ended up to not be a just a bad cam sensor but a bad computer starting to fail, due to infiltration by water.

Person selling the car took a high pressure hose to the engine bay.

Good luck.

And I suppose that your dentist told you that you're not chewing enough? That's some great logic.

You should have called the 1-800 number on front cover of the owners manual.

Yes, chrysler pays for the tow if you use the service that's part of the initial waranty. I was a few weeks and a few thousand miles shy of my 3 year waranty expiring when my tranny sensor died. Called for a tow, chrysler paid (even though I know now that I could have driven it to the dealer without fear).

Yes. In these newsgroups a lot of dealer BS is highlighted and I would say this just about takes the cake (or is that cr@@?).

DAS

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Cam sensor replaced.

Drove off the lot about a mile before the engine light came on. Noticed that the speedometer didn't work. Went back and he neglected to set the computer again. Specifically, the tire pressure monitoring system and one other thing or at least that was what I was told.

The police officers must inform you that you must move your vehicle and give you the chance to arrainge your own tow. They cannot just call whatever towing company unless you are incapacitated, etc.

Unfortunately, although people deny that it happens, in a number of places towing companies give kickbacks to local police for tow calls. Every once in a while some cub reporter somewhere gets a lead and a scandal erupts followed by the usual rapid sweeping under the rug of the problem.

This is why people get AAA.

I've had to have towing done before and if you call around it is unbelievable how much prices will vary among towing companies. Towing is one of those scummy businesses that price gougers operate in. Many of those tow companies are little more than operations that make their money by towing cars to their impound lot and then setting up conditions that make it nearly impossible to get your car out of the lot so they can then keep your car and sell it.

A favorite trick is towing cars on Friday then they wait until 4:45pm to call you and tell you where your car is, then they do not take anything other than cash to get the car out of the lot. Of course by then it's too late to get the $300 from the bank for the tow fee plus impound storage fee, and the places are of course never open ove the weekend, but charge $50 or more a day for lot fees.

Ted

I don't carry AAA but my wife does. Where the real value of AAA is, is when you have a family member who is easily rattled and is NOT mechanical. (my wife) This way if she comes out of the store and has left her lights on, she just calls them and they come out and get her car started for her, without her having to try to get someone to give her a jump, etc.

She's crossed jumper cables before and burned an alternator and half a battery terminal, and now that she is hauling around kids, she wouldn't leave the kids to go get help anyway. And I don't want some good samaratian fooling around under her car's hood and really screwing things up. And of course the gremlins that make her car break down have a knack of knowing exactly when I'm stuck in a meeting or at a remote site or are otherwise unavailable at work to referee her car problem, and they make sure it breaks down then.

Ted

With me, if my car breaks down I have no problem with pulling off the road and calling a

I would ask the dealer to identify the section of the factory service manual where it lists this as a possible cause for the symptom.

That is not true in all places. A lot of freeways (especially toll freeways) have "Road Service by Permit Only". On these roads one company (possibly several if there is enough work or they split time slots) handles all towing, so you cannot call your own tow truck.

However, AAA will reimburse you for such tows, up to the amount that they would reimburse an AAA dispatched tow. I am not sure if the Chrysler roadside assistance will also reimburse, but my guess is they probably would too.