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I have a '22 SRT, I plan on keeping it for a while so I have an extended warranty. Currently at 27k miles. I get an email from Dodge saying I'm due for maintenance. OK, I know I'm getting close to oil change time, so I take a look at the email...it says I'm also due for a fuel filter (wait, what?), and transfer case fluid change (already?). I click on some links in the email and it brings me to an official looking maintenance schedule for my '22 2WD SRT (2WD, really?)...which also says I need to have my parking brake adjusted (along with many other things "checked"). So, I look at my SRT performance guide, and the maintenance schedule in there says at 30K miles I need an oil change and front/rear differential fluid change (which was oddly nowhere to be found at any mileage in the email schedule they sent), and transfer case fluid gets inspected every 30k, but changed at 66k. Wow, alrighty.

Soooo, how often are you SRT owners changing differential and transfer case fluids?

Thanks.
 
#2 ·
Don't forget the blinker fluid.
 
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Did you get the email from Dodge, or the Dodge Dealer? The Dealer service centers work hard to try and upsell "recommended" work, it's a big money generator for them. My Dodge dealer service department tried to sell me their "30/60/90" service package that included ridiculous things like throttle body cleaning (at a CRAZY cost for how simple that is), excessive fluid changes/flushes, etc. The "fuel filter" change they say you need is hilarious, I'd love to watch them accomplish that, lol.

EDIT: That said, follow your SRT performance supplements maintenance schedule as a minimum. I think there's many on here who recommend just changing the vs inspecting the fluids at 30K. (BTW, I'm not saying that is or isn't a bad thing to do)
 
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norge said:
Did you get the email from Dodge, or the Dodge Dealer? The Dealer service centers work hard to try and upsell "recommended" work, it's a big money generator for them. My Dodge dealer service department tried to sell me their "30/60/90" service package that included ridiculous things like throttle body cleaning (at a CRAZY cost for how simple that is), excessive fluid changes/flushes, etc. The "fuel filter" change they say you need is hilarious, I'd love to watch them accomplish that, lol.
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The original email (which mentioned the fuel filter) came from info@dodge.mopar.com, the schedule I found was after I clicked on my dealer's link. I have some trust in my dealer because I'm friends with the manager (he's the owner's son), so I trust at least that if I ever had an issue, he'd make it right...that being said, my mindset when going there is just change the oil and don't sell me anything else. I've always changed my own oil, but when I bought the SRT for some reason I didn't feel like doing it anymore...but if they keep telling my I should change my fuel filter, I may start doing it again. :rolleyes:
 
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PF:
Not unlike the other groups out there that utilize fear to cause others to buy into their cause, the crapola dealerships are all about this very thing.
I recall a gal, not sure if it was a Durango or Charger, who went her local dealer for an oil change and ended up with an $800 bill from this kind of BS cash grab garbage.

Don
 
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Back when I had a 2006 Durango Limited 5.7L, I took it in for something trivial and a tech tried to convince me I need to think about changing the differential fluid. At 12k miles. Of course for normal duty it wasn't needed until 150,000, though I'd do it at 75k+. I was just cruising back and forth to work about 50-60mph, no towing or anything else, so draining synthetic fluid at 12k would be crazy.
 
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