New Car

[scotta]

New car arrived in the fleet last week...I cant be fucked with the guessing game so here it is.

The Boys Sandero met a nasty end after he was rear ended when stationary (Boy ok - nobody seriously hurt). Coming to a co-part auction near you soon.

After dealing with the insurance (admiral - which was utterly painless) and agreeing a decent settlement - which was more than i paid for the Sandy we had to find a replacement.

Budget of circa £4500.

He didn't want another Dacia but we were still hamstrung with insurance costs. Ford Ecoboosts were in budget but fuck that. He decided he wanted a Corsa.

This lead us into the world of private sales and FB marketplace. A place where many people advertise cars and seemingly forget that they had been in a sizable accident in the not too distant past. Messaged about a few cars locally. One looked decent. Run history check (Brothers work is handy for this) Cat S Nov 2024. Dick.

Found another 66 plate non cat marker 65k on the clock sounded decent. Run history check and it had been through a salvage auction.

Giving the benefit of the doubt as the sandy had been sold through copart but was immaculate - Sold as non runner due to an ECU fault - Arranged viewing. Turned up at the postcode...It was a fucking Lidl car park. Said to the boy i was definately not buying a car from a random in a lidl car park. had a look round the car regardless. Rough as a badger. Ad said FSH. Last service in the book was 20k and the service light was on. Interior was filthy and stinking. rear seatbelt buckles all broken external bodywork with damage. Nope. Left.

Back on the search. Found a 15 plate SRi 1.4 with only 40k on the clock FSH and in budget. Spoke to the seller who sounded genuine. This was a saturday morning so i asked if i could view it. She said no as the car was in for an MOT. This all checked out. It was indeed in for an MOT which it passed. She said the car was nearly immaculate bar one tiny scratch on the door so arranged to view it on the monday.

Slightly concerned at the fact it was an SRi and was 3 insurance groups higher than the sandy i did a quote on the boys insurance to change to the corsa...£550...Less...OH...HTF does that work!

Car was indeed as described. Drove spot on so we bought it.

Decent spec on these. AC, Cruise control, Bluetooth, Auto lights & Wipers, heated screen, Front Fogs.

[scotta]

Whilst we were dealing with the claim and due to it being a non fault we got a hire car from Enterprise.

This turned out to be a bit of a delight. "New" stellantis Corsa on a 73 plate in GS Turbo spec.

1.2 turbo with 100 BHP.

What a great little thing. Really torquey. Loads of kit - inc carplay & Climate control. Handled and rode really well. did 49 mpg easily.

ABSOLUTELY RUINED by having the Wet belt engine. What an utter shame. Wouldnt touch a wet belt with a barge pole.

[Matty]

Oof, that's brave delving into FB marketplace I have similar feelings to that as you to to wet belt engines.

I also would have thought Corsa's would have been horrendous to insure for the youngsters given they're the car of choice for that age bracket (plus accident on file). Also, give him a nudge to refurb wheels back to silver

[nuttinnew]

I hope the last three letters of the reg are something like HYT.
I was reading thinking "isn't the Stellantis 1.2 wet belt?" and there it was
It sounds like a good outcome to a bad situation for him

[scotta]

Oof, that's brave delving into FB marketplace I have similar feelings to that as you to to wet belt engines.

I also would have thought Corsa's would have been horrendous to insure for the youngsters given they're the car of choice for that age bracket (plus accident on file). Also, give him a nudge to refurb wheels back to silver

The wheels are black from the factory on the SRi.

https://www.vauxhall.co.uk/content/dam/ ... 990229.pdf

I was amazed at the refund on the insurance. especially as it was the 90bhp 1.4 SRi

[mik]

Wouldnt touch a wet belt with a barge pole.

Somewhat ironic, as barge-poles should be fine with wet things

[scotta]

Wouldnt touch a wet belt with a barge pole.

Somewhat ironic, as barge-poles should be fine with wet things

Shut up you. Nobody asked you.

Have you not got a poll to create somewhere...?

[mik]

Shut up you. Nobody asked you.

Have you not got a poll to create somewhere...?

A barge poll?

[jamcg]

Wouldnt touch a wet belt with a barge pole.

It’s almost as if forcing manufacturers to try and find every tiny efficiency gain is causing them to have to make questionable choices to pass emission tests just to be able to sell their products. Who could have seen that coming??

Also I used to have a 12plate previous shape corsa- I believe this one is just a heavy facelift of that car. Was safe in a reasonably heavy crash

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[scotta]

https://www.copart.co.uk/lot/43890485/2 ... m-whitburn

defined as a CAT B Breaker. Its proper fucked.

[Matty]

I mean, it looks it - That's a big hit! Whoever was behind must have been moving some.

[scotta]

I mean, it looks it - That's a big hit! Whoever was behind must have been moving some.

Backwards…after loosing it and spinning 180 degrees.

He got 3 bonus driving like a silly sausage points for the trouble.

[integrale_evo]

Imagine if it had been a metro or mk2 fiesta or whatever a lot of us had as first cars

[Carlos]

was your son the one going backwards?

ETA not judging your son we've all seen a bit of action lol

[mik]

No - Scott’s boy was stationary - other car spun backwards into him.

Scary stuff

[Carlos]

It must have still been carrying some speed, that's a long way into the car!

Glad they were ok.

[scotta]

Whilst we were dealing with the claim and due to it being a non fault we got a hire car from Enterprise.

This turned out to be a bit of a delight. "New" stellantis Corsa on a 73 plate in GS Turbo spec.

1.2 turbo with 100 BHP.

What a great little thing. Really torquey. Loads of kit - inc carplay & Climate control. Handled and rode really well. did 49 mpg easily.

ABSOLUTELY RUINED by having the Wet belt engine. What an utter shame. Wouldnt touch a wet belt with a barge pole.

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

That engine post 2023 DOES NOT have a wet belt. They redesigned it to have chains. So its likely that little corsa had the Chain.

https://en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/The ... hatgpt.com