After almost 10 years and over 100,000 miles...

[nocturnalVX]

My VX still amazes me!
We got hit with a blizzard Tuesday, Feb.1st. My VehiCROSS got me home from work that night even though it had to get through a three foot snow drift just to make it out of my parking spot (no, I wasn't parked halfway up a wall of snow to begin with). However, my "check trans" light started flashing about 2/3 of the way home. I moved the VX back & forth in front of the house a bit on Wed. afternoon to see if there was any trouble. The trouble light was not on anymore and it shifted fine, so I shut it down & went inside. I used the VX to get a neighbor's car un-stuck, and it ran great (amazed a few people too).
I stopped at a red light on the way to work that Thursday, and when the light turned green... nothing. Like it was in neutral.
The owner manual said it may need to be shifted manually, so I threw it in first... nothing. Tried 4LOW... nothing. Winter Mode... success! Drove to work and back home, and then drove it to the dealer on Friday... fully expecting it to refuse to move forward at any moment. Dead stop to highway speeds using Winter Mode. Awesome!
Does the story get even better? With a little more than 5 months and a little less than 7000 miles left... it is still under warranty, so the new transmission was free!

[VX KAT]

WOW!...on several levels!

[nocturnalVX]

The VehiCROSS just would not let me down, and just keeps on pleasing. The dealer I took it to was a positive experience too (and not just because I got a new trans. for free). Tony and all the guys at Mancari's Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep in Oak Lawn, IL were cool. Unlike the crooks at Evanston Subaru that wanted ME to pay $6800 for a new trans. 2 years ago.

[vxaddict]

The VehiCROSS just would not let me down, and just keeps on pleasing. The dealer I took it to was a positive experience too (and not just because I got a new trans. for free). Tony and all the guys at Mancari's Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep in Oak Lawn, IL were cool. Unlike the crooks at Evanston Subaru that wanted ME to pay $6800 for a new trans. 2 years ago.

Whoo hoo! Love these stories. I'm currently out traveling for work and got a new Charger as a rental. Blah. I want my VX back... Can't wait to get back home.

[nocturnalVX]

A Charger for a rental? Way nicer than the Nissan Versa I had for the week my VX was getting fixed!

[WormGod]

My VX has done something similar before, but when I cleaned and repacked my shift mode selector, it was mo-betta. I would hate it if folks were getting new trannies when that selector is the culprit. Thinking a dealer isn't really gonna give a damn (as if there was an ISUZU dealer even around me anymore).

Rentals? Take it and like it. My STi was in the shop for some "stuff" a couple months ago and my loaner was a KIA Spectra (I couldn't make this !@#$ up). I mean c'mon, from plenty of hp/tq, to absolutely NONE. Needless to say, it stayed parked in my driveway for 5 days and I drove the VX.

[nfpgasmask]

I was almost scared you were gonna say you were ready to sell!! Glad it was the other way around!! Same here, been snowing loads the last few days here in Reno and the VX simply ROCKS in the snow.

Bart

[djvx]

I was almost scared you were gonna say you were ready to sell!! Glad it was the other way around!! Same here, been snowing loads the last few days here in Reno and the VX simply ROCKS in the snow.

Bart

Same here

[nocturnalVX]

I was almost scared you were gonna say you were ready to sell!! Glad it was the other way around!!

Same here

Mission accomplished! I hoped the headline would freak some people out. I have no plans to EVER part with the VX, more so now that we only have 1 VehiCROSS (until Cece gets her Ironman back from her dad).

[nfpgasmask]

Yeah man, just got back from the muffler shop, had them replace the leaking flexpipe and throw on a Magnaflow!!! Freakin awesome! My VX sounds better than ever and even a little peppier!!

Long live the VX!!



Bart

[WormGod]

I was almost scared you were gonna say you were ready to sell!! Glad it was the other way around!!
Bart

Funny you say that, I almost did this weekend. I ALMOST traded her in (for what little I would get anyways) for a '10 GT-R Premium. Had the salesman not been an *** I just might have gone through with it. I did ask if I could speak to another salesman, but I was told the individual I was already dealing with was the one dedicated to that particular car. Whatever.

In any case, there could have been a '01 S/C'd VX with LOW miles sitting on a lot today. 0_o

[nfpgasmask]

Funny you say that, I almost did this weekend. I ALMOST traded her in (for what little I would get anyways) for a '10 GT-R Premium. Had the salesman not been an *** I just might have gone through with it. I did ask if I could speak to another salesman, but I was told the individual I was already dealing with was the one dedicated to that particular car. Whatever.

In any case, there could have been a '01 S/C'd VX with LOW miles sitting on a lot today. 0_o

I don't even know what to say to that...how many times do I have to tell you people? The VX does not get replaced. It can have a little sister or an older brother but it DOES NOT get taken to the pound.

Bart

[VXR]

it DOES NOT get taken to the pound.

Bart

X2 Why trade it in when you can get more from a private sale

[nocturnalVX]

I don't even know what to say to that...how many times do I have to tell you people? The VX does not get replaced. It can have a little sister or an older brother but it DOES NOT get taken to the pound.

Bart

[WormGod]

Weigh those options.

'10 GT-R Premium -------- '01 VehiCROSS

Ya, you're right.

Pffffft

Sorry, I may like my VX, but there is no competition in that thought process. Remember where I live. Concrete jungle, snowfall is rarely heavy, I don't offroad, I autoX (STi).... the VX is just a weekend conversation piece for me really (ya, I have thought long and hard about this, and it is actually pretty true in my sense). Utterly babied and never butchered or terrorized with offroad use, so it's actually quite a gem.

Regardless, I would NEVER trade it in since it would be highway robbery (would have to be one HELL of a deal, which I never would expect). I would make 2X the amount in a private sale. I could probably take the S/C out and sell it for more than I could the whole VX. If they were serious enough with me and not jerks, I would have driven back with my STi and traded that in.

Get yer panties out of a bunch fellas. It would only ever go to someone who would truly take care if it.