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[Andreas Rex]

Walton’s of Stafford are offering a free 2008 model Corsa 1.0 Breeze, worth around £7,000, when you purchase a Vectra Exclusiv CDTI five-door for £16,570 during January!

I hate Corsas.

edit: Sorry...they're now called Vision Vauxhall.

 

[shoes]

Yup vauxhalls are just piss poor cars in general. My collegue just got a new (well 2006) corsa, 15k miles, really good condition to look at. Its a reasonably nice car.

Since she got it first week in December:

ALL locks needed changing
headloght knob - fell off
heater direction knob - fell off
radio - needed resetting
battery - needed replacing and some other part to prevent the battery from dying again
alternator - exploded
rear window heaters - half the elements don't heat up

Once again vauxhall have surpassed themselves.

The original Vectra was a really good concept and unfortunately facilitated by morons, thus making it a useless load of crap. A real shame as its a really nice car before the bits start falling of it.

One thing they have got right is the ecotec engines though, sporty, fun and economic.

Not quite a zetec though, is it?


Edit: these are all seperate incidinces too its not like the alternator went which killed the battery and the radio, these are all unique occurrances. It has literally been at the garage more than she's had it.

 

[Gramaisc]

A Japanese friend of mine had a Vauxhall as a hire car for a two week holiday in the eighties. He spent the fortnight trying to park it uphill as he found that it wouldn't go into reverse and he had to push it backwards otherwise. He was not amused when we showed him the secret "masonic handshake" of pulling the gaiter ferrule up to get it into reverse. There was nothing in the car to let a novice into the secret.

 

[Wookie]

Vauxhalls are lovely. (Gngh.) My mum had a Chevette til well into the 1990s and it ran beautifully. It had a very recognisable engine noise too.

 

[Toble]

My mum had a Chevette til well into the 1990s and it ran beautifully.

Mine lasted until 1992, before it got written on.

 

[henryscat]

I hate Corsas.

Can't think of any current Vauxhall that's nice....!! I find them pretty irritating to drive. Especially those bloody springy indicator stalks which are very annoying. Also the heater / radio console layout is rubbish in them. Certainly wouldn't buy one...

 

[Toble]

The previous generation Astra was very good. Not as good as a Focus, but very few small cars are.

 

[db]

The previous generation Astra was very good. Not as good as a Focus, but very few small cars are.

have a skill point purely on the basis that i'm a slut for foci

 

[shoes]

The focus is possibly one of the best cars for the masses every built. The fact that ANY astras were sold after 1997 is a mystery to me.

It had a very recognisable engine noise too.

Clunk clunk cough splutter clunk clunk clunk.....

Actually I can agree with the old Astra GTE fanboys - it was a brilliant car.

Are there any Lotus Carltons left these days? They are something special

 

[Gramaisc]

I had a Carlton in the nineties and I agree that it was a nice car. It had one problem that never got resolved, which was that the idle jet would frequently block requiring one to feather the throttle to keep it going when stationary. Everthing plausibly linked to this situation was cleaned or replaced, but it never fully recovered into a trustworthy idling situation. The best thing about it, though, was that it was white. This meant that other drivers were often suspicious that it might be a cop car and I was never cut up in it. I was mystified for the first few weeks.

 

[shoes]

Had a similar problem with my old polo, ended up putting in a second inline fuel filter, seemed to help the problem.

 

[Gramaisc]

Did that, changed the pipes, dismantled and cleaned the carb ( several times ) but it just kept happening, albeit it at slowly increasing intervals. Never did fully resolve it. Began to consider believing in voodoo.

But generally good otherwise. Especially the 'respect' from other road users.