I've had three Dodge diesel 4x4's with automatics and never had a problem yet. They all had well over 100k on them. I pulled the boat almost every weekend. They all had programmers. I admit I don't race stop light to stop light anymore and don't do any boosted launches but I haven't had the same bad experiences with the automatics as a lot of people have. I service the trans every 25k and don't drive like a 16 year old, maybe thats why I haven't had any problem---or maybe I'm just old and lucky

Jay