After two years and 32000 klms I'm mostly happy with the way the cvt performs however I am concerned about it's long term reliability. So far no problems however I bought the Kizashi partly because of Suzuki's reputation for reliability so I am disappointed that I have to drive it around wondering w...

Welcome and enjoy. As you can see form this forum Kizashi owners are spread far & wide. Can I ask where are you from?

I suspect you'll be trading long before there's any fix.

Given that many folks say that they think this CVT issue is heat-related, I was wondering if any members have looked into a better trans cooler. If Suzuki are willing to pay for it I'd consider it however I don't think it's our responsibility as owners to fix Suzuki's defective product. If I wanted...

Yeah Murcod, so true. What planet is this bloke on? I bought a Suzuki because I didn't just want transport from a to b.

Maybe I'll make this a new mission to write to him and go wakey wakey.

Doing some surfing and came across this article from December 2013.

http://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/suzu ... 2ymwx.html

I don't think it has been posted before

Firstly Apostol I'll have to say thats the meanest looking Kizzie I've seen so far, love it. Recently I've been trying to find out if Australian and New Zealand Kizzie owners are having cvt problems but so far haven't found any evidence at all. Obviously smaller numbers of Kizzies sold in this regio...

Not bad. My previous Camry had a similar colour Toyota called Botany Blue. The Kizashi blue is more metallic I think.

I've seen about five Kizashi's in my local area of Campbelltown on the South Western outskirts of Sydney and none are blue. I don't remember seeing any blue Kizashi's anywhere else in Aus either.

I've seen about five Kizashi's in my local area of Campbelltown on the South Western outskirts of Sydney and none are blue. I don't remember seeing any blue Kizashi's anywhere else in Aus either.