SRT-4 fffffuuunnnn

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SickWhip

Discussion Starter · Oct 15, 2003

Hey guys just drove another srt neon. Man they are a fun fast car to drive for being all factory. It realy gets the tires spinning when the turbo spools in first.

I have driven two the first one did not have a possi diff, but the second one did and it makes a difference when trying to take off. All and all the car is fun to drive.

But the test one they brought to us before the srt-4 was on the market had 7k on it and the turbo already burnt up, it dropped the trani and there were a few electrical sensors that whent bad. So I wouldn't recommend buying one yet. Not until they atleast work out some more of the bugs.

P.S.
The focus realy needs a turbo

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Auto-X-ZTS

· #2 · Oct 15, 2003

. So I wouldn't recommend buying one yet. Not until they atleast work out some more of the bugs.

Bugs are standard equipment on all Neons--have been since '95.

SickWhip

Discussion Starter · #3 · Oct 15, 2003

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. So I wouldn't recommend buying one yet. Not until they atleast work out some more of the bugs.

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Bugs are standard equipment on all Neons--have been since '95.

Its true so true.

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Winkty

· #4 · Oct 15, 2003

I drove one. It's fast....but the tranny felt like junk. You could feel it in the shift.

kennan J

· #5 · Oct 15, 2003

if only the RS was here ............................

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RiTzBiTz

· #6 · Oct 15, 2003

damn nice car for cheap...

OmniFocus

· #7 · Oct 15, 2003

I wouldn't take reliability guesstimates from demo cars... Not wise.

FocusedOne

· #8 · Oct 15, 2003

But the test one they brought to us before the srt-4 was on the market had 7k on it and the turbo already burnt up, it dropped the trani and there were a few electrical sensors that whent bad. So I wouldn't recommend buying one yet. Not until they atleast work out some more of the bugs.

You took that paragraph off some other website...i read that exact paragraph somewhere else....

IMO the srt-4 is a solid car...as for blowing the turbo, and dropping the tranny...it was a TEST car...not production...you must remember that...also OBVIOUSLY the car had the siht kicked out of it during those 7k [wouldn't you on a new car that was fast and not yours?]

whiteboyslo

· #9 · Oct 15, 2003

like it won't have the [censored] kicked out of it by its owner? i'm sorry, but they ARE advertising this car as a fast and fun SPORT COMPACT for under $20,000, not an economy car. it should be able to hold up to that kind of abuse. but what do you expect when you get all that power and goodies for under $20K? the cost had to be cut somewhere, and with Dodge it usually comes in the trannies and the electronics.

Mike

SickWhip

Discussion Starter · #10 · Oct 15, 2003

But the test one they brought to us before the srt-4 was on the market had 7k on it and the turbo already burnt up, it dropped the trani and there were a few electrical sensors that whent bad. So I wouldn't recommend buying one yet. Not until they atleast work out some more of the bugs.

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You took that paragraph off some other website...i read that exact paragraph somewhere else....

IMO the srt-4 is a solid car...as for blowing the turbo, and dropping the tranny...it was a TEST car...not production...you must remember that...also OBVIOUSLY the car had the siht kicked out of it during those 7k [wouldn't you on a new car that was fast and not yours?]

No that quote was strate from my mouth(or horses ass witch ever) and yes it was beaten. I am located in central P.A. and the car was regesterd in maryland or some southern state close by, there were some sales men who whent down for some sales course, and they got to drive that vary same one when they where down takeing there class and that was when it had 1k and they said they all beat it.

Even so I have been beating the living [censored] out of my focus and it has 96k in two years. Most of those miles where done above 5k rpms and I just put a trani in it at 85k miles.

BTW I didn't even worry about the brake in period of 3k or what ever it is. I remember doing my first smokey burn out at about 1k. I let the clutch fly at about 5krpm's and ripped the e-brake and sat there and smoked.

So weather or not the vehicle has been beaten does not matter it should still hold up in 7kmiles too the beating of sales man and managers and who ever else drove it.
Just my 2cents

blackbird

· #11 · Oct 15, 2003

<snip> the cost had to be cut somewhere, and with Dodge it usually comes in the trannies and the electronics.
Mike

There are only a few problems with some of the Mopar automatic transmission and transaxles. You could also consider that Ford itself hasn't been the greatest with some of their automatics. The Chrysler 5 speeds are actually pretty bulletproof for their intended applications unless they get severely abused. A lot of them can still take it quite a bit anyway. Every carmaker has some stuff they do better and worse than others.

If there's one place where Chrysler cut costs on the Neon platform it's mostly in interior material and standard amenities. Sure, I think the Focus interior is a little nicer, but I don't necessarily think that makes the Neon screwed together poorly. And for what you get for the money, the SRT-4 isn't a bad compromise to me.

Jared

· #12 · Oct 15, 2003

But the test one they brought to us before the srt-4 was on the market had 7k on it and the turbo already burnt up, it dropped the trani and there were a few electrical sensors that whent bad. So I wouldn't recommend buying one yet. Not until they atleast work out some more of the bugs.

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You took that paragraph off some other website...i read that exact paragraph somewhere else....

IMO the srt-4 is a solid car...as for blowing the turbo, and dropping the tranny...it was a TEST car...not production...you must remember that...also OBVIOUSLY the car had the siht kicked out of it during those 7k [wouldn't you on a new car that was fast and not yours?]

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No that quote was strate from my mouth(or horses ass witch ever) and yes it was beaten. I am located in central P.A. and the car was regesterd in maryland or some southern state close by, there were some sales men who whent down for some sales course, and they got to drive that vary same one when they where down takeing there class and that was when it had 1k and they said they all beat it.

Even so I have been beating the living [censored] out of my focus and it has 96k in two years. Most of those miles where done above 5k rpms and I just put a trani in it at 85k miles.

BTW I didn't even worry about the brake in period of 3k or what ever it is. I remember doing my first smokey burn out at about 1k. I let the clutch fly at about 5krpm's and ripped the e-brake and sat there and smoked.

So weather or not the vehicle has been beaten does not matter it should still hold up in 7kmiles too the beating of sales man and managers and who ever else drove it.
Just my 2cents

while i'm certainly not defending this car, i suspect that this particular Neon got beaten a LOT more than your Focus. i mean, this was a vehicle that tons of different people got to drive for a little bit. they were all probably dropping the clutch at 5,000rpm whenever they could. so this car has probably seen a billion more burnouts compared to your car.

i mean, even if there was cost cutting, the tranny and turbo wouldn't blow at 7k miles under even hard driving

SickWhip

Discussion Starter · #13 · Oct 15, 2003

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I will agree with you on that I didn't beat my car all the time every day until about 15k miles, and the neon was beat alot harder than mine was in the first 7k miles of its life.
Now I don't know what exactly broke on the trani but I assume that it was a diff because there new neons all come with a posi.

The turbos on the other hand are the size of hair drier. I don't know what kind of turbo it is but we held a t3/t4 (that was reworked by turbonetics) up to the neon and it was a little bit smaller. Granted the one on the neon was still attached to the car so that could have made it look smaller than the t3/t4.

But it still doesn't mean that the turbo should have gotten hot enough to sieze up the turbo.

I used to hate mopar products, but now that I have been working at a dodge dealer for 2 years mopar products have grown on me. So I am not just bashing it becuase its a neon. I am just stateing what I know and have heard from mopar reps(that would never say anything like that to the general puplic).

I mean it's a fun car to drive. Hell you hop on the high way and start rippen threw the gears and before you know it you doing 120mph(thats all the faster I could go before I had to get off of the next exit

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focalBlur

· #14 · Oct 15, 2003

According to Car and Driver:

the 2004 SRT-4 has 15 more hp and 5 more lb/ft
making the power rating now 230hp and 250 lb/ft
the car also now has a Quaife LSD

so waiting is a very good thing

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MUTTLEE

· #15 · Oct 15, 2003

I drove one. It's fast....but the tranny felt like junk. You could feel it in the shift.

And the Focus is better??? hahahaha

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Jared

· #16 · Oct 15, 2003

According to Car and Driver:

the 2004 SRT-4 has 15 more hp and 5 more lb/ft
making the power rating now 230hp and 250 lb/ft
the car also now has a Quaife LSD

so waiting is a very good thing

whoa, they gave them a little more power AND a Quaife? that's cool as hell, i wonder how much the price went up?

SickWhip

Discussion Starter · #17 · Oct 15, 2003

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whoa, they gave them a little more power AND a Quaife? that's cool as hell, i wonder how much the price went up?

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The one I drove today had the quaife and the added hp. The base price on the sticker is 20k and change and the one I drove was $21,480. It had a sunroof and that was all the extras it had as far as the list of extras said.

SickWhip

Discussion Starter · #18 · Oct 15, 2003

Ooops! Forgot to mention that last years model with a sunroof the price was $19,995. (No joke on 995 either that was what the dealer was asking)If I were to buy it as an employee I could get it for $18k.(Thats no joke either the mark up is outragious.)

Hi-Risk

· #19 · Oct 15, 2003

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I drove one. It's fast....but the tranny felt like junk. You could feel it in the shift.

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And the Focus is better??? hahahaha

WERD!

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focusownerskid

· #20 · Oct 15, 2003

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According to Car and Driver:

the 2004 SRT-4 has 15 more hp and 5 more lb/ft
making the power rating now 230hp and 250 lb/ft
the car also now has a Quaife LSD

so waiting is a very good thing

No, they just rated it closer to real specs.

They dyno aroun 225whp stock, even when they were rated at 215hp to the crank. They just made it closer to real world values, even though it's still underrated.

But, i'm sure the Quaife makes the biggest difference! That and new BFG KDW's!

Ooops! Forgot to mention that last years model with a sunroof the price was $19,995.

Sunroof wasn't an option last year.

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