I BOUGHT AN EX POLICE CORSA FOR £150 - Mistakes were made!!
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Find out why I regret buying this ex police Vauxhall Corsa. I should have done my homework! 😬
Do you think I can salvage this one or am I looking at another loss?!
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I’d love to buy a car for £150 these days just to daily about in. Bangernomics is the way forward.
This reminds me of one of my mates ( no longer with us ) he used to go to the Auctions and wait for a car he wanted nearly always a Ford, mostly Cortinas MK 3s , he never paid more than £ 350 the he'd put right whatever was wrong with it , buy what he wanted from the scrap yard , so in all it wouldn't cost him more than £400 or £500 but he'd end up with a car that lasted him quite a few years until the next one , he seems to always have done better than me , the way to go I think . 🤔
It's is a pile of crap but £150 can't be bad
I just bought a nice car I am fed up with bangers and the endless problems. It takes a certain kind of driver to happily daily a banger you need to be able to ignore a lot of noises. I cant
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.
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.
No ex police cars are a pile of s#£t they are never serviced on time driven until they break, driven poorly no real care like a private driver/owner. Engine driven at full pelt.
Its tow hook has probably been required a number of times, feel sorry for the next owner, nothing is superficial with a ex police car.
Plus while with the police they never get mot.
@@nickmanhota324i realise i'm late to the party, but it being a corsa it would have only been a local/pcso vehicle, doubt theres a chance in the world this would be used as a quick response vehicle, it wouldve been used as just something to sit and make people think there was a police presence
@@brayeripwhat are you on about...
Those clown pretend creatures can't drive an unmarked...
They've gotta be liveried
This would be Cid or D.S squad .
@@nickmanhota324precisely 💯
Running nearly 24hrs a day engine idiling away for hours on end , where this load of boll0ks came from I don't know 😅
Blimey anything ex filth is just an absolute nightmare!
Oh and the internal wiring looms, just a mess mate 🤦
But let ppl think on believing this batty old wives......😂
@@brayerip even unmarked corsa get ragged, never serviced on time, trust me I know.
Great video. Loving these channels with cars described exactly as they are.
The boost pressure issue will 110% be the EGR valve leaking. Super common on them. Highly recommend having it taken off and checked.
I have watched a couple of your videos now you have earned a new subscriber keep up the good work
Thank you! Glad to have you on board 🫡
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.
Haha, glad you enjoy them, I should have started years ago, we’ve missed getting some really beauties on film 😅😅 Thanks for the sub 👍
I remember when I used to have a life. To busy going to parties to clean cars. Those were the days. That car brought it all back.
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.
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
Yeah absolutely, or the battery died in the cold and we didn't supply a radio code, therefore it's not fit for purpose! Haha. We tend to do the budget cars from another site to keep things separate
Great video again joe
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 👍
Amazing information, thanks for sharing that! I imagine it would j have been a bit cleaner too (at least you’d hope)! 😅
@Shifting Metal Unless it's a specialist squad, cid usually only have base spec cars with no blue lights and sirens. They are rarely cleaned, but always serviced to manufactures guide lines
GMP have civilian car washers based at most locations working Mon/Fri and mobile ones covering smaller ones. CID cars are regularly washed though not as frequently as liveried cars
There are a few locations with 24hr jet washes available and a drive through car wash at the workshops
Every year or so they get a “deep clean” at the workshops or if they get contaminated in between
I should also have said in my earlier reply these cars had a long service life as they didn’t do huge annual mileages ( often less than 10k pa ) not unusual for them to be 10-12 years old before disposal
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.
😂 Wow, that’s bad, I’ve not had one that good yet! Thanks, glad to have you on board 👌
What a minefield the car trade is, you need to do that quick test drive for sure!
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 .
That’s interesting, I need to try the transition from another gear!
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.
I appreciate that, maybe I can make shorter versions
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
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
Thanks! I love a rant, my other half probably not so keen 😅
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.
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.
I open the front widows open all day 5mm this dries it out in a week
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
Agree. A very silly place to put them but if you keep on top of the scuttle being cleaned out regularly they don’t get wet. Leaves can ingress due to gaps either side of the scuttle panel. Parking outside in winter near trees adds to the issue.
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
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.
Good feedback! Thanks
I think its absolutely disgusting not to clean out a car before selling it on, even if its a part exchange.
Some right scummers out there
Don't think I would bother. Would probably empty the rubbish out but that's about it.
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 .
You are right Clive, I have a 2013 model in generally good condition but sometimes I have difficulty getting reverse. I usually leave it parked in first gear.
I think Vauxhall make their gearboxes out of cheese! I’ve had plenty with whining 1st and 2nd
Had a similar issue with my 1.25 fiesta
@@ShiftingMetal Id leave the vauxhall alone with this on would of been best to just clean it don't do any work and sell it spair or pepair £200 I'd would of gone.
@@LBKER_yeh alot of fords I've had going to reverse can be temperamental. Half lift the clutch as you select reverse will usually pop in.
Steering wheel clunk could be a loose bolt behind the knee panel
All the leaves on the scuttle, blocked bulkhead drains and a dying ecu from water ingress i reckon...
at 05:18 I thought that was a snake in the spare wheel well 😂
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!
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.
That’s interesting, I’ll ask the techs to have a look when we’re back at it
Fiat like to sell trash to the UK it makes them feel like they are important
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
Thank you so much John! I'm glad you're happy with the car in the end. Rushing a sale is never good and I really hate to rush getting a car prepared for a customer too!
Thank you so much John! I'm glad you're happy with the car in the end. Rushing a sale is never good and I really hate to rush getting a car prepared for a customer too!
Head Gasket issues happen on the corsa, where oil and water will mix together. Is the car up for sale now?
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.
No, I can’t say I have but I would not be surprised!
For 150 quid looks a brilliant buy. I can never see cars like that for sale . Great first car for the kids for example.
I like the fact you are honest and upfront. I would buy a car from you anytime. Where are you based?😀👍
Thank you Terry! We’re based in Burnham On Sea, Somerset
@@ShiftingMetal Mmmm - shame it’s too far from me in Widnes, Cheshire!
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?
Absolutely, it would work for me but we’ll see if anyone else wants it 🤞
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......🤣
Good call, that was the first port of call for our mechanic but in the end he got it going by hitting the motor with a hammer 😂😂
Nice 👍 at least it's working again
Loving your videos, is the hoover attached to your face?
Thanks! The hoover?
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'.
Interesting, I’m not sure with this one though as the team have already replaced some suspension parts and didn’t have any issues with them being different spec 🤷♂️
@@ShiftingMetal Standard ones would still fit AFAIK so you wouldn't necessarily have any issues. You'd just have one spring softer than the other I guess. A Vauxhall dealer should know by the reg which type were fitted new.
Good luck with the corsa d. Spent more time fixing mine than driving it this year 🤦
It’s already looking that way 😅
These are fiat engines I have it in my Suzuki swift injector went and cost a small fortune to fix.
Yeah, it’s one of my least favourite engines for sure!
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.
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!
looks like the offside headlight is out too.
Hopefully you come out on top on this one but does appear to be a bit of a future money pit
Since one dude 🇬🇧✌️
Turbo wastegate will be seized, should free off with a screwdriver and some wd40. Ive done loads of them
For a diesel, it has a lot of life left in it. Id try and fix it up and trade it on.
We’ll be doing our best 🤞 New (£60!) turbo arrived today
@@ShiftingMetal only 60 quid? Not bad.
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.
Amazingly only a 2 owner car!
I'd come and collect this off you as it is....I only live down in brean 😅
Scummy previous owner not cleaning it for the 150 they got. I'd be ashamed if I did that.
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?
Sadly I don’t know any local readers who want the projects, they all want a retail ready car at trade prices 😅
@@ShiftingMetal yeh i find people allways want an absolute steal when they buy a car off me!
Probably a police pool car driven by loads of people. A bit of time spent on it will make it a good runaround
Yes, I’m sure that was the sort of thing, doesn’t seem to be the usual holes from mounting lights etc.
Something tragic about a Vauxhall corsa. You know your life has taken a drastic wrong turn if you have a corsa on the driveway
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
You won't lose any money on it once the demister works. Full MOT having spent almost nothing. Go no problem.
decent MX number plate thou..........................
I used to rev my Vauxhalls to 4k revs then put into reverse without using the clutch. No crunches that way.
Ex police cars tend to have no rear door interior handles.
As someone else said, I think was a CID pool car so not a patrol car as such
Surely they would just put the child locks on? - also would of needed to be fitted when sold if not as a safety issue and mot fail.
That's not true, they child lock them and remove either window winder on older models or the switch on newer models! My mate works for police garage, they buy a fleet of new cars from say vauxhall then adapt them in house!!
Great, surprised no rust on the rear arches
I was thinking of getting a Corsa , but this has put me off a bit .
People in handcuffs do all sorts of nawty things on the back seats best to replace them!
What’s the watch your wearing b I think you need to review it along with the cars ! Not joking
It's a very old Tag Heuer 1000 Jubilee 👍
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 .
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….
Swings and roundabouts, I would imagine that there's many cars you've given peanuts for and made good money.
It sounds like your clutch is on its way out and it sounds like your brakes are on the way out
A car worth £150 (about the same price as a Edinburgh to London train fare) is only going to last about 150 days.
headlights look slightly off as well.
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.
Yeah, I wish I had done that before the workshop got their hands on it and starting fixing things but hey ho, can’t win them all 🤷♂️
@@ShiftingMetal would the workshop be doing cars like this as a project in quiet time or experience for a trainee
how can you make a profit on this shed i am confused
Thing is with police cars there serviced regularly
selector rods will be the reverse problem
I just wish I spotted it before doing work on the car!
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.
It may just need more gear box oil
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
£5295 for a 13 year old fiesta, you must be joking lol
Autotrader (the market) sets the prices, not me 🤷♂️
Truth the grill or g3
Do you ever set any off them cars on fire if not able to scrap them so you can call fire services out
Erm, no 👀😂😂
Contact GMP garage services,they will print out the service history
That ex Greater Manchester Police. You can tell by the MX on the number plate. More than likely ex CID.
That’s cool, thanks for sharing that info 👍
It's a fiat engine.
When you opened the boot I knew the parcel shelf would be missing lol
6:18 ooh, you found their cocaine!
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.
Well sure, plenty of Vauxhall owners like to change the badge to an opel one for a ‘Euro’ look but they’re called Vauxhall here so we call them Vauxhall 🤷♂️😂
@@ShiftingMetalI found an Opel corsa in a scrap yard near me, you’re damn right I ripped the grille and airbag off and shoved them in my car 😂
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.
Can you fix it and make a little profit, of Corsa you can
2010 fiesta in red £5295, what's the details, i just got a 2009 one for £1250
Ha ha ha. I nearly fell over laughing looking at the price of those old bangers
@@DaleSteel aye, got the mk7 for my nephew, wasn't even the cheapest one in the garage i used, and i sold my 2015 mk7.5 ecoboost last year for £7450 with 24 thousand on the clock
@@10feetup do you mean ecoboom? Lol
If you got a Zetec S on 49,000 miles, then you bought it £4000 under market value (according to Autotrader) So well done!
That’s market value and we sell 20/30 of these ‘old bangers’ every month so who’s laughing, really? 😅
prob clocked,,, theyve been caught doing it ...
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
You are at brean
You should have given him the £50 he actually wanted
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
prob with ex pol cars overclocked
And remember he only wanted 50 you trebled the price not the seller
Buying any Corsa is a mistake. The origin is irrelevant.
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
Sadly spent more than that already!
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