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Anybody out there got a viva or any Vauxhall. What it is my car window screen is freezing up in the inside of the car. It is pure ice, and it takes me ages to remove it with the heater. Anybody know what it is causing it. Thanks
Vauxhall Viva
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Close all your vents at night?
Don
Window left open just a tiny little bit (kids used to masters of this with wind down windows on our zafira - visibly you couldn't tell, but wind noise or washing the car would be noticeable!)
Is it because it's cold?
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Excessive moisture, low temperatures.
This is not a Vauxhall Viva specific issue, but the worse your weatherproofing is, the worse the icing will be. My old Manta would have more ice on the inside than the outside most winters.
This is not a Vauxhall Viva specific issue, but the worse your weatherproofing is, the worse the icing will be. My old Manta would have more ice on the inside than the outside most winters.
Soldato
Really didn't there'd be that much love on here for a 70s Vauxhall, figured they'd all rusted away by now!
... and yeah, check for water.
... and yeah, check for water.
Soldato
Oh god, what did they rebadge?
It's like a smaller Corsa. I got a lift home with someone who has one and she was ragging the nuts off it for such a small engine car, 4k upshifts on the rev counter within 30 seconds of starting it up. Hasn't missed a beat apparently. As an aside my parents had the original in red. I vaguely remember no seatbelts in the back and sliding across the seat when we went round corners. I also remember a cream coloured Triumph Toledo, a Renault 11 TC (A265KFX I'm sure it was), a Rover Maestro and then a Peugeot 309 1.1.
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You wont believe this, but it's an Opel Karl. You can see why there's a different name for the UK!
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It's so awful I think even Vauxhall have given up trying to sell it. If you want one get one soon as it ends production next year
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Thanks, I'll stick with my 13 year old Skoda!
Never seen one in the flesh, see more City Rovers and Chinese MGs around here. And 70s Vivas to think of it.
Never seen one in the flesh, see more City Rovers and Chinese MGs around here. And 70s Vivas to think of it.
It's so awful I think even Vauxhall have given up trying to sell it. If you want one get one soon as it ends production next year
It’s a great little car does exactly what it says on the tin. Had ours 3 years and for around town and short journeys it’s perfect. It ends production as it’s a GM based car it shares the same chassis as a lot of similar cars all made in Korea...
The 1.0 3 cylinder 75hp engine is a bit lacking but it does the job well enough and is really good on fuel.
Ours is the wife’s car and it has spent pretty much 3 years driving 6 miles a day to her work and back and ferrying the kids around and it has not missed a beat. Tbh it’s the perfect second car.
Had two at one point...... lol
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Soldato
Old man used to have a HB GT, that thing was horrible on cold Winter mornings. Assuming you could start it without flooding the engine with the manual choke you then had to sit there revving it in order to warm the engine up and then leave it with the blowers on to thaw the windows out.
I'd be disappointed if a car couldn't do ~2000 miles a year without issues, never mind a nearly new one!
Bit more than that in reality it’s on just over 10k in 3 years. Pretty much all short journeys doubt many diesels would cope the DPF filters would have a meltdown....