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Nope. They will have the W5A580.I have heard that production of the 2012 Grand Cherokee is due to begin July 2011; has anyone heard if the ZF 8-speed transmission will be available for the pentastar equipped models?
Nope. They will have the W5A580.I have heard that production of the 2012 Grand Cherokee is due to begin July 2011; has anyone heard if the ZF 8-speed transmission will be available for the pentastar equipped models?
Nope. They will have the W5A580.
Your experience is not universal. "Horrid" is a rather nasty overstatement. We've gone over ratios already numerous times and there are reasons for them in most cases. Reliability has been average or better AFAIK for the last decade or two. I haven't experienced "shift with a clunk" for a few years now including the 2006 minivan we own. The 300M, it is true, does it.et he has done absolutely nothing for the 2011 models to improve what has been the Achilles heel of Chrysler products for the past twenty years, namely their horrid transmissions. Many of them shift with a clunk, reliability is spotty, and the ratios in some of them are just awful
You bet it does :lol: Even more so since it's gotten crankier (radiator failure that let coolant into tranny. Cleaned it all, tranny still works, but not as well as it used to). Our 04 minivan is much better about it though.Your experience is not universal. "Horrid" is a rather nasty overstatement. We've gone over ratios already numerous times and there are reasons for them in most cases. Reliability has been average or better AFAIK for the last decade or two. I haven't experienced "shift with a clunk" for a few years now including the 2006 minivan we own. The 300M, it is true, does it.
What intrigues me is how Sergio supposedly wanted to rectify what he thought was deficiencies in Chrysler products before the 2011 models were released, and yet he has done absolutely nothing for the 2011 models to improve what has been the Achilles heel of Chrysler products for the past twenty years, namely their horrid transmissions. Many of them shift with a clunk, reliability is spotty, and the ratios in some of them are just awful. And yet, what do people complain about? That black thing at the rear side window on the 200's! To me, that is nothing compared to the lame 580 transmissions.
Well, Rome wasn't built in a day. The tranny that was in the the 300M is the same one in the PT Cruiser GT auto and almost everyone I have spoken with who has had one long term has had one fail. And most of them were well aware of the transmission fluid issue. I was lucky enough to find one with the Getrag 5 speed. But, man, there are a lot of people with PT GTs who replaced their transmissions multiple times.They fixed what has clearly been the major complaint, bad interiors. Power, performance, and styling have been fixed as well. Transmissions were not what kept most people out of Chrysler products.
What intrigues me is how Sergio supposedly wanted to rectify what he thought was deficiencies in Chrysler products before the 2011 models were released, and yet he has done absolutely nothing for the 2011 models to improve what has been the Achilles heel of Chrysler products for the past twenty years, namely their horrid transmissions. Many of them shift with a clunk, reliability is spotty, and the ratios in some of them are just awful. And yet, what do people complain about? That black thing at the rear side window on the 200's! To me, that is nothing compared to the lame 580 transmissions.
You're kidding, right? It's a GREAT transmission. For example, look how well it has held up in tens and tens of thousands of SRT8 vehicles!....To me, that is nothing compared to the lame 580 transmissions.
1. The 2005 GC Hemi came with the 545RFE transmission, not the W5A580.That said, I do know it's not with out issues. My cousin just recently burned the transmission out on his 2005 Jeep GC Hemi. It's second time he's had tranny issues (the first time wasn't really the trannies fault, he found water in the transmission, had it cleaned rebuilt, only to have it happen again, found that water was leaking into the tranny fluid fill tube.) This time through, he admits to getting stuck, and pushing too hard to get unstuck, that he knew better.. Tricky thing there, since I wasn't there. Even the best hardware has a breaking point, so did he really push it past what is safe for said vehicle, or can the tranny just not take all that much abuse.. In either case, I've heard no complaints with it on the LXs at least.
Whoop, my mistake..1. The 2005 GC Hemi came with the 545RFE transmission, not the W5A580.
2. Sounds like both "issues" you describe were not the "trannies fault".
What intrigues me is how Sergio supposedly wanted to rectify what he thought was deficiencies in Chrysler products before the 2011 models were released, and yet he has done absolutely nothing for the 2011 models to improve what has been the Achilles heel of Chrysler products for the past twenty years, namely their horrid transmissions. Many of them shift with a clunk, reliability is spotty, and the ratios in some of them are just awful. And yet, what do people complain about? That black thing at the rear side window on the 200's! To me, that is nothing compared to the lame 580 transmissions.