GOT said:
"Your first reaction to seeing the tach sweep past 4,000-5,000 is to ease off the gas."
And that's exactly what I did. Slightly unnerving to get near redline (where ever that my be... don't recall).
DodgeInfoCenter, Someone was posting that they were frequently taking their Caliber to 6000rpm and letting I stay there. Is that safe? Is having the motor reved up like that so regularly going to shorten it's life and reliability??? That concerns me.
Officially I cannot say whether it will compromise the engines lifespan or not, I simply do not know.
We were told that the GEMA engineering team put the new World Engines through a gauntlet of testing and such but we don’t have specific testing details, tolerances or lifetime expectancies.
My assumption is if your leave the vehicle in automatic and it stays at the top of the rpm band, this is how the powertrain was designed to function.
Perhaps those who drive the
Caliber regularly can tell us how the engine sounds and feels (vibration) at such high RPM? If the engine feels and sounds solid, perhaps the engines redline is higher then the gauge indicates (8-9,000).
Personally, I rarely see my vehicle tach go higher then 3500 and that’s when I am pushing it.
Dan