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I drove a Vauxhall Insignia B Elite in London recently that had the 2Lt Turbo. (1) it was rubbish to drive when you consider that the Calais-V (same spec) is heavier than the base models... and (possibly as a result) (b) it honestly chewed through more fuel than my VF Redline wagon did. It...

Turns out it is dodgy wiring looms... When you move the accelerator pedal assembly complete with the throttle sender unit between cars the problem stays with the car, not the pedal. This ruled out an ACTUAL sender unit issue. BUT.... When you move the wiring loom in that corner of the car...

They are actually built in some German hangout in Russelsheim... but yeah, for some Frenchie Peugeot specification (AFAIK the underpinings are Peugeot 308 sedan or similar).

Attached pic of the error code. For reference, by the time I left work this afternoon mine had cleared and showed no codes again, even though I took that photo this morning when he had his code reader plugged in.

We have a couple of the new opeladores at work. Since November we've had multiple people commenting about... (i) the dash screen suddenly flicks off and on - or at least dims to almost off and comes back up. (ii) a 'ding' is heard through the speakers on the driver's side of the car (iii) the...

The fact is that in law if you purchased the product from a particular branded dealer, it is that brand that must warranty the product. When an issue is found with the build process that requires rectification, that local brand who sold you the product carry the liability in Australia to perform...

Well boys and girls... the moral of the story is definitely that $tealerships are useless twats (if you want to say 'some' here so as to resolve the argument some people will make that their chosen dealership is awesome... please do so and don't spend your time telling us all how wonderful...

Nah... Buick in the US/CA had already pushed for a sporty V6 or V8 version when the Insignia2 was touted as replacing their previous mid-class sedan. That Holden opened their mouth and said anything only confirmed that the V6 would happen. Aussies love taking the credit for stuff and while I am...

What really sucks is that the dealerships don't give a rats... and it seems that it is in all of the Calais/Calais-V and VXR models. I drove a loaner with only 1800kms on the clock... it also rattled incessantly. Note: Ken Gratton at Motoring talks of "the intermittent rattle in the dash" in...

Yes. My brother bought a V8 when he finished up in the Army, and at the same time I bought the supercharged 6. We got both through the same dealer, they were delivered within days of each other, and aside from the engine choice, the only other difference was colour choice. While I note above you...

As it stands the tossers at one dealership have busted the cowling for the HeadsUp display (and they claim they didn't but it clearly looks to me like they jemmied it off with a screwdriver and busted all the little black legs off of it - it now sits about 2mm off of the dash and you can lift...

The supercharged 6 was actually a better drive and I believe more powerful than the V8 in that generation. That is why they killed off the Supercharged 6. Can't have a lowly 6 that is better than your big heavy petrol-guzzling v8 hero car hahahaha

Not sure they will ever do womthing like that... the engine bay barely holds the turbo four-bangers and the east-west 3.6ltr. The measurements don't look right for a V8 in either N/S or E/W... that is, unless they developed a more BMW/MB type V8 that delivers the mid-300's of KW while only being...

Like the author of the previous post I have owned a succession of SS-V, Calais-V and Redlines over the last decade. I currently drive a ZB Calais-V M-F as my work car. Whilst it is a nice enough car (the underlying Insignia B platform is certainly a million times better than the Insignia A - a...

Has anyone managed to get their hands on a workshop manual? My Calais-V has developed another %#&* annoying rattle in the dash. From the sounds of it I suspect it is a loose screw somewhere in the area above and behind the instrument cluster or between it and the heads up display (so a screw in...

True hahahaha Maybe you can translate for us :-P

I'd be interested to see what the difference is... what they 'change'

There is... Several. If you Sprechen ze Deutch

The way this is going there won't be a ZC. Opel have been sold, and while the first (rubbish) Insignia was in production for about ten years, this one was only ever intended to run for 4-5 years before they switch over to an all-Peugeot/Citroen base model. (the Grandland is actually a Peugeot...

The missus today jumped in her VF Calais (my old one before I got the ZB Opelodore) and went to drive out the driveway on our property out in the boonies but caught the edge a bit off and ended up with the drivers wheel in the drainage gutter down the side of the driveway. She says she heard a...

I thought we already had an ADR requirement (or something) for Vapour Return (certainly some servos have VR2 technology written on their pumps - which is apparently the second version of Vapour Return tech). You can tell the ones that do because on the metal tube you insert into the car there is...

It's a fairly thin and flimsy piece of plastic... a little too large to be secure. Definitely easy to pop or break. The smaller and rounder fuel flaps of earlier commodores would likely be more secure.

What do y'all think of the European trend of not having a locking or sealing fuel cap? Has anyone noticed? My Calais-V has the normal body-coloured fuel-flap but as soon as you open it, all that protects the fuel tank is a spring-loaded flap. I can see lots of people getting the fuel flap...

The rattles are apparently a common thing for the Insignia II/ZB across all brands (Holden, Buick, Vauxhall and Opel). There are several websites/forums dedicated to them and a couple of reviewers (at least one in the earlier comments on the ZB thread here on JC) that comment on the same...

I find it really odd... Okay, so turning on the park assist FRONT at slow speed might help me in heavy traffic not to tap the person in front... but why, when I am stationary in traffic, do Opel/Vauxhall/Buick/Holden think we want to be warned that the idiot behind us is sitting 3 feet away and...

While their V6 isn't bad, I don't like the Toy-mota offerings any better (and lets face it... paying more for a Toy-mota in a Lexus badge isn't much better). I have never liked the Mazda cars either (multiple models all with the same gutless inefficient engine? what gives?) however after seeing...

Yes... you are correct on both accounts. You will note that I also had the VXR's (OPC) side and front skirts colour-coded and installed as well. The rolled skirtless bottom of the base commodores and Calais just looked too... plain?

I think the biggest issue is that if you drive one without the flexride (the non-flexrides are pretty much Normal mode for flexride as best as I could tell from testing them)... or you drive one WITH flexride but in NORMAL or TOURING mode... it feels like an awful car to drive. Normal mode makes...

I'll upload more pics as time permits over the next few days :) Note that the Nav system thought a 100kph motorway was only 70kph. D'oh!

After over a decade of VE, VF and VFII Calais-V I have had one of the new Abalone White 4x4 sedans in my driveway (work car) for 4 days now. I spent equal time in the 2lt Turbo and 3.6Lt models before deciding, and I have to say both are actually better than the outgoing 3.6 SIDI - certainly...

AFAIK the Calais gets the dipping left mirror when in reverse (helps to stop the whole gutter rash problem). I like my heated seats (but as I have a V I don't know whether the non-V calais gets those)

No worries man... she's all good. I have to admit I often see red when I see companies taking good science and turning it into something sullied and sleezy. Which is what it appears has happened here. Unfortunately it grows... Opticoat themselves simply show a scratch test result - I can't claim...

Cuda: I have no involvement with any organisation or product... automotive or otherwise. I am actually a researcher just like the person at the CSIRO who would have conducted the test (for reference I don't know who actually performed the test... but I do intimately know the processes that are...

I am sure I read somewhere that they were still making some VE's for the AU/NZ police and for use as donors for HSV even as the VF went into production?

The fact is if the tests had shown some level of difference (like say that normal painted metal had a resistance of 800 and opticoat had a resistance of 1200) they would WANT us to see that, it would be in the document on their website. The fact that the document doesnt show that tells us that...

I might also add that it is interesting that as a largely public funded body all of the CSIRO's research is downloadable from their website... can't find this Opticoat test in the list of downloadable research from their website yet. Maybe it is buried as part of a seperate test regimen - like...

The report is Opticoats three page VERSION (or revision) of what the CSIRO did. The CSIRO report would have in all likelyhood consisted of many many more pages (I just looked at one for a similar experiment that was over 80 pages). The original CSIRO report would tell you WHO did the study...

From a scientific perspective that report does not show "how effective opticoat is against scratching". There were no control tests showing in the report that would show the resistance of an untreated section of the same 'card'. Without such a control test we cannot in any way know whether the...