Corsa-B.uk - Vauxhall, Opel and Holden Corsa B Owners Club

ok so this is my run-around project, well kind of.

story goes - my mrs (will get her to sign up) is learning to drive and could not afford her own car at the min, this car is actually my dads old car but he has moved on to vectra ownership. So my dad having this corsa just lying around in the drive way gave it to my mrs. Bargin! So if you read my other project thread, you will see that i own a corsa with a c20xe fitted but blew my gearboxand cannot afford to replace the gearbox at this moment in time! So i am driving this car and teaching my mrs to drive in it. So all mods have to be aprooved by the mrs first lol

anyway, you get the picture by now and im probably sending you to sleep so here we go....

ok so we have aquired a 1.7 diesel 5 door corsa b on a v plate.

pics and mods done so far

17" alloys in rover tempest grey, soon to be white


flat wiper blades


black short beesting aerial


smoked rear lights



started to colour code some interior bits - we want to colour code this entire section white, but this will be the only colour coded section of the interior


damaged wing and bonnet, soon to be replaced

started to take the bump strips and badges off - what a nightmare!

Relocated the tax disk up behind the rear view mirror.

the mrs and i decided to do a bit of the car, take the rest of the bump strips off as it looked terible half done, colour coded the side repeaters, and sprayed one alloy white as a tester to see what it would look like against the car, here some pics of progress lol.

pic of car with no bump strips


TESTER WHEEL

pic of wheel in primer


pic of wheel being sprayed white


pic of me posing with wheel


pic of wheel against back wheel


pic of wheel against front wheel


pic of colour coded side repeater off


pic of colour coded side repeater on

local car club stickers, colour coded grill and backbox are on and took some random pics (wheels off for refurb and respray)

vectra chrome interior door handles now fitted with the very kind donation of the door handles by a mate

after i decided he didnt want the heated callibra leather interior that was fitted in my corsa, we decided to stick them into this one. And yes yes i know their from a 3 door but its not only a free leather interior but a free heated leather interior (just gotta modify the corsa loom now so i can have the heater elements working )

old Vs new


fronts in

rear seats were a bit fiddly due to them coming from a cally (3door of course) and me breaking the screen on my mobile pics of rear seats in






due to me being fed up of continiously having to put the backbox back onto the car as the pipe is abut 2 cm's too short i have "borrowed" the exhaust off my car temporarily

not too good a pic but u get the idea (had to lighten the pic just so u could see it as the original was so dark)


doesnt look half as big when it was fitted to mine! lol. Nevermind its only a temporary measure...

thats up to date so far...

looks pretty good to be fair, i like it

where is the engine!!

CorsaTD wrote:where is the engine!!

huh? what?

CorsaTD wrote:where is the engine!!

under the bonnet!

johnsam wrote:

CorsaTD wrote:where is the engine!!

under the bonnet!

engine size i liked the twin exit

martin1985 wrote:

johnsam wrote:

CorsaTD wrote:where is the engine!!

under the bonnet!

engine size i liked the twin exit

1.7 diesel non turbo! thats why its my run around not my toy lol.

nah it used to be my dads as he usedto travel around 60 miles to work everyday then 60 miles back, so he bought it as it would be cheap to run! But he now drives a 2.2 Dti vectra and my mrs is learnign to drive, so it was given to her, chewap tax and insurance for first car blah blah blah, but i have temporarily stolen it while my c20xe corsa is out of action! lol