Vauxhall Astra 1.9Cdti SRi 150PS Review

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Vauxhall Astra 1.9Cdti SRi 150PS
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Guest's Review of Vauxhall Astra 1.9Cdti SRi 150PS Estate Car

5th Oct 2009

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Length of ownership
    1 year / 30K miles
  • Performance
    5 stars
  • Reliability
    5 stars
  • Year Manufactured
    2008
  • Doors
    5
  • Practicality
    5 stars

i have had an Astra 1.9Cdti (150) Sri Estate as a company car for just over a year and have done just over 34K in it.

Ive not had 1 problem and I drive it hard 80% of the time. I chose it over the similar price rivals completely on performance, and looks.

Performance wise it is a good second faster to 60 than a top spec diesel focus (138bhp), but more importantly about 1.5 seconds faster in the 30-70mph "overtaking spot" (you can get 170bhp tdi Golf / Leon's but they are no faster and more expensive. And they don't come in estate form too)

Just for info there are two versions of the 1.9ctdi. a 120bhp and a 150bhp. The way you can tell is the colour of the badge. The 120 version has a completely silver 1.9cdti badge, the 150bhp has the ti bit of the cdti in red.

The car has 20k / 1 year service intervals, and not counting tyres (I drive aggressively) in the year ive had it, and the 30K ive done the only bill has been £140 for the 20K service.

The seats could be more supportive, --longer to support the legs. And the cup holder is in a slightly annoying place (behind the gear stick, inbetween the front seat uprights) but apart from those niggles it is a very good-looking, good performing load lugger, and I will defiantly get another one if the competition does change when I have too.

Sport switch(heavy's-up the steering and changes the throttle response)
Makes it a little more fun, so a lot more fun than the rivals.

One last point 6 of my colleagues hve the same car, and in a combined 230k miles we have done in a year. Only one of us has had anything go wrong. What went wrong was a EGR failure (exhaust gas recirculation). This is because he drives like a granny and so it got clogged up. If you rev it abit you flush all the carbon deposits out


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