General Axiom Questions

[JHarris1385]

Well I am drinving a few miles to go look at a 2004 with 60K for 8grand this weekend.

[Joe_Black]

Well I am drinving a few miles to go look at a 2004 with 60K for 8grand this weekend.

Wow! That sounds like a steal, definitely go over it with the proverbial fine-tooth comb.

[JHarris1385]

Yeah I could not belive I found it. Plus its about 2 hours away.
With that mileage they are listing in the 12's.

My soon-to be wife, wants an SUV and I have been telling her to get one of these. She has a mustang that only has about 1-1.5k in equity so we set our limit at 8k for the time being since there is alot of purchasing going on in our lives right now (wedding in three months, buying first home......)

[JHarris1385]

Shat....it is 2wd.....

[Joe Isuzu]

On a related note, there's a current thread talking about this list where the VX does well,
http://www.carreview.com/SUV/PLS_1524_913crx.aspx
the axiom, on the other hand, seems to be inundated (sp?) with tranny issues, it appears most of the complainers are 02 models which is a year I'm not interested in, did they have to do a recall of '02 transmissions for the axiom, was this a problem endemic to the model in general?
I'm not looking to get a deal and pay low bucks for a cool looking and fast Isuzu only to be spending big bucks later for tranny work, any input?
thanks!!

[Joe_Black]

IIRC the non-direct injection models had the same engine and tranny (4L30E) as the VX with the exception of throttle-by-wire, so essentially the same boatload of issues using a tranny at the edge of it's performance envelope.

[Joe Isuzu]

thanks for responding Joe Black, no offense, but your answer is not very reassuring, thankfully I'm no stop-light racer and I don't plan on towing much of anything so hopefully there'd be little to any strain on the tranny, it's disappointing that this might be an expected source of big bills though and from the looks of the comments by the Axiom owners, it seems to happen much earlier than it should imo