2 snapped handbrake cables.
New starter motor at 110,000 miles.
New multi-function display for radio etc.
Excellent value for a car of this size.
Cheap to insure for its size.
Not a lot of power for a car of this size (but makes it cheap to run) ; struggles up very steep hills.
Excellent motorway fuel economy; not nearly so good on short journeys.
Eats handbrake cables; Vauxhall now supply larger diameter handbrake cables. Presumably they've acknowledged a defect with the old design.
Base Envoy model needs a few more extras - I'd go for at least the LS model if I bought another Vectra.
Quality of trim much better than on older Vauxhalls.
Regarding the comment about handbrake cables: I've owned a 1996 Vectra and I've found that Vauxhall cables are often thicker than those from other suppliers.
No idea why this is the case, but would advise anyone replacing handbrake cables to get the Vauxhall part (for this it's around £3-4 more expensive than getting it elsewhere).
About 2 months I had bought my vectra the handbrake cable also broke, but so far I haven't had any other problems, I've also noticed that the vectra had power problems with the 8valve engine, but being a mechanic, I know how to tune them and if you fiddle about with the electronic distributor and the injector (without replacing anything and doing any damage) you should get about another 10bhp which is asmuch power as your going to get out of it without performing any modifications to it and is enough power I think to get you up those steap hills and also take up the slack on the accelorator cable so that when you put you're foot down it will react instantly.
I have owned an 8 valve Vectra for four years now it has
never let me down all I have replaced is the water pump
and the obvious tyres etc. The only thing I will say is
they are a bit underpowered up hills.
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