Anyone know of any major issues with the srt-4 skittles?
 

I went and looked at a used 2005 srt-4 today, and I'm thinking about picking it up this week. It has a hair over 12,000 miles on it and has the mopar stage 2 upgrade, and I can say I was decently surprised when I took it for a test drive. This thing isn't bad for a stock car right out of the box (makes my wrx feel as slow as a n/a b16 honda :P), but I want to try and find out if there are any major known issues with these before I go and get another car payment. I'm not looking for the typical "it's a dodge, everything will break" answer because if that's the case "it's a honda, modify it and everything WILL break" (this I know from too much personal honda experience :P) but I am looking for cold hard facts and owner's input if there are any on here.


Cliffnotes: I'm sick of honda garbage :-X

Re: Anyone know of any major issues with the srt-4 skittles?
 

well..alot of my friends have them..only problem they have...is keeping them unwrapped from trees...i hate how they look..and the interior feels so cheap...i drove it..the torque is beastly...those mopar packages are pricey..never really heard any big problems..it just feels so cheap..fun to drive tho
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Re: Anyone know of any major issues with the srt-4 skittles?
 

You mean besides them being for fags????

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Re: Anyone know of any major issues with the srt-4 skittles?
 

I'll agree with a few things...the interior reeked of cheap, and when I rolled up the power windows the door plastics bulged when they got all the way up. On the plus side, I like the way the shifter is set up, it's at a perfect height right where I like it. Power was good, first and second gear pretty much fought for traction when I stomped down on the throttle. Seats were a hair tight, but I need to lose a few pounds anyway lol.

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Skittles are reasonably stout, drivetrain wise.

The factory performance packages don't seem to mean anything except you paid more money. There are a bunch of "stock" ones locally, boost turned up and catback installed, that flay the stage cars alive. I've even seen a true bone stock SRT-4 visibly pull a stage 2 before. For some reason there is a lot of variability in the performance of the factory offerings on these cars.

They have the stock Neon axles, avoid slicks.

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Wasn't there a recall on the older ones about the stock LSD?

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Only bad thing about the srt4s that I can say from personal exp. is that the turbo is a bitch of a job to change out, and the exhaust is loud!!!!. If you get it upgrade the exhaust, intake, wategate, sway bars and shifter. That alone will make a huge difference. My brother inlaw had one, and we put a ching chong turbo on and it ------- hauled ass. But ran out of fuel @ about 14psi. Were planing on puting biger injectors in but it ended up blowing a tire and it went into a tree. Only got 100 ish miles out of it with that turbo on. So if you buy it I have some injen 3" ss exhust from the turbo back if you want to pick it up. also have a turbo manafold, and down pipe. lol

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I work at dodge so here's the low down on the SRT's we get in:
Number one problem that will ---- you over is the TPS wiring....it tends to just get fucked for no reason an has to be re-wired since you can't order the wiring without ordering a whole engine harness

We get alot of of blown turbos because well people run the piss out of them....usually about 30k before they kill the snails

Clutches go out at around 20k

number #3 cylinder misfire is common with these

loud trans noises.....trust me....those fuckers go out....and when they do it's expensive

Tube seals tend to leak oil into spark plugs

oh yea also the trans mounts are weak peices of crap that aren't good for the strip......New mounts would be my first upgrade on those.....i've replaced about 20 or so sets of mounts......

stage 1 is crap.....stage 3 will get u into 12's no problem and keep ur car reasonably driveable everyday without having to worry about shyt.....

Re: Anyone know of any major issues with the srt-4 skittles?
 

Well I sell some bling bling stuff for those things that doesnt help

Re: Anyone know of any major issues with the srt-4 skittles?
 

ill disagree with the axles, def not the same as regular neon and they can take some hard launches on big slicks. only retards break those axles.

trannies are junk. they dont shift for ---- and the have issues with shift selectors, 3rd gear and input shafts.

TPS is pretty common but dodge sells a connector w/ pigtail for about 40 bucks that takes 15 mins to wire in.

it makes random clunks and rattles and its got typical dumbestic build quality.

other then that they are great, i would own another one for a daily if i could afford it right now.