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Not sure if the new exhaust system is legal, they forgot to install the cat.

I’m running 14.4 and no issues. Streaming via Bluetooth has always been quieter than cable and but that’s over various iPhones since the car was new, so nothing different with this update.

Sausage Sizzle.

My parents have a VN, 45,000 on the clock and mum still does the weekly shop in it. Mechanic who looks after it, had another customer who offered them $15k for it.

I’m in Regional Victoria and I take a fence at that comment, in fact happy to take a fence and ring it around Melbourne.

I feel like I’m watching Groudhog Day for some reason. Lol.

So you’ll be trading yours in soon to get one I take it. I hear they’re going cheap.

Who you?

I’m not a motoring writer, but through work, I travel approximately 30,000 km each year throughout country Victoria in a variety of vehicles. About a week ago one of my colleagues knowing my private car is a V8 asked me which work car would I buy. My answer surprised him when I said none of them...

This thread lost me about 9 posts ago, lol.

OMG, have you got a Brock Lada. You really do know cars, to keep that running when so many are just piles of red rust in paddocks around the country.

Lol, having never driven a turbo Falcon or does the ecoboost count, can’t comment on the performance. Can comment on comfort though having driven numerous fleet falcons for extended periods of time, including XR6. I could never get comfortable in them, Redline seats to me are comfortable, I can...

How dare anyone compare my VF to a P 76, lol.

Lol, is it just me or is Ron indecisive?

I once jumped in a work car once back in the day and could hardly steer the thing, went in and complained to the fleet guy that the power steering was broken, he started laughing and told me the car didn’t have power steering. Background to this is my car had it, my previous work that I had just...

Does work, just pair and turn notifications on, on iPhone. Works in mine though hearing texts in that mechanical voice is hilarious.

Thank you very much for that too, gave me the idea.

Just got performance menu done locally (Ballarat) on mine, dropped in, plugged in and done in a couple of minutes.

I like this option, never look at the eco menu, never new these guys existed and I’ve lived in Ballarat for a long time, I know what I’ll be arranging next week, a quick drive to the south side of town.

We had a car at work, Toyota Camry, and a staff member couldn’t open it one day with the remote. Solved it when I figured out the button for the remote garage door was stuck on and must have been blocking the signal. Soon as I blocked the button, it did it again. Was definitely an interesting...

I’ve only got the SSVR, but I still get the crackle and pop, you’ve got to drive it like you stole it, lol.

My parents have a 1989 VN Berlina, only issues with it over the years has been four or five batteries, nothing melted yet, lol. Top it all off I’ve nicknamed it the shopping trolley, goes out shopping twice a week and has only just recently clocked over 40,000 km.

Some senior police can get unmarked, so no real work as such, but they’re rare. What I would be questioning is whether op would be able to insure it given it is a write off, but happy to be corrected on that.

I drive a VF 2 SSVR and been looking around for a second vehicle so I can keep it for the weekend only and no I’m not a bogan as I have owned a variety of vehicles and the last Australian V8 appealed to me. Through work I get to drive a lot of vehicles including the new Commodore, now for the...

I work in Govt fleet in Victoria, V8’s are restricted to Police only. So if it’s Victoria definitely ex Police.

Sorry to disagree Ron, but it’s not about customer care, it’s about choice. The car never had it fitted originally, why should it be retrofitted. All I’m saying any car or any items you buy are about choice and compromise if you want all this in a car buy a car that has it. We all made a choice...

Might I suggest you trade in your Holden for a Mazda and then you can get the features you want for your phone. Mazda will throw in other bonus features like an economical 4 cylinder engine, front wheel drive and lots of other comfort items. I bought my Holden as it has a V8 engine and other...

Song is nobody likes a bogan by Area-7. Here’s some pertinent lyrics from the song. He drives a VK Commodore with alloy wheels, With a home made spoiler made of crappy steel. Pair of fluffy dice and all the other toys, But his No Fear sticker is his pride and joy. Saturday night the boys hit...

I’ve only seen one in the wild not counting the 4 we have, as they’re Govt fleet. We now have 3 LT wagons and one Calais lift back which one of our Exec officers has got, which he loves. In regards to the LT wagon I have driven it to Geelong and first impression is that when taken in isolation...

Not 100% sure but I was told it was rear outer belts only and they went under something in the seat that they should have gone over or could have been the other way round and it just had to be reversed.

Seat belts should be fine unless you got a very early ZB, we’ve had 4 cars on order that were due early March. All were delayed due to the seat belts needing to be fixed, basically stopped deliveries in there tracks.

I started this thread back in February and finally I get to take our new LT wagon to Geelong tomorrow. Due to a few delays we got this one late last week and the other two are arriving on Friday. I won’t be comparing it to my SSVR as really no comparison but I have driven our Evoke wagons a lot...

Well we finally got an LT wagon today, haven’t driven it yet, but will be taking it to Horsham next week so that will give it a good run. I’ll also be able to compare it to two similar vehicles as I’ve also driven the new Subaru Liberty and imported Camry over the last couple of weeks, also work...

Mines done it before too, seems to fix itself though after you switch off. Work Subaru only goes up or down 5 kms at a time. Work car so haven’t bothered working out if I can change it.

My local dealer has a VXR out the front, had a look at it last Sunday. Very plain, when I first pulled up didn’t realise what it was until I got up next to it. Doesn’t really shout performance model imo.

Happy to post up, as being a fleet administrator means I get to play with all the new cars when they come in and I’ll definitely be taking it out. Unfortunately we only buy 4 cylinder vehicles though, however I did have a 6 cylinder Liberty a few years ago and loved it.

Still waiting for our new fleet Wagon, maybe next week. However we are getting a Camry Hybrid and a Liberty this week, they could be fun to test out. Might have to use my Admin access to the fleet system to accidentally assign one of these for my next trip away. Decisions, decisions so many new...

We should get our first new model Camry Hybrid soon. Bit disappointed that we’re now getting base models, no climate and no electric seat. Has got more safety features though. In the just replaced Aussie model we had both Hybrids and non hybrid Camry’s and I have driven them a lot on various...

Coming back to Ballarat today from Geelong in a work Camry, got to a passing lane and had an SUV and a VF in front of me SUV passed the VF and I hooked out to do the same. Thought to myself nice car SOG Calais V, then seen the bold lettering on the boot, Director, my first Director in the wild...