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    Default What is the worst "feature" of VN-VP?

    Here's my vote. You're driving along with the window down and you decide to squirt the windscreen. Water gets wiped to RHS of windscreen, wraps around pillar and straight into car and runs down the the door trim and all over you too! How hard would it have been to have a gutter running down either side of the screen like so many other cars???

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    Worst feature is you can fit a FORD interior light - and it will work!!
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    I hate there dash!! they r grose.
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    Agree with the plain boring dash. Also, the front seats all seem to look like they are leaning towards the centre of the car like the rails have collapsed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CapriciousWL View Post
    Agree with the plain boring dash. Also, the front seats all seem to look like they are leaning towards the centre of the car like the rails have collapsed.
    Like this bit is bent.. ==>> http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/...leans-seat.jpg

    and this ==>> http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/...at_problem.jpg
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    i don’t like the looseness of the body, wheels magazine commented on that when the tested it against the ea.

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    My VN had power steering yet drove like a bus. That i can live with the main issue i had was not being able to source genuine parts.
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    1) The non-adjustable doors (same as any other 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation Commodores)
    2) Front wheel alignment: Crapy settings from the factory, (ei: lots a negative camber and minimal caster) and unusual front tyre wear, especially the left side

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    Quote Originally Posted by 88GreenVN View Post
    Worst feature is you can fit a FORD interior light - and it will work!!
    From memory the ski hatch bit thru the back seat is from an XF Ford too. Same all the way to VZ IIRC

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    those lights have both GM and FORD part numbers if you look close enough, never thought of all companies they would share parts

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    Quote Originally Posted by calais24/7 View Post
    those lights have both GM and FORD part numbers if you look close enough, never thought of all companies they would share parts
    They use the same plastics company.

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    The standard vp steering wheel. Ugly as ####
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    vn- stupid wings and pinstriping that some had
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    having to take the whole door trim apart just to change a mirror because they had to make it plug in down inside the door instead of up the top. they fixed it with vs....
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    I'm starting to think the centre bearing on the tailshaft being attached to the middle (flexiest point) of the floorpan is a loser of an idea. The very slightest vibes in the drive line make the whole floor pump like a subwoofer. Could have been a much quieter and refined car with a one-piece tailshaft IMHO.

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    Entire styling of the car

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    What really gives me the "pip" is how dam fast they are off the line! Early stock VN's that is by the time they got to the VP they had killed that bit off.
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