Had an old K-Car that kept burning out the left side tail lights - turned out there was a faulty seam in the wheel well that allowed road water to force its way into the area from inside the trunk. Finally got it sealed up and the head gasket blew....right after the head liner started sagging, the rear wheel bearings went out and the right front CV-joint went. Damn that Lee Iacocca....
My Dad bought a new Dodge cargo van in 1980 for the family business. It was a six cylinder, no AC or radio. It wouldn’t pull a greasy string out of a hogs ass! It had absolutely no power whatsoever. He took it to the dealer and local mechanics, they rebuilt the carburetor, they replaced gas filter, air filter etc... Nothing worked, it just had a bad case of the can’t hardly’s and don’t wanna’s when you hit the gas pedal.
He finally sold it after a few years to a guy who had bought several of our companies used vans and Dad told him upfront, it has no power whatsoever and the guy said I work on vehicle from time to time, I’ll chance it. Six months after Dad sold it he ran into the guy and he tells him I figured out what was wrong with that van, a solenoid on the engine block was bad. $25 for the part and I put it on, runs like a scalded cat now. Dad just shook his head and said well glad someone got it to run right. He never bought another Dodge product and won’t to this day consider anything from Chrysler period.