Sold Vauxhall Astra 1.6 Mk3. £200!

[Cavcraft]

1997 Astra 1.6LS

MOT January 2016

Still showing as taxed, but it's disabled so will need to be taxed at Post Office who can change the tax class at the same time.

123,000 miles.

It's the 8V, so therefore ace by default

Power steering, central locking and an aftermarket CD player that's so snazzy/down with the kids it doesn't seem to have a face. So I'll find another stereo for it.

Runs great, lots of old MOTs come with it, too.

Pictures show it on 15" steels and trims, but a couple of tyres are a bit shit, so it'll come on 14" steels with a set of as new 185/60/14 (maybe 195s, can't remember)  tyres, but possibly no wheel trims.

Rusty rear arch (quelle surprise) and the odd rusty spot/mark etc.

 

I'm a bit* biased as you know, but as a cheap runabout these are pretty much unbeatable.

 

 

 

 

I'll get some more pictures at some point.

 

£250 (firm) drives it away from Chester.

[Station]

Corner of the wall smashingly gr8, as the old saying goes.

[New POD]

Spi or MPi ?

 

75 Bhp vs 90 Bhp ?

[Cavcraft]

Erm, I've actually no idea.

[alf892]

Erm, I've actually no idea.

Oh come on........what kind of salesman are you? You got to know the product.........

 

I take it the usual warranty applies?

 

Nice car at that money so glwts

[Cavcraft]

[Cavcraft]

Look at those seat covers. Just pure class.

[scaryoldcortina]

SPi innit.

[Lord Sterling]

Uh oh, I MUST RESIST...

[Cavcraft]

Anyway....

 

 

due to the imminent arrival of something probably even more horrible, this is now £200.

[DeeJay]

Is that the central locking device on the seat?

[Jim Bell]

It's the Doglock

 

For when little Barbara Cartland has to stay in the car.

[strangeangel]

I sometimes miss my old Astra estate, but that had the Isuzu motor and a hole the size of your head in the floor under the spare wheel. RIP you scabby old horror.

 

[cobblers]

I can smell those seat covers from here and they are vinegary. 

[Station]

8 v by default 'ace' - no it;s not as the 8v is fundamentally the late 1970s family II engine and stressed by 90s onwards emission control etc - does it eat valve gear as is the wont of that engine

Never had a problem with them. I think Vauxhall still use them, or stopped using them very recently. The 2.0 block is still being used in the Astra VXR.

 

Looks like the SPi! I can't have any more Astras.

[stripped fred]

I sometimes miss my old Astra estate, but that had the Isuzu motor and a hole the size of your head in the floor under the spare wheel. RIP you scabby old horror.

 

Mine's also got that feature in the spare wheel well.

[sloth]

8 v  by default 'ace'  - no  it;s not as the 8v is fundamentally the  late 1970s  family II engine and  stressed  by  90s onwards  emission control etc   - does it eat  valve gear  as  is the wont of that engine 

 

err, thats a family 1 engine, the smaller one. no issues there pal, and ony the very early ones ate cams, due to idiots thinking they would last like  a pinto on fuck all oil.

 

id suggest taking your meds.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

err, thats a family 1 engine, the smaller one. no issues there pal, and ony the very early ones ate cams, due to idiots thinking they would last like  a pinto on fuck all oil.

 

id suggest taking your meds.

 

 

+1

 

The '79 onwards Opel OHC engine was/is as tough as old boots. Cam wear was an issue on the prehistoric Astra band Cavalier units but it's a 200 quid snott....appreciating classic.

[warren t claim]

I'd buy this but I'm still holding out on getting one off Hirst as a company car.

[Christine]

Lush , just lush..sigh..

[Cavcraft]

Sold to a nice Polish couple. He did, of course, try and chip me down and feigned disinterest/headed back towards his own car , but I out poker-faced him.

[Lord Sterling]

Doskonały!