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Good-o. But not my VF. :)

Check Original Parts Group in Victoria for the small self-adhesive Holden logo badges for remotes. Re remote start: all doors except the driver's door should be locked before remote starting.

Dunno what the measurements would be for the sedan version. What's below is for the SV6 SII Sportwagon. The placement should still be somewhere similar on sedans. There is a pictorial guide somewhere here on JC which shows the positioning of badgwork; not sure it covers SV6 Series II from...

Things to check: low pressure in one of the front tyres; out of alignment wheel; sticky brake. Series I VFs had the steering rack fault that was subject to the recall, not 2017 models, which is Series II. Centre the steering wheel from a standing point; as you begin to drive off, observe if it...

In the NT, EV cars can be charged off accumulated solar installation in homes. The initial outlay though is astronomical. Major impediments to EV take-up in Australia are the initial cost and limited variety of the cars, range anxiety, long-term systems reliability and safety issues — especially...

You might have a split tube or a tube that is about to come off completely from the pump. Getting to the washer bottle means getting a bit dirty. The worst-case scenario is the reservoir has a crack or split. There are plastic welding putties available, but to be effective the reservoir has to...

Replace fuel filler cap. Have experienced vapor ingress with VZ Executive which had this. New cap fixed problem neatly. Vapor purge solenoid only checked if replacing filler cap makes no difference or makes it worse.

In settings, Map Display choose Day, Night or Automatic. The low angle of the winter sun in the southern latitudes will also cause the lights to come on and display to dim more readily. Here in Darwin the lights are never on/off, on/off, on/off. I would leave the sensor well alone because it...

This. Too many drivers are fixated by the larger MyLink screen which distorts space and that makes it easy to for an accidental nudge to occur. The central display shows a proximal slug (similar to nav on HUD) for positioning. No brakes or transmission shift is handled by park assist, only...

Open-ended gates, cameras monitored from units. Why would you want a closed carpark in Darwin!? Or anywhere in the tropics?? Clearly you folks need a bit more travel under your belts... It's not the South Pole up here you know... :cool:

What!? :eek: Obviously not a traveller! Or one who is security conscious. Your post leaves me shaking my head in disbelief. I'm on the road (Broome is my turnaround point; back to Darwin in the next few weeks). I have seen entrenched behaviour from road-weary travellers that have put themselves...

I doubt the car is legitimate; more likely stolen.

Still got my original 2017 battery for the VF; going strong with this lastest sortie to the Deep North having logged more than 5,780km so far... If a battery fails in-warranty, you'd best run a check of the entire electrical/charging system to ensure that is not at fault, rather than poke a...

Must be high on something... I would recommend he brush up on his grammar and spelling before reaching eagerly for the pockets of the presumably well off and foolish wanting to plant that sort of money; lists two prices, one being $749,999 (a typo, obviously!) and 3 differing ODO readings. Pass.

Just take your car to a proper service facility where they can check the battery and trace the ESP message through the scanner port. The Service ESP is there for a reason on the DIC, not for idle entertainment, and it can be researched very well in the VF workshop manual. You can also see a...

ESP is not related to battery condition, but stability, ergo, electronic stability program, and the appearance of a Service ESP message on the DIC points to injector failure (even gas injectors have this); the shaking and shudder is the actual misfiring of one or more cylinders; the car will...

Go for it!! :D It won't have rattle and slap... and will be faster than your current ride (and if you come up here then chuck a u-ey and head south, you can open up to 130km/h and find out just how potent the toy is. Beware though, the Police in Alice also have a Stingers (highway patrol; the...

Administrative Tribunals can. Costs from our battle with overly sentimental neighbours irritated that our house would ... "disrupt the ambience of this old suburb" were awarded in our favour from VCAT (down in Victoria) in 2007 (two years before starting building). We had to get expert planners...

IF the case has to go through the courts. I don't see how GM or even Holden would kow-tow to QCAT. The two of them are too much in cahoots. On QCAT. Checking in later on family friends in Wide Bay/Burnett area who have gone through QCAT a couple of years ago and described the entire process to...

The OP should be very prepared, financially, for the colossal hit from having costs awarded in any court action against GM; hopefully though it can be resolved through other means, like dealers. GM is calling the shots here now, not Holden (though Holden have conveniently scotched attempts by...

Elevated prices are affecting all cars, but specifically the used car market. The new car market is in acute shortage from continuing troubles with supply and manufacturing in China and Taiwan (especially Taiwan). Nothing to do with prestige or rarity. Market supply and consumer demand is...

The aftermarket stubby antennas, of which I fitted one in March, are not universally able to pull in stations as well as the Blaupunkt-made OEM whip antenna. They have nothing to do with SatNav, which is altogether a separate system and not affected by the antenna type (though I've heard of some...

No new mapping or navigation/MyLink updates are expected from Holden. This is a subject that has literally been flogged to death many times on JC; frustrating as it is, it is the situation we are collectively stuck with, other than the expensive alternatives that to me are a bridge too far...

A reconditioned/remanufactured starter is considerably cheaper.

Prolly Repco and AutoBarn too.

Ask a techie at Holden to show you how either/both switches are removed from the top. :)

Just driving around too much in 1st and 2nd gear with frequent downshifts. I get the same poor economy if I am stuck in a conga line of tin-pot assholes all going in the one direction, and held to ransom because the guy in the lead car saw a ghost. So... just get the car onto the open road, and...

That might be so. But there is a bigger problem there. OEM (ACDelco) filters come in that dreadful, despised, povo cream/off white. That is not going to go down well with you, innit, nay? I do like the red/pinkish K&N filters over the OEMs (which was absolutely a dog's breakfast when I...

The trim tools are thin enough to be eased under to release the clips. Holden did not need to remove the centre console when they replaced the trio switches opposite the park brake — it was leveraged up, unclipped and the new unit installed, wired and ready to go. All over and done with in 20...

Just quickly — Yes, used it many times around and beyond (North) of Alice (VZ Commodore and present VF) where it is most common, until closer to Darwin, when OPAL isn't very conspicuous at all. It's safe for any and all cars that run on 91, 95 or 98. There is a bit of a lag at the first fill of...

Just buy two. Install one. Leave it alone. When the time comes to have it cleaned, whip it out and install the spare. Set up and clean the other one, re-oil and re-package it ready for next use. There are clear and unambiguous instructions in applying the oil — no rocket science, kids...

Modified ex-Services cars are really nothing special at all. What makes them special, in a very irksome way, is the number and depth of modifications that were made essential to their place e.g. Police. SES etc. Top of the list are holes that have been drilled (count them!!), evidence of...

Sport mode — as in tip the shifter left and manually work the gears? If you rev it hard and shorten the shift duration, that will also increase fuel economy. The key is in the driving and frequency of gear changes; obviously you'll get higher/worse fuel economy around town, whether in Sport...

Manufacturing residue on your inlet pipe. It is not possible for dust and dirt to penetrate a properly lubricated and installed K&N. I can speak from long, troublefree experience and heaps of travel, not just a ride to church on Sundays. My K&N was installed at 60,500km; I'm now up to...

LOL! I wish. More around 1,200km or so. North of Alice there won't be much PULP98 on tap; stepping down to 91 or OPAL. I expect around 7 to 9L+/100km with that until Darwin.

If you are pottering around at low speed in 1st gear, yes, 17 to 28L(plus)/100 is a figure that will be returned and displayed on the DIC. It looks ugly and it is is! Get out of 1st and into 3rd and 4th at a steady pace and economy will improve e.g. highway and freeway. The longer you are...

Get a set of trim removal tools from originalpartsgroup.com.au (in Melbourne). One of these (this one I think: https://www.originalpartsgroup.com.au/trim-removal-tool-set-5-pce-gm-holden-chev-ford-to) was used to provide safe and damage-free leverage of the trio of switches on the opposite side...

No interest, finished lunch, on the move. Travelling north to warming climes. Be seein' ya.

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Fitting one from a VE, even in the unlikely chance it has matching radar / ultrasonic pods, could well result in a fault situation with those sensors responsible for blind spot monitoring, parking assist (auto-park) and camera operation. The VF body shares several similarities with the VE...