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vn heads are different to the later heads i had a vp calais that was duel fuel and gas killed the heads even though they are supposed to fine and couldn't for the life of me find a set of vp heads so went to the local engine re-conditioner and bought what was supposed to be a set of vp heads...

Did you happen to have your wheel alignment after you changed rotors if so they may have used a rattle gun to tighten your wheel nuts and warped your new rotors, happened to me. Bendix sent out a memo to brake Repairers to not use rattle guns as it may warp the rotors. which i found out by...

May be different but when i had my vp a mechanic did the upper cylinder clean with the subaru cleaner(seems to be the go to stuff) used a full can sprayed into the air intake at the throttle body. Not something you want to be around as it is toxic as hell, made no difference with my car as it...

when i got a quote to replace the leather on my wheel it was over $500 and was going to take ages

Not sure on how to actually replace the door key barrel but your locksmith should be able to supply you with a new barrel keyed to your key

Have you had your CV Joints checked?

S,SS and Executive are all k on the vin but Berlina are L and calais are X

The series II was the first thing i noticed. There was a VY series II Berlina for sale at a car yard here for a tad over 9k with 235k on the clock and god awful after market rims and it sold.

I also vote for rotors, Did the tyre place happen to use a rattle gun to put your wheels back on?

There is a yellow boot release handle just inside the boot from the hatch in the middle of the back seat should be upper left side looking into the boot from in the back seat

Mine is one of the last of the VY series late 2004.

That is not what mine uses it is a flexable wire cable piece with cast aluminium ends.

Just went out and had a look at mine the handle is actually inside the boot on the drivers side at the top. you need to open the seat hatch feel up on the drivers side about 3/4 of the way to the top. if that doesn't work you may have try to fit through the rear seat hatch and with a torch see...

My VP Calais was a v6 put the stock steel wheels on it from the VN when i put the alloys on the VN to get new tyres and couldn't move the Calais as something was rubbing sounded steel on steel from the front so i would guess the v6 also got larger brakes

The tyre sizes you quoted are indeed the factory size for anything on steel rims but as soon as you add alloys to the mix the tyre size jumps up to the 205/65R15. I had the 185/75R14 on my vn with steel rims and when i got my vp calais with the factory alloys the tyres were the 215/65R15 pretty...

Afaik the statesman headunits are the same as all berlina and calais headunits as long as it is a 6 stack it should be the same. pov packs came out with a single disk headunit that is not compatible with higher spec vehicles

When i was looking at buying the ve berlina i found that the prices were much more expensive compared to the vy.

Sorry to hear about the crash but thankfully nobody was hurt. You will probably find that your market value has increased a fair bit as i found out when i got a quote last week i had thought the market value on my car was around 2.5k but turns out it is about 5.1k, market value has been...

As i have found in the last week or so that is an option on most policies

Might be a seat problem when i had my VT berlina i had an annoying issue where the srs light would come on no codes. never found what the issue was something to do with the seatbelt tensioner system or the side airbags never did figure out which but the light would come on, go get it reset be...

Also because your car is a berlina it has traction control if you do not turn that off the car will behave itself even in the wet i know my vt berlina without the traction control on was nearly impossible to keep pointed in the correct direction in the wet and pretty sure it didn't have a LSD

To find out for sure take the car to your nearest CV joint repairer it cost me about $170 for him to replace the whole shaft but it isn't something you will pick up by seeing if anything is loose as the ball bearings in the joint sort of get a flat spot and you only get noise when you are...

sedan fuel tank size should be 75 litre

I find that if you look at the glyphosate ratio if it is under the roundup ratio of 360g/l glysophate it's pretty much useless but at the same ratio even the cheap stuff works as well as roundup and only costs around $10 a litre for undiluted

I have been watching cars prices not just on holdens but pretty much any brand and the prices are still insane up this way. last ridiculous car price i saw was a VZ calais with nearly 300k kms on it for over 12k at a dealer plenty of VE calais' at dealers with them wanting 20k or more for 2006...

after a quick search up here anywhere from 20k up to 59k with most around 22 - 30k

I think your problem just might be caused by i-tunes. i-tunes usually uses aac format and if i remember correctly not a lot of players recognize that format. i have always burnt all my cd's using mp3 files and they have worked on each of the cars i've owned with a cd player.

Had the engine and trans mounts changed today.

I think the problem with poison ivy is that the original colour was produced in japan and the plant was wiped out in the whatever year it was tsunami and some painters in australia just have no idea how to colour match.

I use a gator brand dashcam model GHDVR379 bought from supercheap for around $70 on special. Thing is brilliant records at 1080p has gps tracking and a g-sensor.

Yes i know these are flywheel kws i also know that the VT is a bit of a freak especially if you haven't driven one before the first time i drove mine in the wet without the traction control engaged it actually scared me because of the lack of traction and how easy it was to get out of control...

Vt series II came out with 147kw of power the police version of the vt is exactly the same Kw

first thing i would check is if you have a vacuum leak to the heater tap might be a split hose. i can't tell you if there is a vacuum control solenoid between the heater tap and climate control unit but i don't think so

From what i've seen those wheels were on the vp Senator and also the Senator 5000i that bonnet badge is waaay to far back The 5000i had the devonish seats but were leather with velour inserts and the rear seat was a caprice item and the centre console was suede and the car had fog lights things...

That's weird price of 91 was $134.9 here for ages then dropped to $126.9 and has been for nearly 2 weeks

I had a VE go past me on tuesday afternoon with these exact lights and thought they looked as dicky as hell i guess each to their own.

we received the first SCA catalogue today for months not much in it as per usual

Didn't all series II VE's get the 6l80e trans so if that was the case couldn't you use the TCM out of one of those?

What pisses me off is paying for work to be done on your car and then having to fix all the little issues they didn't do right.

Actually the list was rather small, a couple of issues stemming from the dicks who installed my new radiator and the biggest was needing a inlet gasket done but over all very little wrong with the car. the mechanic was fairly impressed with the condition considering the age. he found my missing...