Vauxhall insignia opinions please?

[shouldbeinbed]

[QUOTE 3074283, member: 259"]Me too. I wouldn't buy a car without it. And there's nothing like having your arse gently warmed by a heated seat on a winter's morning either. [/QUOTE]
or you could just wet yourself for the same sensation as a heated seat, always wear dark trousers and nobody will ever know

We have a 5yo Qashqai and I'd go along with Fossy's view on Nissans, solid, reliable and go on for ages, unlike the couple of Passats I had before that went through a phase every 3 years or so of lots of niggly (expensive) issues and bits of trim falling apart.

Way back when I had a couple of big Citroens too. different from the usual repmobile fodder and very nice, if a bit quirky.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

One of my colleagues had the Insignia SRI Estate and he's switched to the hatchback. He felt the estate was a bit barge-like whereas the hatchback is big enough to take his fishing rods anyway. He also swears the hard ride of the SRI gave him hip problems.

Another colleague has just ordered the Mazda 6, but again that's supposed to have a hard, uncomfortable ride.

I've got a Hyundai i40 that I can't really fault after 60,000 miles. Gets the bike in the back no problem anyway.

 

[screenman]

The i40 is another nice one, not doing a Hyundai dealership I forgot about that one.

 

[Dave 123]

The i40 is another nice one, not doing a Hyundai dealership I forgot about that one.

I agree. I test drove one and it was a cracking car. I want a low mileage car, and for my money I can't get one in my price range.

 

[theclaud]

Not bad, I tried one last week as my Passat is due a change but it did not have a feel of quality about it that the others seem to. Luckily seeing as I work on lots of different cars each day I get the chance to try them all.

Does one need to drive them around a lot in order to bang the dents out?

 

[theclaud]

Sorry - did I say "bang"? I meant "massage".

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Insignia estate is pretty small frrom what I can remember.

We looked at one when we were trying to get rid of the hated (by me!!) C-Max - aka 'blue-van'
I was very surprised by how little load-space there was in the estate, we wanted something with more room, so looked at a lower model in the range; the Astra

Didn't buy either though

If you want big, Skoda Superb. It's simply massive, limo-like rear legroom and a boot as big as a Merc E class. Octavia estate is a bit shorter and narrower.
Otherwise, Passat, Mondeo, Seat Exeo (though not quite as big as you'd think)

We bought an Octavia
I wanted one before the 'blue-van', but SWMBO liked the colour of the 'B-V', so.........................

- Quite large enough, I've had a settee in the back.
- Bought it at 7 months old, with 6,000miles showing, '11 plate')
- Ours is the 1.6Tdi, therefore £30 VED
- We've 55,000+ miles added to it in less than 30 months
- Can manage 55MPG+ just on local journeys (well, I can, SWMBO maybe 10-15% less!!)
- Cheap to insure; it's insured in my name (clean licence since '83, no points), SWMBO has business cover on it, in-laws are on it - in case they need to use it.

Last renewal was £230-odd F/C


However, upon replacement, I want a Superb estate (ideally, the 140BHP Tdi, 6-speed manual, 4x4)

 

[screenman]

Does one need to drive them around a lot in order to bang the dents out?

If it is something I fancy then I give it a drive, I mainly do work for dealers and seldom the public.

 

[JtB]

How does anyone live without air con in 2014?
A must have for me

I've never used the air con in this

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've never used the air con in this

How long have you been a hairdresser?

 

[ASC1951]

....We bought an Octavia
....
- Ours is the 1.6Tdi, therefore £30 VED...

I've just bought one of those, four years old with 48,000 miles. Hatchback, not estate, but it does seem to be a quality piece of kit.
Mind you there are very few genuinely badly made cars these days.

 

[stowie]

I have a second hand Insignia (09), bought from a dealership with 40k on the clock. Done a bit over 14k in the last year. Luckily it had a warranty as it had a stack of major problems - turbo issues, engine manifold swirl flaps etc. Has spent a significant portion of time in the garage. It is better now, but not great, the ride quality is nowhere near a Mondeo - I am hoping this is the tyres or something but I am wondering if it simply the way they are made. The clutch is very heavy, again I have been told it is fine, but other cars I have driven have been far better. During the times it was in the garage I had a Corsa (new) which was utterly hateful, normally small cars are quite likeable but this was horrible.

Vauxhalls simply seen to have a lot of stuff going wrong with them. I have had numerous company cars (Volvo, Merc, Mondeo etc) and they weren't treated as carefully as this insignia but gave me very few problems.

I would avoid Vauxhalls and go with something else. The Mondeo was good, I hear good things about Seat as well. Frankly, my friends with a Peugeot and Renault have had a fraction of the issues I have had with my Vauxhall.

EDIT : Would also urge anyone looking at a diesel to evaluate their driving conditions as well. Motorways - great, but if you are looking at mostly short town hops then please consider that a diesel DPF is sensitive and costly and hates town driving. Plus there is a bunch of other stuff (Swirl flaps being one of the more problematic ones) that diesels have these days to keep down emissions and they can go wrong on pretty much any car. I would really consider a petrol again next time around.

 

[Over The Hill]

They made the tailgate with the lights set in it so that when you raise it you then have no rear lights. So they then have a second set of lights in the boot to overcome this.
This seems to be the most silly and complicated way of doing something they would not need to do if they designed it right in the first place. Such daftness would put me off the car.

 

[pauldavid]

I had an insignia estate as my company car for a while.
It was ok to drive but dreadfully unreliable and must have cost the lease company a small fortune in repairs.
We had two others within the company that were no better.

I would avoid them personally.

 

[mr_cellophane]

I had a fairly top of the range auto diesel estate for a week after some arse wrote off my Mondeo Estate.
Excellent fuel consumption loads of extras, but very poor rear viability and narrow rear load space. I didn't have it long enough to throw the bike in the back and see how much room there was for the essentials.