Vent your VN/VP frustrations here

[MasterOfReality]

I have lost count on how much I have spent, its just a never ending money pit.

The ones I remember are:

1. New aircon $1700
2. New brakes $1200
3. New headunit $500
4. New alarm $800
5. Recoed starter motor - $100?
6. New water pump - $300
7. New fuel pump - $200

Now it needs a new alternator, power windows need fixing and new tints.

 

[Leebo]

The VN is not a bad car as such just depends how it' been treated though it's life and what is worn out etc.

If you buy a car that was driven from the showroom to home and stored in a air tight room for 20yeas it's gona be good.

But there are going to be problems on a 330,000 plus car like mine

 

[1WOOKI]

engine light comes on for no apparent reason, the hell farking leak in the boot lol, cornering at high speeds even though its lowered with independent rear susp. starts with a cough a splutter and sometimes even a back fire. however i have to say i do still love my vp calais 5000

 

[Rossbx]

Azk, worn lifters on Cogez's motor? Surely hope not, it's ONLY JUST been rebuilt. Ticked since rebuild. Pricks told him to keep driving it it'd bed in. Til he ran out of warranty, then they didn't want to know about it. Dodgy ****s.


I chop mine off with a razor blade. works fine for me

Ticking sound is more likely to be injectors than lifters. Lifters usually make a definate clacking noise when worn or at least faulty. I worked in a mechanical workshop for many years and remember a VN V6 engine rebuild that one of the mechanics did. On initial start up the lifters clacked until the oil pressure built up then they went quiet but the injectors (which were reconditioned by a local fuel injection service at the time), ticked all the time.

 

[savage1987]

Injectors don't tick this loud. Not any that I've heard anyway. My 500,000++km injectors ticked. This you can hear driving beside the car.

 

[DavoVP]

I to have a ticking sound, and no, not injectors cause they dont run on LPG , its def a rear right lifter............. comes and go's as it pleases. Broke me thinks....

 

[Cogez]

damn lifters...you know, they've actually been a little quieter lately, or maybe i'm just numb to them.

last time my lifters got changed, duntroon car care did it, and i got my car back more ****ed than when i gave it to them, ie a sump full of coolant =P

 

[savage1987]

omfg when was that

 

[Paiste402]

here are the problems for my bro's VN:

Engine burns oil
Welsh plug leacks
Radiator is FULL of mud
had to jerry rig the thermo's to work cause they packed up
trans lags alot and i think the torque converter is failing
exhaust fell out one day, got a new one and we put it back together and supported it with speaker wire. 1 year ago now and it still holds haha
dash needs bashing all the time for everything to work
interior is falling to bits
fans dont work until speed 3
AC doesnt work
power steering leaks like a pregnant chick
lights dont work properly, not sure y though
idles like its only on 5 cylinders some days
ITS A TOYOTA LEXCEN (biggest fault of all)

 

[kendallz]

Warning engine light!!!

how do i fix the warning engine light??