My new "practical" car

joekd · Sep 28, 2013

Decided to buy a nice practical 4 door this time

Just brought it home today, Charger SRT8 with the 425HP 6.1 hemi, Inferno red with all options including heated seats, kicker audio, nav and Uconnect

More pics to follow soon

Orange 94 · Sep 28, 2013

nice, hows it more practical other than 4 doors?

joekd · Sep 28, 2013

Orange 94 said:
nice, hows it more practical other than 4 doors?

Compared to the convertible this is practical. Damn lot faster too. Told the family to buy me a new helmet for next years track season since these are known to run mid-13's from the factory

KillNThrill24 · Sep 28, 2013

Nice ride Joe. Yeah 4dr and hardtop makes it a nice "grocery getter" with a nice set of balls. Good choice man

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Ferocious · Sep 28, 2013

Awesome! I'm glad you didn't get the newer charger. They look like ass in my opinion.

the5.ohh · Sep 28, 2013

Awesome man! Thats one badass 4 door, I agree with Ferocious though. The re-designs look terrible. Those things haul ass for sure. Should squeeze mid to low 13s out of it without a doubt.

svt slobra · Sep 28, 2013

looks awesome man........

whiplash473 · Sep 29, 2013

Damn sorry to hear.

Addermk2 · Sep 29, 2013

You have a new car... Cool.

You bought one of the worst dodge products available though.

Lmk how bad you are kicking yourself when the front end starts clunking, and you need struts/sway bar links/sway bar bushings/lower control arms.

Caboose302 · Sep 29, 2013

Addermk2 said:
You have a new car... Cool.

You bought one of the worst dodge products available though.

Lmk how bad you are kicking yourself when the front end starts clunking, and you need struts/sway bar links/sway bar bushings/lower control arms.

The front suspension design on those cars is really weird. But I do think they look awesome and I wanted to buy one until I started working in them. I can't tell you how many upper ball joints I replaced on Chargers/300's with only 50 or 60k on them. All I can say is if you DO start hearing a noise in the front end, get it taken care of right away or you'll be paying a lot later. I'm sure there are some performance parts you can get that will last a lot longer too. Might be a good idea to look into that. Other than the suspension and the trans though, the engines/ rear ends are usually pretty stout.

MustangChris · Sep 29, 2013

Addermk2 said:
You have a new car... Cool.

You bought one of the worst dodge products available though.

Lmk how bad you are kicking yourself when the front end starts clunking, and you need struts/sway bar links/sway bar bushings/lower control arms.

says the guy who's rocking a POS oops-a-roo! LOLOLOLOL.

anyways, nice ride, Joe! The kiddos and wife are gunna look great in that bad boy! :-D

(I think kenne bell makes blowers for them too

lol.)

Addermk2 · Oct 2, 2013

MustangChris said:
says the guy who's rocking a POS oops-a-roo! LOLOLOLOL.

anyways, nice ride, Joe! The kiddos and wife are gunna look great in that bad boy! :-D

(I think kenne bell makes blowers for them too lol.)

No. Says the guy who works on shitboxes day in and day out...

I hate fixing those stupid Chrysler pieces of crap.

duff daddy · Oct 2, 2013

First off you have to remember the LX platform has been around since mid 90's so as far as that its 10+ years old. Next 4 lower ball joints in the car, the struts are good buuut, sway bar links and tie rod ends defiantly have issues.

Powertrain, great, costly as far as maint goes but good strong motor, makes tons of power and the trans (mb design) is good once the little oil leak is taken care of.