For Sale 1994 Vauxhall Astra 1.7TD - £400

[Station]

Here is my Astra that I gone done brought a few months ago.

 

The important things: it runs on vegetable oil. It's the Isuzu turbo engine. It has the black interior from an Astra Sport estate. It has a tow bar.

 

The bad things: It's not as good as the 405 GLDT I sold instead of this (IMO).

 

I was expecting more from the car to be honest, and apart from the usefulness and load lugging abilities, I can't get on with it and diesels are far too slow for me.

 

The MOT has just run out, so I'm going to put it through another one (maybe this Saturday) once I sort out what I think it will need:

It needs a new shock absorber and driveshaft/cv joint which I will do.

I should scrap it as changing the suspension and MOT'ing it is a whole day of which I cannot spare, but I am of the 'it would be a waste of a car' club and if someone would get some use from it - it takes veggie oil, is an estate and has a tow bar ffs - what is there not to like? It's also got tax until the end of September.

 

It's in that green colour 99% of the mk3 Astras came in.

 

It's well worth £400 so can't negotiate on that.

 

 

edit: I'm replacing the bits and it's going in for MOT tomorrow! woo!

[Cavcraft]

You're asking to be spammed to high heaven there, Station. Can I respectfully suggest you change it to 'at' instead of @ etc,.

[Station]

This just went through MOT.

It needed:

A small patch welding on the sill (it was a small hole, about 5cm by 4 cm, where the jack had bent it a bit - I cut the whole square out and welded a new patch in and sealed/painted everything up).

The cv boot re-attaching (the zip tie thing had long since departed and was threatening to prevent ingress of dust, dirt and other road based particulates (OMG no))

A tie rod

 

It didn't fail on a clicking CV joint or the slightly reboundy shock absorber. I'm putting it back in on Saturday (as I've done all the work - welded the patch, put a new clip on the CV joint, and put a tie rod end on).

I have also ordered new shock absorbers for the front and will probably get a new CV joint, so it'll drive just how Mr Vauxhall devised when he sat at his drawing board in 1990. I have also wired the tow bar in.

[skattrd]

Can't you do a little mod on the fuel pump on these then turn the boost up to silly levels for lots of black smoke and much speed.

[Lacquer Peel]

WOULD SUIT MASOCHIST.

[CortinaDave]

Pics!

[Jim Bell]

Though I am a fan of the Isuzu engine (its effing ace), I agree that a 405 TD would be made of better.

The MK3 Cav I had with the same engine was rapid enough to see off a Mk1 Clio 1.8 16v, so theyre hardly "slow".

 

I think anything with this lump for sale for a price under £500 with a test is ruddy cheap!

 

Plus it drinks veg through the winter with no winges for moar bonus awesome.

Someone get it bought pls before I get ideas.