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Imput on Suzuki vechiles please

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They were not to common around here, now we are seeing them does any one have any usefull information on them? Good, Bad, price, reliability.
 
Step daughter had a Verona that I drove for a while. Pretty decent car, I think it was made by Daewoo or Hyundai. I know it was mfg in Korea. A tad under powered and the pleather interior did not wear well but the fit and finish was good, used real roller chain instead of a timing belt, and got good fuel economy.
 
Last year, I bought a one year old Suzuki grand vitara. It was a very good vehicle for about 15K miles, then I started having electrical problems. Mainly the door locks that would at any time activate themselves and then wouldn't unlock. I took it back to the dealer 5 times and all the COMMUNIST CHINA made switches were replaced, under warranty. Then the brakes started squeeking.
Enough, traded for a 2005 Ford freestyle and after 70K miles, No problems.
Some of the newer ones have Goverment Motors engines.
 
Their full size pickup won "Truck of the year"
for 2009, by "4 Wheel and Off Road Magazine".
They said it was made by Nissan and rebadged.
 
What year/make/model are you looking at?
I have a '99 Suzuki Swift which is nothing more than a rebadged Geo Metro.
I priced a column wiring harness that they wanted $650 for brand new. I got one on ebay for $40.
The car has done okay if you remember that it was and is an econo crackerbox.
 
Isn't that the other way around? I think the Geo is a rebadged Suzuki. Suzuki has been making Geos for years (along with Toyota). For awhile, GM and Suzuki had a special company called "Cami" in Canada turning them out.
 
Yea, it was made in the CAMI plant in Canada. I only refer to it as a Geo Metro because everybody knows what they look like, but nobody knows what a Swift looks like. It hasn't been a bad car for an econobox.
 
I have a 1988 Samurai that has been tough as nails, will not quit. It is another generation or three from what you are talking about I suspect but they did a good job building this thing. Paul
 
Suzuki (AKA Cami Motors of Canada) made many different types of 4WD SUVs for years. Some got sold by GM as Geos, and some under the Suzuki name. Very well built. I've got a couple of 4WD Trackers that are utilitarian mini-SUVs, but very rugged.

Now ?? I just got looking for a small AWD SUV, and supposedly, the new Suzuki is the lowest priced one on the market. But with all the Ford incentives, it's not all that much cheaper then a Ford Escape with the 4 cylinder engine. So, we'll see.
 
I don't know anything about them, but several years ago I was in the bank inquiring about an auto loan and I remember that their brochure said they would not finance a Suzuki.
 
My everyday errand car, and primary hunting rig is a 97 Geo Tracker. (Suzuki) 90k miles and zero repairs. Did a PM tinig gear and pump replacement as I have the proprietary 16 valve engine.
Goes through snow til the wheels go off the ground, 4wd wagon with 5 spd. 30 mpg on highway.
87 Samurai is the strictly farm vehicle. Twice the power and payload of a quad and half the gas, 1/5 the price.

Gordo
 
We had a 87 Samuri, bought it for the boy. Kind of a tinny little begger, but it ran good. Parts were unruley, unbelievably high. If you'd have bought it in parts it would have cost $50,000.

Irv*
 
Probably more common then you knew just hidden under the Chev bow tie like the Geo tracker and those other ones under the Geo name. Some were good some so so. I know for a fact thew Geo tracker was a good little machine but if you played to hard in them they did like to flip but again that was more drover being stupid then it was the machines fault.. I had a Geo tracker 1990 that had probably 300,000 plus on it before the timing belt broke and had a piston hit the valve and bend one of them, that was a problem with that engine
 
I had an 86 Samaria put 206 K on it replaced the rear bearings the muffler the thermostat and the cam belt under advice. Still had the original clutch, would climb anything and go anywhere best little car I ever owned if you don't count driving it on the freeway.
Walt
 
they're all over the place here and hold their value pretty well. My neighbor has one of the next size up from samurai that's easy 20 years old and looks good. Driven every day on the autobahn and on forest service roads and I can't remember him doing anything more than maintenance.

Dave
 
A few years ago, a lady popped out of an intersection and I T-boned her Suzuki Esteem. She was fine (thank goodness)but her car was totalled and nearly broken in half. i had never seen one before. I was driving a Ford Escort and drove it home but it was written off for mileage.
I think I would like to carefully look at suzuki as they are built in Ingersoll in the CAMI plant. Would like to help keep SOME North Amnericans working.
 
Great little rigs, I've owned 3 samurai's, 2 sidekick/trackers, and had a metro and x-90 in the family. Simple tough little rigs. Worst fault is they rust like the dickens in our salty winters.

The 4 door sidekicks are miles ahead of the samurais in comfort and are pretty good on fuel.
 
We rented one in CA last month, really liked it. It was a brand new little 4-door sedan, got 30 mpg and drove well for 1200 miles! For $22 a day it couldn't of been a very expensive car, you can't drive your own car that cheap.
 
My brother has a Suzuki Forenza for the last 4 years or so no problems. Except the time he hit a racoon and it punctured his radiator. Very good so far. Also has alot of GM Delco parts on it.
 
You must have found a good one. I had one that was the 4 door hard top wagon, 1996 model, about 2 years old when got it, had about 2 years till traded it off. Computor out, had to drive with one foot on gas and other on brake to keep running or would die, $1,200 plus labor to replace. Both front power window motors went out, $850 to replace, Heater would not defrost a window. And gas milage 1/2 of that of a 96 Olds I traded it on. And the big Buick Lesaber gets over twice the fuel milage that Tracker did.
 
Rented a Grand Vitara for 8 weeks in Southern CA in 2002. Great vehicle. A stripped down version was sold as a Geo tracker.
 
The ECM on mine went out and I had it rebuild for $400 but other then the normal I never had problems till that timing belt broke when I was driving it.
 
(quoted from post at 14:21:41 02/24/10) They were not to common around here, now we are seeing them does any one have any usefull information on them? Good, Bad, price, reliability.
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Worked on a 03/04 grand vitara in December,,, it needed a mass air flow sensor,,, could not get the sensor separate,,, had to buy a complete throttle body at the tune of $1300.00...

It also was a no start when I hauled it in,,, in the end it did not have any are much compression,,,, I checked the timing and it was dead on,,, used the valve over lap method cuzz I would have to tear the whole front off that bugger to locate the timing marks,,, gave it a good soaking in sea foam over the week end and brought it back to life,,, poor maintenance was the case for sure,,, valve train was gummed up bad,,, I would not buy one myself....
 
I had a 1996 4door Sidekick that only needed routine work and was good for over 165 000 miles. Traded it this past summer for a 2009 SX4 crossover - like a small 4door wagon with available 4X4. Paid 18000 no trade and sold the sidekick for 900. So far it has been trouble free and getting from 22 to 29 per tankfull on mostly city & short trip driving some with a very light trailer. So far I love it.
 
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