"Ah, I still don't hear anything sir," offered the polite technician from Orange Coast Jeep/Chrysler in Costa Mesa. We were heading back down the 405 freeway again, me at the wheel, trying to reproduce a frightful aerodynamic howl that had recently cropped up along a breezy desert stretch during a cross-country vacation. But, of course, no matter what I did (sorry about that, big-rig), the banshee wail was being coy today-and was that technician giving me doubtful side glances, or was I just imagining things?rnOh, well, perhaps it was better to not add any more to our Chrysler Town & Country minivan's swelling list of heavily documented miseries. On its third visit to the dealer (at a still-new-smelling 19,404 miles), we had staggered out with a bill for $879.13 (including tax) to replace the front brakes and flush the brake fluid ($615), service the transmission ($153), swap in new filters, change the oil, and various other whatnots ($72). And that's what we paid for; the warranty took the hit for a replaced, leaking radiator (a leaking radiator?).
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