My 2009 Holden Calais Sportwagon

[ybhve4]

My 2009 Holden Calais Sportwagon with a twist ;-)

Hi all,

fairly new here and new to Holden's itself. Anyways I purcahsed in Feb 2012 my first Holden and its a 2009 Calais Sportwagon.
Pretty bog stock. came with the factory roof racks, rear roof mounted screen, & sat nav. Needed a wagon as I got 2 little ones so wanted something with good interior space and boot while still looking good which is why I went for the Sportwagon as Ford has disappointed on not having anything as nice looking.

Since purchasing it all I have done so far is change most of the lighting to LED or HID.

Here are some pics:

LED Number plate lights & parker lights (They are white...poor lighting photo)

6000K HIDs

Got a few mods in mind but nothing much as i still want it practical for me so maybe wheels, suspension and some quad tips but we shall see how all goes.

cheers

 

[dmacey]

Look clean mate, congratulations on your new car

 

[ybhve4]

Yeah its not to bad. i wanted a sv6 but this fell in my budget and offered more on the inside over the sv6 so quite happy so far

 

[VS_Pete]

Nice pickup mate. I like that colour.

 

[ybhve4]

cheers mate....dont mind the colour. would have loves the gunmetal grey though but still happy.

 

[ybhve4]

well small update....got my hands on a set of used gen R8's in shaddow chrome. few light scuffs but overall not bad.

obviously lowering is next

 

[ybhve4]

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[ybhve4]

got my hands on some lowered King springs from voorhees from here when he removed them from his wagon. Also got my hands on a few other bits and pieces...so this is how my wagon looks now:

 

[ybhve4]

yes...its missing the grill....still trying to get my hands on one to mod and put on oh and i debadged the rear

Didnt go for the rear bar as I couldnt justify how little of a change it was to mine so going to leave it as it is.

once the grill is sorted plans are to maybe add some chrome edging like the series 2 VE's just to get back abit more of it being a Calais. Trying to get some AFM mufflers for the rear and possible paint my calipers.

any other "cheap" mods/add-on suggestions please fire away. No performance mods. its my family wagon and would prob go for a 8 next time round so all looks for this one.

cheers

 

[BigBoss]

How about a shark fin or bee sting antenna?