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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.

 

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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?

 

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The paint was flatter than a motherfu*cker - I gave it a quick G3ing over on the front end:

 

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An old owner had sprayed over the rust bubbles, and G3'ing brought up that horrible yellowy/grey effect when you sand it back:

 

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I sanded it back and sprayed the front edge with cheap 'gloss white':

 

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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.

 

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Bin the wheeltrims:

 

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These would look much better in silver, I think they were silver at one point? No I'm not spraying them silver.

 

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Body plastics were greyer than a sunny summer's afternoon in the Trafford Centre car park:

 

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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.

 

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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:

 

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Amount spent so far:

 

Rattle can: £3

Thermostat: £4

Exhaust clamps: £70p

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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.

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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 :-o  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 ;)

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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.

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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?

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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?

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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.

 

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Keep the updates coming!

 

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I'm all in favour of things like that continuing to live but that's a step too far IMO :-o  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.

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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.

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