Faults:

My universal joint needed replacing. Minor problem only, and only $80 to fix.

General Comments:

A good car, but I would like it to be a bit quicker. Handles well in my opinion (it's my first car) although it does feel as if it is floating around sometimes.

Faults:

Crank angle sensor... hasn't everyones?

Apart from that, nothing has gone wrong with it except the other day when my mate backed into it in his 4x4.

General Comments:

Very kick ass car! I loved my Gemi for its rallying ability, but the Commodore has it all over the road! Bloody brilliant handling, bloody fast acceleration and I don't have to push it to get to 90km/h like the Gemi!

So far I have wound it out to 160, but I wanna hit the 200 mark! Keep running out of road!

It is red, has 18% tint, is lowered and has 16 inch mags! More to do soon though like the side trim, bumpers and a rampod. Also wanna stick an exhaust on it that is loud!

Faults:

Rust below the windscreen and rear window.

The windscreen sprayer water tanks have corroded severely at the edge of the bonnet as has the radiator overflow tank.

The old person who owned this car before me had brushed something and had cracked the front and rear bumpers... so I replaced them.

And somehow the button on the handbrake came out!? So I replaced that.

General Comments:

At the rear of the wagon the interior is made of some poorly made cardboard material, which is easily damaged so I replaced it with Chequer plate.

When I bought it there was tint on all windows including the windscreen, I'm still trying to find out if this is illegal or not? Can someone help me out, it would be much appreciated.

Current mods to car:-

15 inch MAGS.

2 inch sports exhaust.

Black tint.

Lowered.

Removed air intake funnel to get greater air flow into the engine.

KENWOOD head deck and KENWOOD 7x10 KEVLAR/POLYPROPOLYNE injected 260 watt speakers in rear facing each other (OOH BABY, THE BASS!!!)

Chequer plate rear interior.

Faults:

Power steering servo needed replacing.

Gearbox is worn and rattly.

General Comments:

The Nissan engine makes for great performance when combined with the manual transmission.

Suspension sucks though. It's all wobbly and soft and you don't get any feeling for what the car is doing.

Faults:

Pinstripe starting to wear away, crank angle sensor replaced, injectors replaced, new boot carpet. Everything else is original.

General Comments:

*Its fast compared to my 83 corolla.

*No traction in the wet with standard tyres.

*Handles well around corners.

*Can tow a fully loaded 800kg trailer with five occupants in the car, and still accelerate reasonably well.

*Cruises well.

*Excellent mileage for a car of its year.

*Brake discs too small.

Faults:

Nothing.

General Comments:

I thought the VL was too flawed for my liking. It has some very good points, but some bad points as well.

Its performance is good. The nissan 6 is the best thing about the car - smooth, flexible, and it sounds like a Jag when you give it some welly.

However the rest of the package lets it all down. The handling (unmodified) is terrible. Driving it on a windy road - particularly one with a lot of slow corners - is just plain boring. It suffers from bad plow understeer that eventually gets your teeth grinding in sympathy with the front tyres.

The rear end of the car has a tendency to become a real handful in anything less than perfectly smooth dry bitumen. Dirt roads - no thanks! And then there's the lumpy, over-sensitive steering, and the tendency to wander all over the road at high speeds.

The chassis of this car bends and flexes when you punt it through a high speed corner. You can hear squeaking around the windscreen and door frames.

The automatic gearbox is a bit of a pain as well. On hilly roads it continually changes between 3rd and 4th. Under heavy acceleration there is a strong vibration from somewhere in the driveline.

However there are good points. Its a comfortable, quick car that has good fuel economy in the country. Also it is quite a good looking car, and has loads of interior room.