Beware 3.6 Penstar

[Hootbro]

Previous class action lawsuit pertaining to this issue , and it was partially dismissed

https://www.classaction.org/news/he...ver-alleged-3.6l-pentastar-v6-engine-problems

https://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2023/chrysler-pentastar-engine-lawsuit-partly-dismissed.shtml

Here is the original lawsuit as filed.

Latest briefs as of February 2025 show the case has been whittled down quite a bit with the Count III dismissed which is the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act violations claim.

FCA is doing some serious work against it.

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[ShadowsPapa]

I wonder if that judge who partially dismissed the case isn't driving a new Jeep now.

Makes sense to me since the idiots who brought it lumped all years together. Can't do that.
If you buy a door and find that the hinges are defective, and thousands have the same problem, you can't later buy a door and say the latch is bad, they never solved the problem.
I read the thing - it was stupid from the first pages. 2020 lumped in with 2014 - "they never resolved it and knew all along". Sorry, same symptoms, but different parts!
Everyone who sneezes doesn't have a cold.
FCA will rip 'em apart and I'll be laughing.

If you are going for CLASS action, then everyone in that class has to have suffered the same faults based on the same causes.
You can't mix and match.
My engine failed, so anyone with a failed engine should sue.
Again - dopes wrote that up.
I laughed 2 years ago when i first saw it, and it's even more clear as I learn more, and as time goes on - they will lose half of the class members at some point if they haven't already - some of the posts and stuff out there is over a year old.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

FCA is doing some serious work against it.

Rightly so as nothing prior to the PSU (formerly known as Prince - I mean, PUG) should be in the same class. the prior failures have been addressed - apparently in 2019 with new/revised intake followers for the pre-upgrade engine. So - FCA has resolved those issues as of 5 years ago.

For the upgrade engine - they'll have to kick out anyone who doesn't or didn't own a vehicle with the VVL engine. Those are the only ones who belong in that class, no one else.

It's going to be a piece of cake for FCA to get pre-upgrade engine owners cut if it hasn't already happened - cutting the class members down a lot.

The judge's quotes were spot on - telling the plaintiffs be ready for further paring down.

I'm not happy with FCA's handling of the upgrade engine failures either - and I'm not backing them on those failures, I'd be really unhappy if it happened to me and would be seeking remedy - but this one was doomed and based on false information and assumptions from day one.

I say- once the pre-upgrade people are booted from this suite, and all that is left are upgrade engine owners - THEN let it proceed as it should.
Once the correct people are in the correct class going after the correct faults - let 'er rip and let the class members have good luck from there.
At that point I'll change jerseys and move to the other side of the stadium.

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