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Greetings! picked up this Durango to get the wife up and out of a rear drive Chrysler and into something with more room.
Things Dodge nailed from the factory: the 8-speed's gearing and the engine's throttle tuning for this 3.6 // the F8 green color // the 10.1'' u-connect 5.
For 90% of driving, power feels plentiful. Only when flooring it, are you reminded of the need for a v-8... It does drink like a v-8 so there's that...
Seats were actually cloth and a number of things you'd expect were missing - vanity lights on sun visor mirrors. Power rear hatch. Remote start. Power passenger seat.
Brakes has slight warp at 21k miles.. and were sooooo corroded... factory tires had only a little life left so sold them on fb marketplace.
So, our new to us Durango got fresh 3-yr Duralast black coated rotors, black 1'' wheel spacers and fresh Michelin LTX tires in the factory size.
And mahogany leather on all 3 rows via Katzkin mobile install. Heated/cooled at front row.
So far it's good. Lowering springs ordered (Megan racing .9'' front and 1.6'' back)
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Welcome! I really like that exterior/interior color combo. BTW the 3.6 and 8 speed trans is not bad at all. We had a 2013 JGC Overland 5.7 and I swear my 2017 GT is peppier. Granted, it can't hang with my supercharged challenger RT but it also does not require premium and gets better gas mileage...easily +400 miles per tank.
 
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Welcome! I really like that exterior/interior color combo. BTW the 3.6 and 8 speed trans is not bad at all. We had a 2013 JGC Overland 5.7 and I swear my 2017 GT is peppier. Granted, it can't hang with my supercharged challenger RT but it also does not require premium and gets better gas mileage...easily +400 miles per tank.
Thanks! yeah, we like it too. But if to redo, would have done one shade darker brown. In their website pics, the mahogany looked darker and the brown looked too dark... IRL, the "mahogany" is more of an almost peanut butter.. I really didn't think I'd be as satisfied with the base engine. 6 months later still happy. Drove an SRT Jeep before and it was way rowdy - that's a different club. When we test drive a '19 RT to feel out the 5.7, I remember being underwhelmed vs. expectation. It was a very hot day then and sure the 5.7 is probably ballsier than the 3.6 through the rev range, but for the fuel economy penalty it wasn't doing it for us.
 
Thanks! yeah, we like it too. But if to redo, would have done one shade darker brown. In their website pics, the mahogany looked darker and the brown looked too dark... IRL, the "mahogany" is more of an almost peanut butter.. I really didn't think I'd be as satisfied with the base engine. 6 months later still happy. Drove an SRT Jeep before and it was way rowdy - that's a different club. When we test drive a '19 RT to feel out the 5.7, I remember being underwhelmed vs. expectation. It was a very hot day then and sure the 5.7 is probably ballsier than the 3.6 through the rev range, but for the fuel economy penalty it wasn't doing it for us.
It looks really good (seating) but it feels like you need to do the door arm rests and center console arm rest in the same leather.
 
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