Hi guys,


The very last night I've gad the chance to get along with our family 2nd car. It is a Corrida Red Elegance model from 2000, with a little over 160.000miles on the clock, no FSH, but has MOT from September 2015 (and the oil looks like it has been recently replaced). It has an AUA engine, 4 electric windows, heated seats, webasto, oem 14' wheels, Blaupunkt HU with 12 cd changer, ABS, ASR, front and rear disk brakes.
At a first glance, it seems it's going to need a cambelt replacement, a set of windscreen wipers and a wheel bearing. Other than that, it looks and drives pretty neat.
Can you recall any known issues about this engine/gearbox or anything that might need ASAP servicing?



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Edited 19 November, 201510 yr by Alexandru

Very nice.

 

One of my favourite colours.

 

Side airbags too, by the look of it?

Yes, it seems so. I'll try to decode the VIN to check the specs.

high spec then! 

Elegance with the pd100 engine is the best one from the range IMO, so the 1.4 isnt far behind.

only downside for me is the colour of the interior.

Yes, it might get dirty pretty quick. It would have been even better if it had xenon and cruise control. Was/is there an option for ASR+ESP or it's the same thing?

ESP was an option above ASR.

ASR simply stops you overloading the wheels with too much power. ESP goes above this and can stop you skidding off the road by braking individual wheels.

 

In the UK at least, ESP and xenons were only an option on the vRS, but I have seen a couple of elegance with xenons before so maybe it was possible with a "nice" dealer.

 

I've seen ESP on a few European (I'm assuming this since it's LHD) non-vRS Fabia, so I assume it was an option throughout Europe, but not in the UK.

I get it. So basically ASR is good on snow also ? How does it work on a manual? It cuts the fuel or it uses the ABS system ?

It does both.

 

Have a read of the below thread

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/214776-wtf-is-abs-edl-asr-esp-hhcetc/?hl=abs+asr#entry4121164

So basically it can be compared with an electronic locking dif ?  IMHO, that thread is a bit wrong. I thing ASR only cuts the fuel when it gets data from the ABS sensors that the drive wheel(s) is/are spinning. It doesn't apply brake power on the wheel which is spinning, this should be done by EDL.

 

I've had something like this on a '98 Jag XJ8 Sovereign (ASC, IIRC). On snow, with traction control enabled (and an automatic gearbox) it didn't move an inch. It wasn't reving. With it off, I was doing 120...stand still.

Edited 20 November, 201510 yr by Alexandru

Sort of.

ASR works in conjunction with EDL.

 

It doesn't lock the diff as such, but brakes the wheel that's spinning to increase the force on that side, to try to equal the other side with grip. When the torque is split through the diff, it means the wheel with grip can then turn.

Edited 20 November, 201510 yr by softscoop

This video although explains 4wd has a very good explanation of the theory

 

I'll do a bit of research. 

Edited 20 November, 201510 yr by Alexandru

Yes if the car has ASR, it has EDL too.

 

If you have one wheel on ice and one wheel on solid ground, the ASR system will use EDL to brake the wheel on ice. This increases the force required to overcome the ice grip+braking. As torque is split 50:50 through an open diff, it means that more torque is transferred to the good wheel with grip.

You just need to learn to trust the ESP, I only started trusting it late on in the life of wife's old Polo, and it will pull you out of most problems in snow/ice where physically possible!  My only problem with it was actually backing off the throttle myself before and after it had done that - that is bad as when ESP is working (helping you) it will cycle ON/OFF so that it does not over heat the brakes, what will happen if you back off the throttle pedal is, when it cycles back ON and hands the throttle control back to you, and you have the throttle at a very "low" setting, the car wheels grips the road and car stalls. So, trust it implicitly and it will work for you in snow/ice, and get you moving again if you mess up like I did!

Crying out for some cream leather or alcantara seats that is ! Not sure about the running man. Really nice that 2 tone interior, far less bland that most

 

Very nice colour red

Edited 21 November, 201510 yr by vRSAnt

Thank you! I've just sorted out how to setup the auxiliary heating. Pretty neat feature during cold winter mornings..brrr:)

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Can you recall any known issues about this engine/gearbox or anything that might need ASAP servicing?

 

Coli pack, HT leads and spark plugs, ECT sensor, EGR valve and pipework, Crankcase breather labyrinth get clogged.

 

Other than that, nothing really.