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If you can find something that fits in a WM Caprice and still retains all of the tri zone A/C, parking sensor and rear screen DVD functionality......... For less than the cost of a WN Caprice! ;)

VE's have a habit of the A/C vent door control servos failing. Make sure that when you set windscreen, face and floor vents on the controls, that the air is coming out of the correct vents. The A/C can be working perfectly well, but if the vent control doesn't select the centre dash (face)...

If it's a 5L40 and it feels like it's kicking in and out of overdrive (which might also cancel the cruise control), it's a sign of terminal gearbox failure. If you catch it early enough, you might get away with a gearbox service and a new/recon torque converter. The torque converters crap...

I've searched and found a few similar posts, but not the information I'm after. I'm going to attempt a series 1 to series 2 upgrade of a WM Caprice stereo. I already have a series 2 stereo, and I know that I will need it reprogrammed to the VIN of the car, as well as needing an adaptor loom...

It wasn't cheap, and some would say it wasn't worth it for an older car with a lot of km, but it was just under $5k for a full rebuild. It was my daughter's WM Caprice which we have had in the family for a long time, we know its history and she loves the car. We went with Hasty Auto Trans in...

As someone who has recently had a 5L40 completely lunch itself - definitely go for the external trans cooler. I suspect that part of our problem was an internal crack in the radiator, allowing a bit of coolant to get into the transmission fluid - I thought I'd detected it early enough and gone...

My son's S11 VE (LLT engine) got to 250,000 km and started to throw a timing chain code every now and then. Use the genuine AC Delco kit. It's worth the extra money for kit quality and peace of mind.

If it's the 5L40 trans, a full rebuild is around the $6k mark.

New Transmission. Peter Page Holden is tied up with Lions Den genuine Holden Parts - the new trans came from their warehouse in Adelaide.

Heh heh. Climbing out of the rabbit hole, time for an update. The transmission was replaced with a brand new one on 25/10/23, and appears to be driving fine. The warranty ran out on 31/10/23........ PS: I am aware of my rights for statutory warranty and that high value items must be "fit for...

Hi all. The Caprice is fixed and driven back to Adelaide. The 5L40 trans was completely rebuilt - given their unreliability, I did not want to trust a second hand unit. Not a cheap fix, but at least now it's one less component to worry about on the Daughter's car for a fair while. Thanks all...

Update. We picked up the car this afternoon, now fitted with a brand new auto transmission. Time to find a holiday destination for a test drive!

Same thing. Sorry if I was being a bit sloppy in my terminology. And yes, I agree with you. Modern auto transmissions are often thought of as "sealed for life". I think a checkup and fluid change at intervals is not bad insurance.

Looks like my post got stuck in draft. It's posted now.

We have a 2018 Calais V V6 AWD hatch in Darkmoon blue. Beautiful car to drive, optioned way above anything else in its price range, awesome colour, pampered all of its life so far, but we have a slightly fractured relationship. It has only done around 77,000 km, but in that time, it suffered the...

You are in a similar situation to us - have a read of my thread that I posted about our ZB just coming out of warranty.....

Thanks all for your suggestions, comments and interest - it is appreciated. A "mid term update". I'll try to answer people's queries as I go. Luckily we had friends in Melbourne where we could get the car towed to until we could work out what to do. 50 Km of towing From Ballan to west Melbourne...

Yeah. At the moment, I have a 0L40e ;). Still working on options. I'll post an update tomorrow.

In need of some advice. My Daughter drives a V6 2006 WM Caprice. She is currently on a holiday trip to Melbourne, and the auto trans has just died about 50 km west of Melbourne while on her way home to Adelaide. No drive in any gear. The RACV has diagnosed a dead auto trans, and asked where she...

Ta!

We have a series 2 VE Calais V with a slightly worn steering wheel, so we want to get it retrimmed. I have bough another VE Calais steering wheel so we can get it trimmed and still have the car driveable whicle the spare steering wheel is getting trimmed, and then swap them over. I thought I'd...

We had a similar rattle in our Calais V. It sounded like it was the HUD surround, but it ended up being the top of the dash. I cut up a piece of rubber sheet and jammed it in between the top of the instrument cluster and the dash covering the cluster and it has (mostly) gone away. Not that we...

Just wanted to add some recent personal experience. We recently bought a VE Series 2 LLT V6 for my son's first car which had timing chain codes coming up every now and then. The previous owner was honest and up front about it, and we negotiated a good deal based on the fact that the chains...

We have a Calais V too. It had Michelin Pilot Sport 4s on it when we bought it (245/35/ZR20s), with approx 5,000 km on them. We got around 30,000 km in total from them, so 35,000 km in total - pretty much commuting driving. They probably still had a few thousand km on them when we changed them...

Thanks for that. Much appreciated!

Hi, I didn't think wheel alignment setting info would be hard to find on this site or the web, but it looks like it is. My son has just bought a Series 2 VE V6 Calais V for his first car (19" rims in case that makes a difference), and I have just had the wheels balanced and a 4 wheel alignment...

Does anyone know how the Vident unit compares to this one? Tech 2 unit on Amazon

Our WM V6 has had a noisy compressor for about 180,000 km. I keep expecting it to die completely, but apart from the whirring noise when the A/C is on (goes away when the A/C is turned off), the A/C is working fine. It sounds a lot like the serpentine belt tensioner bearing failing, but in our...

I've just rear through the US site description of the fault, and my take on it is; There is nothing inherently faulty with the vacuum assisted brake booster system (ie no widespread mechanical fault). There is a backup safety system that is supposed to kick in if it senses that the vacuum...

Sounds a bit too much like Blade Runner.......

Hi, My Crewman 6 stacker CD radio has stacked it, and deserves a decent burial. I was thinking of replacing it with an Apple CarPlay compatible head unit which can use the original steering wheel controls, and also offers a rear camera - either included, or as an option. i’ve had a look at a few...

Hi. does anyone have a comparison list which shows the differences between a Calais, Calais V and a VXR? thanks all.

Our 2018 ZB Calais has just had an A/C pipe and pressure switch replaced, all under warranty. The dealer picked up a minor leak in the pipe and also around the switch during a 60,000 km service. The A/C was still working fine, but when you looked closely, you could see the green dye around the...

Hi. Just in case anyone else is suddenly having problems with their Apple Carplay - A couple of days ago I decided to update my iPhone 7 to an iPhone 8, so I cloned the 8 off the 7. Both had iOS 15.2.1. The iPhone 7 worked fine with Carplay (2018 ZB Calais V), but no matter what I did, or what...

Jack GS, you post triggered a thought, and I searched on Amazon and found some far cheaper than what Holden is quoting - they may not be genuine (they claim to be), but they won't be broken either. Fingers crossed they work ok. I own a few Nissan sports cars too - it's a crazy world when I can...

Wow! The plastic interior courtesy light in our Calais (in the hatch/boot area just in front of the passenger tail light) has a broken retaining tab on it, so it keeps falling out. I priced a new one at Holden. Given that it's a piece of plastic with a couple of bits of metal in it to hold the...

Hi david g - how did you go with this? I have a S1 WM Caprice with a dying head unit (it has stopped playing CDs) so I'm looking at whether to replace it with the same version unit or to try to upgrade it.

:cool::) I like that. WN Caprice was still my first choice car wise, but the tech level in the ZB Calais V - plus the lack of price increase of the WN due to the COVID and “Last of the V8s” taxes made the ZB the better value. The look of the ZB is growing on me.

I don’t think I would have been happy with any other colour!

In the end, I don't think it was the O ring. I think it was wear and tear on the relief valve piston, from many KM of opening and closing, wearing the piston out of round, and also scuffing the end so that it didn't seal properly. That's the only explanation I can come up with. I ran out of...