Love this SUV!
Electronic control module.
Batteries.
Timing chain.
Fuel pump.
Love the handling - but Suzuki are no help with the issues that their car has.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 13th August, 2014
Was a good car except for the two major failures
At about 40,000 miles the power steering pump failed. This was a 700 dollar repair.
Power steering rack became noisy at around 35,000 miles. I never fixed it and it still makes a noise. This is a 1200 dollar repair. That's why I left it alone.
Check engine light for "stretched" (P008) timing chain came on at 105,000 miles. This is a known problem with these engines (GM LY7). Since I was out of warranty Suzuki would not cover the repair. I could not afford the 2000 dollars to replace the chain, so I just kept on driving it with the check engine light on. The timing chain finally broke at 141,000 miles. Note that GM issued a recall on these engines in 2010, but Suzuki did not. The Suzuki engine oil life monitor is too optimistic. If you change oil when the monitor tells you to, you are looking for problems. My car was using a quart of oil every 700 miles. Engine was worn out due to long oil change intervals suggested by the oil life monitor. FYI I have owned cars for over 200k miles without these kind of problems.
The car handled pretty good, and the engine had lots of power before the timing chains started to stretch.
It got decent gas mileage, around 22 MPG on average.
Overall it performed much better than my 2005 Suzuki XL7. It just did not last as long.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Don't Know
Review Date: 28th January, 2014
Fair for a GM product
Nothing mechanically.
Cheap leather seats are very hard to keep clean.
Poor gas mileage.
Can't see anything out of the rear window, which is my biggest complaint.
It's fast for an SUV.
Cheap wood grain trim, unusually small inside, uncomfortable on a long drives.
Don't be fooled, this is a GM product. If I had known this, I would not have bought it.
It depreciates rapidly; just traded it in, $10,000 in negative equity already, and it's not even a year old.
In all fairness, it drives remarkably well, but is uncomfortable to drive. Very cramped unless you weigh 105 pounds and are 5'5.
Not a very good family vehicle.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? No
Review Date: 28th October, 2007
To the previous comment. Everything you said is correct except for the engine. The design was taken from the cts, but it is designed for the suzuki with different internals. That is why I passed on it. Otherwise I would have bought the car in a heartbeat. Pistons, rings and other parts are different than the ones in the engine on the cts, otherwise the vehicle looks very nice and the third row is comfortable.
13th Nov 2007, 23:25
For some 25k$, you get a car based on GM Delta platform, and an engine from Cadillac CTS... and why are you complaining about the cheap interior? You get all these marvelous thingies for only $25k! It's supposed to be cheap materials inside.