That sounds like the best option,good luck with the new one,must say love it as a tow car.
An Expensive Few Days!!
Took my 57 Plate 2L SE Auto with 88k on the clockin for new front pads yesterday and as I'm a member of the service club they carried out a free Health Check!! Mid afternoon received an email with health report attached and a video clip showing the mechanic carrying out the check and the areas of concern!!! To remedy all areas of concern including the advisories would have cost £2900!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a car that has been Vauxhall maintained from day one including its last service 8 months ago. The biggest single item was thereplacement of the sealed power steer racked which was leaking fluid at a cost of £1500. This apparently would more likely or not be a MOT fail.
So the decision was should I chuck at least £2k at the Antara or call it quits and replace the car? Well I obviously haven't learned my lesson and have just part exchanged it for another Antara - a 61 plate 2012 SE 2.2 184bhp Auto with 23k on the clock!!!! I used the £2k as deposit and got a good part ex on the old caras it was the end of the month.
Still not sure it was the best choice but I do like driving the Antara and it pulls the van a dream so fingers crossed - at least I have a 3 years warranty as part of the deal.
This is a car that has been Vauxhall maintained from day one including its last service 8 months ago. The biggest single item was thereplacement of the sealed power steer racked which was leaking fluid at a cost of £1500. This apparently would more likely or not be a MOT fail.
So the decision was should I chuck at least £2k at the Antara or call it quits and replace the car? Well I obviously haven't learned my lesson and have just part exchanged it for another Antara - a 61 plate 2012 SE 2.2 184bhp Auto with 23k on the clock!!!! I used the £2k as deposit and got a good part ex on the old caras it was the end of the month.
Still not sure it was the best choice but I do like driving the Antara and it pulls the van a dream so fingers crossed - at least I have a 3 years warranty as part of the deal.
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Im sure the 2.2 will be better than your old Antara
What was actually wrong ? Must have been some serious issue for a near 3k bill..
I wonder if the power steering rack comes under the vauxhall lifetime warranty?
There's always a bit of a lag on autos, about one second, but I find the antara has a bit more than some others.
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