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Another quality GM product.
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Ford screwed the Falcon
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Holden probably went from a locally supplied part used in the VE to a cheaper imported part used in the VF. The Holden purchasing department met their cost targets......
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Ease up - Ford's had a few recalls over the years.
Most of us have two eyes - at least they're dealing with it before it becomes a major issue. GM products have failed over the years, but the Commodore is a good Australian vehicle. Many people here would turn to them if they couldn't get what they wanted from Ford, so let's not deride a product that like the Falcon, has carried generations of families billions of kilometres collectively...and perhaps then some.
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Technically wouldnt be a GM screw up. The seats are provided to Holdens by Futuris with the pretensioner fitted to the seat track (and loom prerouted), just as they are done for Ford. Similar thing happened around 8 years ago, found a damaged power loom on a 6 way seat in the Holden sales Yard (it had passed all quality checks), as seat was chewing away at loom everytime powered forward or backwards. Needless to say, alot of retrofitting was done on cars in the middle east, south korea and china (if I recall correctly). Issue was that no prevalidation checks had been done, prior to production.
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cant even bag out the holden on these forums anymore somebodys gotta ruin it.
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I can't see why on a Ford forum site we can't give Holden a bit of stick, it's a bit friendly rivalry. I give a bit of cheek to my Qld mates this time year it all a bit of fun, no need to jump to Holden's defence they are big boys and they dish more out than they receive.
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To quote a friend of mine who's blood has ran blue for 70 years. "With the end drawing near I just want the last of our Aussie cars to be the good quality cars that they actually are, recalls are not good for the memory of the car manufacturing in this country, I hope there are no more issues for any of the manufactures"
Hopefully the last falcon runs without issue.
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A cable tie and a sleeve over the wire...done.
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At least they recalled it rather than tried to play it off and BS about it.
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We live in a cover your **** society, recalls are becoming the norm.
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It's hardly a Toyota volkswagon recall lol
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Amazing how the media and people are all over this Holden recall, but Hyundai managed to fly under the radar with their recall of the SantaFe.
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i wish Holden recall all their cars
![]() like blueford260 has mention this is a FORD forum we can say what we like about Holdens as long we keep it civil, i bet my left one they do the same to us Ford fans i've heard it before my old boss was one of those typical Holden people. cheers dean |
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I know I was relieved to discover my EcoLPI Ute was not part of the recall to change cylinder head.. |
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