1995 Barina Swing

[Maccas]

Hey peoples just have a few questions about a 1995 Barina Swing. My girlfriend has just bought one and i have a few questions about these cars. The accelerator pedal seems to extremely firm to push down, is this a common thing with these cars and if not what can be done to fix it. Also the rear wheels seem to have a fair bit of camber on them, similar to that of a vt commodore. Any information would be greatly appreciated

Cheers Maccas

[Jamolad]

The accelerator pedal seems very hard push down because it can't go any further - it is already on the fire wall, and the Barina is really just that slow. :jester:

Think that is the same model my wife had until 2000 - don't recall the pedal on the right being unusually firm, though I do recall a spring would continually come off the brake pedal and she would constantly have no brake lights.

Hers was an auto, issue that forced us to trade out of it was that it would continually go in to 'snow' mode for no reason, meaning you would be taking off from traffic lights in second gear (should say "trying to take off", as the thing would barely move). Holden wanted around $2000 to fix the trans back in 2000, so she traded it at a Mitsi dealer on a Lancer.

After she traded it we heard an urban myth that there is supposed to be a chip in the engine bay on the passenger side that can be turned around for 'Euro' mode where it must be run on 98 and get lots more power. "Some call it Euro Mode, some call it Opel Mode; all I know is I still call it BS". We had already got rid of hers so never got to test this out (would love to see what "lots more power" feels like in a mid 90's Barina - reckon similar gains to emptying the coins out of the ashtray).

[duke5700]

I think 95 is central point injection? Maybe check to see if the blade and spring or whatever is gunked up.

[berroca]

the pedals are firm in all of them have driven a few and had friends/girlfriends with them over the years

and yes they do have stupid camber on them also

so i wouldn't worry

[VYBerlinaV8]

After she traded it we heard an urban myth that there is supposed to be a chip in the engine bay on the passenger side that can be turned around for 'Euro' mode where it must be run on 98 and get lots more power. "Some call it Euro Mode, some call it Opel Mode; all I know is I still call it BS". We had already got rid of hers so never got to test this out (would love to see what "lots more power" feels like in a mid 90's Barina - reckon similar gains to emptying the coins out of the ashtray).

We had one of these (a '96), and it did have a connector type switch (under the bonnet) for altering tune between 95 and 91 octane. Ours was a 1.2 litre.

Normally it was slow as hell, but when you switched it to '91' and used normal fuel it was even slower. Father In Law bought it for the wife to drive back in uni days.

[boggers007]

I used to have one of these 94 model for my first car and if u thought it was hard to put ur foot down with the normal pedals i put big old metallica blue ones on it to pimp it out haha and that made it alot harder.

[QIKMIK]

I thought that switchable fuel thing under the bonnet was just on the GSi.

Mum, brother, Grandma and missus all had this model. The head gasket will go at 110,000km, no doubt. Call it $1000-1500 for Holden to repair. All four of the cars did it within a few thousand kms of that.

Mick

[jeepers]

no myth...by memory passenger side under the bonnet is a plug with "91" one one side and "95"" on the other. default is 91. unplug, turn it upside down and plug it in and it'll be set for 95 octane fuel. and by further memory... didnt do a great deal lol.

[VYBerlinaV8]

no myth...by memory passenger side under the bonnet is a plug with "91" one one side and "95"" on the other. default is 91. unplug, turn it upside down and plug it in and it'll be set for 95 octane fuel. and by further memory... didnt do a great deal lol.

Absolutely correct. The difference was there, but it was not great.

[GODSMACK]

Absolutely correct. The difference was there, but it was not great.

a 5wk gain in a car that put out 25fwkw is nothing to be sneezed at, thats 20% power gain!! :)