Ella’s 1999 Vauxhall Corsa

Always been a fan of the Corsa B, will go the same way as the Nova in another 5-6 years i'm sure! Great little bargain you've got there!

Well it’s had a wash... could do with a machine polish particularly on the roof.

We’ve fixed the radio (worked out how to put the code in)



I’d like to keep the cassette player, so will look at adding Bluetooth onto the amp or something (I think sweetpea did something similar, so may give me some tips)

Ordered a new passenger wing mirror (£10 from eBay) to tidy this up



(Painted gaffer tape makes my teeth itch )

Ordered a trim piece to replace the sunroof winder one, which has been melted by airfreshener chemicals



And also a gear-lever gaiter, as the one on there looks scruffy



That’s our starter, other things to look at are

Dent in boot and panel not in line



Front bumper has had a knock



And the rusty bit on the sill



Then tidy up underneath, look at clutch and brakes, service (though I checked filters and as he said it has just been done

John - that looks a little belter - I don't think that you are anywhere close to me otherwise you would have been welcome to run that over one Saturday morning and I would have it sorted for the price of the paint !

I think on this little engine they had timing chain issues and also camshaft cap issues which should be sorted by now, I am also lead to believe you cant skim the head much, if at all as the front timing cover chest thingy goes up the block and onto the head, if you skim the head too much the bolts to fix the timing chest cover don't line up to the head

Nice little car you have there, suffering many of the classic 'aged' Corsa b issues but as you're finding, all nice and easy to resolve

I'm about to replace that headunit in mine, always used it with a tape / 3mm jack into my phone

The Corsa is at the farm in the shed, we’ll swap it over with the Fug when we go on holiday (it’s got high security things like windows, doors and locks!) and then plan on doing some jobs after the Gathering



Ella helped sort some scrap out last weekend, and we had another weigh in



So we’ve bought a few bits...

Got a head gasket set





and we are going to change the clutch, it’s quite high, and I’m sure it will have been ridden by the old fella who had it before
So will change it before it gets abused by a learner:D
Not turned up yet, but on its way

So no actual progress, but not forgotten

Looks a great car! I love a corsa B, I’m sure it’ll be a great first car too!

A bit off topic but, when you weigh in wire do you strip it? and if so how do you do it? I am looking for a way to strip car wiring in a worthwhile way.

Erm, no

I was going to buy a wiring stripping machine with a builder I work with a few years back, but it didn’t happen

There are manual machines that are cheap but labour intensive still,
Or electric ones that save the labour but are expensive...

So we just sort it, I turn over quite a lot (I’m always picking copper up, I can’t help but look in skips, I got some pipe out of a loft the other day.... I have a bit of a problem )

This is what I collected since I weighed in on Monday



So we just sort it, this is what I got on Monday;

SWA £500 tonne
Domestic £960 tonne
Singles. £1460 tonne
Bright copper. £3890 tonne
Copper pipe. £3390 tonne

Swa can be stripped to domestic by removing the steel
Then singles by removing the outer insulation
Then stripped to bright copper,
Which I have done, with a Stanley knife
But the time involved means we don’t bother (unless it’s big csa cable) also as you strip it, it becomes lighter so there is less to weigh in at the better rate

I weighed in about 250kg and it is boring after sorting the first couple of sacks, so we sort the scrap into those bags and that’s enough. Cut any fittings from copper pipe and weigh them in separately, but if it’s clean copper it’s more money than mixed... but try to keep it simple tbh

If I didn’t get as much, or it was all one type, I’d probably get a machine though!