bah humbug

[glider]

well long story short... we think the immobilizer was tripped, causing car to not start

(went to start car and it wouldn't start despite our best efforts)

coincidently i was at matt's place so we hired a trailer and towed the Astra on the trailer up behind his Combo for about 100ish kms :dance:

I'll have to call holden and get them to sort it out

that was a long bloody day...

thanks again to matt and chris for all your help getting my car back home :clap: (where i can arrange to get it to my holden dealer - which is now within 50km)

btw i've been up for about 25 hours now so the day just went on and on and on

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[95' GSI]

well long story short... we think the immobilizer was tripped, causing car to not start

(went to start car and it wouldn't start despite our best efforts)

coincidently i was at matt's place so we hired a trailer and towed the Astra on the trailer up behind his 1.4 Combo (in the rain) for about 100ish kms :dance:

LOTS of tire spinning from what i heard from my mates car

I'll have to call holden and get them to sort it out

that was a long bloody day...

thanks again to matt and chris for all your help getting my car back home :clap: (where i can arrange to get it to my holden dealer - which is now within 50km)

btw i've been up for about 25 hours now so the day just went on and on and on

Ah that sucks, good luck sorting it out. Have fun with holden

[glider]

cheers, charged the battery up this morning so they wont be able to try and blame that (it got drained on the drive back home coz the trailer had no tail lights - so had to use astra's parkers)

car is under extended warranty til 2010 - under previous owner, would this still apply for me?

[USC]

cheers, charged the battery up this morning so they wont be able to try and blame that (it got drained on the drive back home coz the trailer had no tail lights - so had to use astra's parkers)

car is under extended warranty til 2010 - under previous owner, would this still apply for me?

depends if you transferred it.

[glider]

yeah no luck there, didn't know the original owner had it and its outside the 30 day transfer period

[USC]

damn!!! that sucks!! can u somehow negotiate something on the basis that the previous owner did not tell you??

[glider]

if it costs too much ill try alternate means

ie people that know people with tech 2

[Keep'emRunning]

haven't tried it, but a lot of european tuners swear by the kwp2000 and opcom to do the immobiliser recodes.. beats taking it to the dealer or buying a tech2

do a search for opcom, interesting piece of s/ware.

[Snotty]

towing a car using a combo sounds down right stupid and dangerous. grossly over weight. especially in the wet

wheres the highway patrol when you need them

[glider]

wheres the highway patrol when you need them

because clearly worse things have never been done....

:boohoo: