Im looking at buying a ute for work, one in particular is the BA Turbo Ute
Is there anything that I should be aware of when buying one
Please tell me everything you guys know about them

five speed manuals are very average..
diff bushes have been known to flog out in the sedans..
door lock actautors become brittle and break

owned one and known problems...............

diff - become loose and tend to need to be re built.
Brake shudder - replace rotors, pads - or machine them
6 stacker jam's cd's
door acutactors fail - replace them if they break
mine was a 5spd and handled 300rwkw fine
turbo manifold stud's & bolts come loose, replace with cone locks


looking for rubber in the rear wheel arches. check the spare tyre, look for purple in the rotors showing quick heat cycle's ( hard breaking ) listen for loud turbo bearings. and just the normal other things

but every turbo has hard some form of hard work. why else would you buy a powerful car?????

thank you lil_lilcon for that remark about you having had a 5spd and it handled 300rwkw easy.
it gets very repetitive for a 5spd owner when you constantly hear people bagging the 5spd gearboxes on this forum.