Toy Hauler

My friend had a dodge 06 auto tranny and this year pulling his fith wheel and a jeep to moab and the tranny just gave out just flat gave out, Dodge said that there auto tranny's have been rectified......there auto tranny's are still edit I was in a 06 Dodge with a six speed tranny and all i did was pull it down one gear and never faultered below 65mph and i had a camper and hauling a jeep on a trailer over 10,000 lbs there is nothing anyone can say to me about Dodge automatic transmissions.....there not reliable and sonner or later if you haul you will pay now my friend is driving a new Duramax.....and iam super happy with the Cummins with a manual tranny.....TOY HAULER

annabelle

Just not the average experience.

BigBlue

I agree. I did boosted launches, drag racing, mudding, etc for over 100k miles (80k of those were modified and 20k of them were over 400hp) and never had a problem. These auto tranny's are a lot tougher than you think and there are many people on here that tow with factory tranny's and never have a single issue. I'd say he got a factory flaw.

scottsjeeprolet

Why did you pull it down a gear? Doesn't it have Tow/Haul mode?
Maybe the TC wasn't allowed to lock pulled down and over heated the tranny.

dieselJon

He said he drove a 6 spd. No Tow/Haul mode there.

scottsjeeprolet

OOPS i missed that, been a long day.
I'm gonna go drink a beer

cumminsdriver635

I guess someone forgot to tell my transmission it was junk, cause it just keeps on going And I haul with it, do locked to locked shifts all the time, have ran it down the dragstrip probably 50 times at least, pulled it about 4 times, and it refuses to give up

Eric

ckt_santiago

Well lets see, I pull #10,000+ tractors on a bumper pull trailer right now (anyone have a cheap goose neck?) and I have had no issues what-so-ever... I have been pulling our practice sled all spring in preparation for this summer and on the right night every stoplight is a different 1/4 for me (closest track is 100 miles away). I ran my stock tranny for a good six months with no problems at all. Even moved myself from my Marine Corps barracks in sunny California back to Wisconsin over the mountains and across the plains on a stock tranny and a pretty well loaded truck as I was hauling a buddies recently purchased '84 Chev lifted 4x4 behind the whole way.

So I guess someone forgot to tell my transmission it was junk as well.

Toy Hauler

Well i guess it was just an incident with one auto tranny,glad the rest of you arn't havin any problems......T.C.

Dangerous Dave

I've only towed "heavy" several times. An office trailer 30' long once for 25 miles. A 26' gooseneck camper several times Shepherd to Pasadena and back mostly. And one lowboy LOADED with pressure washers. Two gas engine hot waters and 17 other electric hot waters. Front axle somewhat splayed out... pulled that from Grand Prairie to Shepherd.

Pull a #5,400 full/2k empty tank trailer pretty often, and customer trailer units from time to time.

I'm at 166k with no problems. I'm knocking on my wooden desk with the other hand!

rich

cant say much i've pretty much broke a lot of them stick and auto

92'1stGen

The 48re has more reliability than the Allison will, simple, less moving parts.

annabelle

You didn't say if the truck is stock or heavily modded. Funny how people expect a tranny built to handle 325HP want it to take 600 HP.

duratothemax

um you sure about that one? Ever rebuilt an allison? Or just assuming because the 48re is based on 40 year old technology and the allison is new tech?

most auto's (ford dodge gm) will last plenty long if the engine is kept stock. There will always be bad apples out there/factory defects etc... For every "well my brothers friend had a dodge tranny crap out..." story theres always "well my uncles sisters ford tranny slips badly" and "my allison just blew up" stories to go along with it.

ben

xtoyz17

Not bad mouthing the Allison, but weren't they plagued with bad electronics problems at first? My neighbor had his get stuck in park at a car wash (while I was working there so I saw this happen), and the trans lever just flopped around and never locked in place.

Seem to remember him telling me some "brain" pooped the bed and needed replacement?