My daughter has mentioned clutch judder when the car is first driven from cold on her petrol-engined Corsa D. She mentioned it to the dealer at the first service but they just suggested she book it in again which she did not have the time to do.
However, I have a 2008, 1.2 Corsa D as a loan car just now with exactly the same clutch judder.
I'm not a great one for getting dealers to strip down cars if it fails to cure a problem.
Is this clutch judder when the components are cold a common characteristic of this car?
If others have noticed it then I wil advise my daughter to leave well alone. Read more

I had to fill up at my local station this evening before a long journey tomorrow, at the pump both of the petrol fillers were shut, not a problem as I was after diesel. I started to fill up but found that the pump was running very very slowly, I seemed to be standing at the pump for ages when suddenly fuel started pouring out from the car's filler pipe, I stopped filling immediately but diesel spilled out all down the bodywork and covered my rear tyre/alloy.

The nozzles auto cut off hadn't worked for some reason, I told the staff in the station who said they would close the pump and cover the spill with sand.

Will the diesel cause any damage to my rear tyre? When I got home I tried to wash off as much as I could see, but by then I guess most of it had dried off (or is it on?). Read more

Dear All,

I've recently put my car through it's mot and passed with flying colours. All was well, then on a cold morning my front o/s suspension coil broke off and lay there on the road! I've read some of the discussions and this appears not as uncommon as I would have thought. On closer inspection the coil seems to have rusted and obviously this contributed heavily to its weakness.

My main concern is that this was not discovered a little while ago by the Vauxhall service & mot team - is this something that should be picked up on? If so, is there some legal comeback?

I can still drive the car with no obvious affect at present and would like to drive it the 100miles home, for my brother to fit a new coil. Anyone experienced this, and would it cause more damage to do so?

Thanks. Read more

Might seem like an odd post, in view of how many people post with issues related to engine management lights being ON, but I noticed a strange thing tonight:

-when I switch the ignition on, all the dash lamps illuminate- apart from the engine management light.

I've had it 9 months, its done about 86k miles, 3k with me, trouble-free so far, and I've only just noticed this. However, I'm now concerned that the light has been 'got at' and disabled in some way, concealing an engine fault. Anyone think of a way to tell? Get codes read?

I seem to recall a trick you could do by switching the engine off, turning the ignition key, and pressing the trip reset button, which is supposed to display stored codes. Doing this showed up nothing with this car.

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Hello all,

Fiesta (endura engine) is shuddering badly (misfiring?) for about 20seconds after you change gear - then it settles down. Whilst its doing this - volumes of smoke (blue from memory) is seen out of the back.

I've bought a compression test kit off ebay - the type that go into the spark plug socket.

A knowledgeable mate has advised doing a "wet & dry" compression test. I've googled and get lots of links - none what-so-ever to do with car cylinder compression!

Any body know of any links on how to perform this test?

Many thanks,

James Read more