Only '05's have the 3rd gear grind problems
Untrue. The problem does seem to have happened to ALL years of SRT-4's. They do seem more common on the '05's, maybe because there are more '05's out there. But all years have been affected to some degree.
Transmission problems are caused by driver abuse, inexperienced driving, WOT shifting, etc.
True and false. There are a LOT of people who had problems with their transmission the day they drove their SRT off the lot. I am one of these. I had been blocked out of 3rd gear and gotten the 3rd gear crunch before I had even finished with my break-in miles. Before I ever did a quick shift or WOT shift (which I've only tried a couple times), or had ever revved the car to redline. There are a lot of cases just like this... people who had 3rd gear issues in very low amount of miles, who are experienced manual transmission drivers, and who are older and more mature and have not abused the crap out of their SRT. This is an issue that really has been shown to be more an effect of NVG's use of brass for the shift forks, which is just way too soft a metal for that purpose on this kind of car.
On the flipside of that, some problems, like broken shift selectors, definately are caused by shifting hard and WOT shifting. Broken input shafts are usually a cause of too much power + upgraded clutch + hard shifting.
Well, that's all I can think of right this moment. I would hope this thread would gain some momentum and some of our resident TRUE experts would pitch in with more myths and maybe just maybe this thread or one like it could be made sticky so all the new owners could AVOID being poisoned by misinfo from some wannabe know it alls.
thank you for your time
EDIT: put in a much more thorough description of what PTB actually is and does.
