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[STMO999]

Just been down to EH. There's a lovely veccy 2.2 there, spotless and very reasonable. As I was talking to the salesman something was going through my head about the 2.2.....couldn't quite remember.

So I came home and had a look on 'tinternet, then I remembered:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2009/01/vauxhall_cars_that_suddenly_lo.html

Back to the drawing board.

[tunnie]

we have 2 x 2.2's and both did 100k easy, mines on 128k and not missed a beat!

[Marks DTM Calib]

I looked into this one earlier in the year (just before I bought the bus).

Some interesing extra info I got was:

All occurances were in a local area or linked to the South East.

It was affecting other cars from many different manufacturers, thes were also in that region.

Yu can draw an inference from those findings!

So nowt to really worry about i would say!

[Marks DTM Calib]

we have 2 x 2.2's and both did 100k easy, mines on 128k and not missed a beat!

A TOTALY different power unit.....absolutely nothing in common

[STMO999]

I looked into this one earlier in the year (just before I bought the bus).

Some interesing extra info I got was:

All occurances were in a local area or linked to the South East.

It was affecting other cars from many different manufacturers, thes were also in that region.

Yu can draw an inference from those findings!

So nowt to really worry about i would say!

Cheers Mark.
It's a 2005 54 SXi estate, 50,000 miles not a mark on it inside or out. They want £4820 but I might be able to wangle something off. Reckon I'd get £2750 for my meriva, so £2000 to pay, maybe :-/

[tunnie]

we have 2 x 2.2's and both did 100k easy, mines on 128k and not missed a beat!

A TOTALY different power unit.....absolutely nothing in common

I thought it was just chain rather than belt  :-/ 

[cruisetopoland]

Agree a part-ex deal with a separate cash deal on the invoice in case you can sell privately and don't need to part-ex.

Get the Meriva valeted and park it somewhere very busy (supermarkets by the door are FAB for cars up to 3k!) during the time between you order the Vectra and collect it.  Simple ads work best-age, mileage, tax band, ins grp, extras, history.  I have sold a few this way and sweetened the deal by £400-500 by selling privately and doing a cash deal on the new one.

If you are worried about a particular defect, make sure this defect is absolutely covered under any warranty offered, or get the garage write an additional note to say that it will be covered.

PS-do you like the Vectra auto-indicator stalks??
I HATE them.

Cheers 

[STMO999]

Agree a part-ex deal with a separate cash deal on the invoice in case you can sell privately and don't need to part-ex.

Get the Meriva valeted and park it somewhere very busy (supermarkets by the door are FAB for cars up to 3k!) during the time between you order the Vectra and collect it.  Simple ads work best-age, mileage, tax band, ins grp, extras, history.  I have sold a few this way and sweetened the deal by £400-500 by selling privately and doing a cash deal on the new one.

If you are worried about a particular defect, make sure this defect is absolutely covered under any warranty offered, or get the garage write an additional note to say that it will be covered.

PS-do you like the Vectra auto-indicator stalks??
I HATE them.

Cheers 

Been considering a private sale. Reckon I could get £3500 for the meriva that way. But.............I'm a lazy bastard

Ref the indicator stalk..wifeys astra has it and it is annoying, but not enough to put me off.

[cruisetopoland]

Agree a part-ex deal with a separate cash deal on the invoice in case you can sell privately and don't need to part-ex.

Get the Meriva valeted and park it somewhere very busy (supermarkets by the door are FAB for cars up to 3k!) during the time between you order the Vectra and collect it.  Simple ads work best-age, mileage, tax band, ins grp, extras, history.  I have sold a few this way and sweetened the deal by £400-500 by selling privately and doing a cash deal on the new one.

If you are worried about a particular defect, make sure this defect is absolutely covered under any warranty offered, or get the garage write an additional note to say that it will be covered.

PS-do you like the Vectra auto-indicator stalks??
I HATE them.

Cheers 

Been considering a private sale. Reckon I could get £3500 for the meriva that way. But.............I'm a lazy bastard

Ref the indicator stalk..wifeys astra has it and it is annoying, but not enough to put me off.

There's millions of Vectras about, so sell privately first if poss and go in hard on a private deal and buy a nice OAP owned Veccy estate on the cheap....

Have heard about issues with 2.2 Vectras-see:
http://www.carsurvey.org/reviews/vauxhall/vectra/r107929/
amongst others 

[cruisetopoland]

Saying that, though-does not seem too many issues over that mileage.

I thought these 2.2 directs had coil and stem seal issues, or am I wrong?

[MickAP]

Agree a part-ex deal with a separate cash deal on the invoice in case you can sell privately and don't need to part-ex.

Get the Meriva valeted and park it somewhere very busy (supermarkets by the door are FAB for cars up to 3k!) during the time between you order the Vectra and collect it.  Simple ads work best-age, mileage, tax band, ins grp, extras, history.  I have sold a few this way and sweetened the deal by £400-500 by selling privately and doing a cash deal on the new one.

If you are worried about a particular defect, make sure this defect is absolutely covered under any warranty offered, or get the garage write an additional note to say that it will be covered.

PS-do you like the Vectra auto-indicator stalks??
I HATE them.

Cheers 

And get it all bashed up by those uncaring shoppers, with their trolleys or kids opening the doors onto it  [smiley=undecided.gif]

[Marks DTM Calib]

Agree a part-ex deal with a separate cash deal on the invoice in case you can sell privately and don't need to part-ex.

Get the Meriva valeted and park it somewhere very busy (supermarkets by the door are FAB for cars up to 3k!) during the time between you order the Vectra and collect it.  Simple ads work best-age, mileage, tax band, ins grp, extras, history.  I have sold a few this way and sweetened the deal by £400-500 by selling privately and doing a cash deal on the new one.

If you are worried about a particular defect, make sure this defect is absolutely covered under any warranty offered, or get the garage write an additional note to say that it will be covered.

PS-do you like the Vectra auto-indicator stalks??
I HATE them.

Cheers 

Been considering a private sale. Reckon I could get £3500 for the meriva that way. But.............I'm a lazy bastard

Ref the indicator stalk..wifeys astra has it and it is annoying, but not enough to put me off.

Once you get used to them, they are brilliant!

[STMO999]

Once you get used to them, they are brilliant!

They are fine in most situations. I keep indicating in the opposite direction when I have to cancel manually.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Once you get used to them, they are brilliant!

They are fine in most situations. I keep indicating in the opposite direction when I have to cancel manually.

Like I said, you get used to it.....and the 3 flash setup gets used a lot (can be increased to 5 with T2) or the half press and hold.

I hated them at first but, now they are just second nature

[Marks DTM Calib]

we have 2 x 2.2's and both did 100k easy, mines on 128k and not missed a beat!

A TOTALY different power unit.....absolutely nothing in common

I thought it was just chain rather than belt  :-/ 

Totaly different....different block (alloy as well), different head (inlet and exhaust on opposite sides to the Omega unit)....etc, etc, etc