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Sorry about your father, assuming your parents had you at around the same age mine did, it was too soon for him. You can list the car in more places than just the one. Personally, I'd go with facebook marketplace because it's free and ebay motors over gumtree, because both ebay and gumtree...

Holden used Loctite 609 - the anaerobic one. It cures in the absence of air (the opposite to traditional thread lockers and glues and whatnot), so not until the bolts are screwed in and air can't reach the threads. This is the stuff here. I use it for repairing the captive nuts in laptops, but...

I based my assumption that they were off a VX based on the 00-Jan marking. The 00 is an abbreviation of the year 2000, when they stopped producing the VT and began producing the VX. I think it's fairly safe to assume they weren't still churning out new rims for VTs that late in the game.

What? Did you reply to the wrong question maybe...?

Bought. You bought some rims. Bring is to brought as buy is to bought. Also, wonder doesn't have a 'u' in it. That said, a photo would help remarkably, but going by the numbers you've got there, I'd say they're off a VX and they're 15 inch. Provided you have 15 inch wheels on your VX, they will fit.

That's what I figured, given the nice little Samsung bluetooth setup it has.

They have different back windows to the each other (different patterns in the demister lines), but I don’t know if that’s related. What makes me think it’s aftermarket is that I own two VTs (a Berlina and an Olympic) and a third VX (it’s an Exec though) and none of them have rear antennas. The...

I have two identical VX Berlinas and one has a back window aerial and the other doesn’t. I think the one with the rear aerial is aftermarket.

No, I'm more concerned about the implications of the term "windward passage", but I think like a 10 year old a lot.

Oh wow... I've just noticed your street name... that's a hell of a name to have to look people in the eye and say.

I thought she was joking? ....oh wait....

I hate to be a buzzkill, but you obviously performed zero research on exhausts before you made these decisions, or you'd have not made them. What you've done to your exhaust reminds me of those people who get drunk at parties and agree to let their mate Dylan try out the tattoo kit they bought...

I can sell you some cheap, but they're cracked. (The light/dark colour is just because I thought I'd wash them before taking the photo but then I didn't have the patience to wait until they'd fully dried, so yeah, they're just a bit wet is all. They're a nice even shade of "20 years in the sun...

My advice is that unless you want to be on a first name basis with the Highway Patrol that you don't make it any louder than it no doubt already is.

Did you remove any of the bulbs by any chance? If so, take them back out, turn them 180° and reinsert. Now try.

Dude, are you building this car from the ground up or something? You've got so many questions (nothing wrong with that) and they're so varied! Here's just the hazard wiring. I've coloured it in with the colours the wires should be. Hopefully this will help you follow where everything goes...

What on earth is that website and why are the prices in South African Rand?? As for building Frankencars... I own a VX II Berlina that has been rocking a VX II Exec front for years and due to the fact that there are more kangaroos than replacement Commodore fronts out where I live, my husband...

Yeah, I have one of those and the one time I've ever used it I realised just how ridiculous they are. I was broken down, at night, on the side of the Princes Freeway in Werribee. If you're doing 100km/h at 1am on a stretch of road with no street lights, you're not going to spot a skinny 30cm...

I just assumed they were meant to be. Mine looked dusty, like baked plastic dusty, not dirt dusty. It's been a few months since I looked, but I swear I remember there being flaky bits of chrome on the inner surface. If I could get them out I would buy some good "mirror finish" type chrome paint...

I'd be happy if just my hubcaps were as clean as those ones. Very pretty.

I don't know what they're called, but there's a little tiny tube that connects to the back of the plenum and then to something you need tiny little monkey fingers to reach and it is the bane of my existence because mine periodically comes off at one end and it makes my car run like sh1t...

I have a VX Berlina and I also have this exact problem. It has been an uphill battle to find a way to get more light out of my low beams and so far I have had little success. I too, tried to remove the stupid reflector things, because I can see that the chrome inside them has crackled off and...

Got anything else to go on? When you say "randomly", is there anything that seems to frequently occur at the same time? Like does it tend to happen times when you've been driving for longer than 20 minutes, or the same days you happened to also put petrol in... that sort of thing. Have you...

There's always this option, too.

Have you tried just a Kaarcher? Hit it with the water jet - if there's a bunch of coats, it should come off pretty easily. Failing that, caustic soda doesn't affect plastic. If you want to try something milder - go oven cleaner. If you can't find caustic soda, use draino.

I wonder if I could have both V9 and the latest one installed and just manually select V9 to open the file? Off to find a copy of Adobe v9... EDIT: Yes, you can have both installed. You just right click like it says. Just tried it out and you are god, @Lex - it's working beautifully now!

Stuffed if I know. I found the pic on an ebay listing for the hose clips. That's the extent of my knowledge on the subject!

Some things are obvious, like VT and VX tail lights look nothing alike, but they'll both fit either model. Headlights are only interchangeable if you change everything around them too. Some seats have side airbags built in, some don't and while the seats will happily install in either model...

Yes, I attempted to change the globe in a hazard flasher switch once. It was like walking through a tunnel blindfolded while juggling pineapples... There were moments of triumph and despair, with a dash of unexpected discoveries thrown in for good measure. If attempted, it's a journey that will...

We could always have an expert level championship that involves unplugging as well. A special challenge could involve reinstalling a cluster that has been removed and unplugged, but has come from a car previously owned by a 23 year old bloke with a bunch of aftermarket add-on sh1t like a display...

You're right, some of the screw locations are difficult, potentially impossible to get a drill into, but you're also possibly not using a long enough screwdriver bit, and they do make various attachment doovahickeys for accessing awkwardly located screws. This is one I've been considering...

Nah, the fumes are what makes cleaning fun!

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I'm picturing a whole thing now, like the Annual Cluster Removal Championship. There's two divisions, the cordless drill division and the manual screwdriver division. All entries must be filmed for verification. There's an online table of entries and their recorded times and a perpetual...

Is that your best time, or the recognised Guiness World record time, or just the average time recorded by you and your mate Des when you were bored and knocking back beers one Saturday?

Yeah, I tried both, but people were using the right spelling.

Yeah, I'd probably recommend you ensure you have all the issues ironed out before you hit up your local shopping centre.

He said "dashboard fascia", so I presumed he meant the fascia - as in, the whole front of the dash.

Can you do that yourself? I always thought you needed a Tech II or something to be able to program a blank key to your car? You can get a thing on ebay for about $80 that you plug in to that port under your steering wheel that programs 3 keys for you. I tried asking the seller what happens to it...