Toms306s HDi Replacement...Haterz Gonna Hate!

[Toms306]

Evening,

Well I wasn't gonna put this up as I know most will hate it, but I've been chatting with a few about it in the chatbox and facebook so some people seem interested lol.

Anyway, here it is - 2006 Vauxhall Vectra 1.9 CDTi 150ps Design





















Full service history on time and distance servicing (not bloody longlife after the Golf!). Loads of stuff done including cambelt, EGR, clutch and DMF, windscreen, rear suspension, brand new rainsports all round etc. Full years MOT. Only 2 owners. Current owner needed rid of it for a people carrier (kids eh!) and wasn't exactly happy to see it go.

Comes in Design spec...which sounds like a pov spec name to me, until I looked into it - has half leathers, electric mirrors and windows all round, auto lights and wipers, auto dimming rear view and wing mirror, 6 CD changer and DAB radio along with on board computer and graphic display. Automatic air con (climate control), 16" alloys, cruise control, genuine fitted mats and a few other cool features.

The engine is a Fiat 16 valve diesel with a GT17 VNT turbo and an FMIC as standard. Smooth, quiet and pretty quick, despite the enormous size of the vehicle!

The exterior looks are a bit crap, I'm not a fan of them, or the colour, but I've not bought this car for its looks, I've bought it for the comfort, spec and cheapness to run. And theoretical reliability (yeah right! hahaha). The looks might grow on me, who knows.

It just ticked over 100k yesterday.




And in the last week I've already had two issues....first was a front spring snapping and ruining a new rainsport





Decided I wasn't driving on this fecking thing so went to scrap yard and picked up a full size steel with a decent tyre for £20 which I'll now keep in the spare wheel well instead of that thing lol.



Then when I could finally drive it realised it wasn't heating up...ever.... Thermostat knackered so i changed that in the cold and wind on Friday!



So hopefully that'll be it for a while!


Do I like it? Well.....I'm not good with change and it will take some getting used to...but I don't dislike it.

Is it better than the HDi? I should f*cking hope so! But seriously they are completely different cars which can't even be compared. One is (was) epic for B road thrashes, the other is epic for cruising and relaxing.

How long will I keep it? Well, aiming for a year, but I doubt it haha.

Any mods? No. Definitely not, fed up of wasting money on mods and ruining cars with them so no, this ones staying boringly standard. Unless some SRi lights came up cheap for example...


So yeah, I know you'll all hate it, but there it is, the HDi's replacement.
Tom