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What Do You Call A VY 2 Cross-8 Front End? - My VY Cross-8 needs a grille badge w/110mm diameter.
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#1 Posted : Saturday, 3 October 2026 1:50:22 PM(UTC)
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Hello Forum.

This is my very first thread here, so please talk to me if you think it ought to be moved to another subforum. I had a search through three(3) pages on VY2 nomenclature and only found one nineteen year old thread by HK1837 here.

Seems like it might be in the cryogenic zone because there was no reply icon, so I thought it reasonable to start a new thread to ask my question. I have a 1024x768 web-friendly .JPG of the front ready to attach, but can't find the attachment icon, so I'll have to paint a thousand words on it.

It's a 2003 VY2 Crewman Cross-8, and the dullard who had it before I saved it ripped the chrome-plated plastic lion badge off the OEM grille and glued a gold plastic bowtie in its place. LEAVING THE BASE OF THE HOLDEN LION UNDERNEATH FOR ALL THE WORLD TO PITY.

First hint is that the standard non-Crewman VY had what that same abovementioned dullard called 'teardrops' along the bottom edge of the headlight housings, but my VY2 does not. Apparently, he said it was the VZ headlight and I believe him.

Second hint is that the VY grille badge is 95mm in diameter, according to several websites. My grille base is yearning for a grille badge 110mm in diameter.

What would really go ahead and make my day would be if someone out there has a VZ and the kindness to go outside and measure the diameter of the VZ lion grille badge. If it comes to 110mm, then all my wishes might come true.

Otherwise, I have noticed a fair share of historians around here, with very encyclopaedic accounts of letters and numbers, so maybe there is someone who can just tell me off the top of his or her head what the model name of the VY2 Crewman Cross-8 grille and grille badge might be, please?

It is so ugly to see without the chrome, you will be doing the World a favour as a Good Australian.
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#2 Posted : Sunday, 4 October 2026 2:52:44 PM(UTC)
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An old damaged front bar and badge off my VZ Cross8 are still hanging around, badge stuck up on the shed wall and the bar been sitting out behind the shed with stuff growing through it (been too lazy to cut it up and put it in the bin).

Badge is 110mm across. It was a proper VZ Cross8, not a VYII.

Here is a VZ: https://www.netcarshow.c...2005-vz_crewman_cross_8/

Here is a VYII: https://burnsandcoauctio...cross-8-utility-v8-auto/

You can see the front bars are different in between the spot lights.

I'm pretty sure VZ have oil pressure and voltmeter gauges up in the extra gauge pod but VYII has vehicle angles on them.
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#3 Posted : Sunday, 4 October 2026 3:25:09 PM(UTC)
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I have a VZ thunder crewman, the badge is 120mm from edge to edge.
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#4 Posted : Monday, 5 October 2026 2:47:00 PM(UTC)
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Thank you both for your informative replies, and apologies for the delay. I was out in the trailer yesterday building a 110mm white PLA test badge on an Ender 3D
filament printer. From what I gather here and also at the LS1 site where I asked the same question (to be sure to be sure), the 3D model looks like quite a viable prospect for an acceptable solution.

Interesting to compare the spotlight (fog light???) positions on the VY2 and the VZ, which I hadn't bothered to notice the difference before. My one has the spotlights outside the bumper bumper (for want of a less silly description) and it's officially a 2003 model. October 2003 was the model release month, so I read somewhere. It also has the angle gauges rather than the oil and voltmeters, (which would have been more useful in a VY2 with 350,000km on the odometer). I went out to the shed and measured again with a steel ruler, and it is definitely 110mm, bearing in mind that I am measuring the grey plastic base which is part of the grille, which the lion badge inside a circle clips or glues onto. 110mm is the outer diameter of the circle

Collating all the different information from here and the 'A.I.' report posted in reply to my thread at LS1, (to be sure to be sure), it appears that the VY2 Cross-8, Adventra, and VZ Cross-6, Cross-8 and Adventra do all share the 110mm lion badge, known as "Holden Lion Grille Emblem (Large) 110mm" among other things, and this part number 92138919 & 92138920 was also used on
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Some HSV XUV / AWD models (Holden‑style badge)
according to a contributor's account of 'Mr A.I.' report. I hope that the LS1 contributor will forgive me for quoting his exact words across websites, for academic purposes.

No other Holden models used the 110mm lion badge, apparently, so the answer to my question is, essentially, no. It is what it is and it isn't what it isn't. If anyone has one laying around waiting to chuck in the bin, it would be appreciated it you'd let me know and I'll send you the address and a postage stamp, but otherwise, I shall persevere with the 3d printer avenue.
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#5 Posted : Monday, 5 October 2026 3:16:19 PM(UTC)
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The badge that was on my VZ was 92112357.

VZ also have the drive by wire throttle.
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