Christopher
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Registered: 14th Oct 10
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Been looking at a few recently as im starting to stray from the corsa as im just fed up tbh! What are they really like? worth the money? Reliable? Common problems? Average price to pay for a clean model? Pictures of yours would be cool too! Cheers in advance!
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N3CRO
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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Book price on a late model is around £2,000 for a clean one.
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AndyCorsaSport
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Registered: 12th Feb 06
Location: Horsforth, West Yorkshire
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I've on my 3rd now. Love em, such fun cars. Go for a non sunroof as they tend to leak, brakes aren't great but easily upgradable. CV boots, sensors, nakard rear axles rust as with any car around that sort of age now.
My old one, quite rare a 52 plate non sunroof Moonstone blue GTi
Had a JP4 from a 05 Citroen C2 with few mods, 142 BHP, gaz coilovers, Brembo 4 pot's, fully poly bushed etc. regret selling it now. Sold it Sept 2011 for £2800 just to give you an idea.
2nd one was this:
Normal 106 engine (J4) with bike throttle bodies, newmans ph3 cams and exhaust, around 170bhp mark. Was fookin quick.
Current one
Pretty standard, backbox and cone filter, lowered and rallye steels.
For sale if you want it, 118k but engine and box is very strong!! MOT untill April 2013 and tax untill end of Oct. has a few dents on the front of bonnet and front leather seats are knackered.
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big eck
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Registered: 20th Apr 03
Location: Tullibody. Drives - Audi B8 S4 & Fiesta Zetec-S
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Depends on who you buy from if it's been looked after or not. My missus one was a nightmare but mine was a gem with nothing going wrong with it in the year I had it. Common problems are weak gearboxes, rear axle bearings knackering due to lowering. Great wee cars tho and pretty quick with simple bolt on breathing mods.
And the missus one
[Edited on 03-06-2012 by big eck]
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Corsa_Sport21
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Registered: 13th Apr 08
Location: Leven, Fife. Drives : 205 GTi
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Not necessarily due to lowering Eck, the axle on my Vtr fuked up, and so did the 1 on my old 206 GTi. Both factory standard cars. Lowering them the wrong way does play a big part in it though.
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silvercorsabee
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Registered: 9th Feb 12
Location: aberdeen
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Always had a soft spot for these Thinking of one for my next car in indigo blue !!!! 
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big eck
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Registered: 20th Apr 03
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This is my mates old one.
From this
To this
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big eck
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A few other nice ones
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vaux.dan
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Registered: 18th May 09
Location: newcastle/gateshead
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Fucking loved mine !
Amazing car. 80k mountains of history non sunroof sundance yellow. I paid £900 off a lad who buys and sells locally and never let me done until the release bearing went(my own fault really)
I sold it for 1k tho and the lad kept it for 6 month then sold it for 1600 !
Mine
Personally think they're the best 1.6 hot hatch out and I even think they're better than a corsa vxr. I chased 1 on the twistys and literally on his arse could of overtook if it was straight. Was standard bar a magnex backbox and ecosse carbon induction kit
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kennySRi
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Registered: 12th Nov 10
Location: Lancashire
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I had a white one which was VERY clean and sold it a year or so ago for £2k. I miss it and would have it back anyday.
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Eck
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
Location: Lundin Links, Fife
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quote:
Originally posted by vaux.dan
Fucking loved mine !
Amazing car. 80k mountains of history non sunroof sundance yellow. I paid £900 off a lad who buys and sells locally and never let me done until the release bearing went(my own fault really)
I sold it for 1k tho and the lad kept it for 6 month then sold it for 1600 !
Mine
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Personally think they're the best 1.6 hot hatch out and I even think they're better than a corsa vxr. I chased 1 on the twistys and literally on his arse could of overtook if it was straight. Was standard bar a magnex backbox and ecosse carbon induction kit
Then the VXR driver was pants. Yes you'd keep up on the bends but on a straight it would pull away from you.
Do love them though! Cheap fun!
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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Cracking cars, for some reason most owners seem to stick show cages in them
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AndyCorsaSport
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Registered: 12th Feb 06
Location: Horsforth, West Yorkshire
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quote:
Originally posted by Eck
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Originally posted by vaux.dan
Fucking loved mine !
Amazing car. 80k mountains of history non sunroof sundance yellow. I paid £900 off a lad who buys and sells locally and never let me done until the release bearing went(my own fault really)
I sold it for 1k tho and the lad kept it for 6 month then sold it for 1600 !
Mine
[IMG]http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z455/vauxdan/50c1939b.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z455/vauxdan/0b18ce86.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z455/vauxdan/db04f0cd.jpg[IMG]
[IMG]http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z455/vauxdan/027d3f33.jpg[IMG]
Personally think they're the best 1.6 hot hatch out and I even think they're better than a corsa vxr. I chased 1 on the twistys and literally on his arse could of overtook if it was straight. Was standard bar a magnex backbox and ecosse carbon induction kit
Then the VXR driver was pants. Yes you'd keep up on the bends but on a straight it would pull away from you.
Do love them though! Cheap fun!
Depends on any mods really, my moonstone one @ 142bhp sat bang on with a Clio 197 round Croft for 5/6 laps. Corners and straights, I couldn't pass it, but he couldn't pull away.
Also the one I had on bodies @ 170bhp, had a play with 5 cars on way back from a local cruise, 2 MK4 Astra GSi's, Mk4 astra van with C20LET, Classic impreza wrx and remapped Audi S3. 106 happily kept with them. Power to weight, 170bhp and weighing 900kg's will keep with the heavier cars.
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L3W15
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Had one of these try to race me in my xe nova apparently it was a 'redtop eater' as the owner said. Didnt look happy when i pulled away
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DanCobb
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http://autotrader.mobi/used-cars/advert/201221472246088/viewing-3/0?PHPSESSID=p5hu4f207h9b9oj5oapo9n93u3
Get it!
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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quote:
Originally posted by vaux.dan
Personally think they're the best 1.6 hot hatch out and I even think they're better than a corsa vxr. I chased 1 on the twistys and literally on his arse could of overtook if it was straight. Was standard bar a magnex backbox and ecosse carbon induction kit
standard vs standard ?
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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That's as good as std v std really
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alan-g-w
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Registered: 9th Nov 07
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I had a run against one in the XE, couldn't pass it. Pulled up at the lights and it turns out the guy had it rebuilt and 'tuned' at Eccosse, fair play to him
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AndyCorsaSport
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Registered: 12th Feb 06
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
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Originally posted by vaux.dan
Personally think they're the best 1.6 hot hatch out and I even think they're better than a corsa vxr. I chased 1 on the twistys and literally on his arse could of overtook if it was straight. Was standard bar a magnex backbox and ecosse carbon induction kit
standard vs standard ?
Standard vs standard VXR would have it without a doubt, but we're talking a 12+ year old 106 n/a against a newer turbo car.
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Sly_SRi
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Reading, UK Drives: Corsa C
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My old one:
Superb cars to drive. It's the funniest car I've owned. Reliability however is not good at all...
Spent most of its life being repaired. Common problems are gearboxes, engine mounts, engines, basically anything expensive.
Corsa C Z20Let
Black Sleeper Turbo Project
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N3CRO
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quote:
Originally posted by Sly_SRi
Spent most of its life being repaired.
Sounds like my 206 
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big eck
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Like I said it all depends on the kind of life they've had.
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AndyCorsaSport
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quote:
Originally posted by big eck
Like I said it all depends on the kind of life they've had.
This. In the year I had my moonstone one it had a driveshaft and ABS sensor. And it performed a full open pit lane track day with no faults.
Current one has cost me a battery in 4 months.
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Christopher
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Registered: 14th Oct 10
Location: Eastbourne
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Ahh thanks alot guys! Really want a yellow or white one! Any more pictures of peoples? 
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NovaGTE2
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Registered: 26th Sep 06
Location: Peasedown St John, Bristol Avon
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I had two some years back; loved them both but the blue one was my fav
and the first one i had which i swapped for the blue one as the guy really wanted a white one!!
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