I am a owner of a VX, plated 157/174. I bought this obsession a year ago and I have enjoyed every single driving moment. I thought I might share what my experience has been like.
Bought the car in Queensland and drive home to Canberra over a period of 3 days. (appox 1100km) Most enjoyable. Though this did highlight some issues, namely power window, blower unit and oil consumption.
I had the power window fixed by using a product produce by Ford motors, apparently some of their models had similar problems, the product looks like honey. This lubricant has fixed the window problem….for now, my mechanic says he will apply the goo every 6 months. At 5$ a window I find it to be a easy and cheap solution.
The blower motor would only work on high or not at all, resistor would either let no power or all power though. Solution was to replace the resistor with a Holden vx commodore resistor. With some clever wiring the blower works fine now. The only problem now is that the blower is a little rattly but I can live with that.
Timing belt was done about 6 months ago. The only problem the mechanic had was when he went to replace the valve shims, he ordered the wrong size but that was fixed very quickly, gotto love Holden specialists that can look at a motor and glance determine what is needed.
I upgraded the standard stereo with a JVC dvd/cd player.
Since owning my VX the TOD illumination on the dash never lit up, turns out the pervious owner pull out the plug from the back of the dash…..wtf! anyways it works like a charm.
Recently I was up in them hills and I lost power to my front diff whilst in 4x4 mode, turns out my front diff vacuum hose was crushed (no idea how it happen) after the car spent 5 minutes on the host I was out 100$ for the guys time, I guess it could have been worse.
The only problem I have at the moment is that I now have a squeak coming from the front end. I think I may have a issue with a part not been rigorously greased…not sure on this one. Sometimes its there other times it is not. It is more pronounced on the dirt and hard right hand turns. ( I have tried to only turn left but I always end up where I started from hehe)
My plans for the future is to raise the vx by 2 inches or so, every thing else I am very happy with.
thougth i would share
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