Opel shutting down in Australia effective immediately - Page 5

csv8 · 11-08-2013, 11:41 AM

JGG66ME...You must have been unlucky, I had a HZ Kingswood and a towed a caravan all around WA, no problems for a year...Then I had a VB Commodore..it droppped a valve in the first week..engine was replaced..you never know..thats why Australia needs lemon laws..

JG66ME · 11-08-2013, 11:53 AM

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JGG66ME...You must have been unlucky, I had a HZ Kingswood and a towed a caravan all around WA, no problems for a year...Then I had a VB Commodore..it droppped a valve in the first week..engine was replaced..you never know..thats why Australia needs lemon laws..

We where resignalling the railway from Port Curtis out as far as Tolmies. After this job my company went to a Ford only policy that only changed in the late 1990s. I the days before mobile phones it happened on a few occasions that I had to walk miles to a railway signal and phone train control in Rocky to send out a rescue party. It was not good when they broke down when you where miles from the main road. They where not driven that hard either. You could't speed in the things as they ran out of steam at about 130kmh.

Was your HZ a V8? I don't think 308s had issues but I should imagine the 253 with tri-matic would not be good. The tri-matic was designed by Opel for applications behind a 2 litre engine. God knows what possessed Holden to put them behind a 4.2 litre V8.

csv8 · 11-08-2013, 11:57 AM

JG66ME no the 202..wagon.....manual...

JG66ME · 11-08-2013, 12:05 PM

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JG66ME no the 202..wagon.....manual...

That would exclude the tri-matic issues and it probably ran cooler being a manual. We had a HQ panelvan and a HQ one tonner. They where manuals and they gave little trouble.

The HZ'z we had where bought new. One was my Dad's company car, a wagon, one was my bosses, also a wagon and one was the Project Engineer's car, a sedan. The Commodore was bought for an Engineer that came out on secondment from the UK. He thought it was gutless for a 3.3 litre car. He was expecting a rocket ship with an engine that size.

The XC Wagon was working out of Gympie and it was a good car. It was a 4.1 auto.

I think we have gone too far off topic, sorry.

Bossxr8 · 11-08-2013, 03:23 PM

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...which seems to be the way a lot of people would really like it to be...no choice, two cars on sale in Australia, you take what you get given and "compromise"...just shrug and take it, ignoring the best the world has to offer and being happy with what you get dished out and don't say "Please sir, may I have some more?".

Are you for real. No ones saying it should be 2 cars only, it never has been, even when the market was biased towards 2 cars if you wanted something imported you could still get it if you wanted it. Enough of the idea that the market is ever going back to the days of heavy tariffs cause it's not going to happen, even heard Bill Shorten say that at our meeting on Thursday.

But what's so wrong with the locally made cars having incentives on them for anyone who buys one. If you don't agree that's ok then you should hang your head in shame.

**DJM83** · 11-08-2013, 03:52 PM

They can have incentives on them for sure I have no problem with that what so ever, if it helps sales then why not.
Still not for me though.

eb2fairmont · 11-08-2013, 06:44 PM

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Opel pulled the pin because they couldn't afford to cut their prices to match rivals, how will sticking a Holden badge on them change this????

Makes no sense.

Exactly. How will a Holden Astra improve sales of something called a Cruze, which is made here, when they're looking to get as much volume as possible.

So having said this Holden probably thinks its a non brainer business decision and will proceed forthwith at great pace to find they just f'ed themselves.

Corzza · 15-08-2013, 08:08 AM

Look out Peugot trying to take over the exisiting Opel dealer sites