Thanks guys, for the well wishes. I'll still be checking this forum, I love Suzukis, had a Samurai and GSX-R back in the day...

Yes KuroNekko, having a reliable car is extremely important to me. I travel a lot with my son, who is handicapped, and I can't take any chances. The cost of the repair, the time the car would have been in the shop, and my thought that a repaired transmission would be as not be as good as factory mad...

Well, just to update my own question, had the Kizashi towed to Suzuki dealer, there was internal damage to the transmission, that pretty much made it make no sense to repair it, so it's being donated to Big Brothers / Big Sisters and replaced with a Toyota RAV 4. I will certainly miss the Suzuki, an...

Hello all, owner of a 2012 Kizashi with CVT about 164000 miles. Coming home from a long trip today car started making weird rattle noises and bucking, and no power.Engine was running fine, just no power and bucking. I was able to nurse it home the last mile and a half of my trip and getting a tow in...

2002 Land Rover Freelander. Complete engine failure and replacement at 18,000 miles. Complete transmission failure coming home after the engine replacement. Happily a pizza guy wrecked it when it was park and got me out from under that particular rock. (Thankfully without injuring himself) By far th...

I have had my Kizashi AWD with the CVT since December 2012 this is my first post. I just had to reply to this thread.I have had lots of cars in my life, crotch rocket bikes, ZX-7RR and CBR954 and 2 Jeep Wranglers, plus a Suzuki Samurai which I loved. I have always tended to buy cars that were not ma...