3.6 Durability...real world torture test examples

[Gladiatorx2]

Hello again! I wanted to share an example of the durability of what I call "the little engine that could". A little back story to clarify. I am a police officer in East Tennessee. My department has approximately 15 Dodge Charger Pursuit vehicles with the 3.6. They range from 2013 to 2018. I still drive a 2010 Crown Victoria PI by choice as I have put literally over a million miles on these and I feel comfortable in them. A few shifts ago my car was not available so I drove on of the Chargers. This was a 2014 with 167,000 miles and 7,900 idle hours. Most fleet departments say that an idle hour is equivalent to 20 miles of driving. So in this case an additional 158,000 miles equivalent! So 325,000 miles! I checked with fleet maintenance and it has had 2 oil coolers, a water pump, 2 thermostat, a cooling fan and a radiator. The oil use is zero. Police use mpg is 12. Top speed is still in the 130 range. The performance is near identical to the CVPI. The transmission is original. The reason that I am sharing this is for those who put a lot of miles on there Jeep and where wondering if the engine would hold up. In our fleet one 3.6 was replaced. This was because the driver was irresponsible and let it over heat more times than you could count and the final time ran all of the coolant out....and then left it running! This was at 123,000 miles and over 6000 idle hours. The little engine that could!

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[ZeeJay]

Hello again! I wanted to share an example of the durability of what I call "the little engine that could". A little back story to clarify. I am a police officer in East Tennessee. My department has approximately 15 Dodge Charger Pursuit vehicles with the 3.6. They range from 2013 to 2018. I still drive a 2010 Crown Victoria PI by choice as I have put literally over a million miles on these and I feel comfortable in them. A few shifts ago my car was not available so I drove on of the Chargers. This was a 2014 with 167,000 miles and 7,900 idle hours. Most fleet departments say that an idle hour is equivalent to 20 miles of driving. So in this case an additional 158,000 miles equivalent! So 325,000 miles! I checked with fleet maintenance and it has had 2 oil coolers, a water pump, 2 thermostat, a cooling fan and a radiator. The oil use is zero. Police use mpg is 12. Top speed is still in the 130 range. The performance is near identical to the CVPI. The transmission is original. The reason that I am sharing this is for those who put a lot of miles on there Jeep and where wondering if the engine would hold up. In our fleet one 3.6 was replaced. This was because the driver was irresponsible and let it over heat more times than you could count and the final time ran all of the coolant out....and then left it running! This was at 123,000 miles and over 6000 idle hours. The little engine that could!

I honestly never guessed any LE depts. even utilized the 3.6, figured they’d have V8,s in those. That’s crazy, crazier still I’m sure those poor cars are beat on pretty hard, how they’re not on a crate engine already is nuts. You mention Crown Vic, our taxi service here still has some old ass Vic’s from around 94 to 95 ish and few that are newer. Those cars won’t die. My wife thinks I’m crazy but I want one, I’ve told her our grandkids will hand that bitch off to their kids and it will put with all of them.

 

[Gladiatorx2]

I honestly never guessed any LE depts. even utilized the 3.6, figured they’d have V8,s in those. That’s crazy, crazier still I’m sure those poor cars are beat on pretty hard, how they’re not on a crate engine already is nuts. You mention Crown Vic, our taxi service here still has some old ass Vic’s from around 94 to 95 ish and few that are newer. Those cars won’t die. My wife thinks I’m crazy but I want one, I’ve told her our grandkids will hand that bitch off to their kids and it will put with all of them.

I bought a 2011 CVPI to keep as it was the last year. I still have it. Ordered with 3.55 and limited slip. Runs great on e85! We actually get much better service out of the v6 than the v8. Out of the entire vehicle! In the Charger. The CVPI is the best overall for dependability. The Hemi in police use is lucky to make it to 100,000 miles with the extended idle time.

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