# Friend said her old woman friend's 2004 Chrysler, 50k miles, has difficulty going into reverse **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [March 26, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/friend-said-her-old-woman-friends-2004-chrysler-50k-miles-has-difficulty-going-into-reverse/194606 "2024-03-26T13:54:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 4:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/friend-said-her-old-woman-friends-2004-chrysler-50k-miles-has-difficulty-going-into-reverse/194606/21 "2024-04-02T04:32:51Z")
> [@cigroller](#): > > wondering about reasons to go with RTV instead. Tradition? The manufacture didn’t offer a gasket, so dealer techs needed to learn to use RTV. When RTV is used properly there is no seepage. Each time a customer’s vehicle came in with a leaking aftermarket pan gasket, it supports the belief that RTV is the better choice. An unscientific observation, perhaps if I installed 100 aftermarket pan gaskets, then inspected for leaks a year later I would have a different opinion. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/friend-said-her-old-woman-friends-2004-chrysler-50k-miles-has-difficulty-going-into-reverse/194606/22 "2024-04-02T13:37:56Z")
When I was doing transmissions only for a while, all we used on those were RTV, we had caulking guns with tubes of RTV as I am sure the dealers did also… [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/friend-said-her-old-woman-friends-2004-chrysler-50k-miles-has-difficulty-going-into-reverse/194606.md?page=1)