Y'know, when it comes to newer truck trannies, ya gotta hand it to Ford. They just last forever! They take a serious lickin'. I used a '94 F350 to move on Saturday with a 20' or so flatbed trailer. Sucker had 172,000 miles on it and still ran like new. In fact, some of our crew trucks here have over 120,000 miles on it and still running strong, all '94 and newer. We've never had a tranny fail on us.

Bahh!! This is not what I wanted to hear! So, a transmission on a 2001-2002 Dodge Stratus (V6 maybe) would belong to this "not so good" category?

Actually, I think those trannies are ok. It'* more their full size cars that have the crappy transmissions.

I hope it'* a decent transmission (it'* one of the cars I'm looking at). Anyone else have any opinions on the 2002ish Dodge Stratus transmission?

And trucks.

I haven't had any issues with the tranny on my '97 RAM 1500 4x4. The truck has 76k miles on it and it'* showing no signs of problems with the transmission... I haven't done much towing with it, but it has seen 2 summers of hauling 2 wagons with 3 tons of straw on each wagon.

A friend of mine has a '96 Ram 4x4, and the tranny blew at 60k miles. When he took it to the shop, there were 2 more similar year, similar mileage Rams there getting the tranny replaced. The guy that runs the tranny shop said that Rams are a regular at his shop.

Well, that'* good information to know. Guess I'll be doing a flush and fill w/ filter change soon then.

I do run a 12" x 24" Hayden trans cooler on mine. Put it on as soon as we bought it. Maybe that'* the reason why others have had so much trouble with them..?

Absolutely! Those extra tranny coolers are well worth the time, effort and money, even for our cars.