AN: The future of Toluca Assembly (corrected)

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Discussion Starter · Jul 22, 2013

The fate of the Toluca, Mexico assembly plant is a quandary for Mopar observers. Current plans appear to be for the Fiat 500 to return to European construction and for the Dodge Journey to move in with the Chrysler 200 or Jeep Cherokee when it moves to its new platform. Toluca, home of the Neon, then the PT Cruiser, then the Journey and Fiat 500, would then be empty.

Toluca includes an assembly plant and a stamping plant, and started out in 1984 building K-cars. In 1994, the plant switched from making LeBaron, Phantom, Spirit, and Acclaim to a single focus on Neons. PT came in 2001, Journey in 2008, Fiat 500 in 2011. While the plant’s future use is a mystery, here are what we believe to be the major options: Chrysler could shut it down entirely as unnecessary capacity far from the corporate supply lines; it is..

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PCRMike

· #41 · Jul 25, 2013

I am at nearly 30K on my 2012 (new style rotor) Journey and have had zero issue with anything at all. The bigger rotors made a huge difference.

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UN4GTBL

· #42 · Jul 25, 2013

Trailduster45 said:
Ahh warped rotors. Chrysler has been plagued with that bug for years. It ain't just the Journey. I hope if their new supplier works out they give them all their rotor business. I work for one of the major auto parts chains, and let me tell you we get more then our share of rotor sales from Chrysler products. I bought a new 1984 Ramcharger, warranty supplied me with 3 new sets before it was up, they all warped and I'm not hard on brakes. I replaced them after warranty with a name brand aftermarket pair and they never warped. My 02 Ram 2500 I bought new was built in the Lago Alberto plant Mr Source talks about on here and I have 200,000 miles on it with the original rotors. So someone knows how to make good rotors.

Agreed.

Our '04 Dakota was the worst one for brakes (they were scary), but we've replaced just about every pair of front rotors on all of our vehicles within 50,000km. Three different drivers in a wide variety of driving.

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Mr.Source

· #43 · Jul 26, 2013

Danno said:
We do??

Of course deakers were adviced of the fix, read those bulletins, or take a look at a new Jorney see whatps new, what has been changed.

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browens1534

· #44 · Jul 26, 2013

Just to add something left out... Didn't they make the 96-00 Sebring Convertible?

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Stratuscaster

· #45 · Jul 26, 2013

Yes, they did.

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Mike V.

· #46 · Jul 26, 2013

Mr.Source said:
Of course deakers were adviced of the fix, read those bulletins, or take a look at a new Jorney see whatps new, what has been changed.

I don't work at a dealer, would you happen to know which bulletin?

Mike

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