Comments on: Holden Cruze – a first look

By: Stuart Livesey

Stuart Livesey — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:35:46 +0000

Jodie you can take your car back to the dealer for warranty repairs at any time in the warranty period and that’s what I would be doing.

You don’t have to wait till the first service comes around.

By: Jodie

Jodie — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:58:30 +0000

I love the driving feel of the 2010 Cruze. Have had my manual in the CD for 3 weeks now, and still love the gear box. Question though: has anyone been successful in using the USB port in the 2010 CD Cruze? The manual states that you can play music directly from a USB but to this day I have not been able to get it working. Other than this the Cruze has perfect leg room, drives well and is nice to look at.

By: Kerwin Thompson

Kerwin Thompson — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:34:10 +0000

Can you tell me if its possible to adjust the aircon temperature in the holden cruze 2010 or is it set at one temp? Thanks.

By: Stuart Livesey

Stuart Livesey — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:55:59 +0000

Hello Noel

Unfortunately my contact at Holden is at the Ute Muster at Deniliquin at the moment so I can’t get a definitive answer … and the Holden website is having a few problems too.

~~However I think the answer to your question is that there’s only one colour … Dark Pewter … a very dark gray colour. I will check on Monday though and post the answer here.~~

Noel my contact at Holden now tells me that there are two upholstery colours available … Jet Black and Dark Pewter … and he even gave me a couple of images to post to show the differenece in shades between the leather and cloth versions.

Stuart

By: Noel Gribble

Noel Gribble — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:23:41 +0000

Stuart thank you for your article. I have been looking at the Holden Cruze site, but am unable to find what colours the cloth trim is available in.

Regards Noel

By: Stuart Livesey

Stuart Livesey — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:11:24 +0000

Hi Lesley

The little black ball that you refer to is not spying on you … it’s actually a sensor and our local Holden dealer tells me that it’s the sensor that controls the automatic headlights.

As the sensor is continually testing the amount of light that it’s seeing to decide whether or not it should turn on the headlights.

Those little balls are becoming quite common in new vehicles and some vehicles have more than one … from memory the new Toyota Prado has two of them.

Hope that makes you feel a little comfortable about driving the Cruze

Stuart

By: Lesley

Lesley — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:40:51 +0000

Hi,
can you PLEASE enlighten me as to the function/purpose of the little black ball (that looks like a camera) that is located in the middle of the dash – between the vents – directly in front of the windscreen, inside the car of course.
It’s driving me mad with curiosity and concern that “my boss is watching me”..
Regards,
Lesley.

By: Stuart Livesey

Stuart Livesey — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:25:49 +0000

And I believe you’re right Sam

Thanks for pointing that out and the correction has now been made.

Stuart

By: Sam Katakouzinos

Sam Katakouzinos — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:51:43 +0000

“Interestingly the manual version gives slightly better fuel consumption figures than the –manual– ++auto++ and Holden claim that the manual returns a combined economy figure of 7.0L/100km while the auto will give you 7.5L/100km.”

I believe that the second instance of the word ‘manual’ should read as ‘auto’ instead.