I what to buy a chrysler grand voyager. What do I need to consider?
Before you ask. I live in Germany and I sometimes see these huge voyager‘s on the road. I thought that it would be a great camper or just a nice daily.
There’s a lot of negativity here, and I think that’s because of what happened with these cars as time went on.
Brand-new, the generation you’ve shared a picture of was considered an excellent minivan/MPV. Possibly best in class. From my understanding, they don’t age well however. You can blame poor build quality and a lack of reliability for that.
This meant they ended being sold for a song and a dance on the used market, ended up in the hands of people that couldn’t or wouldn’t maintain them, which resulted in a negative perception of the model. The fact that the replacement generation was possibly a downgrade in terms of build quality, and was infamous for its poor safety scores didn’t help the model’s reputation either.
I think today, a pristine one would be an interesting curiosity at 90s car show, but beyond that I’d stay away. I doubt spare parts are that easy to come by either.
H1Ed1
Found Kendrick Lamar’s burner account.
Cusp-of-Precibus
As a former mechanic and now service advisor I will tell you the top 3 brands that are in the shop all the time. Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep. The lot is full of them at any time. Absolute garbage.
magoosauce
I will say I love this car but I had a dodge caravan but same generation as the picture 2004 piece of shit loved it, if you take the back seats out and one of the middle seats you can easily get a dirt bike into it with the sliding door no ramp no help no ratchet straps just lean it on the other middle seat, engine always ran like a top everything around it is shit, I got mine for free because the side was caved in and my friend was gonna junk it, it did me well don’t pay a lot
acanofspam
Grew up with one. ’97 3.5L. It broke 3 transmissions with less than 150k miles on the clock. Killed itself by shooting a broken differential tooth thru the casing.
When it worked it was comfortable and spacious with a great stereo for the time (before it stopped working). Not awful to drive, but nothing great about it either.
Eon4691
Consider a Touran instead
Bandito04
Watch the transmission
Schteeks
How much attention you’re gonna get from all the dudes
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Why do you hate yourself?
You need to consider another car
There’s a lot of negativity here, and I think that’s because of what happened with these cars as time went on.
Brand-new, the generation you’ve shared a picture of was considered an excellent minivan/MPV. Possibly best in class. From my understanding, they don’t age well however. You can blame poor build quality and a lack of reliability for that.
This meant they ended being sold for a song and a dance on the used market, ended up in the hands of people that couldn’t or wouldn’t maintain them, which resulted in a negative perception of the model. The fact that the replacement generation was possibly a downgrade in terms of build quality, and was infamous for its poor safety scores didn’t help the model’s reputation either.
I think today, a pristine one would be an interesting curiosity at 90s car show, but beyond that I’d stay away. I doubt spare parts are that easy to come by either.
Found Kendrick Lamar’s burner account.
As a former mechanic and now service advisor I will tell you the top 3 brands that are in the shop all the time. Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep. The lot is full of them at any time. Absolute garbage.
I will say I love this car but I had a dodge caravan but same generation as the picture 2004 piece of shit loved it, if you take the back seats out and one of the middle seats you can easily get a dirt bike into it with the sliding door no ramp no help no ratchet straps just lean it on the other middle seat, engine always ran like a top everything around it is shit, I got mine for free because the side was caved in and my friend was gonna junk it, it did me well don’t pay a lot
Grew up with one. ’97 3.5L. It broke 3 transmissions with less than 150k miles on the clock. Killed itself by shooting a broken differential tooth thru the casing.
When it worked it was comfortable and spacious with a great stereo for the time (before it stopped working). Not awful to drive, but nothing great about it either.
Consider a Touran instead
Watch the transmission
How much attention you’re gonna get from all the dudes