Astra estate (Vauxhall Astra Club 1.6i 5-door Estate)

Member Name: grayless

Product:	Vauxhall Astra Club 1.6i 5-door Estate
Date:	08/07/09 (82 review reads)
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Advantages: Good to drive spaciuos for class

Disadvantages: Slight worry regards clutch

We have a 2007 1.6i five door estate design, we bought it about twelve months ago. The car is very practical and spacious and with the rear seats down makes a great load carrier.The design model has half leather effect seats wich look good but do seem a little hard you seem to sit on them rather than in them.The car is good to drive and for a 1.6 engine it goes well, i do find the steering very light which is is great round town for parking etc but i find it lacks feeling at higher speed where it could do with being heavier.
One dissapointment has been that we noticed that the gear box seemed to grind on occasions when putting the car into reverse more so after the car was warm, we took it back to the dealer ( vauxhall ) who tlod us that it is a quirk with the gear box on this car but as i was not convinced ( i have an 2002 astra van that has done 150,000 miles with a great gearbox ) they replaced what i was told to be most of the clutch, it seemed fine but after six months we have noticed it seems to be grinding again even when you are extra carful.
No other problems to report and we are happy with the car in general

Summary: Generally a good car

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