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Can someone please point me in the direction of previous blogs / threads on the above? This forum has grown a zillion-fold since I was last here and things do not appear to be as easy to locate. A search for 'VZ switch light replace' got me a pile of things for anything OTHE than the VZ...

Hi Ben Firstly, welcome to the forum. Great to see another from this side of the ditch. I'm a fellow kiwi (obviously), based in the southern districts of the big smoke. I'm on my 5th Commodore, but my first VZ. She's an 04 SV6 done 108km and I've had her for 3 months. In regard to the...

Jolting and jerking can also be the result of a dirty or failing spark plug or a failing coil pack. Again, mechanic with the proper diagnostic tool would be able to tell you if it was a coil (or so I am told). Traction Control when it kicks in can also feel a bit like what you are describing...

Nope - I found the answer myself about 3 months after this post. As nobody seemed interested, I didn't post it. I had taken the dash out to replace the bulbs in the LCD, but found that I had been supplied the wrong ones, so put it all back together and back in the dash. Then this...

I wonder if when the radio comes on by itself, does it play 1950's do-wop? Probably only if the car is white over red......

Had an issue like this on my VS, where all I got was a click from the relay when I turned the key (like the starter motor wasn't responding). Eventually (and with no pattern) after turning the key many times, the starter would go and she'd burst into life. Turned out to be a corroded terminal...

I've driven a VY S which was real bad on takeoff (stuttered, puttered and generally just thought about moving rather than doing it) until I turned off the TC. Noted better takeoff in my VZ SV6 when I did the same thing....and it's also possible to really get those tyres smoking wildly in this...

Earth...to earth Hmmmm.... Yep. Would agree with the last post here. Have had issues with both the rear wiring harnesses in a VN sedan and also with earthing issues within these. They can be purchased as a replacement unit from the local Holden dealer (or a cheaper knockoff if there is one...

Level 3 dash that this beasty has (and is standard in Berlina) has it's own ABS light. The LCD display does not flash - only the three lights mentioned. The LCD display goes blank in the left two windows and has the odo reading in the far right (as if the ignition was off) and then after...

Got a VSII Berlina that will periodically have an issue with the instrument cluster. Driving along, the LCD screens go back to the state the car is in when the ignition is off (ie: nothing in the middle or left screen and the odo reading in the right hand one) and then will go back to reading...

Got a VSII Berlina that will periodically have an issue with the instrument cluster. Driving along, the LCD screens go back to the state the car is in when the ignition is off (ie: nothing in the middle or left screen and the odo reading in the right hand one) and then will go back to reading...

Sounds like the door's actuator has had enough. My driver's door one started doing this a while ago and I got it replaced by an autoelectrician. To ger the original part from Holden was quite expensive because the actuator is part of the door locking mechanism. The autoelectrician used an...

Ummmmmm.......I'm surprised I'm the only one to have struck this. Are you all SURE you can't help? I really don't have the cash to take it into my local dealership for such a trivial issue....... Please help me! Even a posting of a wiring diagram for the VS mirrors would go some ways...

Hi people VS SII wagon - both mirrors stopped working. Suspected fuse - nope. Fuse is fine and power gets from it (along a little pink wire) to the loom plug where it goes through to the driver's door. However, Mr Pinky didn't complete his circuit from that connector through to the...

Completely agree with genIIIbandit and hako on this. Had a VS SII wagon (at 132km) decide to start slipping in 4th going up a 20 degree rise towing a trailer with a load on. She had been doing 80km/h and all of a sudden started slowing and the revs went north. Trans fluid spewed out the rear...

Okey doke. User Stocky has a thread (dated Sept 05) under VN-VP that shows how to replace the LCD lighting in one of those models. From what he describes, it appears that the cluster and the trip computer bit in the VN-VP are separate units, so it doesn't really apply to us in that regard, but...

Thanks Infus10n - I'll have another hunt on the forums now (basing on what you've mentioned) and see what I can come up with.....

To vsv8berlinawag - thanks for the information, sounds like you've been there and done that. The concept (when I pulled the cluster out the first time) looked very daunting :bang: and there is no way I wanted to be in this position with the wife :bop: when having to explain...

Hi people My VS Berlina is having an issue with the backlighting on the LCD display (the bit that shows the trip computer detail and the milage at the base of the instrument cluster). About 6 months ago I lost one light and now a second has gone. I'm not concerned about a possible...

Hi people My VS Berlina is having an issue with the backlighting on the LCD display (the bit that shows the trip computer detail and the milage at the base of the instrument cluster). About 6 months ago I lost one light and now a second has gone. I'm not concerned about a possible...

Hi Owen Details are: Make: Krylon Model: Stained Glass colour Other: (bullet points on front) Translucent paint for glass, one step easy to use, Indoor / Outdoor use. The can is approximately 150mm tall and about 50mm in diameter. It has a dark blue fading to light blue paper sticker...

Is Done!! Well, it took a few more weird looks from people, but I finally went into the Mitre 10 Mega store in Takanini and wandered around the spray can section (it's HUGE in the Mega stores!!) and eventually found the stuff. Certainly helped asking for paint to use to make fake stained glass...

Thanks jNINE, kopper69 - will try another Bunnings and see what they have. Will talk to a number of people there and see if I get different answers. Ok, fake stained glass. Will try a number of places who do this and see what they have. Thanks again for your help. Would much rather keep the...

The problem is that us Kiwi's have a bit of fun trying to get hold of the glass paint. It does not seem to be available at the likes of Super Cheap (or the equivalent here known as Repco), nor does it feature in our hardware stores like Mitre 10, Bunnings etc. In fact when I asked the guys at...

Welllllll.......it's engine, box, diff and suspension sure sucked the proverbial kumara big time (each at their time of choosing to go - usually at the most inconvenient for me) and having a 20 foot Oak tree in it's face at 50MPH failed to completely destroy it, so I'm picking it must have liked...

Ummmm......hope you DIDN'T fill it all the way to the TOP of the plastic filler box - they don't like that much. There's a MAX mark on the front of it about half way up. If you did fill it all the way up and noticed the bubbles after this, chances are with the fluid pressure increasing in the...

My Berlina failed her last MOT inspection due to faded reflectors - a typical issue on the clear indicator version of the tail lights in the VR / VS series. Replacing both units is costly (an understatement!) yet both need new reflectors. Before I dismantle the rear end to see myself, is...

Beauty! Thanks guys - appreciate the replies. Obviously differs from the VS (hence my reason for posting and obvious confusion) as the VS Berlina has the Berlina badge on the dash face to the left of the cover and and SRS airbag badge on the dash face to the right of said cover, so I was...

Hmmmmmmmm as well...... Again, using the VS as a reference, my sedan (which has passenger's airbag) has the Berlina badge to the left of the airbag cover and the SRS airbag badge to the right. Again, my wife's VS has no passenger's airbag but has a moulded dent in the dash (so there's a...

Just managed to convince my sister to step into something more comfortable for carrying her rugrats around after a drunk ran a red light and wrote off her Mitzi Diamante wagon. It's a '99 Series II VT Equipe wagon. Lovely thing it is too, but there's a small bone of contention. The...

Yep - can report similar experience with my VS II Berlina. Coasting up to a give way (only when engine / box was cold mind you), I would plant the foot to accelerate (after not quite stopping) and she would sit there and rev like buggery and go nowhere fast. Was like a box of neutrals. Got...

My VSII Berlina sits around 1/4 during summer, between C and 1/4 during winter. Thermo fan comes in no more than half way between 1/4 and 1/2. Never gone above 1/2. Heater heats interior during winter when needle reads virtually nothing above the C line. Have replaced cooling system...

I have a Nov 96 VSII Berlina done 151k when I bought it in Nov 03; now done 171500, she's just been in for a transmission overhaul (still waiting to get it back - 2 days without it now and the drive car is a pus-box Hyundai Sonata that's about to fall apart). The Berlina's suspension is on...

Update: Have taken it to "The Gearbox Shop" in Penrose, Auckland. Had spoken to another place beforehand and they were just going to hook up some kind of flush machine to it and clean it out, replace the oil and send me on my way. Quoted big dollars for this and even bigger if they were going...

Oh darn....... My VSII Berlina has just gone in for a much needed box service and they found some interesting bits in the filter. Basically, I was losing drive when the oil was cold - as opposed to yours (when the oil is obviously hot). I was told that how yours has gone is the way they...

Thanks Jazza Small prob - not going to be near Brizzy any time soon (what being the small issue with a little water in between here and there), but will have a blast with the local equivalent. Nice to know EXACTLY what to look at. Attempted to take the doorskin off at the weekend and what...

Got a VS Exec wagon that runs at around 2200 RPM at 100km/h. When you button off or coast down hill, it drops briefly to 1800 then back to just over idle (about 1300). This is in contrast to the VS Berlina sedan I drive that sits at 1800 RPM at 100km/h. Anyone else have a VS wagon and can...

I've had 2 VNs - the first was a V6 manual done 150,600. Owned it until 261,500 then sold it to my sister (as she was still running sweet as) and had fun with it, chipping it up to 160kW and doing the obligatory things to sound and looks. In the time I owned it, I replaced both outer steering...