Station Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Does anyone remember this?It was used by my brother for a couple of weeks while his Matiz was off the road.Keeping with tradition (after destroying the engine in my Nippa a couple of years ago) he managed to break the exhaust in half and fill the interior with rubbish. I drove it for the first time in months yesterday, and it is horrible. Firstly, after three days of driving into work, it is the oldest car I've seen on the road. I've seen the odd W-reg, but nothing earlier.I don't think it has anti roll bars, and everything is rubbery - the steering, the gearchange, etc.I thought I'd give it a quick tidy up, drive it round for a couple of weeks before offloading. I've changed the exhaust and will do the thermostat, as it is blowing cold, which is rank in the winter. DYK - you have to take the timing belt off on these to change the thermostat? The paint was flatter than a motherfu*cker - I gave it a quick G3ing over on the front end: An old owner had sprayed over the rust bubbles, and G3'ing brought up that horrible yellowy/grey effect when you sand it back: I sanded it back and sprayed the front edge with cheap 'gloss white': Here's that rank grey effect when you sand back white paint on repair jobs - is this primer underneath??? This of course has had it's door bent back at some point. I think 200% of Corsa's were broken into, I've not had one that didn't have this little bend in. Bin the wheeltrims: These would look much better in silver, I think they were silver at one point? No I'm not spraying them silver. Body plastics were greyer than a sunny summer's afternoon in the Trafford Centre car park: If find putting 'back to black' on a sponge and rubbing it in has the best effect, and it doesn't go everywhere. It always looks much better doing this, but I don't think it lasts long. I still have to use G3 compound on the rest of the car as it looks like it has never been washed or polished. Also replaced the TEVION stereo for a standard Grundig SC303 one - it's still in safe mode for some reason, I have the code: Amount spent so far: Rattle can: £3Thermostat: £4Exhaust clamps: £70p auldford, Jim Bergerac, Shep Shepherd and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugong Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Why are you bothering? Oh right, frag's on its arse. Jim Bell, strangeangel, scruff and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigmund Fraud Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Horrible motor, minimum budget, maximum skillz ! That's what I call Autoshite-ing ! Twiggy, purplebargeken, Vince70 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted October 7, 2015 Author Share Posted October 7, 2015 Why are you bothering? Jon, you are truly the spirit and embodiment of Autoshite. Here you see one and a half hour's work.Sell it for £150 as is or £300 for £15 spent and couple of night's worth of elbow grease. Lacquer Peel, Vince70, D Spares & Tyres and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Buy a new Corsa on finance. BorniteIdentity, dugong, fatharris and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 That looks so much better now! Wtf is with all the negative comments, this is autoshite, this sort of thing is partly why we are here, spending twice the value of the car making it run right! AlabamaShrimp, Craig the Princess, John F and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Best small car of the nineties by a country mile. If you want some sort of bizarre part-exchange or swap arrangement for something else, just message me. alf892 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 After 5 years you get used to it! Mine is a later 1.0 and has a front arb which appears to just bolt on. I have a Sport rear axle which has an inbuilt arb so will have that fitted in the coming months as the car, when I can get it to go fast enough, rolls quite a bit in corners, even with lowered suspension fitted. John F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangeangel Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Best small car of the nineties by a country mile. If you want some sort of bizarre part-exchange or swap arrangement for something else, just message me. Surely not?? My then OH had one of those when it was new and the (same age) 205 you sold me drives better 20 years later! Also replaced the TEVION stereo for a standard Grundig SC303 one - I'm all in favour of things like that continuing to live but that's a step too far IMO Cassettes?!? If you don't want the Tevion anymore I know where's there's a strikingly handsome 90s French hatch which would be very happy to have MP3 capability again scruff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted October 7, 2015 Author Share Posted October 7, 2015 The Tevion jutted out and was an array of flashing lights which I didn't like. I only listen to radio and have a transmitter thing for the ipod which works good.Billy if you ever have something interesting come up, give me a PM! (not Punto/Mondeo/etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 where in the world are you? I have some perfect 14 inch astra alloys that would look perfect on any corsa. (Tyres are fecked though). I also have 3 x 14 inch cavalier steels on the shed. Free to an autoshitter who is able to convince me that it would add more than the value of said wheels to the value of the car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugong Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 I still don't understand why you're bothering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Because he likes the car? Vince70, 500tops, Cavcraft and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 I like it. It's another of those really common cars that will just dissappear. The stuff you've done to it were cheap and easy so why not? Vince70, rml2345, oldcars and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 I still don't understand why you're bothering.Because it's an unloved motor that cost less than a finance payment, which with a little effort can remain usable and presentable for years to come, sticking the 2 fingers up at the you must have a new car brigade, isn't that what we're about? hauserplenty, eddyramrod, Grundig and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugong Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 I'd love to be able to make money on a car by cleaning it. In Manchester they wouldn't give you the steam off their piss for it. Because it's an unloved motor that cost less than a finance payment, which with a little effort can remain usable and presentable for years to come, sticking the 2 fingers up at you must have a new car brigade, isn't that what we're about? I dunno, is it? I lose track a fair bit on here. Is that what we're supposed to be about? Twiggy and ruffgeezer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 I always thought it was a site of people who don't take themselves seriously and have or like unloved cars and aimed to keep them on road not giving a monkeys about what the great unwashed thought I may be wrong Sigmund Fraud, Station, eddyramrod and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 I only come on here for the banter. You're all sacked. Vince70, Cavcraft, purplebargeken and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin-Rover Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Pah! Crappy old Corsas are on trend at the moment - don't listen to everyone else! I've picked up my own unloved example last Sunday that is in need of repairs and tidying that can not be rationally justified. 2015-10-04 13.23.59 by Richard Gelder, on Flickr Keep the updates coming! Cavcraft and RobT 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UmBongo Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 It needs 17'' alloys, innit!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I'm all in favour of things like that continuing to live but that's a step too far IMO Cassettes?!? If you don't want the Tevion anymore I know where's there's a strikingly handsome 90s French hatch which would be very happy to have MP3 capability again We did the same thing on the ex-320touring Polo last weekend, for similar reasons. The JVC CD player stuck out of the dash, looked incongruous and sounded terrible. The VW/Blaupunkt radio cassette that's in there now looks as if it's meant to be there (in the daytime at least, it's from a newer model so the illumination is the wrong colour), sounds a lot better and can play anything via a cassette adapter. I'm about to do the same on my 850 too, although the OEM stereo it's getting has cassette, CD and CD changer for extra pointlessness points. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainagain Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I'll just drop this here: http://autoshite.com/topic/15534-corsa-b-four-clocksri-dash-for-sale/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srad34 Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 needs big rimz and a big boar exhaust innit bruv, thread followed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 It's quite satisfying to take something like this, invest a bit of time, then end up with a car you can totally rely on. I'd say this is the essence of Autoshite, cack cars no one wants, beating the system. Not someone restoring an old MGB, Christ yawn!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 You're not allowed to like Corsas, this forum has gone to shit again etc Dave Euston Station, I'll message you L8RZ dugong and alf892 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I like early Corsas. In fact, I'd shoot a couple of Tagoras and a Matra Rancho in the face just to get close enough to a Corsa to lick it. Cavcraft, Vince70 and cms206 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_Rocket Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Cheap tax, insurance and pennies to feed? It does exactly what a small cheap car should do. I'd bargain that it will also be 100% reliable, has a good heater and you can leave it anywhere without worrying about it.If this isn't Autoshite, I'm not sure what is. RobT, Shep Shepherd, stripped fred and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 It's about the satisfaction of having a car and having money to spend on other things, unlike somebody spending £200 a month on something on tick. At least Station can eat. Biggy Shackleton and Shep Shepherd 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugong Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I getcha, bro. I just don't like Corsas. I've only ever b[r]ought one new car, I completely own it now (and wouldn't get another car on tick). You are preaching to the converted. Station will do a good job on it; he knows what he's doing. I just struggle with stuff like Corsas because the one I learned to drive in broke down on my driving test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I'm not fussed on Corsa's either -other cars that can do a better job. scruff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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