Vauxhall Nova total disgrace. (Vauxhall Nova)

Name: junfan

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Product:	Vauxhall Nova
Date:	11/08/01 (419 review reads)
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Advantages: It looked nice.

Disadvantages: Massive disappointment, Very uncaring dealer.

Our 1.3 Nova 5 door was a nightmare, we bought it brand new from our local main Vauxhall dealer and were very disappointed.

It wore out brake pads every couple of months, the windscreen wiper link broke, the rear windscreen washer broke, the driver door bent! it developed serious rust problems at the bottom of the doors, around the front and even inside around the bottom of the back seat area.

The sunroof always leaked rain in, the camshaft wore out in 18 months, it used a pint of oil every 3 weeks, it was difficult to start in the cold, it would never tick over properly and every couple of months blew brake light bulb?s.. This was all inside 2 years from brand new?

I nearly forgot, when jacking the car up to change a wheel (puncture) one day the jack broke!

As if these points weren't bad enough it was often totally dead electrically (we never did find out why, neither did our dealer) and I had to go through most of the electrics several times just to get any power?

The Vauxhall dealer was atrocious and kept saying there was nothing wrong, they fixed the rust but it came back, they wouldn't listen about the bad starting or tick over, they didn't care about the camshaft sounding terrible, they weren't interested in it using all that oil and they didn?t want it back for a trade in!

When out of the useless manufacturer warranty our local back street garage told us that the dealer had never changed the oil, it was still on the original oil filter and the ignition timing was a mile out....

Having said that, on the odd occasion that it was actually working and when no parts were actually falling off, it was a nice car to drive, it was fairly nippy and handled well, on it's expensive low profile tyres.

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