canadiancanuck

I haven't been on here in awhile so I'd figure I would come back with another saga for our members,

after blowing a tire last friday and learning it would be a 6 week wait for the lovely Continentals that are OEM, I opted for new tires all around. I was so excited to get the 2 new tires on lastnight, after watching a sweet ass weekend roll by and no cruising in the Challenger.

I decided to take the car out to clear the TPMS code and go see the progress on my house... this was a bad idea. The car started to misfire again (a persistant problem which I thought was resolved back in Jan/Feb), so I pull the car onto the shoulder, shut it down and restart it. Car starts up fine, idles normally, so I take off, well I get to 65kms / hr and the car starts to misfire, but this time the check engine light chimes 3 times and blinks, and the car shuts down completely sending me into coasting mode, well the steering locks up and the brakes are not responding... so I held on for dear life as the car and i went into the ditch, through a pile of dirt and gravel, up the ditch and apparently into the air over an embankment and landed / stopped nose down on the other side of the embankment. I get out and expect the worse, I see a LARGE boulder under the car, and think major issues, yet the front wheels were rested on the second embankment and the rock on the support cradle, I literally could crawl under the car on my knees and sit up to look under it..... so I quickly grabbed whatever wood I could find and call the GF and a tow truck. I jacked the front end up and noticed the car wasn't resting in the rock thank god and prepped the wheels and started constructing a bridge to be able to back the car out of the gully i was span across. Tow truck did the rest and off to the dealership it went.

What a night, I will give credit to Chrysler Canada this morning, I made 1 call, they had all the info on my car, including the repairs previously and were immediatley on the phone to the dealership with the repairing tech working on a solution, so I'm hoping Chrysler will have the repairs done at their expense and the car will get fixed. I'm waiting to hear on confirmation of this..... but I think Chrysler will be reputable and fix this.

Man I hate this car, but I love it and just want it fixed.......

that's pretty much about it, th ecar held up pretty well, so far visually looks like front fascia, front lip, fender liner, and the plastic underbody panels, maybe a oil cooler line, so we'll see.