Chrysler to start cutting jobs & production

As some of us may know Chrysler will start cutting jobs and production starting later this month. that means that over 10,000 people will soon be unemployed and IMO i blame the company for not keeping up with the Jones's,like Toyota, Honda and some of the other companies that have produced cars and trucks that have been proven to be more durable and dependable than Chrysler. i may take some of the blame myself,having own Chrysler vehicles for over 20 yrs, now i am the proud owner of a Toyota and Honda and Lexus. and now owning these 3 other vehicles i must say that each one of them have not had any problems with them at all within the first 2 1/2 years of owning them. i would have stayed owning Chrysler vehicles if i could be honest by saying the same thing about them. i have NEVER own a Chrysler vehicle where within the very first year of ownership that i have not taken it back to the dealer for multiple problems or recalls and TSB's. they got constant Transmission problems and steering rack problems.

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Bentracer and Bentrider
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My 300M was flawless until year 2 when the power windows started acting up. It is 9 years old and my in-laws love it. We gave it to them a while back.

I bought a 2006 Odyssey 2 years ago. There are 2 TSB's I need done for wind noise thru the windshield and the power steering pumps only last 12k miles. Mine has 12k miles on it and is going now too.

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Art

Sorry to hear you had problems. I've had 2001 3.9 dakota 80,000 miles only thing I had to do is put new set of u-joints in the drive shaft $30. And a electronic pickup for the ignition of the flywheel for $50.00. Thats all. My jeep 2001 cherokee has 45,000 miles and havent done anything but change the oil and antifreeze.

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Scootter

Would be nice if the US car companies had a level playing field in Japan and could freely set up dealerships and sell them there.

The Japs use their protected domestic market to subsidize sales in USA/Canada. Now they're taking advantage of the high Canadian dollar

- they are making thousands more in profit for each car they sell in Canada vs the USA.

On a related topic, I've never seen a coherent reason why Daimler didn't do more to sell Chrysler cars in Europe.

I think with cars there's a "novelty" effect. It's always more cool to own a foreign car. In North America, that means you desire to own a Swedish or German or Jap car. In Japan (where they idolize some aspects of US culture) they just might go nuts and buy some marqee US models - if they were allowed to.

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MoPar Man

Not so. There're be GATT complaints if that were happening.

OK, but I don't see what this has to do with the topic at hand.

Most of Chrysler's decent products are too big for Europe. And the smaller ones -- Caliber, Compass, Patriot, Sebring -- are simply not competitive. Most Chrysler products ARE sold in Europe -- pick up a "Car" magazine sometime.

Anyway, China is tomorrow's market.

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Lloyd

Lets see. My '95 LH had the well known air conditioner problems, which after 3 fixes over 7 years Chrysler got it right at their cost. Otherwise all has been well, practically no maintenance so I can easily drive it several more years or until Chrysler comes to their senses and builds a car I want to own. The engine will obviously last forever as it still performs as new. The transmission is also very well, the body doesn't rust and the lovely interior is still lovely and comfortable.

What do I want? A smaller SW that looks and is finished like a car. The Compass is the form factor I want, but there are a number of design aspects I can't stand.

Call me Chrysler if you are interested in selling me a car, else I'll have look "imports" after 25 years away from them. Of course most imports aren't imported anymore. By the way since I NEED a full sized spare most recent Chrysler cars and even others have no place in my garage.

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who

I did have serious transmission problems with Chryslers first modern

4 spd shift in a 1981 Horizon, but all my other Chrysler cars have been very good, improving with each one. Too bad they gave you all the lemons.
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Some O

Chrysler has been selling a limited number of PT Cruisers in the UK for years. they sell out before they are available. The price is competitive. Chryslers vans and Jeeps are big sellers in the UK.

There LH and 300 cars are too big for the UK, but a few struggle around the small streets with them. They probably like something different!

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who

The 300m was designed for a 5m length with Europe in mind.

No. I've seen 300m's being used as taxi's in the Netherlands.

The 300m wasn't a large car compared to some BMW's and Merc's.

Chrysler even put a 2.7l engine in them for European export. Daimler did nothing to sell Chrysler in Europe.

And it's long known that Japan puts barriers in place for US car makers, barriers that GATT can't touch.

How well are sales of, say, German cars in Japan? Anyone know the answer to that?

I don't know if it's still true, but 20 years ago in Japan they had crazy rules about cars where they were put through increasingly tough road-worthyness tests designed to make most people buy new cars every few years, forcing a high turn-over of otherwise good cars. I've seen engines from those cars shipped to the US in crates to be used for replacements because they were still good.

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MoPar Man

Why?

Since Toyota is seiing more cars, they are making more cars. Why don't the people who are losing jobs at Chrysler simply go to the Toyota carmaking plants and get jobs there? Toyota builds a lot of cars in the US and will be building more, according to your logic.

Ted

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Ted Mittelstaedt

Sad to hear how people still dwell on the lousy record the american cars had in the past. They have advanced milestones of improvements but people still are narrow on the opinions and just follow the quote. It's a import it must be better..even tho they have their problems quite a few times the past few years people just over look them.

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Scootter

Well, since most front-drive Mopars have always used the same Saginaw (GM) racks as GM, and since my '93 has its original rack at 247,000 miles, call me skeptical.

There was a steering rack BUSHING issue (creaking noise in cold weather) on the LH, but not a problem with the rack.

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Steve

I don't know about that one Steve: I have seen many a post on this ng as well as on the 300M Club forums of the rack actually locking up (in some cases causing accidents).

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

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Bill Putney

No, but it was large compared to "family" cars in its price class.

Why would anyone buy a Caliber when Europeans get much better small cars? And big cars just don't sell there unless they're names like BMW and Mercedes.

No it's not. Used to be, but not anymore.

Apparently that has changed now.

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Lloyd

They are allowed to. In fact they do, just not many. The dealers f*ck the Japanese on price, plus mods need to be made. US makers are not serious about export.

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Bret Ludwig

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The Toyota plants are in hick towns and won't hire experienced auto workers and the pay is less.

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Bret Ludwig

It comes as something of a shock to me to find that San Antonio (2005 estimated population 1,256,509) is a "hick town."

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Steve

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