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Astra Twintops I've Owned So Far

Post by CHR15E » Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:43 am

Along the lines of the thread I did years ago listing the 800s I'd owned. Here's a list of Astra Twintops I've Owned So far.

1 Bought August 2019 £3750 Current car

2008 2.0T Design

37k miles at purchase, 41.5k currently. My own car, quite rare being a 2.0 Turbo petrol. It's high rate road tax so not many were sold, only around 3% of all remaining Twintops have this engine. The majority are 1.8 petrol engines.

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2 Bought November 2020 £300 Scrapped

2007 1.8 Design

Bought locally due to 'knocking noise' according to the previous owner. It turned out to be the VVT pulleys making the noise. The correct fix was new pulleys along with a cambelt kit. Around £400 in parts assuming no other issues.

I decided against that and decided to strip it. The plan was to keep the roof parts and hope the reclaim the cost of the car from what was left. Let's just say that went well and paced the way for future cars.

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3 Bought December 2020 £500 Scrapped

2007 1.8 Design Automatic

Bought on a whim with a failed autobox. It'd only been MOT'd about 2 weeks before. Looked a good opportunity with nice spec.

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Bought January 2021 £300 Scrapped

2006 1.9 Sport

Bought on a whim. The car was cheap but we were still under restricted guidelines for movement. First time I'd used someone to collect the cars for me. It'd done 170k and showed it. Smelly engine, shot gearbox low spec. Not much in its favour.

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5 Bought January 2021 £500 Current car
2007 1.8 Design

This was one of those cars that didn't deserve to die. It'd only done 66k. I bought it with several ideas in my head. It being the same colour as mine for potential spare panels, making a trailer from it etc.

I still have the body of it, the engine and interior have all been sold. It's now a rolling shed full of parts from other cars.

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6 Bought February 2021 £450 Scrapped

2007 1.8 Design

This was car was for sale due to a keyless entry issue. It would only start or stop maybe 2 times in 10. The previous owner was fed up of it and wanted shut.

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7 Bought May 2021 £500 Scrapped

2008 1.8 Design

A strange one in that it wasn't advertised, I was messaged through an advert on Facebook to see if I was interested in buying it. Nice looking car but a few faults that made it an uneconomical project.

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8 Bought June 2021 £500 Scrapped

2008 1.9 Design

It'd only done 58k but the clutch had gone. Expensive job including DMF so was deemed uneconomical again. Lots of history but the car wasn't as good as you'd have hoped for the mileage.

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9 Bought August 2021 £350 Scrapped

2007 1.8 Design

Shot engine, made horrible noises. Been stood a long time and riddled with spiders.

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10 Bought August 2021 £212 Scrapped

2008 1.9 Design

A random bid on ebay on a car going cheap is how I ended up with this one.

170k and doesn't run. Sold as spares or repairs. Previous owners mate had been investigating it but got no where. My diagnostic software is showing no communication with the ECU.

Not interested in fixing it. Awaiting it's time to die once the car above has gone.

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11 Bought October 2021 £350 Current car

2007 1.6 Sport

Fait undecided yet.......

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Re: Astra Twintops I've Owned So Far

Post by scoobyh123 » Sat Aug 28, 2021 7:48 pm

Quite a collection in a short time Chris! I can see a red trailer being made from one of them at some point though............... :wink: :D
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Re: Astra Twintops I've Owned So Far

Post by CHR15E » Sat Aug 28, 2021 9:28 pm

I should update it already. 🙄 Now includes ownership status.

All the other cars have been bought purely for the purpose of financial gain so they come and go fairly quickly.

There's a sweet spot at the minute of lots of cheap cars but still lots on the road needing the parts. It won't last forever obviously.

I like the idea of a trailer though have no need for it really. The 800 trailer was used for camping primarily. Space is a factor too, 8 cars here currently plus my caravan.

I'm also considering a car transporter if I can find something at the right money.
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19 Vauxhall Astra 1.6T SRi Nav Estate
08 Vauxhall Astra 2.0T Design Twintop
02 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland 4.7 V8 HO

Previously owned 57 800s 2000-2012
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Re: Astra Twintops I've Owned So Far

Post by scoobyh123 » Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:35 pm

If they're in that sweet spot Chris where the cars are cheap and so are the parts, it suggests they're at the bottom of their price curve so nice ones will go up in value sometime soon. If you stock-pile the common parts that fail plus a small stash of the less common failures, i reckon you'll hae a nice little business on them for a while.

When you say a car transporter, what exactly do you have in mind? A 4-wheel trailer type transporter, beaver-tail recovery truck/transporter or what?
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Re: Astra Twintops I've Owned So Far

Post by CHR15E » Sat Aug 28, 2021 11:31 pm

That's the plan for the minute. 👍

Though I'm not looking to go to the levels of 800 parts I had.

A 4 wheel trailer is what I'd like. Trucks are too expensive to keep for my limited use. You're looking at £1000-1500 for insurance alone when I last checked. Plus upkeep of an extra vehicle. With having my Jeep already a trailer makes more sense for the time being. Plus a mate is interested in putting money into one so he can use it now and then.

I could do with moving house and finding a farm or similar for the extra space. Maybe one day.
Chris
19 Vauxhall Astra 1.6T SRi Nav Estate
08 Vauxhall Astra 2.0T Design Twintop
02 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland 4.7 V8 HO

Previously owned 57 800s 2000-2012
Relapse of 1 in 2021 Now Sold

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Re: Astra Twintops I've Owned So Far

Post by CHR15E » Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:30 am

List updated.
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19 Vauxhall Astra 1.6T SRi Nav Estate
08 Vauxhall Astra 2.0T Design Twintop
02 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland 4.7 V8 HO

Previously owned 57 800s 2000-2012
Relapse of 1 in 2021 Now Sold

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