Originally Posted by jennie285
Yup but never had problems with sandys tho....
Yup but never had problems with sandys tho....
There are no Lemon HQ-WB Holden's. Just Lemon Holden owners.
Is that right.
Yep. Any problems or breakdowns you have in a HQ-WB is part of it's character. It's not a sign of it's unreliability or lemon-ness.
They are pretty sound old cars if you keep them dry. HQ-WB lower balljoints, chassis cracks, unserviced carbies with auto chokes and in HQ-HJ the plharness plug on the firewall are probably the biggest reliability issues, although to be fair the quality of aftermarket lower balljoints is the main issue and also people lowering the front greatly increases the incidence of cracked chassis rails. The clutch mechs can give you grief too. All older cars get the normal problems though: radiator, water pump, alternator, rusty exhaust, welch plugs, starter motor etc.
To be perfectly fair, if you were to get a country car with no rust eg a HJ tonner, go through it with quality suspension and brake parts, fit a good radiator and recoed electrics and run a recoed 202 and trimatic or recoed Holden V8 and trimatic, it'll go for another 30 years. In modern day though you are putting your life at risk driving one of these everyday, not from yourself but from the amount of idiots on the road. I have no doubt the head on I had in my SR5 would have ben a lot worse for me if I'd been in a HQ-WB.
Yep, thats why only people who love them still own them.....
Yes it is character building when your front engine pulley splits in half when you are 300km away from home on Good Friday. Then you realise that the twin lower pulley is impossible to find, and the triple ones don't work with an aftermarket A/C compressor. So the best option is to use a single pulley and drive home 300km with no belt on the power steering pump. then the next time you go on the same trip the plastic bisso on the 3rd and 4th gear linkage breaks and you are stuck with only first and second gear on friday night 300km away from home.
Then there was the time some moron let my tyres down in my then girlfriends(now wife) car space in her unit block in Sydney. I assume it was a protest about the excessive noise it made or the bullbar or just cause they were losers......
But I love it, and its getting its blue slip today so i can use it as a sometimes daily driver again lol.
Got to love em, but they were never in the same league as Toyota when it comes to build quality or reliability.
True, but you don't see 1971-1985 Toyotas on the road anymore, and when you do they are worth their weight in scrap! A friend recently got a 1974 Crown in pristine condition, registered, that was on its way to the scrap yard. He just couldn't let a low kM, total original survivor car get scrapped. It is still only worth $200 a tonne though!
I do my own servicing and am familiar with my old car's sounds and 99% of the time I know when somethings on the way out and replace it before it leaves me on the side of the road. The few times in 20 years that I've had a problem on a trip I've been able to fix it to get me home with a handful of tools that I pack in the boot.
And servicing an old car is easy (compared to new ones) and cheap compared to needing to take it to the dealers and getting slugged hundreds of bucks a go.
That's why the Wifes/family car and my work van and my truck are all Toyota's.
Yeah we are a Toyota family I hate to say. WB ute is still my favourite though.
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