2007 Holden Commodore SS-V from Australia and New Zealand - Comments

Fuel pump has blown up.

Computer blew up.

Satellite navigation hard drive blew up.

Car continually stalls.

Keep in mind this car only has 4123km. The car has lived in the workshop since I bought it in May 2007. I should have bought a Honda.

The car is good to drive, when I do drive it.

I really feel for you. While I have never owned a Commodore, I have always been a Holden guy. Having owned various models including a recent Vectra.

Whilst the Holden Vectra is really an Opel, the one I owned was a lemon. It was constantly at Holden for warranty repairs and Holden were not in the least interested and treated me like some kind of fool.

The best thing I did was get rid of this car and bought a new Honda just before the extended warranty ran out.

The servicing is cheaper, the staff are happy, and best of all, nothing has gone wrong with it after 10 months and 8,000 km's. It's economical, modern and well built.

Yeah sure.

Quote: "Fuel pump has blown up. Computer blew up. Satellite navigation hard drive blew up."

I hope this isn't the detail you gave the dealer - they may have just called a bomb squad. If you're going to dump on a car, a least have the research and knowledge to explain the problems you've had. "Blew up" doesn't tell us anything. What were the repercussions? How did the dealer explain it? What does the car drive like? Even though this is only a Commodore I have a hard time believing you actually own it or even drive one regularly.

This car hasn't even been out a year and already major problems.

What was that Holden? The new VE can mix it with the best Europe has to offer?

What a load...

I feel sorry that you fell for Holden's propaganda. Trade that heap of junk in and buy a Honda or something else Japanese mate. Or even a Aussie built Toyota or Mitsu. These are good too.

Don't support Holden if they won't support you.

I am from the US and we have regular 'hackers' that infect each of our car enthusiasts sites and review boards. Their mission is simple... to defame, discredit, condemn, ridicule, and otherwise make a particular vehicle 'BAD'. Oh, yeah, they almost always have a competitor's vehicle... occasionally they are stupid enough not to change their email address that relates clearly to the car owned.

In the US we have various wonderful review boards that one must register their car make, model, etc before they can be express their opinions about a particular car, and typically are filtered out if suspect... do you Aussie's have such an unbiased/objective service??? You probably do and should ignore unfounded negative remarks ie for a fuel pump, etc to fail so early would cause the immediate END of that car's sales in the US or anywhere I would imagine.

Sorry Mate...don't believe you one bit. I have had both Holden and Fords and never in all my time driving them have has any where near the issues you have stated. A brand new commodore would not include all those issues unless you are driving a test mule...I'm thinking you are a Honda sales person or lover...don't be fooled thinking Honda is a perfect car either...

Ita called the 5 o clock friday car :) nissan ford holden honda toyota they all have them :D (Just think about that and you should get it)

Where I work a guy had a ford explorer brand new in the 12 months he had the car he only had it in his possession for 3 months... in the end ford had to give him the new model and take his back and dismantled it because no one had no clue what was wrong with it.

I work in a Holden Dealership. There are problems with the VE. There were also problems with the VZ, VY, VX and so on. None of the above I've had the pleasure of dealing with yet. Certainly not fuel pumps blowing up...hahaha. All cars have problems. Some customers don't experience them. Some buy a lemon! Such is life.

This review has as much credibility as a politician.

Regardless of whether this review is as reliable as fireproof petrol or not, the biggest problem is with Holden's customer service and warranty claims department. J D Power the 3rd stated many moons ago now, that a good dealer can save a bad car. This can push an ownership experience up the ranks accordingly.

The problem here, is that Holden has a very poor reputation for admitting and fixing problems, teamed with arrogant, unknowlegeable, surly and unco-operative dealers. Whilst the VE series Commodores have very few problems in comparison to the VT series, the fact of the matter is that getting these problems rectified is more than a major headache for many disgruntled customers.

There should be no excuse for denying liability for carrying out legitimate warranty repairs.

To my mind's eye, it's this lackadaisical attitude that is partly contributory to Holden's slight market share slippage.

Just because some of you have no problems with your car doesn't mean you speak for everyone. If they reviewer had a lemon, then he had one.

Commodores are KNOWN to be problematic and unreliable. Nothing surprising here.

I haven't driven the new VE, but from appearances seem OK, especially for a Holden.

Like stated before, there are Friday arvo cars and lemons; get over it.

I have owned my VT series2 V8 (yes the apparently dreadful gen3) since new and never had any major problems.

The Japanese and euro cars definitely have less of the common faults of Holden/Ford in my opinion though.

There are plenty of people out there that will still buy this car purely because "it's a Holden and Holdens rule", and Holden will have to rely on that until they can make a truly top quality car.

I like plenty of others have owned holdens I never buy them new there always g about 3 years old with about 100,000 ks had a vk it was great overall not to impressed with the black 6 but it kept goin had a vn what a horrible car, but for the k, s I put on it was reliableenough except for power steering racks fuel pump wiper assembly pretty good for the k, s (500,000) have got a supercharged vx never had a prob got 180,000 ks great on fuel, like most cars the servicing is important and don't drivem to hard you won't have too many probs I don't understand it if its true what people say about dealers giving people a hard time on warranty issues the dealer doesn't pay for the repairs its actually work for them.

I have owned 3 Holdens all from new, and they do have some weird problems. Not starting for no reason is one, on my SS (VZ) it churned thru power steering fluid at a great rate of knots, but am very happy with the way it drives and its power.

I have had no problem with asking dealers about problems, and they seem to know what the problem is each time, I suspect they get the same issues coming up.

I would just like to say my supercharged S (v? circa 2002) was a great car and is heaps better than todays SV6's which drive like a berlina. I only got an SS becaus ethe Sv6's ahve no torque, and life is not worth living without torque ain't it...