Just been to look at one for the wife.

1.2 04 plate up for £3200 on 27k

Fair play it looks mint and they gave a convining story for sale and mileage, I didn't bother with a drive as theres no point until the trouble and strife has a look first as it's her choice.

Anyone got any experience with these, my mind is telling walk away already as I've had history with Pauxhalls. But if she likes it I'm open to suggestion.

One thing that I did notice is it sounded quite rough like an old 1.1 ohc ford engine on cold start ??? Do they all do that like fords did ??

Any thoughts or **** taking here please :(

Price sounds about right. Friend at uni paid £4k for a 54plate with 20k miles on it last summer. It's a 1.2 75bhp, and I hate it as a car personally, slow, uncomfy and seems to handle badly. That said, the ones I've seen don't seem to give too many issues and I do think they can look quite nice.

Another friend had a 1.0 3cylinder, and the camchain snapped, wrecking the engine - so maybe worth checking that - but otherwise of the 4 people I know with them, the only thing I can think of as failing is a starter motor and a wiper motor.

noisey on start up isnt good.either needs a new timing change or the oil changing at the least.Got a fsh? If you think its a minter apart from the above noisey startup then knock em down to £2800 and get it serviced and the chain done.Other than that they are pretty good cars aslong as theyre looked after service wise.

Gutless shoite.

Will drive you mad if you ever have to drive on a NSL road.

Quite likely to be reliable enough which will be unfortunate while you will it to die

Drives like a pig sounds like a tractor.

Price seems on the money yet seems a lot for a very bland motor.

I'd be cautious as owners tend to be women like my wife to take absolutely no care over their cars whatsoever. Oil has probably never been checked or topped up.

Edited 14 October, 201015 yr by Aspman

I've never driven a "Coarser" that I'd have a good word for. Most recently I drove a '53 plate 1.2, which I had to swap for a P-prefix Micra 1.0 cos the hirer had a contract they had to fill with a Coarser, and the old Nissan was a nicer car in just about every respect!

Spoke to the fella again and he says it ain't been serviced in the two years he's owned it.

Time to walk me thinks !!!

Spoke to the fella again and he says it ain't been serviced in the two years he's owned it.

Time to walk me thinks !!!

TBH they take a lot of abuse, it just means you need to budget for a chain replacement, new sparks and filters, a flush and oil change, followed by another after a couple of hundred miles and then to value it as condition poor.

The price would drop to about £2300-2500 IMHO.

Obviously you'd need to also make sure it wasn't consuming/burning oil, but if it's not been changed in 2 years that might be hard to prove as it's probably quite thick.

Edited 14 October, 201015 yr by cheezemonkhai

IIRC some of the Corsa engines suffer with the cylinder head bolts coming loose which can then cause major damage. Can't remember which engines it affects - have a look on the Honest John website.

IIRC some of the Corsa engines suffer with the cylinder head bolts coming loose which can then cause major damage. Can't remember which engines it affects - have a look on the Honest John website.

Its not the cyl head bolts its the camshaft retainer bolts that come loose. the 3 cyl engines are a crock of shi*e to be honest.

Its not the cyl head bolts its the camshaft retainer bolts that come loose. the 3 cyl engines are a crock of shi*e to be honest.

That was it! It was something I read a couple of weeks back but couldn't quite remember it. Anyway if the car hasn't been regularly serviced then the risk of this happening is higher I would imagine.

It did sound awful on the cold start fair play.

Spoke to a mate this morning who pretty much said the same as you lot.

I'm kind hoping we get a VAG of some sort, I get good discount from TPS and half the tools I have bought are for my octy so and of course I have VCDS.

The search goes on.......................

Spoke to the fella again and he says it ain't been serviced in the two years he's owned it.

Time to walk me thinks !!!

Has he ever topped up the oil then?

There are plenty of them, no reason to look at anything that isn't mint.

Ah, the Vauxhall Corsa, currently the most stolen car in the UK. Boy racers love em, thieves have a field day with them. At least you'll never run short of spare parts for it, there's millions of nicked bits on EBay.

If you're still interested, try an insurance quote first my good man.

My money would go on. Toyota Nondescript, or a Hyundai Bland.

Royston .......How the devil are you old bean ???

The oil doesn't use much and has been topped up once in the time he has owned it.

I've gone right off the idea now tbh.

Royston's pearl of wisdom has really sealed its fate now lol

You know me, Dave. Gotta keep on hustlin, a bit of pimpin, and a generous portion of Sharkin. My baby love the Benjamins too much brother. Lol

Have you considered a 1975 Chevy Impala?

I know enough not to buy one

You know me, Dave. Gotta keep on hustlin, a bit of pimpin, and a generous portion of Sharkin. My baby love the Benjamins too much brother. Lol

Have you considered a 1975 Chevy Impala?

HAha

I have considered the Imp but can't get one with a leopard skin dash and gold chain steering wheel a'la Cheech and Chong