The Vectra B was unreliable

The Vectra C was unreliable

The Insignia is unreliable

If general motors are nothing else, they are certainly consistent!

I owned (not company car) a 2000 V-reg 1.8 Vectra B petrol from when it was 6 months old (it had been an ex-rental fleet car) for three or four years. I have just checked on the DVLA database and it is still taxed and tested.

Then a Vectra C 1.9 cdti which, apart from a precautionary cambelt and pulley change, didn't need any thing out of the ordinary apart from regular standard servicing. I got it up to 90000 miles and changed it about three years ago, and again, according to DVLA it is still taxed and tested.

Some might say I was lucky. Some might say things based on ex Top Gear presenter's views (who I like, by the way but can't agree with the anti Vectra thing). Some might say that the cars did as designed. Just my two-pennyworth.

"The Vectra B was unreliable"

Not from my experience. Had two which I took from 60k miles to 120k miles. Did what they said on the tin and did it very reliably. Also had an A (Cavalier) which was similarly reliable.

the experience of many of owners on the vauxhall forum would suggest otherwise.

All owners formus will have people with positive and negative expereices. All cars makes have cars that are more or less reliable than each other.

Does anyone have anything so prove a Vauxhall is any less reliable than similar cars?

Vectra's were 10 a penny in the 2nd hand car market, you could buy a half decent looking one for a few hundred quid, and many people did, figuring that because they picked it up so cheap it wasn't worth spending the same amount on good maintainence.

those same people looking to save a few quid would skimp on oil changes, or basic servicing...end result, a broken down Vectra.

early 8 valve OHC engines would snap rockers like nobodys business, also suffered from extreme lobe wear on camshafts, possibly caused by poor oil, or just bad design..either way they wern't the most durable engines.

The only good vauxhall design was the early astra clutch set up, replacing a clutch without removing the gearbox...why didn't that idea catch on?