update on 80,000 km nightmare

Sounds Positive, Good Luck

Good luck, but IMHO, they wont do a good job if they reco it. They will do BARE minimum..

I would want it replaced or reconditioned by Wholesale Automatics in Bayswater.
Call Rodney there, and use him as your independant person. Tell him Bruce with the Black GQ said to call. THere is nobody smarter with Autos than Rod.

Good luck.

If that all falls in a screaming heap... there's another firm of solicitors you could try... Robbem Cheatem & Moore

Hi Everyone,

I find this thread very interesting as I am in the process of persuing Holden for costs associated with the repair of my Frontera's auto-transmission system which suffered a severe mechanical failure at 78,000km. Basically the overdrive unit died and some other parts broke in the process. It's a 2000 model and is out of warranty BUT I reckon there has to be some weight to my arguement that a transmission should not fail at 78,000kms.
The vehicle has been serviced regularly etc..

I have tried to get some sort of compo out of them at least three times, but so far have been unsuccessful. The amount of rubbish you have to go through to speak to people and then the conflicting stories you get told is highly un-professional IMO. They are worse that some of the Government agencies that I deal with.

I am in the process of drafting a letter to Holden Australia and if they still flog me off after that I'm going to Consumer Affairs Victoria. I may also look at the VCAT option as well.

So, it makes you wonder.. Is this just more than a co-incidence that two transmission systems failed at around the same km's???

G'day all,

just thought I'd read through this one and its an interesting read at that. It twigged my memory to the fact that the owners manual acutally states that the fluid level should be checked by a Holden Dealer. I quote

"The automatic transmission fluid level will be checked by your holden dealer when the behicle is serviced." "The transmission fluid level should be inspected and fluid replaced at intervals shown in the Maintenance Schedual, Listed in Chaper 12" (UES Series Owner's Handbook. Fronter. Holden, p 7-7).

It doesn't anywhere in the manual tell you how to check the fluid. I know because I read the thing front to back to try and learn how before I went on holidays last year. In fact its not easy to do. See this link if your interested.

http://forum.australia4wd.com/index.php?showtopic=625

You will see in that forum that I've had minor trouble with my trany as it decided to blow and oil seal at about 45000km if i remember correctly and I only noticed because of the oil slick behind me.

Unfortunately Holden aren't always as knowledgable as they should be. My TOD clunks a bit. I was pretty worried about it when I purchased it and took it to HOLDEN to get them to look at it. They decided that it wasn't quite right either. They pulled the transfer case out, inspected it, couldn't find anything wrong but replaced it anyway, checked diffs, transmission etc, and put it all back together with the new transfer case and wouldn't u know it, its exactly the same. So they rang Isuzu in America and they inform them that thats they way they are from new!

The up side was I got a brand new transfer case for no reason as the holden dealership couldn't be bothered pulling it out again, - they'd already had my car for no reason for 4 days!

you win some u loose some

good luck