Astra 1.7 TD Test Drive/ Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Today, a lovely chap called Dan drove a very long way so he could buy lunch and let me drive this car. Once as common as a Lamppost, now rarer than you'd think.
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I had a Mk3 Astra 1.7 TDS LS with a Isuzu, bullet proof. Had it for a few years. This video took me back.
My favourite era of Astra. I really liked the shape and i remember those engines having a great reputation. A radio cassette player with 6 speakers and a high up display seemed quite classy back in the day too for a run of the mill family wagon. Get your Ace of Base cranked up
Also the sort of car you could imagine would just stop outside a chip shop whether you wanted it to or not.
I really miss this era of cars, reliable, cheap and easy to fix, actual buttons and knobs for the ventilation instead of a stupid i pad on the dash.
This takes me back to when I was in the police, I drove them everyday for several years. They were solid and reliable and they certainly got plenty of abuse, I even had the wrestler Big Daddy in mine once.
I still have my late father's 1.7 td estate. Only done 80k. After seeing this I'll dag it out of retirement and feel proud of it.
Good strong engines these and I remember the Nova 1.5TD being quite the little rocket.
I owned a K plate Cavalier 1.7 TD from 1996 -2001 sold it with 168000 miles never had any problems with it but the rear arches were starting to bubble, it was still around for another few years.
We had a 2002 Astra LS Estate with that engine. I hated it at the time. We had it for years after the Rover 75. My Dad did miles for work and family in it! 175k when we sold it and still perfect. Quite like to have it back now! Nostelgia is a strange thing! 😅
Nostalgia makes us all a little irrational
A good starter classic for one of those young people!
Exactly what I think
@@ProjectNigel It's not a classic, It's just old and a bit shit.
@@TheFoolishboy9 Living up to your name, I see.
@@ryanwilliams6526 I own a classic Corsa C and a classic Combo C van.
Just passed one of these in Uppermill, looked in good nick too. They are still out there.
We used to use these as courier vans. They would clock up about 200k in 4 years, and with 5k oil changes rarely gave problems.
I have wanted another one of these for years !!
I have a soft spot for these cars, the vans and estates are the best looking and most useful versions. Rusty rear arches, dog legs and sill ends came as standard after a few years of exposure to road salt so every after market panel supplier offered the repair section at very reasonable prices. I rebuilt a worn out 1.4 petrol van that served me well for a couple of years and later on had a 2.0 Belmont that was stolen from outside my home and used as a get away car in a post office robbery. The GSI was the top of the tree and so the bodykit and bonnets from these flagship models found their way onto 1.2 and 1.4 merit versions for young and “enthusiastic” drivers.
Always thought the MK3 Astra had a slight resemblance to the Maestro with the shape of its large glasshouse.
What a lovely car :) I do like the sound of old diesels.
Excellent review thank u
I really enjoy these videos. Nigel but hate the astras had 1 bk in 2007 as a stop gap 1997 plate td what a horrible old box on wheels it was 😢 the escort was a much better car to drive
1.7 Isuzu diesel engine best ever built 1000000000 miles just go on and on
That engine it’s a beast. My friend have an Astra G Caravan from 2002 with 1.7 Isuzu engine, the simple DTI not newer CDTI. Him bought the car with 200.000 km and scrapped with over 800.000 km and most probably like all cars imported in Romania from Germany, the initial kilometres most probably wasn’t the real number. Him only changed one EGR valve. 😅
Later edit: it was used as a taxi.
My mum had a J plate 1.4 8v, it gained momentum instead of accelerated, I had an N plate 1.6 16v estate in red, quite nippy for what it was. It was such a good car and had little extras like body coloured bumpers and fog lights, it was my third car and of my favourite cars, I wish I never parted with. Had an Astra G later on in life and liked that. Can’t stand my other half’s new Astra, it’s a barge that’s just cost £1500 for a new turbo.
Had a number of Corsa 1.5 TD Isuzu engined cars in the past. So frugal and reliable.
Great, cheap family motoring but not the most dynamic vehicle I ever drove.
Is that not James Bond's car? Surely that number plate is a dead give away? It has "M" and "SPY" there... and £8 6s !d - Moneypenny (from a time when £8 6s was money - then add the penny)
or MI6 SPY can be made from the reg plate
I remember these in non turbo form often had a stiff throttle pedal, reluctant to do much but would go on forever.
looks like a fed car,when i was a lad and smoked jazz cabbage down a country lane at night you could hear one for a mile,
i had the 1.7 low blow in the ls van
All Vauxhall Astras drive much better than they look. I've noticed the upholstery in this Astra has lasted very well. If it was a Ford Escort mark 5, or a Volkswagen Golf III, the tops of those black seats would have started to fade to purple 20 years ago.
Had several of these in estate form with same engine, every one had head gasket failure at some point. Good family car though, good review!
Very basic car but tough as old boots and very reliable.
I had a K reg estate with the straight diesel, slow but.... slow.
A local bloke bought it off me in 2008 and he finally scrapped it just a couple of years ago.
I remeber reading auto express back in the day and they did say the steering on the astra and cavalier was woolly.
I did like the shape when they came out , yep the mk2 and the mk3 flat rear arch design always rusted.
Astra F with an Isuzu engine. Wonderful car and engine. Was a sort after engine at one time, folk would pull them and fit them in Suzuki Jimny's.
Yeah a lot of people did fit the 1.7 Isuzu engine to the Suzuki sj variant 4x4 back in the late 90s early 2000s
@@danpeters5028 Yeah the SJ's great cars :)
Nice little car Paul 👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
Thank you, Jimmy
Didn't Lotus do stuff to the Astra's suspension to make them better to drive than all the other front-driven Vauxhalls?
I had a k reg 1.7tdi isuzu diesel bulletproof bodywork rusts that was the only ly issue i had with mine oh and it seized in reverse gear so scrap it was for it .😅
Typical Vauxhall , as good as it needed to be but no better .
Good enough to last though
MI6 SPY on the reg plate lol
My one and only company car was a 17D Estate, that's right, no turbo...
It was in every respect, awful.
Couldn't break it, it was too heavy at the front, painfully slow and didn't like corners, the worst understeer of any car I've ever driven.
Not that comfortable and noisy.
When I left that job I bought a Rover 200GTi three door...
In the early 90s I went with Liverpool John Moores University on a visit to the Ellesmere Port factory during the summer shutdown, and they were all set to build these. There was a GSi on display that looked fantastic at the time, very fu5uristic.
These were so much better than the dull baggy Mk5 Ford Escort being made across the Mersey estuary at Halewood…..
I later went to the Halewood Getrag gearbox factory… fair play Ford always did good gearboxes….
The contemporary Fiat Tipo gave a lot more than both the Astra and Escort !
Good analysis. Where did a Rover R8 fit in though? I preferred the Rover to Ford's and Vauxhalls, The Tipo were interesting, but were expensive to repair.
@@martinnorth2680 The Rover 200 and 400 were another level up… for discerning older private buyers and Company Car fleets… the Alfa Romeo 33 / 145 / 146 were for optimistic enthusiasts !
I've got an Xpower I'd like you to review, sent a FB message, thanks Neil
Oh, the 1990s and the changes to drunk driving! Gone were the days (before I was born) where people could drive drunk and be escorted home by police... Although, a few years ago I heard a story of a friend who was attending a wedding and was quite drunk, and that very same scenario occurred. 😂 He said he was paranoid that the police were following him, but was told after the fact that one of the wedding attendees was a policeman who used his squad car and was following him home to make sure he got back okay. 🤣 Crazy.
My dad used to have one sadly not the Isuzu engine one 1998 bluw Merit TD 1.7 and it was awful so agricultural compared to modern diesels reliable but awful and the ride is hard on them bone shaker lol
Is it the Isuzu in that
Yes
It's certainly is 1.7 Isuzu 82bhp not the GM engine very rare car now days
And no poxy speed limiter
Engine I mean