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Lockdowns just make life really hard to do anything and risking fines every time he comes up. I told Holden I need to think about it so I'll have a chat to him, might give HPF call who did my exhaust and tune and see what they say.

Yeah, my signature is over ten years out of date! It's a 2013 VF SSV Redline wagon. The Holden dealer didn't tell me what the cause is. They haven't cracked the engine yet and wanted me to say I'm willing to pay that much money first. They will call me in a few days with an update apparently...

So heard back from Holden today. They said it's the cam and lifter. Quoted approx $7-8k best case scenario and if there's internal damage it may need a new long motor which will cost approx $13k. Well god damn it.

Yeah, it makes the noise in park, drive and reverse. Haven't driven it far enough to get it out of first gear though. The trans oil smelled fine. I'm just going to take it to the Holden dealer Monday. It's got a recall or two to do as well so maybe I'll see if I can get it all done at the same...

Just dropped the oil. No glinting out anything in it. Looks clean. Ram a magnet through it and it didn't pick up any bits of metal. That's a promising sign I guess. So after checking for the source of the noise more thoroughly, it sounds like the noise is coming from the torque converter? Is...

I've owned the car since it was at about 145000 km. Previously it was owned by Mobil as a fleet car. Nope, used the same oil as always. Penrith 5w-30 I think off the top of my head. Always been self-service since owning it since my dad's a long retired mechanic. Just a commuter. Really for...

I had already done that previously when initially checking it out. Didn't seem to make it any louder but that might be because my car is so loud that it drowned out the sound.

That is a good idea and I'll do that tomorrow. Borrowed a spare car from my parents for the time being so it's just parked up in the garage not moving.

I've pulled all the belts off so only the harmonic balancer was spinning and the sound was still occuring. Had it up on stands this morning with the engine running and the noise is loudest underneath near the sump at the rear of the engine away from the harmonic balancer. So I'm fearing the...

It's done 180,000. Never had an issue for the past five years until today.

So I started my car today and it started making a really strange noise. It appears to be coming from inside the engine. Engine oil is full and I've removed all of the belts to see if it was a bearing but no luck. Here is a video of the engine idling to show you what it sounds like...

I haven't tried calling Holden to ask. I might need to give them a call on Monday and see what they have to say about it.

Sorry for bringing this old thread up again, apparently I forgot I posted it. I am still having the same issue now, although it is more of an issue now due to finishing work late at night in the dark and having to drive through the hills and the auto headlights turning off randomly is fairly...

So I have a peculiar issue which I vent find anything on the forums which are similar. It's been happening for a few months now but it's gone from happening sporadically every few months too every day. Sometimes, either during the day time or night time, on the day it will stay fishing between...

Hey everyone, I have current fair amount of time researching but can't seem to find any answers. I'm looking at buying the harrop 3" bimodal catback for my series 1 VF SSV. I have alralw installed everything myself and was wondering how hard it has to install the bimodal? Also, the harrop...

I will send him a message now. Thanks.

So I currently have a VY Calais S2 with otrcai, mafless tune, pacemaker tri-y's, 100cell high flow cats and a redback cat back with no rear resonator. I hate the sound which I assume is due to the redback. It's deep and grunty on idle but when I open it up it seems to scream and lose all of...

The new battery has fixed the problem. Thank you so much for everyone's input.

Nope. No idea what the load was. Well I'm hoping this is the problem. I was really hoping there wasn't a short or something in the head unit.

No, it was a normal head unit. I went to super cheap and got them to test the battery and the alternator. It said the alternator was fine and the battery needed replacing. The results were: Initial Volts: 12.76V Battery Rating: -23.6% S. Loaded Volts: 9.36V Battery Ohms: 6.3mj Post/Clamp Drop...

Hey, yes it does remember the radio stations. I have checked that and with everything turned on it doesn't drop below 13.8V.

It is less than 12 months old.

Bump. No one has any ideas?

So I have lurked these forums for a number of years now and they have always solved my problems but this time the search function doesn't seem to be helping me. My stock VT Calais head unit recently died and so I bought a pioneer head unit to put in instead while leaving all of the stock...