2006 Holden VE Commodore SV6 Warranty Complaint
31 Aug, 2007
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2006 Holden VE Commodore SV6 Warranty Complaint
Name: Gregory muller
Car Make: Holden Commodore
Car Model: VE SV6
Year of Manufacture: 2006
Warranty Complaint:
Fuel cap locking release makes a high pitch sound when car is being unlocked, beyond what is acceptable as normal operating noise. This is a brand new car!! I advised service centre and their response was that this is normal.
I have already taken the car back for warranty claims; one-squeaky (noisy) door trim, two-suspension was making noise and was found to be break shims needing to be replaced. And i just had a water leak repaired satisfactorily, front driver-side under the dash.
If i need to find my car in a parking lot i just hit unlock and listen for the fuel cap release!
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September 24th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Just another failure from Holdenwoo be more careful when buying a new car, make sure it isn’t holdenwoo…
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September 24th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Wheels “junk” of the Year Gong begs questions about HoldenWoo and why Opel Kombidore got it!!!
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September 25th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Holden dealer should be aware of a lubrication process to rectify the fuel filler door actuator, advise them to check bulletins
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October 6th, 2007 at 6:22 am
So you were told that the squeeky noise was normal ? wow… I was told that a noise I was hearing in my engine (Calais VE 2006 ) was normal and nothing to worry about…. Holden must be hearing a lot of noises from their cars… can’t distinguish what’s normal or not !
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December 3rd, 2007 at 4:06 pm
I drove, listened and walked away. World class car according to Wheels Mag. am I missing something?
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December 3rd, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Why does Holden has so many Warranty Complain?
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January 7th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I have a Late 2006 VE Calias which has had continual faults with flat batteries, warnings to contact dealer service and climate control just not working.
Also very poor panel fit of boot which the Holden Dealer said 1.5mm is acceptable.
This is by far the worst car i have ever had and would recommend others to look elsewhere.
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January 7th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Ezal, the answer is easy, many people who love warranty problems buy VE commondore, just to keep driving back and forward to the dealer service depot means sad days and during one of those day’s the thing will actually work properly..
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January 14th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
I have a wish to complain about my 2003 Holden Commodore “Lumina”. My car has done less that 36000km, has been regularly serviced by accredited firm since purchased {new},and yet has just cost me $455:50 for the replacement of a radiator. I find this an unacceptable expense and would suggest that proper compensation should be accorded me. This car through-out its life has only done short trips at about 250kms a week on average. I consider the breakdown of the radiator an unacceptable liability for me to absorb.
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January 14th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
THIS IS NOT A WARRANTY COMPLAINT BUT A COMPLAINT ABOUT INABILITY TO SUPPLY PARTS FOR REPAIR OF OUR 5 MONTH SV6 WHICH WAS HIT IN REAR BY ANOTHER CAR.REPAIRS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED BY THE PANEL SHOP BUT HOLDEN CANNOT SUPPLY THE LEFT SIDE EXHAUST UNTIL END OF JAN.THE VEHICLE HAS BEEN OFF THE ROAD SINCE 13/12/07.I FIND THIS MOST UNSATISFACTORY.
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January 14th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Say no more, CRAP service, CRAP cars, CRAP company, I would be unsatisfied too…
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January 24th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
have a 2007 ve sv6 and the passenger seat looks like it belongs in a 10 year old taxi! The raised pattern in the inserts is just falling apart. Holdens say its wear and tear - at 8000km, and really dont want to know us. is anybody else out there having the same problem or are we the only ones in australia like holdens reckon.
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January 24th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Oh no!!!! not another problem Holden one thing after another, your not alone David cause other people are having many different Holden problems too…..
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January 25th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
love the car except the problem with the seats, mainly its the way holdens are treating us like s*%#. once you have the car - stiff.
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February 25th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I have a late 2006 VE SV6 auto sedan which has been back to the dealer dozens of times to date, with mainly battery drain & suspension problems. I have already had the rear springs replaced as they were very creaky. However I am still hearing a knocking noise in the right hand side front end though, which Holden do not seem to be able to fix. I am wondering if you are experiencing a similar problem. Holden replaced the link pins & rubbers which seemed to fix the problem for about 6 weeks however we are back to regularly hearing the noise!!!
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February 29th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I have a 2006 SV6 and have had knocking noise front right which was reported at first service. Some twelve months later the knock is still there. The knocking is a dull thud. My clutch pedal now makes a cluck sound when it returns to rest position. The clutch pedal sound is intermittent. When I do not hear the clunck from my clutch pedal I find I can place my foot under the clutch pedal raise the pedal to its rest position and create the dull thud sound (the sound reported at my first service).
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March 4th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I have a 2007 VE omega purchased 7 January 2008 after 10 days the hand brake broke still waiting for parts to fix it was told probably won’t arrive before 13 Feb have been in contact with holden in Melbourne don’t want to know me won’t return my calls or answer my letters or email have a few other not so serious complaints as well,should have done more research before I bought it.
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March 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Wrong date for part arrival not before 13 March that’s 8 weeks wait.
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March 29th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I purchased a ve sv6 late 2006. I have had the usual “contact” dealer faults all the time, the creaky suspension (which was replaced as it is a known issue). The latest one is my gearbox (manual). Last week i had a little bit of difficulty pulling the gear out of 4th (a feeling like the clutch wasnt in) and one day before the service department could look at it… it seized in 4th, and would not come out. The car had to be towed, and gearbox replaced. A replacement gearbox is TWO FULL MONTHS AWAY !!!! apparantly it has to come from Taiwan!
I purchased the commodore over a Honda accord euro, because i thought a RWD 6 being built in oz would be more reliable. How wrong I was.
At least the Honda accord euro is made in Japan and not taiwan!!!
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April 12th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Its interesting reading all of the comments regarding the VE. Most of the contributors seem to believe that Holden builds crap. The opposite is the truth. The vast majority are very reliable. I had 7 Commodores over a 15 year period starting with S1 VR. Happily they were all great cars. I then changed to a Kia Sorrento as one of the many “user chooser” salary package drivers. If ever god made crap and put an engine in it then this is the car. Space won’t allow me to detail it all, suffice to say I got out of the car after 13 months. Problems included 3 flat batteries in the first 10 days, interior water leaks, fender flares falling off, failed sound system (2) auto trans problems, ato trans selector flying appart, failed door locks, auto airiel, dents on tailgate caused during closing (just check the number of Sorento’s with these either side of the chrome strip accross the tailgate). This is just a sample. I’m not alone here. Many owners of these heaps of junk suffer in silence. I then changed into a new RAV4. Traded out after 2 years suffering with water leaks (more like torrents) odd wind noise and many other issues. Now I have the worst yet, a Toyota Aurion ZR6. What a peice of junk. Dash rattles, squeaks, groans, centre consol squeaks, rattles and graons, Auto trans flaring between 1st, second and 3rd, rattles in the dash speakers, major water leak and worse of all the stereo and HVAC lights glaring in the widscreen at night causing a major distraction. I hired an Aurion in Adeleaide late 2007. Guess what? All the same problems. It took me months to have these issues even addressed let alone fixed. I had to find out for myself and inform the local dealer about Toyota bulletins for the dash and speaker rattles. Toyotas response to these issues has been woefull at best. They don’t even know what to do with the aut trans. The response is that it could have been underfilled at the factory so we will top it up. Fixed? No! Now they admit that they just don’t know what to do. In the past 5 months I have not had any contact with Toyota on this issue at all. So you see, poor old Holden is not so bad. Kia is wholly owned by Hyundai (#6 in the world?) and Toyota is the biggest and most profitable car maker in the world. They have recently admitted in print that their quality arround the world has slipped. I am living proof having had 2 new Toyots in 3 years. One locally built and the other made in Japan. Will I buy another Toyota again? No way! My next car will be a VE series 2 sports wagon due for release late 08 or early 09, with all of the bugs that any new model has nicely ironed out.
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May 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
My VE SV6 2006 model rides okay, but crap interest from Holden dealer and head office with the faults. Had it back SEVEN times to fix a/c. No one seemed to give a #@&! that they could not fix it. Every time there seemed to be a different fault with it - at least according to the the service centre - My guess is they just made up reasons why it wasn’t working and kept topping up the gas. The last time it was back I was told it was “low on gas” - my response was no #@&! Sherlock where is the leak this time” It was only then and my reminding about the number of times it had been back that they found yet another leak. What a piece of junk. When i got the car the glove boxlight would come on when closed hence draining the battery all night long.
Holden junk - and even worse service. When I rang the head office in Melbourne the response I had was “what do you want me to do about it!!!!”. This was clearly very helpful - NOT.
I will never buy Holden again!!!!
Owen I feel sorry for you already that you think waiting will iron out the problems - Holden don’t give a crap about the problems or trying to fix them
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May 31st, 2008 at 9:30 pm
out of the blue our dealer rings us and tells me “the seat we sent to melbourne for testing has been lost in transit”. okay i said, what happens now with the seats in my car? err - better book it in to have new ones fitted! after job was completed, we noticed that the new rear seat is different, were it was wearing before, different fabric is used. as for losing the other seat- yeh right,why could’nt they just admit there was afault in the first place? as for the warranty inspector that comes to the dealers over here, he makes a decision there and then, and as far as holdens is concerned thats it, no further action will be considered at all — go away! love the car but after the way we were treated,no more new holdens - will look at the opposition.
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June 14th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I have an early 2007 VE Commodore. My last car was a brand new BF Falcon. The BF had many problems, more so than the commodore, like faulty traction control, which was never able to be fixed, doors sagged so hit body and started rust, CD player used to overheat and fail, when brought home for first drive, the headlight pointed at the ground so I could not see the the first night I drove home, steering started clunking, so the rack required new shims or something so they said and one day the engine decided not go into limp mode for no particular reason. I am sure there were other things.
Enter my decision to go for a VE Commodore. I have had the care for 1 year and have done 41000km. It’s about to be traded. The VE has been a much better car for faults, except I think it is a bit gutless, has too much road noise and engine noise and has a huge annoying blindspo when looking for traffic out front window.
Faults have been the battery draining on occasions. Twice I needed to jump start. Was rectified by dealer with new computer program. Then the air cond decided not to work. This problem again required a computer recode and then was fixed. Then the tyres scrubbed out completely at only 28000km at the rear, so needed a full alignment. Then the rear parking sensors stuffed up at 20000km and have not been able to be fixed by Holden ever since, so what’s the point in buying them? Then the door switches stuffed up, which means the alarm has been going off for 2 weeks everytime I lock the car. Holden cannot seem to fix this either, so all night for many nights my car has been unlocked, otherwise the alarm goes off!!! Through the day, I just let the alarm go off all day long, which would annoy everyone, but is only way to keep car locked. Holden said I have to wait 2 weeks to get this fixed and they did not even know how to temporarily disarm it.
Car drives great, looks good and is comfortable. But these things are as annoying as our Holden dealer’s crappy attitude and lack of will to fix the issues.
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June 15th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
“If i need to find my car in a parking lot i just hit unlock and listen for the fuel cap release!”
And thats a bad thing? It’s a good thing really if you think about it like you said you can hear your car in the parking lot.
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June 18th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Add me to the list of unhappy, disapointed Holden customers, (2007 SV6) Don’t be fooled by the good looks, never have I owned a car with so many problems. Build quality just seems rubish all round. Where to start, squeeking from motor from when it was NEW, took 4 attempts for dealer to repair??? Front suspension makes knocking noises. Bluetooth phone kit is useless (cant hear well for both people and wont disconncect after call!!) Corrosion all over alloy engine cover (normal apparently) Warped windscreen plastic seel at base - water runs into engine (again normal according to Dealer) SMELLS LIKE MOULD, FROM ABOUT 3 MOTNHS OLD - HAVE JUST FOUND MAJOR LEEK IN FLOOR AND REAR CARPET IS ALWAYS WET!!! Dealer have advised need to replace floor carpet and seal up floor, will take 4 DAYS - WOW im so over this car, looks good and drives well, but its not worth the hassle. Also have a HYUNDIA ACCENT what a difference, not one problem with the Korean Car!! Now just have to get rid of the commodore - i sure wont be a repeat holden customer. (my 1st car was a VN commodore, that had less problems than this VE)
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June 19th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I have a Jan 2008 SSV…. no squeeks, vibrations, taps or any other noises that shouldnt be there from the whole car… my first car was a VN commodore and i had continues problems with it when it was still new (1993) my next car was a EL XR8 and i had the same ammount of issues with it but it was a much better ride, i got an BA XR8 over a VY SS for ride quality not material quality… and im sorry to say that i was converted to a VE omega in 2006 and only issue i had was the Oxygen sensor … I traded it for a SSV in 2008 and havent had a single fault with it. I drove a FG XR8 and it felt like an over powered BA XR8 which in my opinion made me feel unsafe… the FG falcon was not a good enough car to sway me back to ford in my opinion.
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June 19th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
“I brought a brand new Holden VE, it was a couple of months ago now. I am still having problems with it. It has been back and forth from Service place to Service place, to no avail. I just want it fixed. I have brought 2 cars before this one at the same place in the past 4 years.
This is the first brand new car I have ever purchased. I know its a brand new series, but should this really happen? Why can’t anybody help me with this, because no one really cares. Engine mounts were meant to be replaced and I don’t think they were (well with new ones anyway). Its been recalled for seat belts and also a fuel line.
This is horrible, so much money was spent when making this car, how embarrassing for Holden. My first new car ever, never again. “
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June 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm
yeah i bought a second hand sv6(2006)and to be honest i love the car and have few complaints. its gone back to dealer to fix rear suspension knocking, faulty heater, windscreen wiper,some door stabilizer broken and last but not least cd player comming up with “mechanism error” at random times. I have had 1 battery charge warning which went away but had me furious at the time. Rear shocker took 2 months to get replacement part and cd player took just as long. replacement cd player has come up with same error twice already (1 month later). I have found after sale service to be fine. i say just hope that u can iron out any faults before warranty runs out because everything i buy in this day and age falls to pieces and thats what disappoints me more than anything
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July 9th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Well, it seems most, if not EVERYTHING is being made in asia - hence why everything falls apart within 12 months, and hence why Holden takes so long to get spare parts. It obviously costs them too much to keep stock of all parts, so they need to ship it all from Asia when they have problems.
This country is going down hill big time. You really gotta wonder how low can quality go, just to save a few dollars. It seems all companies think ASIA is the answer!!! THINK AGAIN!!! This country will be full of crap quality, from cars, to fridges, to everything in our daily lives!!!! How fantastic, a throw away society, taking advantage of slave labour, and buying everything from a region of the world with NO thought of carbon emmissions or environmental stability!!!
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August 29th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
We bought a ssv 2008 model and have had the car to the dealer five times now regarding a knocking noise in the front right.
They have shimmied the brakes and put new rubbers and bushes on and still we have the problem. We think it may be a suspension prob. Does anyone out there have the same noise??
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October 1st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Hello Melissa,
I have SV6 - with the same knocking noise in front right….. has only been back 3 times!!!! and yes ofcourse still not fixed.
I agree, i think it is suspension. Maybe they just cant get the parts so they ignore it.
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October 8th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
i have a knocking noise in my suspension on all four corners and i have spoken to the head technician at a dealership and they tell me it is the springs catching on the retainers when there is little weight in the car, like one or two people. He advised me that holden has not got an answer to this problem as yet. But aside from the clunk it is no big deal. I havent had any other problems with the car at all.
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October 26th, 2008 at 4:24 am
have been buying new holdens since 1977,my 08 sv6 will be the last holden i buy.road and engine noise is deafning a two and a half hour drive to katherine at 130kph and we both have sore throats fron yelling at each other.a spring in the steering collum broke 4 attempts to fix now have notchy steering.loud whine and rumble in aircon dealer admits to much noise but dont have a fix?loud valve clatter noise in the dash dealer cant find.just small things like the bottom half of the dash just falling of.and a crap stereo.if this is the best holden have to offer then they have no future.interior build quality is woefull.goodby holden hello mazda 6.
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October 26th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
i dont want to go on but i forgot to mention that the heated rear window has stopped working not hi tech stuff,also the black plastic wheelnut covers come of at speed.
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October 31st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Yeah, bought the 2005 sv6 model - worst mistake of my life. $3300 in repairs within warranty period and a problem reported before warranty expiry has escalated into an engine replacement with holden saying its out of warranty.
Nice work Holden.
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November 1st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
have just picked up my new mazda 6 wagon wow what a breath of fresh air after my rubbish sv6.i wonder if anyone from holden could have a look at how mazda build cars have a look at the fit and finnish have a look at the qualty of this vehicle,but they wont coz they just dont care.holden you once built great cars dont know what went wrong but your ve is a total disgrace,i lost 10 grand to get out of the ve[7 months old,5000 kays]but it was worth every cent.soon we wont have an aus made holden anymore,and the suits at gmh will wonder why.
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