Oddly enough my neighbor has had one of these for YEARS, in that time he's killed a geo prizm, a kia soul, a cadillac CTS and most recently a Malibu but the Dynasty lives on somehow...it looks worse every year but I still see it drive by every day
The Chrysler OHV 3.3 was actually one of the most reliable engines ever made by Chrysler and I had a 96 Dodge Intrepid with one and it was a fantastic car. I also never had problems with my 42LE in it for over 450k miles. Also had an 02 300M Special 3.5L H.O and loved that also
Yeah every Chrysler product I've flipped over the years when I used to sell used cars that had this engine ALWAYS ran strong, the 3.3L was the Toyota Camry of V6 engines back then in terms of reliability.
There are quite a few Dynasty’s still chugging along here in Reno, NV. Makes me smile because we definitely made fun of friends in High School that had them when they were still somewhat newish.
He's too young to know about the show Dynasty lol. I wouldn't be surprised if Dodge named these cars after that show since it was crazy popular in its earlier seasons.
The Mitsubishi V6? They’re okay - if they’re well-maintained they’re fine (regular oil changing, warm-up before driving in cold temperatures, especially with turbo). That being said, they’re not quite as good as a comparable Buick 3.8L V6 or a Toyota/Honda/Nissan 3.0L v6 from the same era. That’s what I’ve found in all my years as a mechanic
I think he has the two engines mixed up. I have been in the auto business for over 28 years now and started in the late 80's. and have been in it off and on since. Everything I've ever heard or known about these is that you ran like heck from the 3.0L and if you wanted one you got the 3.3L or some models with the 3.8L. The other weak spot was those plastic wood trim strips on the doors just falling off. Lastly, the AOD trans had to be kept up really well or it would implode.
@@stoneylonesome4062 These 3.3L V6's are Chrysler designs and surprisingly MUCH more durable and reliable than the Japanese Mitsubishi 3.0L's you're thinking of that the earlier versions could have been optioned with.
My dad had a 1992 Plymouth Acclaim for a few years - an A-body and not the Dynasty's C-body, but similar in temperament and powertrain. We towed a U-Haul from Cincinnati to Florida with it, and other than having to turn the A/C off in the mountains of Tennessee so it wouldn't overheat, it didn't give us any problems. Note that the wire diagram indicator for open doors and such also includes a low washer fluid indicator, something that is virtually unobtainable at any price point on modern cars in the U.S. (but required by law in Canada)! Also, I remember a page on the old Allpar website that said many of the A604's problems were due to improper fluid, because Chrysler's own maintenance manuals said that Dexron ATF was compatible when it definitely wasn't, causing all sorts of issues. I don't know whether that's accurate or not. I just know my dad had the A604 in his 1996 Dodge Grand Caravan ES rebuilt twice before we sold it with around 80,000 miles.
just saw a 2008 chrysler town and country with 429k for sale on facebook. says takes long to start, well maybe because it needs a new timing chain kit...
The transmission fluid was definitely part of the problem. When ATF+4 came out, it really improved them. There were numerous revisions made to strengthen the seals, the processor, and many other parts. We put around 160k on our LH cars before trading them off and never had an outright failure. Our 02 Caravan was traded in at 208 k miles and had the original transmission. Our 91 Dynasties both reached 120k miles when the transmission started to fail.
Bought an '89 used when it was 9 years old, drove it for 4 years. Gave it to my brother in-law, and he drove it for 5 more, all in all, we got almost 18 years of use out of it
Saw one of these in beige a couple weeks ago when I was browsing a used car lot in Rhode Island (Cooke Brothers Imports, which had mostly Volvos). Thing was clearly garaged and babied its whole life, and was in really good shape considering its age, aside from three flat tires and mouse feces on the backseat. Strangely enough, almost all the cars on that lot had flat tires, probably to prevent theft?
The Sacred Heart Auto League badge and the Curad bandage in the ashtray are two of my most favorite things about this rectilinear runabout. And you deserved that back seat after your experience with the Scion. And "Brake, fat boy! TRY IT!" made me spit beer.
In early 90s I had a brief fling with American cars and Dynasty was the car I wanted badly. I ended up with Citation and Omega instead because they were cheap. Dynasty wasn't a cheap car. Last year of production they sold for 14k in Ontario while Cavalier could be had for 10. I drove them few times and base models w 4 banger were painfully slow but very graceful to ride. Later on I heard people complaints about transmissions and electric problems in those and about that time everyone around for Japanese fever and Honda's / Toyota's became yardstick of cool.
Wow love the review! I just bought a 1993 Chrysler Lebaron Landau sedan with the Mitsubishi 3.0 v6 just a few days ago and i love it! Its got 85,000 miles a perfectly intact interior and exterior and I love everything about it! I hope it never runs into an issue with the transmission but i can only hope lol.
@@Dankcatvacs Yeah he's a cool kid but at the end of the day he's still a "kid" when it comes to reviewing old cars well before his time - These Chrysler 3.3L V6's were tanks all the way into the late-2000's, along with the 3.8L's which were larger versions of them.
This car looks like it's trying to be a 1980 and a 1990 at the same time. It's upright and blocky but has composite lights and K-car smoothed lines. The Ford Taurus looks 20 years ahead of this.
@@GeeEm1313 Most other mainstream sedans looked like the Dodge Dynasty in 1988 too - The Ford Taurus was an ultra-modern revelation during the time in terms of styling.
I had a ‘92 Dynasty and my in-laws had a ‘92 Chrysler 5th Avenue. Both cars experienced transmission failure around 60k. And the transmission quietly ruined two new tires by breaking belts with hard shifts as it went bad. My transmission was replaced TWICE because the first new transmission sent from the factory was bad. Because I lived 2 hours South of Chicago, a factory tech drove a new transmission down and my mechanic showed him the first one sent was bad. My car moved more vertically that particular month. Apart from that disaster, this car was quiet and soft riding with plenty of power, passenger and trunk space. It got decent gas mileage and drove very well in the snow. Although the new ribbon style power window motors also died young. Once all the gremlins were addressed I drove it to work for many years and now I view it with nostalgia. Like the Christmas morning it wouldn’t start and my young family had to pile into my loud Camaro hot rod project car and drive through snow to the in-law’s house! But that’s a story my wife wants to forget!
Drove a '91 when I was a kid. Car burned more oil than the retreating Iraqi army, but it never quit. Don't recall ever having any tranny problems with it either. My dad finally traded it for a Horizon because he didn't want to pay to have new valve seals put in it. Funny thing is, I actually stumbled across that Dynasty in a salvage yard a few years later, and guess what. The engine was gone out of it! Someone bought the engine out of that car to put in another. I remember being floored by that. Lol!
I'm from Uruguay and a neighbor that used to live in the USA came back with one of those in really good condition, beige on beige, it sounds really good at idle 😅
This is great. My mother at one point had a 1993 Dynasty with a Mitsubishi-built 3.0 liter V6. It had a three speed automatic that proved to be very reliable. It had antilock brakes which I am glad that it had that along with a driver-side airbag.
The 3.3 & 3.0 engine commentary is inaccurate. The 3.3 is one of the most reliable engines in existence, unlike the 3.0 (though i still like it). True that the car has an early communication network called a CCM bus but what fault mode can disable the car? There isn’t one. The closest thing that car will do to ‘sudden catastrophic failure’ is limp mode on the transmission which will still let the car drive pretty comfortably up to 50mph. Still enjoyed the vid, especially when i realized the person claiming to be worried about a 1990 Dodge’s reliability also willingly owned a rotary car. Good one 😂
Very nice to see one of these on here. I've got a very similar car right now but it's the New Yorker, no vinyl top so it looks identical. It has the 3.0 with a 3-Speed so pretty bulletproof.
Pristine examples of these are fairly common around New Jersey and Florida. Worth seeing a fully loaded well kept example if you can. These has a lot of "digital" features that even still seem futuristic today.
I don't care what ANYbody Says. This and its cousin, the Seventh Generation (1990-3) Chrysler Imperial, were two of the most Beautiful cars EVER made in my lifetime!!😎Both produced at the Belvidere, ILL plant 90 minutes from Chicago. Lee Iacocca took Chrysler from the edge of destruction to the Hottest automobile manufacturer in like 15 years!!🤓He's one of my heroes and I'll ALWAYS Miss Him!!😢If he were alive today, he'd show the competition how to build some damn cars and trucks!!🧐"If you can find a better car, buy it!"
I had one , was a great car very plush for what it was. 900 bucks drove it for 4 years till the tranny seal on the output shaft puked still sold it for 300 bucks
I had a 93 Dodge Dynasty that I bought in 2002 for the same $900 bucks when I was 16, it was the newest car I'd owned at the time (under 10 years old) even though it "looked" the oldest even back then 😂 That 3.3L V6 took ALL of my teenaged abuse for nearly 2 year and lasted another FOUR years after I sold it to my younger cousin for the same $900 I paid for it - Never had any transmissions issues but I do remember it needing a blower motor and two fuel pumps back to back which both left me stranded and made me get rid of the car, my cousin had a 3rd one put in and drove the crap out of it all through highschool.
Honestly, I absolutely love these things and it's pretty high on my list of sought after cars.. Even though I understand they weren't reliable at all, I would buy it anyway.. there's a few cars in my collection that would be considered terrible, but I have reliable cars to daily drive so it doesn't matter 🤷😂 I need one of these in my life
As others have said on other videos, the Mitsubishi 3.0 was not good. They had major oil burning problems and other things. The 3.3 is actually the better engine and alongside the 3.8 also.
The 3.3 was the better engine….but the 3 speed behind the 3.0 was the better trans. Both of them were sitting in front of a Chrysler though….for better or for worse.
3.3 is a great engine better than the 3.0 stop giving false info 3.3 has timing chain , 3.0 has timing belt that runs the water pump, water pump leak ? time for a new timing belt ! not with 3.3. my friend has a 3.3 in a 1995 chrysler conquest still runs great just needed valve cover gaskets , oil pan gasket , trans service. with over 200k . lol more reliable than any mazda dorito!
My best friend's parents in Wellington Kansas around 1989 had one of these brand new and the power door locks kept going up and down up and down and they could never fix the problem EEK(Extended K Car Platform)
My aunt had one and would let men run trains on her in the back seat, I am glad I never seen that happen, but my dad said it was like 1 after another. Apparently some guys had 🍉 bellys. She had higher mileage on her rear end than the odometer of whatever car she ever drove.
A friend of mine a grandma had a 1989 it was 2010 at the time she was 80 something years old and would not let it go for nothing in the world. She would lend it to him and we called it Di-Nasty because It would billow out blue smoke had no AC in Florida and would stall randomly and wouldn’t restart until it cool down for about 20 mins. But they didn’t mind because they would hot box 🚬💨 in it everyday anyways. I say they because I politely excused myself. You would be in there about to suffocate or catch a heat stroke
The 3.3 L V6 you say is not all that well engineered, not as strongly built in other such things compared to the 3.0 Mitsubishi? On the foundation of what? If you're going to say that you need to name exact problems with the design. Out of all the engines that came out of Chrysler during this time frame, this is arguably the most reliable out of all of them. Even there, it's more reliable than a lot of their competitors. It didn't have the oil sludging problems of Toyotas 1MZ, The oil consumption issues of the Mitsubishi 3 L, The head gasket and intake gasket issues of the 31 and 3400 engines from GM, The head gasket issues of the Ford Essex 3.8l V6, just to name a few. It had a timing chain instead of a timing belt. And if the engineering was so bad, why did Carroll Shelby use it in Can-Am racing? I'm fine with you pointing out the problems with the a604 and the ABS because those are undeniably true, but the 3.3 was a fantastic engine. If Chrysler would have used that engine and every application featuring the horrible 2.7 liter V6 their reputation would be very different today. I can't think of a single example of a 3.3 that didn't make it past 200,000 mi with no problems. If a friend or relative traded off one of their cars before that it was usually due to the transmission. Even people I know who hate Chrysler will make an exception for the 3.3 because it's that good both from a reliability standpoint and from a torque standpoint. If you're going to be reviewing cars you need to be speaking objectively. If you don't like the technology that's used in it such as using pushrod versus overhead cam technology which I suspect is what you're complaining about, you need to specify your preference and you need to acknowledge that this is your preference which is fine but it is not make it a bad design. If you're talking about that the engine isn't as easy to modify in stock form, that's okay but you have to clarify that and you also need to clarify that that doesn't make the engine less reliable for ordinary use.
Wow I haven't seen one of those in ages. Dodge used to make some cheap and sketchy cars back in those days. The only interesting cars they made were the Viper and Stealth starting in '91.
Yeah I’m not sure “ plagued with issues “ is entirely accurate . Jd power study lists it as no better or worse than the competition. Proven K car derived mechanicals and pretty hardy Engine / transmissions meant they regularly clock up high mileage.
Oddly enough my neighbor has had one of these for YEARS, in that time he's killed a geo prizm, a kia soul, a cadillac CTS and most recently a Malibu but the Dynasty lives on somehow...it looks worse every year but I still see it drive by every day
Yoooo Jimmy!!! Didn’t expect to see you here lol
Wow, like my crown vic, just won't quit.
@ I’m just as surprised as you that anyone even notices who I am lol
you gotta feature it in one of your videos!
Zach, I'm surprised you found a running Dodge Dynasty
All of these car's have been in junkyards and crushed.
That or rusted away for sure
Holy crap I cannot believe you actually found a working copy. I haven't seen one of these in over 20 years!
When I worked at the Dodge dealer back then, we would call one of those cars a Die Nasty.
The Chrysler OHV 3.3 was actually one of the most reliable engines ever made by Chrysler and I had a 96 Dodge Intrepid with one and it was a fantastic car. I also never had problems with my 42LE in it for over 450k miles. Also had an 02 300M Special 3.5L H.O and loved that also
Yeah every Chrysler product I've flipped over the years when I used to sell used cars that had this engine ALWAYS ran strong, the 3.3L was the Toyota Camry of V6 engines back then in terms of reliability.
There are quite a few Dynasty’s still chugging along here in Reno, NV. Makes me smile because we definitely made fun of friends in High School that had them when they were still somewhat newish.
One of the cars of all time.
You also missed the chance to introduce the car with the theme from Dynasty, the tv show!
He's too young to know about the show Dynasty lol. I wouldn't be surprised if Dodge named these cars after that show since it was crazy popular in its earlier seasons.
I would shamelessly own one. With all the bland cars that are around, it would be a fun car to own even with it's downsides.
My mom had a 1991 Dynasty with the same V6. Never had a problem with it.
yeah these are great engines , Zack is not a mechanic and is showing his bias here.
The Mitsubishi V6? They’re okay - if they’re well-maintained they’re fine (regular oil changing, warm-up before driving in cold temperatures, especially with turbo). That being said, they’re not quite as good as a comparable Buick 3.8L V6 or a Toyota/Honda/Nissan 3.0L v6 from the same era. That’s what I’ve found in all my years as a mechanic
I think he has the two engines mixed up. I have been in the auto business for over 28 years now and started in the late 80's. and have been in it off and on since. Everything I've ever heard or known about these is that you ran like heck from the 3.0L and if you wanted one you got the 3.3L or some models with the 3.8L. The other weak spot was those plastic wood trim strips on the doors just falling off. Lastly, the AOD trans had to be kept up really well or it would implode.
@@stoneylonesome4062 These 3.3L V6's are Chrysler designs and surprisingly MUCH more durable and reliable than the Japanese Mitsubishi 3.0L's you're thinking of that the earlier versions could have been optioned with.
My dad had a 1992 Plymouth Acclaim for a few years - an A-body and not the Dynasty's C-body, but similar in temperament and powertrain. We towed a U-Haul from Cincinnati to Florida with it, and other than having to turn the A/C off in the mountains of Tennessee so it wouldn't overheat, it didn't give us any problems. Note that the wire diagram indicator for open doors and such also includes a low washer fluid indicator, something that is virtually unobtainable at any price point on modern cars in the U.S. (but required by law in Canada)!
Also, I remember a page on the old Allpar website that said many of the A604's problems were due to improper fluid, because Chrysler's own maintenance manuals said that Dexron ATF was compatible when it definitely wasn't, causing all sorts of issues. I don't know whether that's accurate or not. I just know my dad had the A604 in his 1996 Dodge Grand Caravan ES rebuilt twice before we sold it with around 80,000 miles.
just saw a 2008 chrysler town and country with 429k for sale on facebook.
says takes long to start, well maybe because it needs a new timing chain kit...
The transmission fluid was definitely part of the problem. When ATF+4 came out, it really improved them. There were numerous revisions made to strengthen the seals, the processor, and many other parts. We put around 160k on our LH cars before trading them off and never had an outright failure. Our 02 Caravan was traded in at 208 k miles and had the original transmission. Our 91 Dynasties both reached 120k miles when the transmission started to fail.
My 2017 Ford Fusion has a low washer fluid indicator.
Bought an '89 used when it was 9 years old, drove it for 4 years. Gave it to my brother in-law, and he drove it for 5 more, all in all, we got almost 18 years of use out of it
Man reliving my youth through this channel and review ! Well done 👍 Zack!
Saw one of these in beige a couple weeks ago when I was browsing a used car lot in Rhode Island (Cooke Brothers Imports, which had mostly Volvos). Thing was clearly garaged and babied its whole life, and was in really good shape considering its age, aside from three flat tires and mouse feces on the backseat. Strangely enough, almost all the cars on that lot had flat tires, probably to prevent theft?
The Sacred Heart Auto League badge and the Curad bandage in the ashtray are two of my most favorite things about this rectilinear runabout.
And you deserved that back seat after your experience with the Scion.
And "Brake, fat boy! TRY IT!" made me spit beer.
In early 90s I had a brief fling with American cars and Dynasty was the car I wanted badly. I ended up with Citation and Omega instead because they were cheap. Dynasty wasn't a cheap car. Last year of production they sold for 14k in Ontario while Cavalier could be had for 10. I drove them few times and base models w 4 banger were painfully slow but very graceful to ride. Later on I heard people complaints about transmissions and electric problems in those and about that time everyone around for Japanese fever and Honda's / Toyota's became yardstick of cool.
The 3.3 was a very good engine, it probably was the best V6 engine Chrysler ever made.
Yup, these 3.3L's and the 3.8L's were as durable as any Toyota engine of the day, very underrated.
A friend of mine had one of these back in the late 90s, early 00s. We called it the D-Nasty and drove the wheels off that thing 😂🙌
My ex-wife's dad had one and called it the D-nasty as well
Dr. House drives one.
Wow love the review! I just bought a 1993 Chrysler Lebaron Landau sedan with the Mitsubishi 3.0 v6 just a few days ago and i love it! Its got 85,000 miles a perfectly intact interior and exterior and I love everything about it! I hope it never runs into an issue with the transmission but i can only hope lol.
I always thought the Dodge 3.3 was a reliable engine. Maybe they weren't early on?
no they are reliable don't listen to everything Zack says....
@@Dankcatvacs That makes sense. I've seen too many 3.3 V6 Dodge Caravans with over 400,000 miles to say it's a bad engine.
@@Dankcatvacs Yeah he's a cool kid but at the end of the day he's still a "kid" when it comes to reviewing old cars well before his time - These Chrysler 3.3L V6's were tanks all the way into the late-2000's, along with the 3.8L's which were larger versions of them.
This car looks like it's trying to be a 1980 and a 1990 at the same time. It's upright and blocky but has composite lights and K-car smoothed lines. The Ford Taurus looks 20 years ahead of this.
My mom bought a Taurus in 1988 when the Dynasty was first introduced. As much as I loved the Dynasty, Chrysler was stuck in an earlier time.
@@GeeEm1313 Most other mainstream sedans looked like the Dodge Dynasty in 1988 too - The Ford Taurus was an ultra-modern revelation during the time in terms of styling.
I had a ‘92 Dynasty and my in-laws had a ‘92 Chrysler 5th Avenue. Both cars experienced transmission failure around 60k. And the transmission quietly ruined two new tires by breaking belts with hard shifts as it went bad. My transmission was replaced TWICE because the first new transmission sent from the factory was bad. Because I lived 2 hours South of Chicago, a factory tech drove a new transmission down and my mechanic showed him the first one sent was bad. My car moved more vertically that particular month. Apart from that disaster, this car was quiet and soft riding with plenty of power, passenger and trunk space. It got decent gas mileage and drove very well in the snow. Although the new ribbon style power window motors also died young. Once all the gremlins were addressed I drove it to work for many years and now I view it with nostalgia. Like the Christmas morning it wouldn’t start and my young family had to pile into my loud Camaro hot rod project car and drive through snow to the in-law’s house! But that’s a story my wife wants to forget!
Drove a '91 when I was a kid. Car burned more oil than the retreating Iraqi army, but it never quit. Don't recall ever having any tranny problems with it either. My dad finally traded it for a Horizon because he didn't want to pay to have new valve seals put in it. Funny thing is, I actually stumbled across that Dynasty in a salvage yard a few years later, and guess what. The engine was gone out of it! Someone bought the engine out of that car to put in another. I remember being floored by that. Lol!
I'm from Uruguay and a neighbor that used to live in the USA came back with one of those in really good condition, beige on beige, it sounds really good at idle 😅
This is great. My mother at one point had a 1993 Dynasty with a Mitsubishi-built 3.0 liter V6. It had a three speed automatic that proved to be very reliable. It had antilock brakes which I am glad that it had that along with a driver-side airbag.
The 3.3 & 3.0 engine commentary is inaccurate. The 3.3 is one of the most reliable engines in existence, unlike the 3.0 (though i still like it). True that the car has an early communication network called a CCM bus but what fault mode can disable the car? There isn’t one. The closest thing that car will do to ‘sudden catastrophic failure’ is limp mode on the transmission which will still let the car drive pretty comfortably up to 50mph. Still enjoyed the vid, especially when i realized the person claiming to be worried about a 1990 Dodge’s reliability also willingly owned a rotary car. Good one 😂
I agree.
My first car was a ‘93 dodge spirit. Man i’d love to have that car again
Very nice to see one of these on here. I've got a very similar car right now but it's the New Yorker, no vinyl top so it looks identical. It has the 3.0 with a 3-Speed so pretty bulletproof.
Pristine examples of these are fairly common around New Jersey and Florida. Worth seeing a fully loaded well kept example if you can. These has a lot of "digital" features that even still seem futuristic today.
My highschool girlfriends mom had one. I always thought it was a great car and have lots of memories of riding in it.
my fav nephew drove a 1990 dynasty ,a brownish /gold color . it served him well despite the fact it was a dodge dynasty
Back in the 90s the Sheriff's Office I worked for used them as detectives cars. Somehow they were all burgundy colored.
I had a 1993 Silver LE model and it was super reliable and cheap to fix and buy.. I had no problems.
In the 1990s, Chrysler came out with an unreliable transmission, such a new one offered with the redesigned 1991 Caravan
I don't care what ANYbody Says. This and its cousin, the Seventh Generation (1990-3) Chrysler Imperial, were two of the most Beautiful cars EVER made in my lifetime!!😎Both produced at the Belvidere, ILL plant 90 minutes from Chicago. Lee Iacocca took Chrysler from the edge of destruction to the Hottest automobile manufacturer in like 15 years!!🤓He's one of my heroes and I'll ALWAYS Miss Him!!😢If he were alive today, he'd show the competition how to build some damn cars and trucks!!🧐"If you can find a better car, buy it!"
Hell yeah. My second favorite car when I was growing up. I didn't know they came in SE trim.
These and also the acclaim were really popular in my neighbourhood.
I had one , was a great car very plush for what it was. 900 bucks drove it for 4 years till the tranny seal on the output shaft puked still sold it for 300 bucks
I had a 93 Dodge Dynasty that I bought in 2002 for the same $900 bucks when I was 16, it was the newest car I'd owned at the time (under 10 years old) even though it "looked" the oldest even back then 😂 That 3.3L V6 took ALL of my teenaged abuse for nearly 2 year and lasted another FOUR years after I sold it to my younger cousin for the same $900 I paid for it - Never had any transmissions issues but I do remember it needing a blower motor and two fuel pumps back to back which both left me stranded and made me get rid of the car, my cousin had a 3rd one put in and drove the crap out of it all through highschool.
Love it!!!❤ Bring em back!
Back in the day, those were pretty quick for what they were.
Yeah the 3.3L's felt peppy in these cars and actually sounded kinda mean for a V6, they liked to rev.
There's an abandoned one of
These sitting around every drug house in the Midwest!
Honestly, I absolutely love these things and it's pretty high on my list of sought after cars.. Even though I understand they weren't reliable at all, I would buy it anyway.. there's a few cars in my collection that would be considered terrible, but I have reliable cars to daily drive so it doesn't matter 🤷😂 I need one of these in my life
well at least dodge has stayed consistent with its quality throughout the years.
holy hannah ripped a new one wide open on the dynasty! it does have nasty in its name after all lol...another great one Zack!
As others have said on other videos, the Mitsubishi 3.0 was not good. They had major oil burning problems and other things. The 3.3 is actually the better engine and alongside the 3.8 also.
The 3.3 was the better engine….but the 3 speed behind the 3.0 was the better trans.
Both of them were sitting in front of a Chrysler though….for better or for worse.
3.3 is a great engine better than the 3.0 stop giving false info 3.3 has timing chain , 3.0 has timing belt that runs the water pump, water pump leak ? time for a new timing belt ! not with 3.3.
my friend has a 3.3 in a 1995 chrysler conquest still runs great just needed valve cover gaskets , oil pan gasket , trans service. with over 200k .
lol more reliable than any mazda dorito!
Believe it or not,I think this is a lot like a modern Mazda SUV: Almost everyone either had one or knows someone who had one.
This is peak malaise era and I love it
It is the Willard from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
An anti theft system
Dodge were optimistic thinking someone would want to steal that P.O S. 😂
Chrysler products were theft magnets back in the day, similar to Kia's and Hyundai's today.
My best friend's parents in Wellington Kansas around 1989 had one of these brand new and the power door locks kept going up and down up and down and they could never fix the problem
EEK(Extended K Car Platform)
Dr. House’s Car :D
My dad had one and it caught on fire one night in our driveway
My aunt had one and would let men run trains on her in the back seat, I am glad I never seen that happen, but my dad said it was like 1 after another. Apparently some guys had 🍉 bellys. She had higher mileage on her rear end than the odometer of whatever car she ever drove.
I had a stroke reading this.
@nathanjoseph4284 yeah, she had more mileage on her .ss than the car did. That's a fact
A friend of mine a grandma had a 1989 it was 2010 at the time she was 80 something years old and would not let it go for nothing in the world. She would lend it to him and we called it Di-Nasty because It would billow out blue smoke had no AC in Florida and would stall randomly and wouldn’t restart until it cool down for about 20 mins. But they didn’t mind because they would hot box 🚬💨 in it everyday anyways. I say they because I politely excused myself. You would be in there about to suffocate or catch a heat stroke
05:00 BIG FRIGGIN BOTTLE FAIL!!!
The 3.3 L V6 you say is not all that well engineered, not as strongly built in other such things compared to the 3.0 Mitsubishi? On the foundation of what? If you're going to say that you need to name exact problems with the design. Out of all the engines that came out of Chrysler during this time frame, this is arguably the most reliable out of all of them. Even there, it's more reliable than a lot of their competitors. It didn't have the oil sludging problems of Toyotas 1MZ, The oil consumption issues of the Mitsubishi 3 L, The head gasket and intake gasket issues of the 31 and 3400 engines from GM, The head gasket issues of the Ford Essex 3.8l V6, just to name a few. It had a timing chain instead of a timing belt. And if the engineering was so bad, why did Carroll Shelby use it in Can-Am racing? I'm fine with you pointing out the problems with the a604 and the ABS because those are undeniably true, but the 3.3 was a fantastic engine. If Chrysler would have used that engine and every application featuring the horrible 2.7 liter V6 their reputation would be very different today. I can't think of a single example of a 3.3 that didn't make it past 200,000 mi with no problems. If a friend or relative traded off one of their cars before that it was usually due to the transmission. Even people I know who hate Chrysler will make an exception for the 3.3 because it's that good both from a reliability standpoint and from a torque standpoint.
If you're going to be reviewing cars you need to be speaking objectively. If you don't like the technology that's used in it such as using pushrod versus overhead cam technology which I suspect is what you're complaining about, you need to specify your preference and you need to acknowledge that this is your preference which is fine but it is not make it a bad design. If you're talking about that the engine isn't as easy to modify in stock form, that's okay but you have to clarify that and you also need to clarify that that doesn't make the engine less reliable for ordinary use.
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I remember this and the Dodge Avengers and Shadow cars all on this similar chassis.....those cars werent pretty or fast buy they lasted
Love it
Great tow rig for Zip ties and bias plys
Day 2 of asking what the music in the intro and outro is
I think they used the same engine in the Dodge Caravan
Think?? Obviously, they did lol
They did. The 3.3 liter V6 was an okay engine but the four speed automatic was not always reliable.
@@johnnymason2460 yeah no body serviced them...
This car will always remind me of Malcolm in the Middle
I love it 😻
Had the Chrysler version and d@mn thing was a fricken floaty boat with no guts 😂😂
It was built for cruising & hauling dead bodies.😎You want guts? Buy a Spirit R/T or a Stealth.
The car from malcolm in the middle
The car of choice for vicodin addicted doctors
Anything Chrysler made was a ticking time bomb! Still applies for anything they make today! 😂
Also, so many leaves.
dodge wants you to forget about this
Show me a reliable Dodge and I'll show you a snowstorm in Panama. Just sayin...
This copied the Chevrolet Celebrity in styling for sure! Looks like it came from 1985 lol
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Wow I haven't seen one of those in ages. Dodge used to make some cheap and sketchy cars back in those days. The only interesting cars they made were the Viper and Stealth starting in '91.
I've never seen these in good condition.
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@nathanjoseph4284 eup
I hate these damn things.
A Forgettable Dodge product of the 90s . The Spirit R/T is the only collectible car of that era
Yeah I’m not sure “ plagued with issues “ is entirely accurate . Jd power study lists it as no better or worse than the competition. Proven K car derived mechanicals and pretty hardy Engine / transmissions meant they regularly clock up high mileage.