benny279 True that,
well my Corsa was mint when i got him,
but this is demise of my corsa,
it was 96 P Auto. was used to work for a waste management company doing weighbridges weighing in lorry's and also for there I.T Department and one day i was travling from the head office to a remote site and mr Tom Tom, told me to go down this bridal path didnt know it at the time so i was driving down it but it was single track so i couldnt turn around it was over winter so there was ice on the mud track covering deep holes again didnt know how deep, and well i thought he was a 4x4 ahaha went plowing through them got almost out then i think water got in to the spark plugs lost power and he took on water like a sinking boat. it was basicly upto my knees so that wrote of the gearbox ecu.
Got that replaced after drying it out some farmer came and towed me out and i explained about the sat nav and he said you are not the only one to get caught out the car didnt start got a jump but as the ecu was shot it was in limp mode, replaced the ecu, from a scrappy about £65 iirc, then when working on the weigh bridge close to my home like 8min walk, there was a guy there he had like 2004 seat leon in yellow colour and he was on one side of the weigh bridge i was the other side, we went raceing, i took the corner to fast hit the curb and planted it on a fence poped a tyre, car didnt drive, so we got it towed to the work carpark with a tractor, lol rac man cam out next day i had poped the front passanger side wheel out of the drive shaft, lol.
didnt know at that time the raidiator was leaking but it had lost fluid he filled it and said it should be fine now to drive, ovbviously it wasnt so i was driving it to the repair shop and well the head went so had it towed to the garage was only like 5mins away from there, new radiator then had to get the head done cost like 600 only paid 700 for it in the first place, then i was at a friends house left the engine running got distracted an hour later i came out to the car to find clouds of white smoke pouring from the engine oh **** head cracked so i basicly sold it to the garrage as i was not about to get another gasket done, got the astra had that like 3weeks but it was not running properly i kept changeing plugs as they were getting really black, then it turns out one of the spark plug ends had snapped off went in the engine and tore it up like swiss cheese.
So then, i bought the corsa back from the garage that did the head on it as they were useing it as a curtosy car, i replaced the front bumper on it from when i hit the fence from ebay pre primed but never bother to CC it thats hy you can see a grey primed bumper on the front of it, but then the car was oh again even though it had a new stat put in, so i take the plug for the fan off the electrical connector strip the wires, wire the ground to the battery took the +12v feed and being a sparky i wired it up to a 10amp mk grid switch inside the cab and i switched the fan on and off as needed if i was in traffic i would switch it on as it still had temprature issues, then i had lost faith in it as even with the replaced ecu if it was a cold start it would go into limp mode then idd have to resart the engine and hope it would clear.
Then i got a 1.9 TDI ford galaxy had it about a week went to drive it home to show my mum and dad, and it lost power steering was like a tank and it burnt the starter cable to a cripsp, but it had dealer waranty it was a 2000 ford galaxy with some gentle pushing they repleaced the engine from a golf as it was a vw engine in it, had it till 2011 nice car then the auto box packed in, so got a ford galaxy v reg for 1 grand that is still running but its not cost effective for me so i gave it to my dad its a 2.8 v6 does like 18-22mpg on short runs does better on long runs, then i got my now and current mk2b punto which is in alot better condition than any of my previous cars and i will look after it i have learned from my many mistakes oh and both galaxys were top of the range ghia's
sorry for the long winded post
Beyre83
