HillmanImp Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Really are great looking cars these. Sadly its a Vauxhall and as we know they Я all shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rantingYoof Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 The Design appeared to benefit from a colour sat-nav where the Elite had a yellow and black one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hertz Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Yes always liked these also, good looking motor. You can't go wrong for 400 sheets surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Anyone know what all the storage compartments in the roof are for? My glasses go in one of them, the rest I'm not sure!One of them will be for a Beretta. Rusty_Rocket and flat4alfa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 A Luger, shirley? Because German Rusty_Rocket and barefoot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 More likely a Heckler & Koch and some Haribo. Because Deutsch. barefoot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 AA pack. oldcars, djimbob and flat4alfa 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendry Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Love these! I believe the facelift Design got standard colour sat nav. Would love an Elite prefacelift with irmscher aluminium strip grille, 19” Vectra VXR Alloys, And a subtle drop on 30 lowering springs, think it’d look the dogs bollocks! Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cros Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 I looked this car up on honest John as I know fuck all about modern things and thought I should at least try to keep up. It said this: "Rumoured small 300bhp 4.3-litre V8 with 280lb ft torque never arrived in UK." What sort of shit is that, did it ever arrive anywhere? I'm sure you scallywags will straighten things out for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Anybody know what the 2.0dti engine is like in these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sierraman Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Injector seals, won’t start when facing up hill, stinks of diesel Coked up inlet fanimold Oil pump failure, the retaining nuts keeps running loose which then knackers the bottom end Oil consumption through glazed bores A lot of them are sheds now through either excessive mileage or just plain bad maintenance over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Mechanically tough as old boots - noisy tho .Injection pumps can sign off with no warning .There is no intank pump so the injector pump sucks from the tank - they are very reliant on perfect fuel lines esp the leak off pipes . Leaky hoses or failed injector seals will make them a twat to start esp when low on fuel or parked up hill .If the fuel filter is black then the seals have failed. About 70-80 quids worth of bits and officially a camshaft our job to fix but I’ve done several by just lifting the cam as far as I dare .When you change the fuel filter please suck out the diesel / shit from the housing . Many people just lift the old element out and plonk a new one in . What you have done there is allowed all the shit from the dirty side of the filter into the clean side .I rate them as an engine but some of the bits around them ( mostly Bosch) can be a little flakey Kiltox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Never heard of oil pump failure or glazed bores - we have had 6-7 in our family and not one used any oil of went bang . Probably worked on 20 plus cars with this motor and seen no problems at all .I don’t know anyone in the trade that has ever had to strip one down . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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twosmoke300 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Yes but it’s a twat to change being chain driven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Looked at one last week, oil pump had gone on that, might have been the 1.7 though as it was in an Astra. Could well be a problem on the 2.0 as well. The glazed bores were a problem when they were fairly new, warranty work will have probably seen off this problem by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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twosmoke300 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Prob a 1.7 - bit of a troubled child as time went on . The old one in the mk3 cav etc was bombproof but the Di ones were a bit weak . Used to split coolant hoses for fun , overheat enough to loosen the piston oil jets and then fuck the small ends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 The 2.2 is pretty frugal and was alright to drive. People say they're slow but I don't think they're bad at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timolloyd Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Fiat connection is because Epsilon platform, some engines, boxes and other sharing. Because Fiat Croma was (one of a few) sister models when Fiat and GM were in bed Revision Signums got CDTi, a JTD multijet joint effort https://www.fiatforum.com/croma-ii/167791-what-really-gm-croma.html That photo deserves posting again. My eye was drawn...and not by the (admittedly curious) Fiat. ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3VOM Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 The 2.2 is pretty frugal and was alright to drive. People say they're slow but I don't think they're bad at all.Mine averages 47mpg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 I quite like the Signum - although not strictly a Vauxhall apologist, I could see they were trying something a bit different and it was a pity it didn't quite come off. Weirdly, although the official line is that the Signum stemmed from a concept car shown at the 2001 Frankfurt Motor Show, I turned this up in a July 1997 issue of Vauxhall Magazine. Still, I could live with the styling of one of these before I'd go for a Vel Satis... long may yours run. Rusty_Rocket and Brodders 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djoptix Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 You're forgetting the c4 Picasso lounge . And the 4 seat, LWB Phaeton. Mmmmmm. I really wanted one of those, then miniOptix number 3 came along and scuppered my plans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SamR380 Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 dont forget these things use 21w bulbs for everything on the rear so it can brighten a sidelight if a brake light blows- and when replaced the lights need to be operated to cancel the warnings These modern cars eh? What will they think of next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 I like the way they mention 'automatic gearbox with manual change facility on the dash' -that was obviously the early beginnings of the horrendous Easytronic automated manuals, which every manufacturer would eventually adopt. You'd think they'd had seen the wonderful reliability* and smoothness* of the Fiat Selespeed system and ditched it pronto! True that - I'm fairly sure the owner of our nearest Peugeot dealership retired to the Bahamas off the back of the semi-auto 'box in my dad's 407 wagon... nice in theory, dreadful in practice! These Signums really are grade-A shite though, despite relative newness - overpowered, overlooked and probably quite wonderful until something major blows. And yes, I have been idly browsing the classifieds to see if there's any for sale nearby... cort1977 and Rusty_Rocket 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_Rocket Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 . Dave_Q, Cleon-Fonte, theshadow and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendry Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Yeah the tail lights operating as brake lights probably caught people out because both were blown, because when only one is blown it’s obvious because although both lights still light up when the brake pedal is pressed regardless of blown bulb or not, it obviously lights up a different section of the cluster making you think ‘wait a minute why the fuck are this cars brake lights lighting up 2 different sections of the cluster on either side’ Must be a high spec Signum because dads old Vectra C didn’t do it despite it apparently being a feature of all Vec Cs and Signums, but his was a base special edition, we didn’t have the bulb failure warning messages on the computer screen either, mainly because his car had the computer from being ex lease because it was never even available as an option on that trim, so we got all the average mpg, distance to empty fuel, warnings about slippery road surfaces but no warnings about blown bulbs, low coolant etc. The half canbus cars actually had a nicer screen than the full canbus cars from 2005 onwards (both prefacelift and facelift) where you got a nicer layout, icons and so on for warning messages rather than just a line of text like “Range: Refuel!” Or “Check Coolant Level!” Rusty_Rocket 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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