I have been saying the same thing every chance I get. Actually do the research instead of believing what every one says, there are certain people on here that continue to spread mis information about 03 on a "hit list". The cars with misaligned dowels are long since dead and gone or have had the engines replaced. These cars all failed spectacularly with in a few thousand miles of new. The pump failure we see now are common on any year just ask some of the shop folks like pt schram or some of the others who actually know what their talking about. If you search on this or other forums you will find a disturbing high number of oil pump failures on the 04 model.

 

I've seen more 04's have oil pump problems than 03's since I first came to this site so take it fwiw....