All i know is that its got air con

Will it turn into a money pit or are they good motors?

As you can tell, i have lots of info and am well clued up on vx's

 

chavtastic

 

body works not too bad on them, but if its got the chain driven 3 or 4 cylinder engine fitted then you could be in trouble.
oil pressure switchs fail quite regularly and piss oil every where.
water pump bolts through the timing chain cover, the gasket fails and fills the sump with water. looks like the head gasket has failed but in most cases it is the waterpump
timing chain rattles as the chain streches and the tensioner can't cope with the extra length.
known to snap exhaust camshafts.

cheers nick

 

in addition to the above that ive seen quite alot on.
steering racks knock, cv boots and joints,handbrake cables snap on the rear beam,
if its got abs have a look to see if the recall been done. The modulator should have a big plastic cover covering it and a new electronic part with blue gel inside the connector. Powersteerimg motor goes bandit. Bulkhead seal fails allowing the foot wells to fill with water. New bulkhead panel with seal are circa £30 but cost a fortune to fit. Gearlinkages pop off or cause the loss of 1st and 2nd unless you lift the leaver up.

 

and depending on age and if its running a family 0 engine the cam caps need re tightened up under a recall for camshaft snapping

 

i'd forgot about the steering racks and gear linkages

 

i used to do quite a lot of gear linkages mainly on the corsa c. Done a hand full on the Astra h and corsa d. It must be something to do with the drivers of the corsa c hahaha

 

in my honest opinion they are shit

 

Had a lot of experiance with these, rebuilt a few 3 cylinders and put one into a rally prepped Corsa B.

Pretty much bullet proof, you dont see hundreds of them on the road for being unreliable, even when they are the parts are cheap!

Engine wise its usually (as said) oil pressure switches, EGRs clogging and poor engine breathers.

Chains will always rattle as the tensioner is fed with oil through the SMALLEST hole you could imagine, causing it to go slack and strech which makes it worse, then again ive seen corsas with 140k + miles on the original chain still going, rattling like mad but still going!

 

Wiper motors pack up. Gearboxes are sponsered by cadburys bottom arm bushes wear. Steering racks wear springs snap back axle bushes split. Gear linkages wear and fall off.

 

Id say avoid....

 

dont know how one would make it to 140k on the original chain they usually last about 35k max i put a new engine in one due to chain failure and that had only done 28k!

 

Ive got 1.3 diesel,cheap as chips run,115,000 miles,engine gear box,clutch all fine,like anything i suppose all depends if they have been serviced etc.

 

Can develop a misfire down to the Ecu and only solution is a new ecu. Body computer can go tits up.

Nasty, shitty cars that I would and have walked to avoid driving.

 

ive come across a shorted ecu by oil from the oil pressure sensor traveling through the loom lol

 

Belive it or not when i was at the dealer i did a few like this
New engine loom,all sensors and ecu

 

We have a corsa 1.7 cdti from new 04 plate just turned over 172 k with no problems only wear and tear still returns 70 miles to £10 of dessel never drinks any oil or water cheap road tax

 

Ill give it a miss then

What are mk6 fiestas like then?

 

Its a ford there the best lol.

The 1.4 diesels can have troubles. There only 30 quid a year tax snd are good on juice. I think the common fault on the diesels is the injector seals leaking. Any easy job to do though.

 

and turbo,oil sludge situation

 

i'd probably be better off buying a petrol if i'm honest, but the 2 diseasal ones we've got at work (14 plate) are very quick in comparison to most things they meet on the roads but i can't stretch to a nearly new car

 

Cant go wrong with a zetec engine Dojj.