carcollector
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- WM Caprice, VZ SS Crewman, ZB Calais V,VE CalaisV
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 usual A/C hose leak (fixed at around 40,000 km), the thermostat started to fail at around 70,000 km (now replaced), the HUD died at 77,000 km (now working after the Holden Dealer investigated it, but they don't know what was wrong with it), and a noise we have been chasing in the driveline looks to be the auto trans, so it is booked in next week to have the 9 speed auto replaced.
The good news is that this all was and will be all covered under its 5 year warranty which ends at the end of October, but what happens after October? Please no-one mention the diff and curse it further!
I have older Holdens that have crunched out many hundreds of thousands of KM with far less issues.
PS: Maybe I should just buy a spare diff and store it, as there can't be too much else that can go wrong
The good news is that this all was and will be all covered under its 5 year warranty which ends at the end of October, but what happens after October? Please no-one mention the diff and curse it further!
I have older Holdens that have crunched out many hundreds of thousands of KM with far less issues.
PS: Maybe I should just buy a spare diff and store it, as there can't be too much else that can go wrong