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coronet340

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The wife wanted a new car, as she hates driving mine because it's too big. So I took it as an excuse to expand the Mopar brand in the driveway.

We got a great deal on an 03 Durango with 4.7L. One owner (title had 23 miles stated on it), 126k it now, no accidents per CarFax. Pretty clean ride. Not at fan of the cloth interior but other than that its a great car.

I did spend a few days getting it caught up on some maintenance. Plugs, air filter, valve cover gaskets (pass. side had a decent leak), A/C charge, fuel system cleaning, cleaned the the throttle body, and it'll get an oil change today.

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Quite a bit smaller.
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Clean enough.
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I was surprised how much pep this thing had on the test drive after seeing all 8 plugs looking like this.
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Major PITA for such a simple job. Had to pull the compressor off, fuel rail, the list goes on.
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The interior is in great shape.
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Cool deal congrats,
I hope she will have some happy Moparing...
 
Nice I looked for one of those after I drove one in n.y. it he ride was great good power and the 44wd was fantastic. When we got back to fl. The wife said we should get one after mouth s of looking I have up every single one in Florida ether has 250 k miles on it or in need of major repairs so I told her if one decent one ever came up I'd look into it . There great little suvs you'll be very happy with it
 
Thanks all. She is running damn good with some fresh spark and oil.

And I feel your pain there BD, we looked for awhile. Neither of us liked the 2nd gen and the new ones are out of the price range. We even expanded the search to Grand Cherokees. But like you said, they were either ragged out and/or not in good shape. I was able to use the leaking valve cover gasket as a negotiating tool. While I was changing it out though, I kept thinking "I should have went lower!!" haha. It wasn't too bad but the 100* weather made the entire thing much worse.

I do think it needs a set of shocks though - its got some side to side sway on the highway in harder corners.
 
Looks good, I've always like those too. Missed out on one of the sweet med blue ones years ago. Had basically the same cloth seats in wife's Saturn aura, hated them. I found some really nice charcoal leather/suede one at parts yard, much better & heated too
 
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