Mo
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Registered: 29th Jan 03
Location: Bolton, Drives Q3 S-line +
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After owning the corsa 7 years its died on me.
Cambelt snapped.... whats the damage?
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
Location: Bushbury, West Midlands
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bent valves and worse comes to worse damaged pistons
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Matt L
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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broken cambelt thats for sure.
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Mo
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Location: Bolton, Drives Q3 S-line +
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt L
broken cambelt thats for sure.
 Really!
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swill_omnibus
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Registered: 12th Dec 07
Location: : S. wales Drives: Dodge Caliber
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Though the eco-tec lumps can bepretty resilient after a cam-belt snappage.
Minimum would be a bent valve or few. Worse as said damaged pistons etc.
Hope it's all well for you and not too bad though fella 
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Mo
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quote:
Originally posted by swill_omnibus
Though the eco-tec lumps can bepretty resilient after a cam-belt snappage.
i've heard that but don't know if its true.
Im debating whether to fix or break
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stubs
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Registered: 30th Jun 02
Location: Bolton
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Dont break it Mo.. Just drop another engine in it. When mine went on the astra 1.8 ecotec, I just bought one from Bury salvage £120 all in with loom & sensors. Managed to make about £60 back in parts sold too 
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JonnyJ
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Registered: 23rd Sep 05
Location: Scotchland
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Perfect opportunity for an XE/LET (if it didnt already have one)
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Mo
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alright stu b. send me the address for the salvage and i'll pop down 
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S@M
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Registered: 3rd Oct 07
Location: East Yorkshire
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happened to mine so rebuilt it, heres some pics for you.....
top end gaskit kit £75
cambelt kit £75
waterpump £20
new head £125
preformance inlet £138
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AndyCorsaSport
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Registered: 12th Feb 06
Location: Horsforth, West Yorkshire
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Im saying 16 bent valves, i know a few that have snapped, always seem to bend all 16
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JM_16v
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Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
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new engine easier
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Mo
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Registered: 29th Jan 03
Location: Bolton, Drives Q3 S-line +
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cheers Sam
the way i'm looking at it is. £500 to fix but valvue of cars is only £1000-£1200 so it is worth it?
still thinking along the lines of breaking. getting some money back and moving on
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Eck
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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XE it.
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noshua
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Registered: 19th Nov 08
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xe / sell
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SR91
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Location: Lancashire.
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Where abouts are you from?
Sorry to hear about the snapping 
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corsa-sxi
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Registered: 11th Jul 03
Location: Kingston upon Hull
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my engine broke on my corsa c, car is worth about 2k and it cost me £800 to getsum1 to drop a 2nd hand engine in
i look at it and say i couldnt have got a better car for 800 quid
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Richardhhha
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Registered: 29th Sep 07
Location: Croydon, Greater London
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if you like the car then its worth it, you can go buy another engine then have the fun of taking this engine out and putting the other engine in to find it knocks its tits off and blows smoke rings better than a chimeny stack,
or you can rebuild yours for not much money at all and you can ahve the satisfaction of i did this myself..
personaly im rebuilding the back end of my corsa gls after it was involved in a accedent and got written off as a cat c but as i really like the car im rebuilding it.
at the end of the day its completely down to you
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random dav
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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Just chuck a new engine in fella
WRLFC !
Project cars
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Mike GSi
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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Drives:Astra VXR
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i have a perfect X16XE for sale Genuine 82K no ratles bangs smoke taps yada yada, with loom and ECU will pallet up for courier
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chrex
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Registered: 26th Aug 07
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yea i would throw a new engine in it pal...not worth splitting a perfectly good car just coz the engine has gone. plenty of engines out there to put into it
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Andyrs1800
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Registered: 15th Oct 03
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Gutted mate, But dont break it, Chuck an engine in, Its not hard
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ChrisBoom
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Registered: 6th Dec 06
Location: Highland
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XE time.
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Nath
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
Location: MK
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Don't break it! Its a smart looking Corsa.
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Mo
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Registered: 29th Jan 03
Location: Bolton, Drives Q3 S-line +
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if i fix it i'll never move on
had the corsa since i was 19 i'm now 26! think its time to move on
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