Comments on: The Holden Epica – what were they thinking?

By: Brian C

Brian C — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:39:28 +0000

My apology Re Epica…. thats 9L/100Km and 7.2L/100Km

By: Brian C

Brian C — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:36:42 +0000

“Holden Epica CDTi 2009″ problems.
1/ Accerating from 90Km to 110Km to pass a slower car, Epica coughs and splutters then losses power for 3-4 seconds then pickup. This is intermittent problem.
2/ Changing gear to reverse or into Drive the Epica will not change and stays in neutral….move the leaver forward or back incramentally and Auto kicks in with a whooping big THUMP ! Then the Auto will not change gear so i drive home in 1st gear. NOW THIS SOUNDS STUPID” This is a known EPICA problem as they give instruction in book of instructions (now get this) to take of small plastic cap and insert a key or screw driver in that slot that is just infront of gear lever to cure problem and then call Holden agent ASAP.
3/ Normally the key lock remote locks the car and is indicated by 1 flick of lights….now the EPICA locks the car but no light flicker…so now I gotta check the doors are locked manually .
4/ When I received the car, fuel efficiency was Diesel 9KM/100Km then I checked the tyres (that was after the 1st service) and found all tyres at 22psi so now I set them at 32psi and EPICA is doing 7.2KM/100Km
Appears that the EPICA is slowly grinding to a halt, so I going to ring Somerton Holden in Adelaide this morning to sort it out.

By: geoff

geoff — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:07:07 +0000

Have had an epica since 2007.Only problem is tyre wear even after holdens fixed the know front end issue that caused the wear.
I had the same problem filling the tank.Found it fills OK if you dont push the bowser filler hose down the fuel tank pipe.Hard to get use to but it works.Rest the bowser filler hose just inside the tank filling pipe.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:18:36 +0000

my uncle has a holden epica 2008, and what a nightmare its turned out to be for him, there imposible to fill the tank and the lifters after 2000klm sound like metalica at band practise, sutherland holden crap excuse to my uncle was to monitor those problems and get back to them, i plan to go with my uncle to holden next service and ask them to fill the tank and explain why the lifters are so noisy,