Bloodnok
24th April 2009, 07:38 PM
Hi everyone,
I've just bought myself a Vauxhall Opel Holden Vectra (2002 V6 2.6L), and was rather surprised to find how much a service set me back here (well, it was the 120,000K service - no doubt no surprise to anyone on here that someone was offloading the car right before that one eh?). Being a Pommie I wasn't expecting it to be quite that expensive, as experience tells me that Vauxhalls are generally cheap cars to service.
Anyway, what I'm on the lookout for is a euro-friendly garage in the Logan area to take it to in future (south of Brisbane, but not as far down as the Gold Coast), and also a source of parts that isn't ridiculously expensive. I suspect part of the expensiveness was finding out the hard way that some garages don't like European cars...
It was missing one mudflap when I got it - and apparently Holden won't sell mudflaps for this car anymore. Never mind, one online transaction and about a week later I had a new set, complete with Gryphon logos on the packets. (Random thought: Does this tactic work for other parts too - and if so, where do you order them from, as I doubt anything more complicated would turn up on fleaBay...)
I've just bought myself a Vauxhall Opel Holden Vectra (2002 V6 2.6L), and was rather surprised to find how much a service set me back here (well, it was the 120,000K service - no doubt no surprise to anyone on here that someone was offloading the car right before that one eh?). Being a Pommie I wasn't expecting it to be quite that expensive, as experience tells me that Vauxhalls are generally cheap cars to service.
Anyway, what I'm on the lookout for is a euro-friendly garage in the Logan area to take it to in future (south of Brisbane, but not as far down as the Gold Coast), and also a source of parts that isn't ridiculously expensive. I suspect part of the expensiveness was finding out the hard way that some garages don't like European cars...
It was missing one mudflap when I got it - and apparently Holden won't sell mudflaps for this car anymore. Never mind, one online transaction and about a week later I had a new set, complete with Gryphon logos on the packets. (Random thought: Does this tactic work for other parts too - and if so, where do you order them from, as I doubt anything more complicated would turn up on fleaBay...)