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Is there a reason why some new cars are absolute crap,irrespective of brand? In the last few years I have bought a new vy ute and recently a new vz ute.I have had no trouble with either,nothing at all.Other people have had diffs replaced,transmission problems etc.They won't ever by a holden again etc.
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other terms are "friday arvo car" or "last day car" as in last day of the month where cars are thrown together in a rush to make monthly bonus targets........ it is not uncommon for prodsuction facilities (not limited to vehicle manufacture btw) to comple
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Hi Robbo etc,
I think buying a new car that turns out to be a lemon is bad,but what concerns me is the treatment some of these people get(on tv)
new car sellers should completely fix the car or replace it!no excuses.
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I have worked in auto manufacturing for many years including Holdens and its suppliers, in general cars do not leave the factory with faults many inspections are done.
All car makers use parts made from suppliers this is where some of the problems are co
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......But a new car should have NO trouble at all....
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just a note on the BA, last week a guy at work with a BA XR6 had a malfunction with the electronic accelorator and it took off in the carpark on him while going 5kph to flat chat ended up taking out a barrier and kerbing with lots of damage to the car, gi
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I am interested in this story of the BA falcon taking off , the only way possible for this to happen is if the spring inside the Pedal unit snapped and the pedal fell to WOT wide open throttle , as the electronic design of this system does not allow the t
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I used to work at ford and I reckon lemons are produced in two ways,
1. Model change overs in the past used to happen intantly, one minute you were working one model, next minute the new model would start rolling past, this practice caused lemons like th
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daniel the guys BA was written off, they would not give him the results of any findings and now its gone to auction.
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a guy from my work had the same problems with his falcon taking off.as well as 2 motors 3 gears boxes and 2 diffs. my pop bought a brand new HQ and never had an issue. bought a new HZ GTS and sold it 1 month later. things would just break. i have never bo
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The issue of the lemon will have applied since cars began. Sometimes it is due to the unfortunate total of too many elements being on the edge of spec. I have been very lucky with my cars as I always order to my specification. It means waiting in many cas
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We have people at work with VE`s and only one has had a problem, this was a SV6 ,the ABS light came on and the car slowly shut down for saftey reasons , turned out to be a computer glitch, the dealer fitted a series 2 computer and said you wont have anymo
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Ask any Police officer with an interest in the cars, or anyone with a high K VE. Or even a low VE that has been driven hard. They are falling apart at the seams under the car. Literally pulling themselves apart. Probably been fixed by now.
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