Pretty happy overall with the car. Good power and comfort. Good aircon/climate-control.
Fuel consumption not that great, about 16L/100Km with my daily mix of city and
highway.
Problems during ownership
- Rattle in steering wheel. One of the springs from the steering wheel
knobs came loose and was rolling around inside steering wheel. Fixed at
servicing.
Problems present at trade-in 4 years later:
- Squirters only dribbling. System seemed to be blocked up
- Plastic surround of auto gearstick had bubbled/cracked. Replacement part
was going to cost $80 plus like 3 hours install ouch! ( you have to
disassemble the entire centre console )
- Sometimes shuddering brakes - apparently pretty common fault on BA,
discs needs machining
- Broken bonnet release handle - another common fault apparently
- Tyres pretty much had the gong, had 45000Km though so that's OK
- Rubber strip around rear passenger door was loose
- Bit of rattling coming from under car at idle, one of the heat shields
might have been loose perhaps