Test drive Opel Astra Sedan 1998 - 2008 Sedan

Opel Astra N-Joy 1.8 /12,000 km

Now we certainly can’t write that until the first, prescribed during a mileage of 15,000 kilometers, Astra reached without a single breakdown. It was not, but the breakdown requiring a visit to the service happened. But the guilt of asters, most likely, is not there. So.
+/- For some time- more precisely, with a run of about 11 thousand km- strange things began to happen with Astra. When accelerating, at revolutions over 3000, the motor sharply lost the dynamics, and at idle the car was shaking - the tachometer arrow cried to the beat. So we traveled several hundred kilometers: there was no time to call on the service, and the symptoms periodically became almost invisible. It seemed that he himself would resolve. Not resolved. When the engine finally realized that not everything was in order with it, a light bulb caught on the instrument panel indicating a malfunction in the exhaust gas cleaning system. I had to go to the service. There, the car was connected to a computer, which was considered from the error code from the engine: omissions in the cylinders. They twisted the candles. They were covered with red coating. Its appearance is associated with Moscow gasoline, which is stifled by a artisanal way to the desired octane number using various additives, in particular, iron -containing. Scheduled 30 thousand candles did not run. But since they relate to the consumable, the case did not fall under the guarantee. After replacing the candles, the car flew again.
 
+/- At the Aster, even in the simplest configuration, there is a central castle. Pleasantly. Although there are complaints. First: there is no way to unlock only the driver's door - everything opens at once. The second: Opel cannot be configured so that when the ignition is turned on, the central lock is closed. For security reasons - at least in order to not stole the bag from the rear seat - we close the car, drowning the button on the driver's door. Third: arrived, turned off the engine, and the locks are not automatically unlock. And no matter how much we pull the handle, until the button is raised, nothing will work out.
We include the presence of a children's castle to the pluses. There are fixers in the rear doors. Before the trip, we transfer them to the ignition key or a screwdriver to the position - now the rear doors can be opened only outside.
+ With the onset of the first cold weather on the central information display, a sprocket of a snowflake caught fire, warning of a possible ice. The temperature sensor showed 2 degrees Celsius. By the way, the thermometer in the Astra is very accurate: in the heat and in the cold, its testimony practically coincides with the data highlighted on the city information display. In the central display, information is displayed from the Philips radio: only the devices of this manufacturer can be transferred to the station frequency and RDS signals built into Astra. If you want to see more in the window (for example, instant fuel consumption), pay $ 200 and order a car with a multi -informational display. But about additional options and Astrakh 2003 - next time.
 
Sergey Sherstennikov
Costs (September 14 - October 13)
Highway mileage/city - 1200 km. Gasoline consumption - 173 liters
AI-95 gasoline $ 60
Moika $ 20
Set of candles with a replacement of $ 18
Replacement work $ 14
Only $ 112
 

A source: "Autopilot"