I have heard the same thing about the transmissions, We have owned three caravans, all have been fine. know problem. for what ever that is worth. one caravan, we even pulled a small trailer. for what ever that is worth. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: Victor Gouveia To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] cars and towing
The only problem I see with Michael's suggestion to go with a Caravan is that the Caravan is notorious for transmission failures sooner rather than later. In fact, consumer reports has done an investigation and found that Dodge Caravans were 85% more likely to need a major transmission repair within the first three years of ownership, as opposed to the average 5 to 8 years of their competitors, and 9 to 11 years with the Japanese imports. I have known three Caravan's in my life, and each lived up to the consumer reports investigation. I'm not saying that I took bad care of it, I could see at the time, was driving it on a regular basis, and I had it serviced on regular intervals, as per manufacturer's standards. Either way, it might be worth looking into the report further, as I may be wrong on the numbers. Victor Gouveia [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/hOt0.A/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/86xolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
