skankaman
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Registered: 30th Mar 09
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Are they anygood ? Looking at the 1.3cdti combo's for a work van seem to be pretty cheap with good mpg figures. Just wondering if theres any major common problems with the engine.
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chrisritch
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Registered: 2nd Sep 08
Location: Northants Drives: V40
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dangerously slow seems to be the general consensus
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Fad
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Registered: 1st Feb 01
Location: Dartford Kent Drives: 330cd
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^^^Rubish
What variant are you talking about? 70 or 90?
They are never going to set the road alight but they are perfectly fine for hum drum.
We've had a Corsa D with the 90 and and the Astra with the 90. Both are fine as long as your drive it properly and keep it on boost, They are unfortunately quite laggy.
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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Yes, very laggy. I drove a 90bhp Corsa D when we were getting ours, it was dangerous.
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skankaman
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Registered: 30th Mar 09
Location: Tamworth
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Pretty sure its the 70.
Am i right in thinking its still the same engine in the corsa c and the corsa d.
Tbh speeds not a major problem iirc 0-60 is something like 13secs and ive got a fiat ducato atm that does 0-60 in about 16.5 thats more dangerously slow in my opinion.
Apart from the lag issues are they a good engine ?
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Matty W
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Mike B said he enjoyed driving his mums 1.3 Corsa d in the lakes on sunday, said it pulls well. Convinced him to buy a combo anyway Haha
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John
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I like them, it doesn't do 0-60 in 3 seconds, it's a tiny diesel.
Anybody saying they are dangerous is an idiot.
It's good to drive around town and does good mpg, can stick a tuning box on it as well.
[Edited on 10-05-2011 by John]
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ed
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Dangerous? 
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Warren G
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depends how you drive it, drive it like a everyday car they feel fine, try driving fast then worst things ever
you need to drive one to see what i mean, for a work horse there fine
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Adam_B
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Location: Lancashire
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Decent engine for what it is. The 1.2 petrols are dangerously slow, we have had both and the little diesel is miles better.
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Ojc
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1.4
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Warren G
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1.0 are dangerous, i had a 1.2 corsa d to go to a course...
pulled out into the fast lane (up hill) floored it and nothing happened, even dropped down to 4th as i had someone on my bumper. Too used to powerful cars....
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jr
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Registered: 20th May 02
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quote:
Originally posted by chrisritch
dangerously slow seems to be the general consensus
clearly never driven one
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jr
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its not lag its tubo threshold, and god knows where you are all driving to find it slow, on uk roads its absolutley fine
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Mike
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As said above, I drove a 90 at the weekend and it surprised me tbh how well it went. I was already getting a 1.3 Combo because of the miles I do but I did have concerns about driveablility with doing a lot of motorway miles but it's great for it, it sits at 3k at 80 which is fine and you can still gain speed relatively easily if needed. I have read a review saying they're not a fan of being fully laden but that's not a problem for me anyway.
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Hammer
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Dangerously slow
Even a 1 litre Corsa isn't 'dangerously slow' what's dangerous is the half wits that can't drive them correctly.
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bubble
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quote:
Originally posted by chrisritch
dangerously slow seems to be the general consensus
load of bollox!!
i had one in my c and it was nippy around town.
1.7 manifold and turbo on and cooler and it went very well!
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Mike
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These people saying it's dangerously slow need to try driving a slow truck or van. A 1.3 CDTi Corsa is faster than a good few things I've drove in the past and I've not drove anything over 3.5 tonne yet.
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AlunJ
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Registered: 3rd Apr 07
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dangerously slow? bollocks, i've driven a c and a d 90 version and find them quite nice to drive, i'd have one no problem
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0775kieran
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Registered: 28th Apr 10
Location: Bolton, Greater Manchester
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Good van ive had a few.
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Daveskater
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Registered: 29th Apr 08
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quote:
Originally posted by Warren G
pulled out into the fast lane (up hill) floored it and nothing happened, even dropped down to 4th as i had someone on my bumper.
Did this in my old B on the way to one of the RR days Was doing 80 at the bottom of the hill at 60 at the top 
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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corsadonk
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Registered: 4th Jul 09
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Slow is a Transit with 90 hp and tipping the scales at 3.3 tons.
23 seconds to 60 
You just need to floor it right at the start of the line of traffic coming towards you, and a 1/2 mile straight.
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AshWatson
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Registered: 18th Jun 10
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as said dangerously slow is a load of shite you want it for a van not a speed rocket
only common things are alternators ive changed hundreds at work if the black plastic cap on the end of the alternator pulley is missing in the near future it'll need an alternator and quite a few suffer from clogged inlet manifolds and EGR's but mainly driving school cars and old people who never use the turbo lol
good engines though i work for suzuki which use this engine in the swift and the above is all can say 
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