Dodge Shadow
Orville L. Ballard
Does anyone have experiences with the Dodge Shadow they would
like to share? I am considering purchasing one for daily commuting.
I commute 2-3000 miles a month and am concerned about a car this
small holding up under this type of driving.
ShadowBoxer
My dad has an '87 Sundance (same car). We put that much on the car a month
easily. In general it's holding up well. Interior, suspension, transmission,
exterior all in great shape. The car's been in a wreck (took out the entire
right side of the car), and it held up fine. One problem... the engine hasn't
been behaving. We haven't had to do any major engine work so far, but I think
that we will in the next 10k miles. (We bought it off rental in '90 with
very low miles, and we've put almost 50k on it since.)
To the best of my knowledge, the Sundance/Shadows aren't notourious(sp?) for
engine problems, and we've gotten more from ours than we've gotton out of
most cars this family has.
Jon
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Rich Long
In article <1fpeae...@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bt...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Orville L. Ballard) writes...
>Does anyone have experiences with the Dodge Shadow they would
>like to share? I am considering purchasing one for daily commuting.
I don't have direct experience with the Shadow, but I have a Dodge Spirit
with the 3.0L V6 and 4-speed automatic, which I believe you can get in the
Shadow. I now have about 60,000 miles on my car, and the drivetrain has been
very reliable; heck, the _whole_ car has been very reliable. It gets great
gas mileage (high 20s), and I would expect the Shadow to do better, since
it's probably a lighter car than the Spirit.
I've had a glitch where the transmission stuck in second (wouldn't upshift).
Turning off and re-starting the engine solved the problem; it was probably a
computer gremlin. :-)
p.s. I did test-drive a Shadow ES once; it was a lot of fun!
Rich
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I/We are Gaia
brand new in 1988, and it worked pretty well for the first 2 years, then
the last 3 have been hell on my sanity and my pocket book, that is why i
am getting a Saturn this year. I got a real lemon, everything under the
hood has been replaced once, some things up to 4 times, and the thing is I
don't drive it that hard, I do regular maintenance on it and it still runs
like junk. When the mechanic said I might need another engine replaced
(that would be #2) I said forget it. It was my first new car and I really
loved it, but now I can't live with it. If I am going to be sinking a
couple of hundred bucks into that car every couple of months just to keep
it running, I would rather spend that on a new car.. Half of the reason
is I couldn't find a decent mechanic who knew anything about the car. The
factory dealerships are terrible, and you can forget all that bunk about
customer satisfaction with Chrysler, I will definetly NOT buy another
Chrysler product again, I wouldn't be in the least dissapointed if they
went under the way they handle there operations. And all of the good
mechanics are private shops, sure I got great recommendations for specific
foreign cars, but everybody just said "specializing in domestic" which
means diddly squat, the "domestic" cars have just as many new things in
them as any foreign models, but I couldn't find one that specialized in
chrysler's, I might have kept the car, if I could REALLY get it fixed, but
it was hopeless, and I am sorry, but the American car has a long way to
go, I don't care what the CEO's say. I just hope I am not going to get
burned with Saturn, I would feel more comfortable if they weren't under GM..
Gaia