Brand new Vauxhall Corsa - help! DPF!

JustinR1979

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

LMFTO. I was thinking similar.

Mind you, a shonky old 200K A3 sounds much more believable as a runabout than a 15 grand Lexus.

But the big question - is it allowed to overtake?

Cubic capacity is 1986 so unfortunately not

Comtesse

Small car does not = small mileage. I bought a corsa because despite doing 600+ miles a week I do them on my owns with minimal luggage, so why buy a bigger car?! It doesn't make sense. I was toying with getting a Citroen DS3, but the Corsa was a better deal and an all over nicer driving feel. No way was I buying a petrol with the motorway miles I do (20,000 a year) - petrol costs would have bankrupted me. Still... Folks will have their preconceptions won't they?!

So... Bringing things back to my original post

Picked the car up... Was a sensor fault. Vauxhall covered the cost of sorting it out and it's fine. Took it on a long journey today and no problems. Excellent :-)

Richard53

Glad you got it sorted.

darkmatter101

Comtesse wrote: »

but the Corsa was a better deal and an all over nicer driving feel.

I'm sorry but I have driven the new Corsa as a rental and it was terrible. Felt like a cardboard box with NO driver feel whatsoever.

lulu_92

topdaddy wrote: »

You suspect wrong. A small car with a small petrol engine is going to economical by its nature. There is very little justification for paying an inflated price for a diesel (which is a dearer fuel than petrol) when the amount of miles required to recoup any spending is inter-galaxitcal.

I have a citroen c1 to do 350 miles a week and I only pay £30 a week for fuel, and that covers me half way into the following week!

AdrianC

lulu_92 wrote: »

I have a citroen c1 to do 350 miles a week and I only pay £30 a week for fuel, and that covers me half way into the following week!

£20 for 350 miles, at £1.30/litre, would be 102mpg. Even if you used the full £30, that'd be 70mpg. The official combined economy figure is 65mpg for a 2012-2014 C1.

darkmatter101

AdrianC wrote: »

£20 for 350 miles, at £1.30/litre, would be 102mpg. Even if you used the full £30, that'd be 70mpg. The official combined economy figure is 65mpg for a 2012-2014 C1.

It's possible to achieve 70mpg on the C1/Aygo/107 if you do 90% motorway driving at 55mph.

Even my brothers A3 2.0 tdi can do 65mpg at 55mph.

BeenThroughItAll

darkmatter101 wrote: »

I'm sorry but I have driven the new Corsa as a rental and it was terrible. Felt like a cardboard box with NO driver feel whatsoever.

In your opinion. Good job we're not all the same, or we'd all be driving M3s and bullying our way around.

JustinR1979

darkmatter101 wrote: »

I'm sorry but I have driven the new Corsa as a rental and it was terrible. Felt like a cardboard box with NO driver feel whatsoever.

I hope you didn't overtake anything.

iolanthe07

motorway driving at 55mph.

And a menace to lorry drivers. There is no excuse for cars to go this slowly on a clear motorway.