Firewall Cracking

G'day Adam

I have seen it happen before, not on a Frontera though, I fixed the prob myself with a bit of mig welding and reinforcement, any good crash repairer should be able to fix it for you.....Where abouts are you??

Cheers.....Borgy

Adam

This maybe a bit of a long shot but before you do anything, check with a Holden dealer to see if this is a common problem with your model. In my days in the motor industry many years ago, I was involved with two factory recalls by Ford and Toyota to fix cracks in Cortinas and Taragos.

There is always the possibility that the Frontera has been the subject of a recall and yours has missed being repaired and modified. If not then the dealer may have seen your problem once or twice before and knows the best way to fix it.

Brian

Hey.. Yeh thats good to know its been done before. It definately doesn't need much weld, just enough to hold the clutch plate. Im in Adelaide. Cheers

Hi Adam,

I owned a 1990 Rodeo (basically the same front end as the Frontera) and at the 180,000km (~1998) mark I had the exact same thing happen to mine. Well and truely out of warrenty. I was shocked and thought this is going to cost me heaps.

I rang the local Holden dealer (who I'd never been too) and explained what was wrong with it. He said "oh yeah its a pretty common problem". Without me asking he said Holden will pay for half the repairs. I nearly fell off my chair. I think it cost me about $160 in the end.

Worth a few phone calls mate - they can only say no.