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All I wanted to say is that I drive a opel and her name are Suzie and she's a lot of trouble to me,I would love to drive a car for once that has no troubles
 
Oh no. Rouxenator is going to be devastated.

And you clearly don't drive the 1991 COTY Opel Monza GSI 160i.. Otherwise you wouldn't be having these problems.
 
barbaravisagie said:
All I wanted to say is that I drive a opel and her name are Suzie and she's a lot of trouble to me,I would love to drive a car for once that has no troubles
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The only Opel that does not give trouble is the Delta Motor Corporation of South Africa Opel Monza 160i GSi Car of the Year 1991.

It can drive to Johannesburg and back. With the aircon on. Literally...
 
I suspect this is a troll poster, but still. How could the glorious Opel, makers of the 1991 COTY Monza 1.6 GSI ever make anything that is not perfect or historically significant? I just don't understand.
 
TJ99 said:
I suspect this is a troll poster, but still. How could the glorious Opel, makers of the 1991 COTY Monza 1.6 GSI ever make anything that is not perfect or historically significant? I just don't understand.
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They let the wheel slip a little?





















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TJ99 said:
I suspect this is a troll poster, but still. How could the glorious Opel, makers of the 1991 COTY Monza 1.6 GSI ever make anything that is not perfect or historically significant? I just don't understand.
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You see, Opel spent decades developing the Delta Motor Corporation of South Africa Opel Monza 160i GSi Car of the Year 1991. Fritz von Opel himself was involved in the develepmont of the then Opel Monza GSi Konzept. He managed to get Max Valier and Friedrich Wilhelm Sander involved.

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It took 60 years to develop an Opel that would win the historically significant South African Car of the Year 1991.

It was of historical significance.
 
Bought an Opel relatively new, stupid small things go wrong. Like bumper screws unscrewing themselves, window rubbers popping out, leads going bad, hooter packing up, radio plug not making contact at the back, which is fixed in place btw, so only the back speakers work. Had it for a year and a half, had enough and got rid of it. The build quality is shockingly bad!! Never again
 
psion said:
Bought an Opel relatively new, stupid small things go wrong. Like bumper screws unscrewing themselves, window rubbers popping out, leads going bad, hooter packing up, radio plug not making contact at the back, which is fixed in place btw, so only the back speakers work. Had it for a year and a half, had enough and got rid of it. The build quality is shockingly bad!! Never again
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I bet you it was not the Delta Motor Corporation of South Africa Opel Monza 160i GSi Car of the Year 1991. Nothing went wrong with it!
 
You can call you Isuzu Suzie but you should never call a Delta Motor Corporation of South Africa Opel Monza 160i GSi Car of the Year 1991 anything but a Delta Motor Corporation of South Africa Opel Monza 160i GSi Car of the Year 1991.
 
I have driven a lot of these cars... the worst was the Corsa C, the best one we've had has been the fully imported Corsa D.
The only problem with the D is it is not designed for South African conditions, so you need to keep the throttle control valve clean, a very simple procedure to do.

You also need to make sure you change the spark plugs at the specified intervals because they crack eventually leading you to get stuck with the SVS light on and GM will rip you a fortune to sort that out. Fortunately very easy to resolve if you're any way mechanically inclined.
 
I had a Corsa B (lite) that was not too bad, but it did try to kill me and some of my family member with the shoddy wheels and tyres they fitted it with in the factory.

Most Corsa D models will have a VIN starting with W0 indicating they were built in Germany. The build quality is very high, but as you noted you need to look after them. Most German cars are like that, especially older Mercs and Beemers.

About the spark plugs, that was the first (and only) thing I had to replace after the service plan expired. It cost me less than R200 and they even fetched and returned the car right from my driveway.
 
Rouxenator said:
I had a Corsa B (lite) that was not too bad, but it did try to kill me and some of my family member with the shoddy wheels and tyres they fitted it with in the factory.

Most Corsa D models will have a VIN starting with W0 indicating they were built in Germany. The build quality is very high, but as you noted you need to look after them. Most German cars are like that, especially older Mercs and Beemers.

About the spark plugs, that was the first (and only) thing I had to replace after the service plan expired. It cost me less than R200 and they even fetched and returned the car right from my driveway.
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Correct you are Sir. Most VIN = W0L0....... etc...

Well GM and myself do not have a good relationship from a previous incident where they didn't service the car properly.

On these cars the plugs need replacing roughly every 45,000km.
And yes, its like the old Mercs were, it keeps going, and going, and going. The car recently reached 119,000km without a flinch. Other than the plugs, had to replace the battery, which we got for a steal from Duratec in Boksburg. My old Corsa B was very tired at 105,000km, power was down, power steering had to be fixed, started overheating...
 
I also prefer to service at an independent workshop that I trust and when it comes to GM I avoid Reeds since I have heard horror stories about them. Currently and until the car is out of warranty I have it serviced at Thorp and they are one of the best car dealers I have dealt with. Before I got my Astra it was actually sold by the very same Thorp dealership I now use, back then it was called Boland Delta.
 
My Corsa B bakkie goes through clutch cables at an alarming rate! Almost 1 per year. Anybody else experience this?
 
Just the clutch cable or the gear cable as well? If I am not mistaken the Corsa B used a cable for the gear selection too.
 
Just the clutch. The original lasted 8 years, since then they keep popping. I'm at the point where I'm gonna have a nice thick one custom made. My mechanic has tried greasing it, as well as Delta part vs Goldwagen, no difference
 
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