The Wife's Vectra-C - The other battle wagon

[Robsey]

Vauxhall Superstore quote £632.
But then they were never known to be cheap.

Loads on ebay for under £60, but none of them say Tech 2 cleared.

I will see how things go, and see what the local dealer quotes... if there are any still available.

UPDATE -
The Vectra didn't miss a beat today. Started pretty quickly every time.

[Envoy CDX]

Long may it last!

[thomas]

UPDATE -
The Vectra didn't miss a beat today. Started pretty quickly every time.

Excellent news, was worried for you. What was the issue or fixed it in the end?

UPDATE: Just realised I didn't read the top part of your May 6th post, just seen all the errors below that and thought aaargh!

[Robsey]

Yes it can look pretty scary when you get a full system diagnostic report.

An "off the shelf" code scanner would have only picked up the P codes from the Engine ECU. (ECM).
In this case, there were no problems with that module - no engine light.

The Vectra was badly designed to have so many ECU's.
Even one in the front passenger door. (PDM).
I cannot think of many occasions where the spanner light had actually gone out.

The cure was the CIM module getting it's knickers un-twisted.

But - there is no knowing when this will re-occur.
It will be when and not if.

The gradual deterioration of the module has been evident, I just chose to ignore it.

First indication was the loss of all audible warnings about 18 months ago.
I just thought that the internal speaker had failed.

And as mentioned above, mis-readings from the speedometer and rev counter.
The rev counter ocasionally reads 1000 rpm too low, or does not go above 0 rpm at all.

[thomas]

At least it's running, I thought it wasn't still. The cold and damp can play havoc with connections, a good bake and airflow in the summer sun might help.