Attention VY Holden Owners

[Airhead]

I had to prostitute myself and she has morals.

[DAVID PATERSON]

Marcus, be wary of fitting a fire extinguisher, apart from the projectile hazard, if the car is burnt out and you haven't used the extingusher, the insurance company may wipe you, sayng that you haven't exercised your duty of mitigation.

[The Tool Man]

I Dont think A Fire Extinguisher would have been any good in the case of the VY commodore I proudly watched burn. By the time we'd have got it out of the vehicle someone would have been badly burnt. It went up so quickly there was no time to remove the trailer , it just went with everything else.

[PEPSI]

Originally posted by alfasud
My company car is a Holden Vectra and at one year and low km's it seems to be falling apart..... maybe that's too harsh, but quite a few minor problems. Not sure I can blame Holden for that as it seems to have been made in Germany with Holden badges added.

I have to say that having owned a CD Vectra since new (1998) and having travelled over 113,000km's, I have only good words to say about it. In 1999 I had a car come off a stop sign right in front of me and after t-boning the other car at 60km/h the Vectra crumpled as designed ($12k worth of damage) saving my wife and I from major injury and after repairs still drove like new. Engine is very torquey for a four and apart from an idle problem when new, hopeless AM radio reception and several attempts to get the dealer to adjust the headlights high enough for country driving it has been a dream, it still has the original clutch and brake pads, cheap motoring!

[the man]

Didn't all the VT commodore's in 1999/2000 get recalled to see if the fuel tanks hasn't been leaking or fitted proply

[275 GTB-4]

Originally posted by the man
Didn't all the VT commodore's in 1999/2000 get recalled to see if the fuel tanks hasn't been leaking or fitted proply

And before that there was a problem with steering gear fluid sparying around the engine bay and bursting into flames....man. all cars go through recalls, was it the EF'coon that had the big placky tank just under the rear bumper sitting there waiting to explode in a rear end accident?? Where is this thread heading? Terrifying those who have to jump in these cars tomorrow? I wonder sometimes.....