Well here are the facts.... I bought this car on July 23, 2005. I am in Windsor Ontario, Canada and am 10 minutes from the US border bordering on Detroit Mi. The car is Brilliant Black in colour and is fully loaded with all available options except for side air bags. Therefore it has SRT options groups I II and III and the sunroof option group. At the time that I was looking for an SRT8 there were only 4 available in Southwestern Ontario, and this was the only one with all option groups. I have been using this as my daily driver and have put on 42000 km in the 16months that I have owned it.
Only issue warranty wise was a tone wheel on the left rear axle, and a couple minor bugs like the Uconnect mirror and the brakes which just had the TSB for the rotors performed in September. I had a girl back into my drivers door while I was in a restaurant which was repaired at a Chrysler dealer's body shop. There is a lifetime warranty on this repair. I also had someone hit my drivers side rear corner and take the paint off the bumper. This was only a week after it came out of the body shop. I figured that I would repaint it just before I sold it.
In June I had it in our driveway at home and it got hit by a freak hailstorm putting about 20 dings into the roof and hood. Again I figured that I would get them fixed just before I sold it. Only days before I was to bring it into the shop I hit an oily patch of wet pavement in the middle of a 90* corner and the rear wheel slid into a curb, with the front wheel also scraping itself up on this curb. It also caused minor rear suspension damage, but nothing apparantly to the front. Since it is in the body shop for the repairs as I write this, I have asked them to fix the hail damage and rear bumper. This is extremely frustrating for me as in 17 years I have never had a car hit or been in an accident.
Recently I bought new tires, oversized from the factory size. THey are Toyo Proxes 4 in a 275 40ZR20. I also just bought Ctek brake pads that have not even been installed yet.
I have now decided to sell this vehicle and I know that I will miss it the second that I turn the keys over. It deserves to go to someone that will appreciate it for what it is. It almost bothers me to rack up the mileage on this thing so quickly, and I have decided to get an RT or RT AWD instead. I bought it for $53,000 + tax (Canadian dollars) which put it over $60,000. Now a little over a year later I am asking for $45,000 CAD. If you are Canadian, please realize that this will save you $2700.00 in GST versus buying from a dealer, as I already forked it out to our friendly government.
I am only interested in answering further questions for those that are SERIOUS about this car. Americans are welcome if interested, but be prepared to do the importing paperwork on it. I will answer any other questions at
tomihulkkonen@yahoo.ca . PM or email me for my cell phone number. For those interested I will send current pics as soon as it is out of the body shop. It is getting new rims, and of course they are on back order, so it may be a week or two. Thanks for your interest guys and gals. Regards, Tomi Hulkkonen.