Holden Cruze Reviews from Australia and New Zealand - Page 2 of 2

The Holden Cruze I purchased was built in South Korea, not in Australia like they are now.

A couple of minor cosmetic issues have arisen, such as the silver covering of the inside door handles has started peeling away.

The actual holes in the door that you pull to close the door on the inside of the car, have a piece of rubber at the bottom of them. This has come off on all doors. However, $2 glue could easily fix this issue.

Diesel turbo lag is annoying, especially when the air conditioning is on driving around town (starting off from traffic lights).

Highway driving is where this car excels. Awesome fuel economy; 850km a tank, or 800km a tank around town.

Despite not having the biggest engine, you can have the air con on, and have the car in 5th gear, and it will tear up a hill on the highway with no dramas. Has a lot of torque.

Car is comfortable, never had any mechanical issues, and would definitely buy another one.

Up date from an earlier review... now done 103,000km. The car has been 100% reliable. Never broken down at all. Still on original battery. Just had the gearbox bearings and clutch done ($1900 NZ), which seems about normal for a Cruze, and probably all good for another 80,000 to 100,000.

Been a fantastic little car, and never regretted buying it, except for Holden's cavalier attitude to service.

All good.

Everything that everyone else has said!

Gearbox - 5th gear slips out - not fun when driving 110kms/hr! Now going to cost over $2500 to replace the entire gearbox!

Rear brake light faulty since the day I bought it. Has been 'fixed' several times, but keeps stuffing up til this day!

Grinding vibrations when braking. Just got it fixed today, but from what I read, it seems only a matter of time til it reoccurs.

Never seems to drive straight. After several wheel alignments, my car can still follow left curves in the road without my help!

Shudders above 100kms even in 5th.

Cheap and nasty cars. Unsafe and unreliable! It seems criminal that they've been allowed to sell them!

After sales service from Holden leaves a lot to be desired. Gutted they sold me this car with a straight face - I will never again trust this company enough to buy from them again.

Gearbox bearings wore out at approx 75000 km, this is considered normal for this model and was rectified under the new car warranty.

This car is so much more capable than it is given credit for.

Clutch is quite fierce.

Paint fading on hatchback door.

No other issues.

Car bought new in Sydney 2003 traveled over 45,000km up until 2005 then moved to New Zealand and car has now covered 64,000km.

Great car around town and up local hills despite small motor. Does about 6.8L per 100km around town.

Biggest irritation is clutch which is fierce and its easy to stall car. Has been adjusted twice but no better.

Hard to get into reverse - found clutch needs to be all the way to the floor to achieve, even then it needs to be let in and out sometimes to get into gear.

Love the 4WD up hills in New Zealand where it really shines, despite small motor.

Open road traveling. Happy to cruise at about 105 to 110km. (Sydney to Coffs Harbour or Wellington to Auckland. Short wheelbase makes car "feel" a little unstable at these speeds but its purely a mental thing as have never had any issues with losing control.

Has been exceptionally reliable. Only repairs in 64,000km and 5 years, have been rear brake bulb, tyres (2), windscreen wiper blades, and general servicing. Used daily, generally driven 50-60kms each day. 1 set of brake pads so far.

None of the other problems experienced by other reports such as brakes, gearbox, steering. etc.

Biggest gripe is Holden will not transfer warranty to N.Z. so we have been on our own since bringing it over in 2005.

Paint is generally very good except numberplate light surround and top of tailgate are fading (Colour Yellow) may have been repainted at factory.

Brake light: quite hard to replace bulb. Needed to put on car hoist to find and get at.

Luggage boot cover is a flimsy useless thing that has been discarded. Boot is small but with seats down flat there is plenty of room. Have picked up and transported large appliances such as TV and Oven in it easily.

Upholstery - no signs of wear or bits falling off. Lots of storage space. Seat covers fitted since new.

Highly recommend this as there is virtually nothing else in its class ie: small, compact 4wd shopping basket. Nothing like it being made any more. I would buy another if I could.

Also known as Suzuki Ignis and Chevrolet Cruise.

Hard to get into reverse and rough through the gears (selector) at approx 15500 km.

Had a replacement gearbox at 18000 km.

Needed a new steering rack at 19000 km.

New gearbox is developing the same fault as before at 31500 km.

Clicking noise detected (like bad universal joint). Having it checked out now.

Hard on the first set of tyres!!!

Nice car to drive.

All faults have been fixed under warranty (3 year 100,000 km).

Worried a little as same faults are re-appearing.