I believe I was only asking for the same consideration. I must say that it was very convenient of you to claim someone elses' opinion based on similar observation bordered on malevolent ignorance, when you yourself didn't have actual facts to the contrary, only another opinion (as objective or subjective as it may be).Originally Posted by Joe_Black
And I still don't understand how you can continue to refer to the number of 3.5 engine failures in Vehicrosses (as documented on this message board) as a myth, or dare to include them in the VX's laundry list of "quirks". (That's somewhat akin to saying that the glass is half full, but oh yeah, the liquid in question is gasoline).
The 3.5 may very well be a robust engine, and I can only hope that the owners of other Isuzu models it's used in don't have to live with the same fear that theirs may at any time also suffer similar premature catastrophic failures as experienced in the Vehicross community.
Maybe the problem is not with the engine itself, but with one of the specific secondary control systems used in the VX, like the EGR, or the ECU programming. (I know it sometimes makes me cringe anyway to see the way the tach dances throughout the rpm range as upshifts and downshifts are selected). But secondary control or ???, it is still the engine that fails. So the fact remains, as witnessed on this board, that the VX 3.5 engine failure-rate/life-expectancy could objectively be seen as outside the norm, whatever the cause....in my opinion.
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