Just bought an automatic

Is it a rover?

Buy a caravan, retire from the Police and get your mates to call you Kev.

A career in uk.rec.driving awaits.

Go on, what did you get?

Vectra...

"Yer barred".

Automatic and diesel are forgiveable, but a Vectra is just inexcusable=B9.

--=20 Lordy.UK

=B9 *cough*

"Yer barred".

Automatic and diesel are forgiveable, but a Vectra is just inexcusable¹.

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i recently considered a 3.2 GSi vectra through work cos i get half price labour on servicing and 10% off parts. But i don't think i could bring myself to go from old beemer to new-ish vectra!

Didn't reveryone just tell me a vectra is a bag of poo ?

cambelt every 40k and a whole list of other problems ?

1.9 CDTI 150?

Plus, they're ridiculously thirsty and slow for all that engine.

Who cares? It's an auto diesel Vectra... Trim levels can only serve to reduce the magnitude of 'utter shit' ness :-)

I'm not asking about the trim.

I'm asking about the engine.

There's a big difference in performance between the 120 and 150 versions of the 1.9 CDTI (JTD) engine.

150s are pretty good in the Vectra, but the 120 struggles in a car that size and weight, even though it's a good engine in smaller stuff.

And the 150 could be the greatest engine Vauxhall have ever made, it would still be in a Vectra :-)

Big, heavy car. Only consolation is that the Alfa badged version is heavier.

Thing is, Vx don't make it. I nearly bought one instead of the A class, but my Vx dealer (who's very good with us and we've had a couple of cars of him) steered me away from the early ones as they were releasing weekly TSBs and software updates in order to try and make them work. Was impressed on the drive though.

GM make theirs in Kaiserslaughten.

Funny that the Fiat produced JTD versions don't suffer from the same issues.

Alfa are rapidly planning on dumping that heap of s**te engine they inherited from the GM partnership - same with the JTS petrols, too.

They've already stuck a new TSpark in the 159. (the new entry level 1.8)

Yeah, that's the one.

Vx problems sorted out by now, surely?

Probably won't even do 40k in it! The Zafira only managed 32k in 3 years. I've got my 306 TD mule for work-related mileage, which accounts for about 2/3 of our total family mileage.

:(