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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Ours is a 2011 and has the 3.6, theirs is a 2014. I agree the 3.6 pentstar is the best v6 dodge ever made, I think better than anybody's standard naturally aspirated v6. Now it's in everything from Jeep's new Gladiator to midsize Chrysler 200s, to full size pickups, and Challengers. One of the most interesting things to me is how at the last refresh, they decided to stay away from direct injection. I like the idea of direct injection but I'm not sure long term it doesn't add problems, and future emission rules may require adding exhaust particulate filters on direct injected gas motors. I always take simple, inexpensive, and long lasting, over minor gains in power or economy.
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I'm with you on simple. We had a 2012 town and country (our third dodge van, first was an 02 Caravan, then an 07 T&C). At just shy of 100k miles we had an intermittent transmission code, random stalling, random jumps into limp mode, all kinds of interior body panel issues, increasing suspension noise, starting to have power door problems, power window problems, a power lock that didn't work, horrible wind noise and the fuel economy was tanking.
I got rid of that van finally and now we have an 07 Odyssey. With 160k miles the odyssey drives like new, is incredibly quiet, and rides smoother than any luxury car I've driven. Honestly at this point Dodge and it's subsidiaries are pretty much dead to me, unless I were to get a cummins pickup, but honestly I'd rather get an old 7.3 Ford than deal with the troubles that come with owning a Dodge.