Two problems related to power steering fluid have been reported for the 2007 Suzuki XL7. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2007 Suzuki XL7 based on all problems reported for the 2007 XL7.
I am the original owner of a 2007 Suzuki Xl7. I bought my vehicle from talisman Suzuki in houston back in septeber of 2007. Five months after I purchased the vheicle I began to have issues with the tire monitoring systems. A year later at 50,000 miles I noticed that my vehicle was hard to steer, so I took it into the dealer. I have a 100, 000 mile bumper to bumper warranty but I was told that the power steering pump was leaking and that is what was causing the hard steering. I informed the dealer that my vehicle has never leaked power steering and too this day I have not added any power steering fluid and my power steering resevoir is full. I promised myself that I would never buy another Suzuki because I am a faithful buyer, I have had nothing but Suzuki's since I started purchasing vehicles in 1990. I was very dissapointed in Suzuki for not trying to solve this problem. I hope and pray that the vehicle does not lock while I am transporting my children . I contacted the marketing person and Suzuki and they did not offer any solutions besides paying $1000 to get it fixed. Recently I took my vehicle to get an oil change and the mechanic there told me that it is a rack pinion issue and that I was not the first person with that problem on the Suzuki Xl7. The mechanic informed me that there was a recall of this issued because he has called the dealer for some of his clients and Suzuki fixed there probelem eventhough they refused in the beginning.
When I bought my 2007 Suzuki xl 7 luxury, I was not aware of any problems. I did notice I was always running low of power steering fluid. My parking space was starting to show signs of a leak. I thought it was oil or something, but only to find out it's power steering. By the time I found this out my 36k miles were over. I've been researching, and there's other people with the power steering problem. It is getting worse and I hate to have it affect everything else. I have to fill up every month, and the squealing is terrible. The power steering was defective in the first place.