Comments on: 2008 Dodge Journey First Steer

By: wilson3339

wilson3339 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:14:48 +0000

the whole interior is so cheap it looks like a bloody clay model, actualy a clay model would probs be nicer

By: Honricco

Honricco — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:06:33 +0000

busy mother if you only tried it in the auto stick option you would not have to grit your teeth you would have complete control over the gears and the changing of them therefore complete control of the power out put of the vehicle.

By: Honricco

Honricco — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:59:21 +0000

Do you realise that when a vehicle is using an engine from another company that they are charged a patent to place that engine into their cars therefore it will be more expensive than the builders model. It just a simple thing called business not sure if you understand that but iam sure it makes sense to most.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:12:07 +0000

*** DANGER DO NOT TOUCH THIS CAR ***

i have had my SXT journey from October 2008 & Paid $42,000 for it including the MYGIG system ( which is well worth it for an extra couple of grand)

(-)6 months old & 25,000km transmission needs replacing – 4 weeks in the service centre waiting for a new one
(-) 10 months old – battery needs replacing
(-)14 months old & 50,000km engine seized and shorted out the battery – 8 weeks on and still not fixed, no courtesy car, no compensation, just alot of people saying bad luck.

would not touch dodge again with a 10 foot pole

this car is 17 months old and has spent a total of 3 months in the service centre.

dodge has no backup for spare parts, and their customer service is a joke.

trade in value after 17 months is $18,000 less than what i paid for it.

i have had such heartache dealing with this company and would advise everyone to look elsewhere for a car.

By: Advice

Advice — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:28:44 +0000

I am in the market for either a Dodge Journey, Captiva or Territory. Need advice?

By: busy mother

busy mother — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:33:30 +0000

I am looking at buying either holden captiva or dodge. My dad is a car salesman and said dont buy american cars they are nothing but trouble. I was dissapointed with enterior of dodge too much hard thin plastic covers. very ugly seats, but fantastic layout seemed to struggle through test drive felt like had to grit teeth and wait for gear change. Captiva fantasticly finished not as good in layout, bit stiff to drive but felt strong and capable. scared to go for dodge resale and reliability but very funky.. Anyone had trouble with them yet???

By: Mr Journey

Mr Journey — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:41:20 +0000

Joe,

I had the same problem , and look at all of the same cars. I nearly brought the tribeca – but was put onto the Journey by a cousin.

I option up with My GiG , Blue Tooth Ect.. and drove away under 50k

Anyone who thinks the Hyundai Sante Fe is a better car needs to get their head read.

I have no problems in reffering this car to Family and Freinds.
Cheers

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:04:05 +0000

Was confused and asked myself, either Dodge Journey, Kluger, Territory, or CX9?

I looked at those ones in the showroom and test drive all of them.
I figured that Journey Drives so smooth and the interior looks great! also it has Auto Dimming Mirror and auto folded mirror where as the other competitors havent got it. The audio is just incredible, it can save up to 30GB of musics, pictures or even video.

Its got built in GPS and bluetooth.

I also was abit confused if i should buy Subaru Tribeca instead? But again, those stuffs i mentioned above won me over…:)

Just bought a black R/T with additional SUNROOF, rear back up camera, bluetooth, My GIG, Paint Protection. I got a real good deal as i bought it just before the price ‘s gone up this year.

just under AU$50k i got all of those things in the car…

Journey is just amazing! and its just like a dream car for me as all i want from a car is there in Dodge Journey…

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:33:55 +0000

To be fair Matt those problems were in engines up to about 2001. The 2.7 litre engine has been redesigned. That is the problem with forums like these, they can be a source of unreliable information.

By: matt

matt — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:33:38 +0000

anyone lookin at buying one of these make sure you get the diesel. Look up how unreliable the 2.7 litre V6 is in the dodge intrepid and chrysler sebring in the states, carcomplaints dot com and click on “worst vehicles”. Even with propper servicing they sludge easily and apparently timing chains break early.