Chevrolet Caprice
Parts in Dubai
& the UAE

The WM and WN Caprice were produced by Holden, General Motors' Australian arm, from August 2006 until October 2017, and exported to the GCC markets of the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman from 2007 wearing Chevrolet badges. The Middle East accounted for the majority of Caprice exports outside Australia, which is why these cars are far more common on Dubai roads than their production numbers suggest.

The platform underneath is GM Zeta, and it was designed around the long-wheelbase Caprice and Statesman first, then shortened to create the Commodore. The Caprice is not a stretched Commodore; the Commodore is a shortened Caprice. That order matters when a parts catalogue offers you a Commodore listing for a Caprice job.

The same car was sold as the Holden Caprice and Statesman in Australia, the Chevrolet Caprice PPV police car in the United States, the Buick Park Avenue in China, the Daewoo Veritas in South Korea and the HSV Grange in performance trim. Those siblings are useful for identifying a component, but the specification that matters is the one your VIN carries. We check that before anything is picked.

Four series ran under one body shape, and the sheet metal barely changed across eleven years. Engines and running gear did. Reading the table below against your build year is usually enough to narrow a service part to one or two options, and the VIN closes it.

One regional detail matters for Gulf cars specifically: the 3.6 litre V6 was dropped from the Middle East Caprice line-up at the WM Series II update in 2011, so a Gulf car built after that point is a V8 unless it was an early import. Filters, plugs and ignition parts split on that line.

We hold ACDelco and GM Genuine Parts for the Caprice at Ras Al Khor: brake pads and rotors, front and rear suspension arms and bushes, engine and cabin filters, oil filters, spark plugs, ignition components, engine mounts and cooling parts. Brakes, suspension and engine are the three families we carry in depth for this car.

This is a heavy rear-wheel-drive sedan with a long wheelbase, and in the Gulf it earns its keep on hot motorway runs and in city traffic that never really cools the brakes. Front pads and rotors, front lower arm bushes and cooling components are what move fastest for it here. Ask us before the summer, not during a breakdown.

A Caprice with the 6.0 or 6.2 V8 and one with the 3.6 V6 do not share filter kits, plug specifications or ignition parts. Confirm the engine before ordering any service item, and the reply comes back with the exact match rather than a family of options.

The Caprice and the Lumina share a platform and a family resemblance, and that resemblance misleads people at the parts counter. On the Caprice, the front windscreen and the front doors are the only exterior panels that are visually the same as the shorter car. The rear doors are unique to the Caprice, lengthened for rear-seat access. Body, glass and trim ordered off a Lumina listing will not fit.

Underneath, the picture is mixed rather than simple. Some brake and service items carry across the Zeta family, and some suspension components do not, because the long-wheelbase car carries more weight and a different rear geometry. The honest answer to the interchange question is that it depends on the component and the build, which is exactly what a VIN check resolves in a minute.

Your VIN is 17 characters. Read it at the base of the windscreen on the driver's side from outside the car, or on the compliance plate in the driver's door opening. Australian-built cars of this family carry a VIN that begins with 6G, which is your quick confirmation that the car in front of you came from Elizabeth rather than a North American plant. Send that number with a photo of the old part and the fitment question is closed before you drive to Ras Al Khor.

Production of the Caprice ended in October 2017 when Holden closed the Elizabeth plant, and that is why owners hear "discontinued" so often. For the wear items that keep a car on the road, brakes, suspension, filters, ignition and cooling, supply is normal and we hold them. For low-volume body panels, interior trim and some electronics, supply is genuinely tighter.

We tell you which of the two you are asking about. If a part is on the shelf you get a same-day answer and same-day dispatch across Dubai. If it has to be sourced, you get an honest lead time instead of a maybe, and if we cannot get it we say so rather than leaving the request open. A discontinued model deserves a straight answer more than a new one does.

These part numbers come from the Australian ACDelco and GM Holden service catalogue. Holden built this car, and its service parts carry Australian catalogue codes: oil filters in the AC09x series, air filters as ACA, cabin filters as ACC, brake rotors as ACDR. Several numbers are shared with the Chevrolet Lumina because the engine determines the part, not the badge. A 6.0 L77 V8 is the same engine block in both cars and takes the same filter, plugs and water pump.

Gulf Caprice WM/WN built from 2011 are V8 only. The 3.6 V6 was dropped from the Middle East line-up at the WM Series II update. V6 rows in the table below cover pre-2011 Gulf cars only. Rotor diameters differ by engine: V8 cars run a 321 mm front rotor and 324 mm rear; V6 cars run 298 mm front and 302 mm rear. Ordering from the wrong engine column means the wrong rotor.

The rear brake pad is listed here as DB1766. This is an Australian aftermarket interchange number, not a confirmed ACDelco OEM code. The sources are aftermarket brand catalogues rather than an ACDelco application guide, and ACDelco's own rear pad code for this application was not confirmed; that is a noted gap. Order by DB1766 where your local supplier recognises it, and send the VIN to us so we can confirm what we hold. Three categories remain unresolved from sourcing: police-specification pads for the Caprice PPV package (the Gulf civilian WM/WN is not a PPV so standard pads apply, but the PPV pad number was excluded), Brembo pad and rotor numbers for HSV and Redline variants, and the standalone thermostat for the late-style V8 cooling housing (from September 2009 the thermostat ships inside the ACWP8459S water pump kit, not as a separate part).

One number circulating on Australian forums: PF457G. It fits the 2.2 and 2.4 Ecotec four-cylinder, not the 3.6 HFV6 V6 and not any LS-family V8. The V6 Caprice needs PF2129G; the V8 needs PF48E. Confirm availability against your VIN before travelling to Ras Al Khor.