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I used to change the oil in my Saab turbo once every 12-18 months, sometimes 24 months, usually running about 20,000km. I often ran the car hard, and when I sold it with over 300,000km the engine ran as smooth as new and never needed servicing. I used Mobil 1 per the sticker Saab put under the...

Have you tried doing a bit of an 'Italian tune up'? And doing some engine braking, running it at high revs in a low gear down a hill?

Thanks, yeah I've seen the specials on at Supercheap and might try the Nulon mentioned above next time. I think if I was still running an older pre-VVT, non-turbo (not that the Holden is), non-DI car I'd be happy with the cheaper stuff but I had really good experiences with Mobil 1 in the past...

Good links, thanks. I did a bit of reading about the issue with soot on the direct injection engines and that might have me convinced to change it at 10,000 km intervals. I'm not yet convinced on once a year, though. While I wrote our typical usage in my original post, there are periods where we...

Very nice, we also have a jungle green wagon. Not an SS though. I spend enough keeping the 3.6 fed. 😁

We have a VFII SV6 wagon. Like it a lot overall, but the interior quality could be better. Also a shame Holden didn't offer the wagon with the manual gearbox, but the automatic in these is decent.

I wouldn't mind it. I heard that the SS cars had a 'hidden' one you could enable, but there is nothing for the SV6. I guess the dealer didn't like customers coming in less often. Didn't get them far as they're all closed, or selling Chinese cars...

No OLM on the Holden.

I'm in NZ, so double the price of everything and half the availability you have over there. 😢 Good tip about the Nulon, though, I've used Mobil 1 for a long time but I'm willing to try something else, especially if it meets the standards. Repco (NZ) shows it as a 'one day sale' today for $63.75...

Hello everyone. We have a 2016 Holden Commodore VFII SV6 wagon. I bought it last year with about 75,000km, now it has about 86,000km. It has the GM 3.6 and I know the earlier VE cars were prone to timing chain problems but I think they've all been sorted by 2016. I was wondering if anyone had...