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Brock183

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Hello All,
Just wanted to say Hi, I have just recently got a Dec 2006 VE SV6 Commodore.
It's my first Commodore, I have had an R33 Skyline for the past 5 years and gave that up for the SV6.

So far so good with the Commodore, I have only had it 3~4 days and the only bad thing so far is having to duck down so people don't see me when I go past. When I take the Chev grill off and put a Holden grill on though that will stop :surprise:

A bit about the car, Kms are at 111,000 and mechanically it seems to be fine. Cosmetically it does need some work, so it will take me a while to get to 100% but I do love a good challenge (hence owning a skyline for 5 years).
So far I have been making a list of what I need to fix:
- Roof lining
- Handbrake Plastic
- Aerial base + Aerial
- Steering Wheel
- Driver Door Card
- Boot Badge
- AC regas - Booked
- Passenger door gap
- Service - Done
- Chev Grill - Done!
- Air bag light - Booked Friday 11th at Holden

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CoffeeMonster

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looks good, bit surprising about the roof lining. my current car (till next week) has done ~191,000 and the roof lining is still fine. are you gonna try take the dents out of the bonnet and roof?
 

uniacidz

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Welcome from WA.
We here at JC do not discriminate ppl from wherever they are from lol

Anyboos
Glad u got a list ready and working on and having a Skyline prior you worked on that as well

Sucks bout roof lining ans weird also being so young the car

What made you change to a Holden?
 

VS_Pete

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low ks.:beer chug:
love that blue
 

commodore665

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Hey man welcome in , nice looking SV , love the blue , also good to hear the Chevrolet badges are not long for this world .
 

Brock183

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looks good, bit surprising about the roof lining. my current car (till next week) has done ~191,000 and the roof lining is still fine. are you gonna try take the dents out of the bonnet and roof?

Yeah, I have got a new roof lining on its way, just need to try install it. Hopefully it will fit through the passenger door without creasing. I want to get all mechanical side of things fixed first, getting that famous P0008 error (timing chain) and I know that aint cheap!
I might look at buying a bonnet from a wrecker and the roof, im not sure how I will manage that.
 

Brock183

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Welcome from WA.
We here at JC do not discriminate ppl from wherever they are from lol

Anyboos
Glad u got a list ready and working on and having a Skyline prior you worked on that as well

Sucks bout roof lining ans weird also being so young the car

What made you change to a Holden?

Yeah, I had to rebuild a S2 RB25DET engine and install it into a S1 R33 which taught me quite a lot, especially patience haha!

The Skyline was 22 years old and starting to have more and more issues, so I wanted to go for something a bit more practical and reliable. Plus I do love the shape of the VE's.
 
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