saj_123
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Registered: 6th Jan 09
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Hi Guys, I going to view a Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 Automatic, 2000, 5 Dr, 60,000 miles on the clock. Is there anything in particular that I should look out when going to view this? Any help is much appreciated!
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Welsh Dan
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Registered: 23rd Mar 00
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1.2 automatic 
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Vauxdan88
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Registered: 13th Feb 11
Location: Weymouth Dorset
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Corsa b yeah? The usual rust/rot,sills,chassis legs,inner arches,spare wheel well etc
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Sean
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Registered: 14th Sep 10
Location: Eastbourne, BN23 7AZ
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Autobox on the corsa b's is terrible! So unresponsive.
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Sean
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Registered: 14th Sep 10
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Seen it a few times to that they get stuck in 's' mode it's a couple hundred ££ to have fixed.
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pow
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With the autoboxes make sure you spend a lot of time playing with it up and don the selector and if the S flashes on the dashboard at any point, walk away
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VegasPhil
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Registered: 16th Jan 05
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The autos are always on eBay broken. I assume it costs a load to get them fixed?
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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Sean
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I'm sure the last part we replaced was about £180+ vat and labour it's near enough another corsa b..
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MatthewR
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Registered: 21st Oct 02
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Cant imagine how bad a 1.2 Auto would be to drive
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SVM 286
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Registered: 13th Feb 05
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Hills.
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Vauxdan88
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quote:
Originally posted by SVM 286
Hills. [/quote
Hahaha 
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Sam
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quote:
Originally posted by MatthewR
Cant imagine how bad a 1.2 Auto would be to drive
You won't win any speed contests in one...
The flashing S lights puts the gearbox in limp mode, so you either have to crawl everywhere or drive it like a manual shifting through gears 1, 2 and 3. I think what normally causes that problem is the selector switch on top of the gearbox gets clogged up with crap or just fails completely in some way rather than the gearbox blowing up or anything.
If you still want an automatic, my advice is to buy something with a 2.0 or bigger engine (trust me I've probably owned more autos on here than most  )!
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davieslim
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Registered: 15th Sep 08
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there horrid to drive, the boxes are terrible, only thing worse is the sensodrive on the c2 vtr
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
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Originally posted by MatthewR
Cant imagine how bad a 1.2 Auto would be to drive
You won't win any speed contests in one...
The flashing S lights puts the gearbox in limp mode, so you either have to crawl everywhere or drive it like a manual shifting through gears 1, 2 and 3. I think what normally causes that problem is the selector switch on top of the gearbox gets clogged up with crap or just fails completely in some way rather than the gearbox blowing up or anything.
If you still want an automatic, my advice is to buy something with a 2.0 or bigger engine (trust me I've probably owned more autos on here than most )!
That's exactly what happens.
With everyone saying they're crap, they might suit the low milage town driving he's doing... we nearly bought my sister a 1.2 auto Corsa
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