The CVT fluid is expensive and I would recommend that you drained it into a suitable container and if you’re going to reuse it, run it through a paint filter. . Just a word of caution, do not over, tighten the pan and do not change the composition of the pan gasket. You can reuse the pan gasket typi...

level may not be correct. New fluid will end up having a different viscosity and is bound to make a change for the better or worse.

Above is the correct way. I cheat and just loosen nut 2 turns and place feet firmly on the floor and pull and wiggle steering wheel.

Noise from the cvt’s is usually caused by an interruption in proper fluid flow. It could be that you have a lot of debris on the pick up screen, and if you remove the debris from the pick up screen and had the proper level in it, then the noise could possibly go away. The debris would be very concer...

The oil pumps are the same. The oil pickup tube and pan are specific to the Vitara. Im glad you are not using the 2010 engine that has the possibility of cracking.

I do have them if you and when you need one.


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I agree


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Suzuki wants to give you the whole seat bottom as a campaign. The original passenger seat bottom can be used to fix up your driver side . The driver seat cushion, fabric, and or heater element. Drivers much more likely to wear out for obvious reasons.


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Before swapping seats around , you may want to get both your passenger seat recalls done and ask service dept nicely for the take offs so later when the driver pads shrinks/rips or heat grid fails you can put the take off passenger pad on the driver to fix.

Well... I've gotten the bumper off and am attempting to install the Auxbeam F22 LED kit. Turns out the burned out low beams are Morimoto with the added box, etc and I'm having a bit of a time trying to see what fits where, assuming I delete the boxes labeled Marimoto. First of all, I note that the ...