Pls Share: Starex tips and common problem

**yakuini** · February 16th, 2005 09:50 AM

Greetings!

Just acquired a '02 Starex SVX model yesterday. It has a Manual Tranny and this is the my first time owning one. Please share your experience with this vehicle and tips like what is the best engine oil and other maintenance for this van.

Thanks and more power to Tsikot!

**BlueBimmer** · February 16th, 2005 10:15 AM

had a starex rv before, problems encountered were malfunctioning speedometer, odometer n fuel gauge, a/t tranny wont shift beyond 2nd gear(happened 1 tym), driver n passenger side door handles broke after more than a year. other than those things it ran perfectly. had to sold it due to overuse hehe

**OTEP** · February 16th, 2005 12:57 PM

The switches for the interior lamp have a tendency to break. Best advice: don't play with the switches. Just control them form the master control on the dashboard.

The door handle mechanism can break if you manhandle the doors. But I think that was on earlier models.

**vinj** · February 16th, 2005 01:25 PM

The first gen Starex of my friend also experienced the a/t tranny problem (not going beyond 2nd gear). The older ones also had some rust problems but this has also been addressed AFAIK.

The newer ones are pretty much reliable, just change all the filters (fuel, air), drain and change the oil, tranny fluid, brake fluid, PS, and differential fluid para sure ka sa bagong ride mo then consider getting rustproofing and undercoating.

On the a/c system, i'm not sure on the reliability, maybe the other Starex owners can give some idea.

**BlueBimmer** · February 16th, 2005 01:29 PM

a/c was troublefree on our starex for more than 2 years of constant use. cold as ever when we sold it.

**garyq** · February 16th, 2005 01:59 PM

bili rin bro ko ng crdi na model. any feedbacks on the engine?

**benchph1** · February 16th, 2005 04:22 PM

the very first units of the starex developed premature rust on the fenders.

i think this was corrected on the 2000-up models

**yakuini** · February 17th, 2005 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by benchph1

the very first units of the starex developed premature rust on the fenders.

i think this was corrected on the 2000-up models

Lahar from PPC told me about this. Very First units especially those from black market has this foam in the fender that insulate road noise. Di ata pinalitan or tinanggal kaya naipon yung tubig sa foam, nakadikit palagi yung foam sa fender, ayun - lusaw ang fender :D

Aircon, no problem. One of the reason why we bought Starex...Parang Nissan sa lamig

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