Well where will I start? I bought the car second hand, but with it being only 9 months old I thought I would be OK, Boy was I wrong. After only two weeks of owning the car the timing belt jumped and caused a backfire which melted all the plastic pipes under the bonnet! The Astra was repaired under warranty, but two days later the exact same thing happened, bad mechanics or bad car? I have never known a car as unreliable, I wish I still had the Punto sporting which was a pleasure to drive and always reliable.
My Astra is slow to take off and struggles to reach 100 miles per hour. The only good things about my car are that it is quite comfortable, big enough to fit all my baby's things in and it looks good.
I would never recommend a vauxhall to anyone, infact I have even put a friend off buying one.
Regarding the Astra LS can I just say that mine was acquired new in November 1999 and I have just covered 140000 miles in it. It has been regularly serviced every 10000 miles, and I have only suffered one minor breakdown, the generator belt snapped. The model is the 1.7Td estate, and it turns in an average consumption of 46miles/gall., and about one liter of oil between services.
I can honestly say that it is the best car I have ever had, and I hope the Zafira I have ordered as a replacement will be as good!.
Astra LX? That'll be the first LX model Astra I've ever heard of then. And how can a timing belt that that 'jumped' off the timing gear cause all the plastic pipes in your engine to melt?
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