While looking for a cheap as chips car, ie Hyundai, the other day I stumbled upon an Ibiza. Only had $4K on the window, think it was 97 model, 154,000KM. Apart from a lack power and space it was twice as good a car as a comparably priced Hyundai.
Has anyone owned one of these? Or heard reports? I wouldnt be going back to buy this one because I want aircon (dreaming in a 1.4 ltr?) but its an option over a noisy clunky hyundai. I know they made 2 litre ones as well although if they were golf engines they would no dout be gutless 2 litres. What about cordobas? Remember thrashing a Gti once upon a time, but nothing about its ride or anything.
I cant believe I was about to buy a 2.4 litre lancer but bought land instead. ARGH shoot me.
zac_smits 路
we bout a 1994 seat ibiza for my sister about 2years or so ago now.
it's a 1.4L manual, gunmetal grey with alloys. we paid about 6.5k or something similar and it had more k's than this.
i'd say, check the underside of the pan for weld marks (sometimes these can be dodgy apparently), and get it checked over by a racv dude..or nrma up you way i think...
all vw parts in the motor..(actually, it has the same starter motor as my 2L 97 golf :P)
air con and heating works great in them..basically all the same gauges and dials as my golf too..
power can be a bit on the low side sometimes..but they handle fairly well (check the brakes :P) and with 2 pioneer 6x9's and a35wx4 headunit in my sisters it sounds really good 馃榾
i think hers maxes out a little over 170-180km though i can't remember..(not that i'd drive my sisters car like that of course)
anything else let me know and i'll check it out...
DIY-DUB 路
cordobas rule! good power and what a sweeet sweeet note they make, but no my dad went and got a saab instead cause mum said no, dammit, i loved the cordoba
" In terms of service costs it鈥檚 pretty similar to a VW Polo, "
" VW connection and solid build quality mean relatively trouble-free ownership; some minor problems reported with electrics."
"CarCheck
Body: Poor paintwork on a few cars.
Engine/Gearbox: Check out sports models carefully; clutch problems due to sticky cable; 1.3 can get noisy at high mileage.
Other:"
my mate has a seat gti and it goes quite well repairs have been a little costly for him and there is no spare parts back up as they have pulled the pin in australia
karmen 路
austral mtrs in Bris get parts as all are vw
my daughter and i have a cordoba each and my son owned mine b4 me so now has 244,ooo
and not using oil or water , just 6.5 L /1oo ks
did not even mind being retimed for ulp.
only prob i had was the clutch 195,000 ks o well
and the aircon compressor but am told is an electrical fault as it went overnite.
handles & gutsi still does 170k/ph on country rds
and great extras this is 2 airbag 96 mod just needs abs
the 2 L ones are beaut too Toledo and don't need much tlc
good on tyres esp with whl alignment.
i loooooooooooove it so cheap and zippy. daily driver now... huge boot too
karmen 路
like a golf but 60% of the price and spoilers etc
check carsales.com
killakornkobb 路
parts guy at work has a GTi.. he loves it.. parts r the same as a golf
vwtyp2 路
we had a Seat Cordoba.
very under rated car.
awesome value for money.
It's basically a Golf 3 with a spanish body.
great to drive.
amazeer 路
The cordoba gti that I serviced went really well on the test drive. Thats all I remember, blasting up the back street.
I just remembered that the brakes on the ibiza I drove last week were shot. They went to the floor. But im sure that would fix OK, probably just out of fluid and pads. But yeah, stuck real nice on my favourite road test location.
Cordoba = Golf. Ibiza = Polo. I spose both ibiza and polo share some golf parts.
No bad reviews. Maybe I should look into this further! A 1.4 litre ibiza for 3K, a new cam, fab a new exhaust, with the turbo/intercooler from the shed, buy another EFI hmm 6K for a fairly quick car. probably not good enough to take out any hillclimb classes but a nice sleeper. Never going to happen but would be a lot of fun. Maybe start another thread, fastest street ibiza :P
zac_smits 路
hehe drop a 2L golf motor into there..or even better there's a $2k negotiable subaru motor(and gearbox) on here. that'd be pimpin.
or, go all out, get a 3.2L audi twin turbo mwhahahahahah