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Lmao fk well the crank angle sensor wasn’t it. He’s now found a bit of a pattern, can drive for as long a he likes under 50-60, but as soon as he gets on a freeway/motorway above 70 it’ll stall. Guess the ECU is the next option. Also tried two different key fobs same issue. Assuming Holden...

Hey guys, Dad went out on his own with this and started throwing parts at it. Cat converter, oxy sensors, and oil temp sensor, problem still occurs. The best part is now when the car stalls "Engine Immobolised" flashes on and off on the screen as well as the Engine light goes on and off and...

Fair enough! Anyone else happen to have some suggestions or responses to the above?

Thanks for the responses so far fellas, the old man appreciates it! Sounds like the most plausible idea, but how would you test for this? Does the ECU itself have a temp monitor? Where is it located on a VE? What makes you think that? Any way to test for this? Not quite sure what you meant by...

Hey guys, good to see the forum alive and kicking, haven't been here in ages! Got a real head scratcher here that even Holden hasn't been able to diagnose. Old man has a VE 2010 3L SIDI with 200,000 on the clock. Never had any notable issues besides usual wear items, regular fluid changes, all...

Today as I was helping my old man out with his VE in the garage, using the scissor jack provided in the boot I began to jack the car up. I jacked up the car, placed a jack stand underneath the car in preparation to lower the car on to it, walk away to get something, and I hear a big "bang". I...

HDD Scan - excellent tool. Hasn't let me down, and every time it's found an error the disk ends up dying. Run a S.M.A.R.T check on your disk with it, if you get any errors then replace the disk. If it comes clean run a surface test and see if you've got any bad blocks, if you have bad blocks...

I had a statey with cloth seats, was excellent. I'm not sure if it was repadded in its life time, but when I bought it with 170,000km the seats were awesome and comfortable. The cloth felt really nice, and it had a classic 90s pattern which I really liked. Velour trims were nice too. Personally...

Yeah I'd try to file two wide flat sides and go at it that way. Just a warning though, if its really jammed in there your efforts might break the top right off the sensor and leave you with the threaded end stuck in there and nothing to grab on to, and since it's a pretty thin thread, you will...

I think that might be brake dust from him changing the pads :P

Just make sure the interior and exterior is somewhat decent, because good condition replacements are hard to find and in effect the prices are steeper. The rear garnish and leather seats are probably the toughest to find IMO.

My girlfriend and her parents were evacuated from their homes due to the fires, and after helping them get all their animals and stuff back to their place, I could see why! Horrible stuff. I was really impressed by the warning system though. To every mobile phone in the area, text messages and...

Haha! Very good.

Who's this "guy"? And why have you jumped right in to trying to fix his mistake? I'd go down the legal road before bending over and taking it in the ass. Sounds like he's done a **** job and doesn't wanna own up to his mistake - doesn't it make you wonder what other mistakes he's made along...

Lol I actually want the opposite - I must have worded this incorrectly. There's an s3 caprice that I'm likely to buy which has the beige/grey sorta colored steering wheel that looks really similar to a VT steering wheel. The steering wheel is in **** condition, and I've always preferred the...

Sorry if this seems stupid, I've never changed a steering wheel before. But what you guys are referring to is the little shaft the actual steering wheel fits on to? By photo they look really similar. The only difference I notice is the little holes on each side of the hole in the center seem...

Hi all, Was just wondering if anybody knows if the series 3 steering wheel can be replaced with a series 2 steering wheel in a VS Statesman/caprice? And more importantly, will the airbag remain operational? Cheers.

As said by ducker, see if they are HD kings. On my old VS statey I put on stock height springs and boge shocks to match , and changed bushings (had oe rubber strut mounts to help the ride but the rest was super pro), tried my best to do it proper. It handled really really well and driving on the...

Looking good aussie. Keep it up!

Maybe if it weren't for your **** parking you wouldn't be getting hit :P. haha just kidding. But seriously sorry about your car, I do know that feel. My car has been hit three times in the past 12 months. All hit and run with no notes, except for the last one but it was a fake number and I...

Awesome. Glad to hear it doesn't seem to sound like a tranny issue or anything. Oh well, good opportunity to replace the cat with a high flow if that is the problem. Thanks someguy.

Hi all, Was wondering knows what this noise is? Only seems to happen on idle when the revs drop a little, and after you rev it a bit and it drops back down to idle. I'm thinking maybe the exhaust is a little loose somewhere. I've heard this noise before on other cars so I was hoping maybe it...

As long as the cornering problem happens when you're low on fuel, then I think Brett is on the money with the return line. My dads old VX did the same thing, was especially dangerous going around big roundabouts that aren't level lol. If it is this though, it's an absolute pain in the ass to get...

Yeah mine had a really strong fuel smell as well, and that's pretty clean for a plenum chamber! Looks similar to mine. Unfortunately I can't tell you if the fuel pressure regulator was responsible for all this, that was just my best guess when putting 2 and 2 together. The day before I was...

You mean to say from the inside of the hose or from the inside of the fuel pressure regulator where you took the vacuum hose off was wet? In either case, I've been informed that it should be bone dry. Best to have another more experienced member confirm that though.

You can do a bodgy fix with some bars leak. Will probably block the hole in the heater core and get you out of **** for a while and might get your heater working too. But it's dirty stuff and will stain your entire cooling system and it will be difficult to remove the unmistakable residue it...

Clicked her over to 200,000km. My goal is to get her to 300,000km.

Check fuel pressure regulator. After a drive take the thin vacuum line off the back of it (the one going into the plenum chamber) and see if there's any fuel in there, it should be bone dry. In my old vs the thing was stuffed and fuel was being sucked into the plenum chamber (and effectively...

Hi all, There's a clean Series III V8 VS Caprice near my place that's always sitting in the driveway that I've been staring at as I go past it everyday to and from work, and today I decided to see if the owner would sell it. And to my surprise, it was an old lady owner who was interested in...

My old VS Statey. Stock as a rock, but even unmolested, it always stood out to me and had a lot of character. So much so that I'm in the market for another one, but a Caprice this time around. Sadly, there's not many nice ones around these days :(.

I never thought there was so much I could disagree on in one single post.

This thread has jogged my memory. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing an NGK stamp on the side of an O2 sensor I once bought from Suttons Holden here in Homebush - so honestly I have nfi what the OEM brand is lol. I thought Bosch was OEM too, but it shat itself three months later and threw dash...

Multiple people report that Bosch ones are ****. See my old thread http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/showthread.php?t=208561

Yea man don't cheap out on the O2 sensors, waste of money. **** ones die in three months. AC Delco is the original genuine sensors for your car and can be had at a holden dealership.

Funny you say that, because this is what happened to me last year. The accountant got the address wrong on the form and I sat around patiently waiting for ages.

Advertisements about cancer, smoking, clogging arteries, brain damage, and all the other horrific ****. I can no longer go for a drive, listen to the radio, watch TV, or YouTube clips on my phone (thank god for Adblock on my computers), without hearing or seeing a depressing, down as hell...

TunerPro. Get onto PCMhacking.net, plenty of information readily available on there to help you do what you need to do.

I reckon tv as well. Remember that if you do this, you will be their only go-to guy when something goes wrong - and TRUST me, you don't wanna be that guy. I know you wanna help and all, but putting yourself up on a pedestal like that will be more trouble than it's worth. Not only that but...

Considering it's a 15+ year old commodore, I would consider that a good list with problems that are normal for that age. You're lucky that list isn't three pages long and filled with discoveries of mechanical work done by bodgy Bill who was paid in beer for his efforts. The two major concerns...

600 bucks for pads and rotors? I don't know if that's acceptable, but I do know that I wouldn't pay it. It's such a simple job I'd simply DIY. I wouldn't bother machining the rotors, I've always been told that new rotors cost only a little more than machining. Plus I think a brand new rotor is...