I'm starting to think twice now about getting a new Redline, it seems a lot of you are having quite a few issues/complaints with the VF's...not good "customer feedback" at all. I hope I'm wrong though as I still want one.
The air conditioning seems to have been the common fault with these cars, right from the launch of VF. As a developer I will tell you that occasionally the software does gets confused. Its happened three times in the three years of ownership. Once was the steering column fault, which I am pretty sure was the angle of the front wheels and the parking spot, messing with the column lock and software and the other two was a genuine bug where the MyLink just got confused. For the first I wiggled the wheel as you would a conventional steering column lock and retried and all was good. For the latter two turning the car off and on fixed that. Since the last software update I haven't seen any of these problems reoccur.
I do want to stress that absolutely nothing critical that puts your life at risk goes wrong with these cars. The engine doesn't quit or the gearbox drop in reverse of anything like that. Its mostly all around MyLink. It does seem some of the later cars have had more issues, but I can really only go from my own personal experience which I will share with you. Mine is one of the original VF Redline's to come down the line. It had an issue with the drivers seat moving under umm "high speed" cornering, which was fixed on the first service. Otherwise and despite like a dozen recalls for checking things, my car has been fantastic. Every bit as reliable as the Mazda 6 MPS I traded for it, which in itself was also a great car.
The Redline's are a fun car to own and drive and with the LS3 adding a great sound track, I would recommend one to you. Honestly if they had been like some previous Falcon models I have owned, I wouldn't make that recommendation, but the VF has its quirks, which I will put down to personality, but overall its a good package and works well where it counts.
