G. David Felt

My son did all his maintenance and followed their schedule to ensure long life. The fact that the motor has blown heads due to a leaking water pump that leaks internally into the motor and possibly the dropped valve steams make him never want to buy another Jeep again. I have since run into multiple coworkers that have had Jeep, Dodge and Chrysler products with the 3.6 and have all ended up dumping the autos due to motor issues. They said they would never go back to Stellantis as even right out of warranty, and they deny that any of it is their cheap engineering of the 3.6 motor. If you buy it, good luck and yes get long term warranty as I keep finding more and more reported issues. Right now Mopar is not making any of the parts or 3.6 crate motors. Yes the strike has caused some issues, but from what I have learned trying to find a new motor for my son to buy and put into the Jeep is that the problems are real and not even 3rd party companies like Jasper motors is building them now until all the issues are resolved by Stellantis. I can see a class action lawsuit coming due to the terrible 3.6L V6 motor from Stellantis.\ Speak of the Devil and look what I found. Hearing a Ticking Noise? FCA Hit with Class Action Over Alleged 3.6L Pentastar V6 Engine Problems Chrysler Pentastar 3.6L Problems Cause Class Action Lawsuit | CarComplaints.com Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram Engine Lawsuit | US Auto Law FCA Defective 3.6L Pentastar V6 Engines Class Action (classactionsreporter.com) Ticking, Knocking Noise in Engine? | Chrysler, Dodge Jeep Lawsuit (classaction.org) Last one is the most current and it is expanded beyond the 3.6L V6 to include all Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep and Ram autos from 2008 to 2021 that had V6 or Hemi V8 engines. No wonder Stellantis is wanting to dump the Hemi and 3.6L V6 engine for newer engines, as it would appear they are looking at major lawsuits here in the U.S.

Would love this car built with todays quality of a CT Blackwing and an AWD electric powertrain.

Sounds like the PNW as you have to go to the mountains to find snow usually. If we get two weeks a year of below freezing temps around greater Seattle that is a longer than normal winter.

Found the Press release: bp boosts EV charging network with $100 million order of Tesla ultra-fast chargers | News and insights | Home Deal with bp pulse marks first time Tesla’s ultra-fast chargers will be purchased for deployment on an independent EV charging network. Agreement forms part of bp’s plans to invest up to $1 billion in EV charging across the US by 2030. As early as 2024, Tesla chargers will be installed across the bp pulse network, including at key bp, Amoco, ampm; and Thorntons-branded sites, TravelCenters of America locations and at bp pulse’s large-scale Gigahub™ charging sites, near airports and in major metropolitan areas across the US.

Here we are opposite, my perfect year: 1 month of spring 2 months of summer - Gotta keep the wife happy. 1 month of Fall 8 months of Winter - Ski season baby!!!!!! Have to say I am excited by this. BP Buying $100M Worth of Tesla EV Chargers: What's the Big Deal? - CNET

Course Tesla will survive as companies buy their Supercharger stations and install them such as BP buying $100,000,000 million of them. BP Buying $100M Worth of Tesla EV Chargers: What's the Big Deal? - CNET

I took the time to add up all the quarters, I did look at all the financials and yes the last few years were profitable, but I did this fast so if messing up on 2021 is all that I missed then my bad, but over all the counter point to SMK BS is that Tesla has BLEED money for over a decade before making a profit and here we have Legacy auto companies that have done what Tesla took 2 decades to do in a couple of years, so yes losses are going to be high at the start for anyone.

Tesla never got the cost out at first, they made sure to recover as much R&D as they could. Startup costs are always high and has been high as Ford & GM even Hyundai/Kia/Genesis drove from nothing in a few years to what they have today, a far faster ramp up time that does require money compared to the decade plus ramp up Tesla did before as a publicly traded company they started to pay more attention to the cost of production. Let's also stop your LIES on costs, the costs are NOT 50% higher. Current ICE RS model off their own online build Off their Blazer EV info page as it is not in the builder yet. If we are to go with your HYPERBOL then the Blazer EV RS would be starting at $80K if we go off ICE MSRP or if we were to go off their current posted MSRP for an EV it should be $90K to start. This does not take into account the huge difference between the ICE and EV in HP, Torque, Interior standard items based on the Chevrolet web pages. Some companies I would agree with you that they are a horse with blinders on about Tesla, Ford, GM, Hyundai, Kia, Genesis it is very clear they do see Tesla as a threat and unlike Tesla that took decades to ramp up battery production as one example, GM, Hyundai, Kia, Tesla are ramping up production far faster than Ford has done and especially Tesla. They will be able to use economy of scale to drive down costs.

@smk4565 @ccap41 Tesla has been well covered about loosing money even in 2020 and them selling clean air credits since they do not produce ICE auto's is how they have made money as they have not made money on EVs until the last couple of years. Tesla Loses Money On Every Single Car: Here's Where The Profit Hides (motorbiscuit.com) Even in 2021 Tesla DID NOT really make money as it was the Automotive Regulatory Credits that saved their ass. 2022 and 2023 are the first years they are actually making money but even then the ARC's are still an important sales point especially to Stellantis and adds a noticeable profit to their bottom line. Even CNN covered this in 2021. Tesla's dirty little secret: Its net profit doesn't come from selling cars | CNN Business Tesla lost hand over fist money from 2003 when it started till end of 2021. 2010 is when it did their IPO and so while Tesla will not say how much money lost each year from 2003 to 2010, we do have their regulatory filings from the IPO moving forward to really show their profit and loss. Tesla Gross Profit 2010-2023 | TSLA | MacroTrends The green operating income is due totally from the ARC credit sales to other auto companies especially Dodge/RAM/JEEP Net Income shows a clear picture of how much money Tesla lost before becoming profitable. So I am only human and I could have mis-read a quarter report, but I wanted to know just how much money Tesla has lost till they started turning a profit that did not rely on the ARC credits which happened in Q2 of 2022. From the start of 2010 to the end of Q1 2022 Tesla has lost a total of $28.605 billion dollars. From Q2 2022 to Q3 2023 Tesla has generated $34.072 billions dollars. The financial reports show that Tesla has peaked in end of Q4 2022 @ $5.777 billion for the 4th quarter and since then we have Q1 2023 $ 4.511 Billion, Q2 2023 $4.533 Billion, Q3 2023 $4.178 Billion. I did not take out the on average of half a billion dollars per quarter for ARC sales that Tesla still makes but one can easily see that the profits then barely hit $4 billion per quarter. Based on this data one could say that Tesla's prime days are over and we will continue to see declines in profits even if sales continue to go up since they are cutting prices to drive sales which always affects profits and is a reason why their stock is tanking in price since they announced their dismal Q3 financials.

These type of people irritate me as this is all about him making money and now with prices going down he is not happy. Poor him, there are folks living a much worse life than that and yet he still thinks he is being informative and helpful when his whole focus is flipping autos for a profit. I do not hold it against him as it is his business, but the attitude from the beginning to the end sucks I feel. On cool notes, my friend check out this crazy wood working project. Love it. Awesome Staircase From an Old Beam — Blacktail Studio

Nice, you continue to show blind faith to Narcissistic Musk. Tesla lost 100,000's of thousands of dollars per EV in the early days due to all the R&D and especially the warranty claims they had. This is nothing new as your $76K figure is way off as you cannot push everything onto each EV when there are costs not associated with the building of EVs, but due to many other costs in building any business. I am sure your basing it on this story from a company that has made it very clear that EVs are the devil. Ford Loses Nearly $60,000 for Every Electric Vehicle Sold - TheStreet

Ford Mustang Mach-E - Wikipedia

Everyone is jumping on the bash EV band wagon and those that promise and then do not deliver. Even Toyota Chairman and prior CEO who hates EVs has said see, I told you so, public does not want EVs attitude. Such turds cannot see the future over their own greed of today and money. I get that GM is delaying the Equinox launch till next year. We are in very uncertain times and with the current interest rates, most are not willing to buy now unless they have too.

Ouch, glad it was not worse, it could have been so much worse. Yup, need to always be alert and follow better safety.

That is sexy, should have been built, I know folks that would have bought it then. Course now everyone wants raised SUVs and Trucks except for a minor portion of folks that still want cars. ? Wonder if @oldshurst442 would buy it and drive it?

Agree, she nails it for woman to not walk away from but run away from. I have a brother-in-law that had bought one of the Buick GS supercharged V6 cars new, it never made it past 77K miles and he blamed it on GM building shitty autos. Sadly, the reason the motor failed him was he never did any maintenance on it. No oil changes and especially the required 30K mile Supercharger maintenance. Yes, GM figured out how to make a supercharged motor go 100K tune up/maintenance a few years after the GS first came out with this motor, but he failed to read his auto manual and know the maintenance. I have zero respect for those that blame an auto maker when they do nothing to take care of their auto.

Glad you have not had issues, Jasper and Fraser have been very clear on the motor issues and the updates they did to correct them. JASPER Remanufactured Engines & Transmissions (jasperengines.com) This independent review hits the big 4 main issues with the Pentastar 3.6L V6. The 4 Most Common FCA Pentastar 3.6L Engine Problems (tuningpro.co) Some of the most common issues with the Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Chrysler 3.6 Pentastar engine include: Cylinder head (2011-2013) Rocker arms Cooling system Oil pump CHRYSLER 3.6L VVT MOPAR CRATE ENGINE | Fraser Engines and Transmissions (fraserengineco.com) I get it that due to the wide use of this motor, it comes across as reliable, but with Stellantis high Lease rate, I suspect the full picture is not known of the shortcuts Stellantis has taken in the past for the PentaStar 3.6L V6. At least it is good to be aware of the potential issue with this engine.

Seems like for North America, everyone except Lucid and Stellantis have joined the NACS pac! List: Every Automaker Adopting Tesla's NACS EV Charging Tech (businessinsider.com)

Lately I am seeing plenty of Fords along the freeway getting towed as well as Jeeps GCs. On the Jeep side, I am very pissed with Stellantis/Jeep as they have major poor quality issues on their 2011 to current 3.6L V6. Seems from dropped valves to full heads blowing up and leaking water pumps into the engines causing said engine to blow. My son's 2017 engine with only 120,000 miles needs a new engine as the water pump leaked into the engine and blew the heads. Both Jasper and Frazer motors highlights the poor problems with the 3.6 and how they both in newly built 3.6L V6 engines has corrected this but Jeep has not and as such, while you see plenty of stories on reliability on this motor, the motor is not as reliable as the marketing has stated as they put it into so many autos now under Jeep, Ram, Dodge and Chrysler. Seems Stellantis is using this as a way to have end of life on their auto's to force folks to buy a new auto. Sucks as I have never had a blown engine in my life and now my son is dealing with this. We are considering having one of the newly built Jasper or Frazer motors installed into his Jeep to get it going and in then unload it in a few years. Right now, if you have a Jeep with the 3.6L engine @Robert Hall I suggest you get rid of it before it hits 100,000 miles. Alex did all the maintenance on it and the dealership is now being very coy about why it did what it did. I can tell you my family will not be buying anymore Jeep products.

Thanks for the humor, Good Luck with the Hip surgery. GM has their fair share of dirty laundry too, no lie there, pretty much every auto company does.

I have to say that both of these are spot on. 10 Things Toyota Owners Keep Quiet About (msn.com) 10 Things Toyota 4Runner Owners Keep Quiet About (hotcars.com)

I totally agree with the writer on why Tesla Stock is past its prime and will fall more. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2023/10/20/why-teslas-stock-may-have-passed-its-peak/

V12 will never get full approval as it has no redundancy systems. Musk seems to think he can do it all with Camera's and no backups and the Gov will never let him have it his way. Musks way is to gamble your life as long as you play him money, that is what V12 of FSD really is. A computer game to Musk. He has no respect for life or humans, only his only dick and money.

With all the lies of Musk and their BS FSD go ahead and buy Tesla and use it and give your life to being a beta test dummy for Musk as so many have died due to his LIES!!! Their FSD is not Level 3 and will not be Level 4 as they have no redundancy systems that are required for those levels. Mercedes has a better system than Tesla and even then they are very much limited in how much their Level 3 in 2 states can do. Tesla edits to give a narrow scope of what the product does, and has not shown all the problems with FSD as to why they never sell an actual working product, just you pay to be a beta tester which allows them to LIE about what FSD can actually do.

What does all politicians have in common? Epstein's Island!!!