I was really leary about buying this vehicle used, given all the issues I read on these forums beforehand.
It looks like I was able to get a good used one that wasn't a lemon. I replaced the 3-way valve myself when I bought it, knowing the code the van was presenting was because of this.
Since that time, last winter I was getting intermittent codes related to the battery system which would disappear on their own or with an ODB reset. I'm still not sure what these codes would refer to.
I finished a roughly 3,000 km trip averaging 6.8 L/100 km. This is with 4 adults and 3 children. I think that is really remarkable! For some of trips at stop points along the trip, I plugged it in, so maybe 200 km of that was directly on battery.
So yeah I think the software and error-reporting on the van needs some work but to drive so cheaply and with so much space has been such a blessing. I was able to tilt the 3rd row seats back and sleep almost stretched out when I wasn't the driver. I could work on my laptop sitting on the 3rd row seat while driving with a make-shift platform for the laptop, and my kids loved watching the fold-up screens with Youtube videos I downloaded so the long drives were tolerable for them. Pretty amazing vehicle. I've used so little gas since I've owned it!
It looks like I was able to get a good used one that wasn't a lemon. I replaced the 3-way valve myself when I bought it, knowing the code the van was presenting was because of this.
Since that time, last winter I was getting intermittent codes related to the battery system which would disappear on their own or with an ODB reset. I'm still not sure what these codes would refer to.
I finished a roughly 3,000 km trip averaging 6.8 L/100 km. This is with 4 adults and 3 children. I think that is really remarkable! For some of trips at stop points along the trip, I plugged it in, so maybe 200 km of that was directly on battery.
So yeah I think the software and error-reporting on the van needs some work but to drive so cheaply and with so much space has been such a blessing. I was able to tilt the 3rd row seats back and sleep almost stretched out when I wasn't the driver. I could work on my laptop sitting on the 3rd row seat while driving with a make-shift platform for the laptop, and my kids loved watching the fold-up screens with Youtube videos I downloaded so the long drives were tolerable for them. Pretty amazing vehicle. I've used so little gas since I've owned it!
