- #1762 of 1822
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Antifreeze change
by marvinlee1
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Sep 01, 2008 (9:38 am)
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Where is the antifreeze drain for the cooling system on the Verona? I crawled underneath to drain the old fluid and was unable to see the drain. A sort of protective metal plate shields the radiator bottom from easy access. Must this first be removed? And, has anyone tried replacing the original conventional antifreeze with a more modern long-life antifreeze?
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- #1763 of 1822
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Verona engine
by larsguest
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Sep 15, 2008 (6:22 am)
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I found an interesting article about the Verona engine.
http://autospeed.com/cms/A_1408/article.html
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- #1764 of 1822
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Re: cold star and nocking engine(maybe is the wheather) [welington]
by emeka1
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Sep 15, 2008 (7:30 am)
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Replying to: welington (Jun 28, 2008 2:28 am)
Hi Welington,
I have the same problem, but a little bit different from yours. mine use to be slugish while starting in the mornings but I changed the battery and it kicks fine now but the knocking sound which goes away after about 3min is still there. My mechanic told me that the noise is from sticking cylinder head valves and would need to be reset but he can not do it because there is no information on the gap settings of the valves. If you have solved the noise problem, please give me a reply while I still search the net for info on the gap setting.
Regards.
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- #1765 of 1822
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Re: premiun gas on the verona [welington]
by evergreen
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Sep 15, 2008 (8:05 pm)
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Replying to: welington (Aug 25, 2008 8:29 am)
Hi Welinton. I have never used anything but regular gasoline and it seems to work fine.
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- #1766 of 1822
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Re: If you only knew [mickeysgal]
by 650spx
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Sep 16, 2008 (6:25 pm)
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Replying to: mickeysgal (Jun 27, 2008 8:08 pm)
My god if the warranty was 3/36 or 6/60 it would not be a problem but the 100,000 mile warranty. ok hears the deal no company offers a warranty thats longer then the expected failure rate. 100,000 ok good job but now it's over did you do all the service the dealer recomended possiabley. If you are one of the few who did good job your dealer will go to bat for you with the rep because you spent the money to keep the car in good shape at that dealer. But if you had a few things done here and a few things done there and only did warranty work or just the cheap stuff at the dealer than it's just simple math. Don't think that just because you bought car from the sales dept that the service dept will jump through hoops for you.
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- #1767 of 1822
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Re: Verona engine [larsguest]
by 650spx
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Sep 16, 2008 (6:38 pm)
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Replying to: larsguest (Sep 15, 2008 6:22 am)
Two huge problems with this engine 1 the pcv valve breaks apart inside and 2 the injectors spray aginst the cylinder head not in to the intake port. GM will not allow suzuki to repair the car so suzuki just stoped selling them 2 years early there are huge law suits about this between the two so who knows. The way things look right now suzuki could buy out GM by the end of the year if thay wanted to.
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- #1768 of 1822
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Re: If you only knew [650spx]
by mickeysgal
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Sep 17, 2008 (8:27 pm)
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Replying to: 650spx (Sep 16, 2008 6:25 pm)
Ok so heres the deal. We bought this car because we liked it. We thought that this would be a good "family" vehicle. Boy were we wrong. Just because I didn't have my car serviced at the dealer didn't mean that I didn't do scheduled maintenance on the car. Also just because I didn't do maintenance at a dealer doesn't mean that Suzuki shouldn't stand behind their product. I don't expect anyone to jump through hoops for me and I sure as hell am not looking for a free ride. I have a HUGE problem when companies try to sweep exsisting problems under the rug. A car repair should NEVER be more then the car is worth!
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- #1769 of 1822
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to evergeen from welington
by welington
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Sep 18, 2008 (11:37 am)
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thank you evergeen now i would change to regular gas,permiun is to much money take care and good luck
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- #1770 of 1822
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Re: If you only knew [mickeysgal]
by 650spx
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Sep 18, 2008 (4:47 pm)
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Replying to: mickeysgal (Sep 17, 2008 8:27 pm)
I agree with you and trust me there are several veronas with 50 thousand dollars worth of warranty work done to them on the road. I also believe suzuki dose stand by there product and in you case they did for 100,000 miles. You also correct you can do all your work at whatever shop you want and thats perfectly fine. But when you want warranty assistance from a dealer or manufacture they always seem more fourth coming if you have spent all those service dollars at a dealer buying suzuki parts and paying suzuki dealer techs. It is all about business if you bought a 30 thousand dollar car from the sales department and spent zero dollars at the service department (in the 104,000 mile period you won't get much help. But if you spent 30 thousand dollars at sales and will say 6 to 8 thousand dollars having the normal and additional services done in that same millage period. That will get some attention from the right people. I am sure the shop you normally go to if you are a good customer would give you a good deal on engine replacement because your a good customer but if I walked in there it would be a whole different store. I am not saying it's right but that is just the way it is.
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- #1771 of 1822
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nocking engine noise
by welington
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Sep 20, 2008 (6:45 pm)
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hi emeka1 i think is no solution in this problem,the mecanic told me that the engine is fine, but in my conclucion i think that nocking noise when the car is cold is because the motor oil take to long to go up and lubricated the whole engine, remember when the engine is cold all the oil is on the botton part and have to go up and lubricated the engine, thats why the nocking noise go away after 3 minuted after the engine is warm and lubricated by the oil.another point after the engine is warm and you drive, you turn the car off and turned back on is no nocking noise is only when is cold. well in my solution when i star my verona in the mourning i turn the radio on, so i dont have to heard that nocking noise from the engine, take care and good luck.
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