Hi All,

I thought it may be worthwhile to start one of these off as it could end up getting quite interesting.

This week I've purchased a 2008 1.9Cdti Exclusiv. I've literally got no idea what the Exclusiv means, I've never owned a Vauxhall & I've never owned a diesel. My reason for buying this car is simple, save money.

I've came from this, a 310hp money pit Audi S3, which was costing me around £100 a week in fuel & house deposit levels of money on parts & maintenance. It’s been a fun car to own and it’s given me around 30 brilliant laps on the ring along with being my daily car for 4 years, so I’ve got nothing to grumble about, but I do need to buy a property now. (I'm 28!)

DSC07075 by T.walker5190, on Flickr

13-14h-IMG_3487 by T.walker5190, on Flickr

So the Vectra....

It cost me £1350, which seemed to be a decent price. It’s done just over 80,000 miles & the previous owner has had a clutch & timing belt kit fit in the last 6 months. It also had 8 months MOT. Here it is:

file2 by T.walker5190, on Flickr

file by T.walker5190, on Flickr

file1 by T.walker5190, on Flickr

file3 by T.walker5190, on Flickr

First impressions of the car are good, I've bought it to be my daily, I do around 60 miles a day & I need a car that can cope with that. It has been recently serviced but I’m going to do the following on the car next week:

Pads & discs front & rear (they're pretty worn)
Oil & filter change

I’m also looking to install an OEM SatNav unit into the car. I'm not sure how easy that is to do in these, everything like that was sort of plug & play in the Audi so I’m hoping its similar in this but that’s something I’m here to find out.

The interesting parts that i previously referred to will be this... The car will be making a trip to the Nurburgring, granted not with any laps in mind but I may throw it on there for ****s and giggles. It will also be making a trip over to Le Mans next summer. I've got no intentions to modify the car, but I've also never owned a car and not modified it so I guess time will tell with that one.

I expect to be putting around 30-40,000 miles per year on this & hopefully keeping it for 4-5 years..... I'll update when something changes!