I’d love to buy a car for £150 these days just to daily about in. Bangernomics is the way forward.

Great content, and to be honest scrap on it is around £180 so you done okay regardless. if you not willing to fix it you could always trade it on and make a little bit on top. I think a clutch would sort out that crunch, and a heater resistor, or blower motor but I don’t know much about Vauxhalls, look forward to seeing what you do with it.

Some people buy a car for ,,let’s say £900 . They expect it to never go wrong, with the attitude of ,,just add fuel . When it does brake down , there on the phone 3 months later … THAT CAR YOU SOLD ME . !!!! Low budget cars can be a nightmare for a trader !! As I expect you know

117k miles not bad for its age, ex police so serviced, good tyres, it will clean up (even the rust stains) so worth tidying, especially if you can find a parcel shelf, and possibly trading it on.

The boost pressure issue will 110% be the EGR valve leaking. Super common on them. Highly recommend having it taken off and checked.

Love your videos and your honesty. Only gripe is your vids would be much more watchable either as shorts or around 10mins. Just don't have the time to watch 30 mins. Anyway, well done.

Great video. Loving these channels with cars described exactly as they are.

Once a car has a value of much less than £1K, there is a tendency to neglect it, not service it, not clean it inside…. a kind of race to the bottom. We have all done it but 40 years ago your average 15 year old car had dissolved….. not neglected so much as a pile of rust.

I think its absolutely disgusting not to clean out a car before selling it on, even if its a part exchange.

I have watched a couple of your videos now you have earned a new subscriber keep up the good work

Crap car videos are fun!!! A good laugh after a bad day at work. I subscribed to this channel when you bought that green '03 Mondeo.

Ex GMP CID car which was allocated to the Serious Crime Division Major incident team based at Nexus House in Ashton, used by detectives as an enquiry car on murder investigations and the like Would never have had any blue lights or emergency equipment/radios fitted to it Though it will have been very regularly and properly serviced in house at Openshaw workshops Strange what pops up on your feed 👍

Great video again joe

Last MOT shows an oil leek I hope that's not affecting the timing chain even if its been replaced it might not be lubricating it.

Buying a used car is a seriously risky business it seems. I bought a used Fiesta once, and the front wheels literally came off when I went round a corner shortly after I bought it! I’m fortunate that I wasn’t injured. Love your channel, by the way.

Had quite a few old vauxhalls I'm the past and they all crunched going into reverse, I think its just cause there's no sycro on reverse gear. What worked for me is either hold foot on clutch for few seconds before putting it into reverse or pop it in third then reverse as someone else said .

Road testing it 1st before putting it through the MOT and workshop would have made you 100 quid for a phone call scrapping it for 250 after the road test. The people part chopping are the crooks usually!! However this time they were upfront and this has provided us all good content and can teach us all a lesson. I'm off to buy a 09 plate Seat Ibiza 1.6tdi CR probably in similar condition for similar money

The turbo actuators seize in place....you can free em off with a long bar from underneith...with a bit of lube....these do not handle milage well...they eat coil springs front and back....and the diesel pumps leak circa 100k plus...not a cheap clutch either as they are dual mass...you can solid flywhell em though

Steering wheel clunk could be a loose bolt behind the knee panel

What a minefield the car trade is, you need to do that quick test drive for sure!

All the leaves on the scuttle, blocked bulkhead drains and a dying ecu from water ingress i reckon...

Made me smile because I am currently trying to dry out Mk3 Astra Estate which had a very bad inside condensation problem. I bought a big refill bag of Silica Gel from Homebase for £6 and put it in a bucket in the rear foot well. It is very much better after a week, with only light fogging remaining on the side of the car in shadow.

Hi mate , gearbox issue is reverse synchro . Quite common on the corsa . If you select first gear then put it in reverse there will be no grind . A pain . Worth the trade in price mate .

these are the corsa s that vauxhall decided to out the ecu in the scuttle ,when it gets blocked waterlogs the ecu nice one vauxhall ,great vid

Brilliant channel love watching this catching up with old videos you are a brilliant boss to your staff your business likes to sell cars clean ,serviced and without faults ,and if something does appear wrong with a car you fix excellent, it here it comes criticism and the one I think you should not do is criticise the state of the interior of the cars ,for example how dirty they leave the car in the reason I’m saying this is because you MIGHT put off customers coming back to buy in the future they might be watching these videos and feel very embarrassed otherwise brilliant channel keep it coming.

So it needs a clean, the door straps need tightening, parcel shelf you can get for, About £20 from a scrapyard, gas’s struts in the boot look 👍, no slashes in the seats 👍, glovebox door is on 👍. Reverse is always clunky as Vauxhall don’t like a sycro on their Corsas - character building! But It’s a cracking car for £150!

Have you checked the underside of the bonnet? If there's rust bubbles on the front skin then there will be flaky holes in the shell behind. It's getting very common on Corsa D's now.

I'd say car dealers created the offload any old junk in PX problem for themselves back in the days they would give you £1,000 PX as long as you could push it to he showroom... The dealers who came before you in the 1990s/early 00s trained the public to think that was okay they even printed it on their local newspaper adverts.

at 05:18 I thought that was a snake in the spare wheel well 😂

Head Gasket issues happen on the corsa, where oil and water will mix together. Is the car up for sale now?

These are fiat engines I have it in my Suzuki swift injector went and cost a small fortune to fix.

you might be able to adjust the clutch, by bleeding the hydraulics to stop the crunching,as theres no syncro on reverse.also the 1.3cdti is a fiat engine which can suffer from total engine failure, as the camshaft can snap! (not the chain but the actual cam) good luck matey.

Loving your videos, is the hoover attached to your face?

Really enjoyed the rant - quite cathartic for me (and hopefully for you too) - I have several rants most days - mostly as pressure relief values. I love banger cars, have had them almost all my life, but they do come, as you say, with their foibles and quirks. Best wishes

Bought a 2015 Ford focus titanium a year ago with 19k on the clock for 10k. From WJ king... was a part exed car they had in from a policeman... after buying it I found a scratch passenger side, the a pillar trim was broken by the dash, tyres legal limit. Felt rushed as they said others were interested ... I was a mug but very happy with the car now. Just had the oil change done where the previous police person used as it's an EcoBoost engine. Just had tyres done. Engine seems fine, the 1st ro 2nd gear can be snatchy and occasionally get the clutch whoop. It's hard to find a trustworthy dealer as many I looked at before wj king had what I wanted but the cars had damage like dents or mirrors broken or the dealers had bad reviews. If only all were like you with a channel that shows how knowledgable you are and honest

Turbo wastegate will be seized, should free off with a screwdriver and some wd40. Ive done loads of them

It wouldn't surprise me if that's non-standard tbh. I used to regularly drive several ex- police 1.7 diesel mk4 (G) Astras. I've no idea about the Corsa, but police Astras are (or at least were) factory adapted for police use. They came with heavy duty shocks/springs (which possibly enhanced ground clearance) and steel sump guard, all sourced from the European 'bad road package' (not normally available on UK cars). They also benefited from SRI seats, air con and rear disc brakes. Despite all this, they were registered as 'Envoy' which was base spec for the Astra G - great for insurance premiums. Loved driving them so much I now own one myself. The police Astra mk5 (H) were much the same and - like your Corsa - were listed as 'Specials'.

Just a thought with the interior fan I had a similar problem with mine and after reading a corsa forum found that if you move the connectors/wiring for the blower motor and heater controls about a little bit the fans usually come back to life duff connections. Because vauxhall......🤣

Cheap enough, but money has been spent, hence I understand your dilemma, spend more or cut your losses. However, it could still be a cheap used set of wheels with a year or so in it.. cheaper than hiring a car?

For 150 quid looks a brilliant buy. I can never see cars like that for sale . Great first car for the kids for example.

Scummy previous owner not cleaning it for the 150 they got. I'd be ashamed if I did that.

For a diesel, it has a lot of life left in it. Id try and fix it up and trade it on.

Good luck with the corsa d. Spent more time fixing mine than driving it this year 🤦

looks like the offside headlight is out too.

Probably a police pool car driven by loads of people. A bit of time spent on it will make it a good runaround

Ex greater Manchester police CID car you may be able to do a request for the history from GMP. It'll hav had a few owners since GMP auctioned it off at about 5 years old.

I like the fact you are honest and upfront. I would buy a car from you anytime. Where are you based?😀👍

Something tragic about a Vauxhall corsa. You know your life has taken a drastic wrong turn if you have a corsa on the driveway

You won't lose any money on it once the demister works. Full MOT having spent almost nothing. Go no problem.

good little motor for the money,but like you say costs can quickly run away with you to improve,might be best to do no more and pass it on to a fellow trader for a modest profit?

Also Motorwise are the best Scrap dealers they come to you , they offered me £350 for my old car a 1.5 Clio DCI that was knackered lol so a good sell

Hopefully you come out on top on this one but does appear to be a bit of a future money pit

Just subscribed.....i now follow you, James at chops garage, Mat at highpeak autos and jason at tyre kickers, who seems to have vanished

It's a shame,you give them more than they wanted ,and it became an albatross in your underwear. It must make you wonder sometimes why people are wanting to chop in there old car . And as you say ,you have no recourse if it turns out to be a bad car . I know on some of those GM cars you can tell if it's the turbo actuator ,because the actuator will make a sound like a cow mooing when the car is switched off. You can take the actuator apart and clean the little foam filters inside of it . Reverse gear is possibly clutch drag . Great video and a nice bit of ranting!

I'd come and collect this off you as it is....I only live down in brean 😅

I used to rev my Vauxhalls to 4k revs then put into reverse without using the clutch. No crunches that way.

Trouble is the people that will buy a 13 year old car is that they’ll expect a car that’s brand new and will hound you when it goes wrong….

What’s the watch your wearing b I think you need to review it along with the cars ! Not joking

Since one dude 🇬🇧✌️

People in handcuffs do all sorts of nawty things on the back seats best to replace them!

I'm 90% positive the Corsa is ex west Yorkshire police alot of their cars are YK in plate reason I know I live in the Same village as west Yorkshire police keep all cars and the maintenance Yard , I'd say it's worth more than that scrap my daughter's boyfriend got £310 scrap for an 06 Fiat Punto .

A car worth £150 (about the same price as a Edinburgh to London train fare) is only going to last about 150 days.

I was thinking of getting a Corsa , but this has put me off a bit .

how can you make a profit on this shed i am confused

headlights look slightly off as well.

Swings and roundabouts, I would imagine that there's many cars you've given peanuts for and made good money.

decent MX number plate thou..........................

It sounds like your clutch is on its way out and it sounds like your brakes are on the way out

After that MOT failure and a brief test drive (on a private road of course) picking up the gearbox crunch, no fan and knock from the steering rack I think this one would have been a call to the breakers yard just to get the initial "investment" back.

Thing is with police cars there serviced regularly

£5295 for a 13 year old fiesta, you must be joking lol

How are there people about these days who offer a car to someone for £50 ??? They are completely clueless and probably very rare these days

Great, surprised no rust on the rear arches

Contact GMP garage services,they will print out the service history

Truth the grill or g3

It may just need more gear box oil

Do you ever set any off them cars on fire if not able to scrap them so you can call fire services out

selector rods will be the reverse problem

Police cars are never MOT, cars are never serviced on time, only when somthing breaks do they get serviced. Just do not understand why people think they are kept to how the book states, they never are. Feel sorry for the next owner, always a terrible purchase. See what it failed on, that shows how well the police look after the car, plus remember that would have been used 24 hours a day.

Ex police cars tend to have no rear door interior handles.

It's funny how reviewers from the UK actually refer to Vauxhall this and Vauxhall that. Vauxhall's have just been production line variations of the equivalent Opel models for decades. The last vehicle developed by Vauxhall was the original Viva. Nowadays Vauxhall is little more than a UK marketing division of Opel. In other right hand drive countries they are marketed and sold as Opel's.

It's a fiat engine.

2010 fiesta in red £5295, what's the details, i just got a 2009 one for £1250

That ex Greater Manchester Police. You can tell by the MX on the number plate. More than likely ex CID.

6:18 ooh, you found their cocaine!

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Buying any Corsa is a mistake. The origin is irrelevant.

You are at brean

Can you fix it and make a little profit, of Corsa you can

You should have given him the £50 he actually wanted

prob with ex pol cars overclocked

That Gen of the Corsa is Literally a Shit Box , My housemate who was an estate agent she had one as a company car and it always was going wrong , first thing Timing chain on a car with 14 thousand miles then the head gasket went , then the clutch suddenly went ,then the ECU went and in the end the Estate agent Heart estate agents had to give her a different company car LMAO even the police were always breaking down in those cars , absolute trash , the older Mk1 and Mk2 Corsa's were much better my dad had a 2003 1.2 which got to 156 thousand miles before it died , made in Poland much better.

Ex police cars are well serviced All the time,there in the police pool , shame about the last owner though. It will keep a cheap first car or a sheep runaround

Offers you £50 for the trash, but you ask for $150?? lol.

Why not just blow it out as it is, trade sale parts or repair for £200

Typical crap Vauxhall plastics. Cover to left hand cubby hole in the boot falls open and won't shut again.

Ex police, should be well maintained then

Oh no £150 and there are things wrong with it my heart bleeds, unreal.

All police car every one is clocked clocked and clocked again she

Just scrap it. U will double ur money