Flashing 'F' on a corsa 03 SXI easytronic
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So I've had my Corsa for about 9 months now, and over the last 2 months its been flashing an 'F' intermittently and refuses to start. First few times, a mate was with me who knew a bit about automatics and he whacked the start motor and got it going(i know!).
Since then, it completely died on me in a car park, thought id get AA to come down to at least look at it and get it going - the guy put a computer on it - nothing, after 45 mins he got it going and told me to get the motors checked and get it to a garage asap. after about 45 mins of driving back him in n traffic, the car actually this time conks whilst still running and start displaying the flashing F on the dash again.. called AA back, a different guy this time who apparently tightened up the crankshaft but still didnt start, got towed home. Weirdly, I tried it again when we got it home and it started up.
Drove it to a VX garage, they did a quick check on it and all they found was that there was a prob with the radiator fan which is why the cars has been over heating recently but they couldnt pin point what the F was... and as the car was running whilst it was at VX, all they could do was to run a more expensive engine check on it, i decided to leave it for now and find someone else who could do that for me. However, after getting it home and making a few short journeys, its now again failed to start and just displays an F.
So anyone ever had this issue with a Corsa? Its just sitting outside, I bout it for 1450 back in october and just wana get rid, but obviously cant if it doesnt even move.
problems seem just a bit too common on (ZF) easytronics - have read about some mechanics refusing to touch them!... tiz reason I got a conventional auto vauxhall (gearbox supplied by a division of Toyota) as I weighed things up & came to decision loss in mpg would be made up by lower garage bills
Edited by barky on Sunday 22 July 19:44
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