2000 ls1 stato issues???? did they have any?

[burgerman08]

hello i'm currently looking at a mint feb 2000 ls1 wh stato with 317,000 on clock car is an ex limo,i took it for a test drive yesterday all seems pretty mechanically fine,engine is dead quiet no rattles etc and nice v8 note lol,i've just been told the earlier models ls's were full of issue's?with the high k's it has would the piston slap issue etc have already developed?

[whitels1ss]

Cars can vary so much in condition, I know of a guy who bought a 1999 HSV Grange with 454,000 kms on it last year
it was a one owner private car which had been serviced well.
(The guy I know who bought the car is a young mechanic & did not mind doing some work himself to save money)

The driver's seat has splits in it, he is still looking for the correct trim at the right price.
The carpet was worn out so me replaced it with another from a low km car at the wreckers.
The paint looks good from afar but is far from good when you get up close.
(Don't get me wrong, it is still a very tidy looking car but when you get up close it has plenty of little chips etc)
The diff was stuffed so he fitted new 3.9's & lsd,
the auto trans had just been replaced so that was fine,
most of the front end bushes were worn out which he replaced.
The radiator was leaking so he replaced it.
The engine was leaking oil from the harmonic balancer seal, the rear main seal & sump gasket which he fixed but the engine still runs fine.
He recently fitted a 3,000rpm stallie, OTR, exhaust & got a mafless tune & the car drives fine & goes like a rocket now.

The way the engine sounds & runs actually amazes me being unopened with so many kms on it.

[burgerman08]

Cars can vary so much in condition, I know of a guy who bought a 1999 HSV Grange with 454,000 kms on it last year
it was a one owner private car which had been serviced well.
(The guy I know who bought the car is a young mechanic & did not mind doing some work himself to save money)

The driver's seat has splits in it, he is still looking for the correct trim at the right price.
The carpet was worn out so me replaced it with another from a low km car at the wreckers.
The paint looks good from afar but is far from good when you get up close.
(Don't get me wrong, it is still a very tidy looking car but when you get up close it has plenty of little chips etc)
The diff was stuffed so he fitted new 3.9's & lsd,
the auto trans had just been replaced so that was fine,
most of the front end bushes were worn out which he replaced.
The radiator was leaking so he replaced it.
The engine was leaking oil from the harmonic balancer seal, the rear main seal & sump gasket which he fixed but the engine still runs fine.
He recently fitted a 3,000rpm stallie, OTR, exhaust & got a mafless tune & the car drives fine & goes like a rocket now.

The way the engine sounds & runs actually amazes me being unopened with so many kms on it.

oh i see i throughly inspected the car everything even interior is well looked after the guy seems to have replaced anything that failed,the engine was so quiet car was in very good condition,i've just been told to steer clear of the 1st ls1 but the this thing is in good condition

[whitels1ss]

oh i see i throughly inspected the car everything even interior is well looked after the guy seems to have replaced anything that failed,the engine was so quiet car was in very good condition,i've just been told to steer clear of the 1st ls1 but the this thing is in good condition

They did have loads of problems when the LS1 first came out under new car warranty
I would expect most of the bugs would have been sorted out a long time ago while the car was under warranty.
They got a bad name because they had so many new car warranty issues, Holden replaced hundreds of engines & fixed plenty of problems with them.
People complained because they had to take their new cars back for so many major things
but this is long past history now & most of them have been well & truly sorted.

When you think about it 317,000 kms on a 2000 (15 year old car) works out at only 21,000 kms per year,
I think the average for a Commodore or Falcon is around that.

Hey if the car checks out okay & you think it is worth around the asking price & that is the money you want to spend
I would not be put off with the odometer reading all that much but I think you should be prepared to spend some money
somewhere down the line fixing a few little things which always pop up on any older car.

[burgerman08]

They did have loads of problems when the LS1 first came out under new car warranty
I would expect most of the bugs would have been sorted out a long time ago while the car was under warranty.
They got a bad name because they had so many new car warranty issues, Holden replaced hundreds of engines & fixed plenty of problems with them.
People complained because they had to take their new cars back for so many major things
but this is long past history now & most of them have been well & truly sorted.

When you think about it 317,000 kms on a 2000 (15 year old car) works out at only 21,000 kms per year,
I think the average for a Commodore or Falcon is around that.

Hey if the car checks out okay & you think it is worth around the asking price & that is the money you want to spend
I would not be put off with the odometer reading all that much but I think you should be prepared to spend some money
somewhere down the line fixing a few little things which always pop up on any older car.

ahhhh i see,it's going to be a straight swap for my modded super 6 vx Calais which has about 250,000 on the engine,i've been playing with 6's for while and wouldn't mind giving an ls ago lol,i'm not fussed by odmeters usually just don't know much about ls1's haha.

[Resetar]

This is not one of the first ls1's.The ones people are referring to is the ones in the vt 1999 model usually and most of them were replaced under warranty is it was taken to Holden dealer for serving

[whitels1ss]

This is not one of the first ls1's.

Yes it is, Feb 2000 is an early one (VT series II engine)
there were quite a few little changes when the VX was released later in 2000.

[Micks]

hello i'm currently looking at a mint feb 2000 ls1 wh stato with 317,000 on clock car is an ex limo,i took it for a test drive yesterday all seems pretty mechanically fine,engine is dead quiet no rattles etc and nice v8 note lol,i've just been told the earlier models ls's were full of issue's?with the high k's it has would the piston slap issue etc have already developed?

What may have saved this one is constant use, those K's are by no means over the top for an LS1. Comes down to how it's treated/regularly serviced & by who?