9th Jan 2009, 11:46

Hi, have had my Zaffi for 4 years now, and the only problems I have had is rear door windows stopped working, and its wires from pillar to door were broken; a bit of solder and away they went.

Had an old Astra 1.7 diesel J reg and scrapped it before buying the 02 Zaffi; never let me down, but the body work wasn't doing it any favours!! So it had to be sent to the scrappy!!!

Back to the Zaffi, and I have never missed a service, and touch wood, that could be the answer, will let you know at 50000 miles and bought with 20000 on it! Who knows what is round the corner? Saying bye, and hope all is well for the future of Vauxhall drivers...

9th Jan 2009, 19:37

Have got a Zafira 51 plate, traction light and ABS light flicker on and off. Loss of power slight misfiring and juddering. Traction light stayed on yesterday with sound coming from brake servo as though it was sticking. Taken to dealer for diagnostic testing. Told it's the ABS sensor gone, am worried in case it's not. Fingers crossed they're right.

10th Jan 2009, 03:52

Further to my comment of the 28th dec (1.6) we checked the oil and it was very very low! Topped it up and car is now purring! Have been on the motorway since and no probs so fingers crossed no more dashboard lights!!! Had it serviced and it stalled on the way home but hoping that's the extremely cold weather we're having. In future we will check the things we can ourselves instead of automatically running to the garage!! Looks like the new EGR was money wasted.

11th Jan 2009, 06:16

Have bought a V reg 1.6 Opel Zafira (originally badged for Ireland with 85K on the clock) Engine management light has been on most of the time we have had for the past five months. General symptom loss of power once warned up. The independant garage that we bought it from has been very methodical in tracking down the source of the problem under their warranty...

The garage has replaced free of charge and labour the following items!

Radiator,

Airconditioning radiator

Next visit Oxygen sensor 1

Next visit catalytic covertor

Next visit Lamba sensor

Next visit Idle valve

Next visit Oxygen sensor 2

On each occasion an item was replaced we were assured that would be the final time they'd need to see it! In total they have test driven it 450 miles in post fix tests.

Having replaced all these items under their warranty it failed again and had to go back. Over the Christmas period they had it for five days and finally found out that the problem turns out to have been a partially blocked breather pipe. Needless to say the owner was very sorry. We don't mind though because he has replaced so much of the engine!

We love the car, very practical small 7 seater.

Moral of the tale, if you have a Zafira with an EMU light problem, get the garage to check the breather pipes!!!

12th Jan 2009, 16:38

Update posted 9th January 2009. Driving car today and EML now on permanently along with ABS and traction light, still some spluttering and momentarily loss of power. Phoned local garage for diagnostic testing due to lack of confidence with Vauxhall garage from the other day. Will let you know what I'm told when take it in on Thursday 15th.

16th Jan 2009, 17:06

Update.

Taken to garage and it was the throttle body, which they cleaned, but it was still not perfect so they changed the air mass meter, still have traction and ABS light on, so will be going back into garage for these problems to be rectified.

22nd Jan 2009, 10:45

Can anyone help me?

I have a Vauxhall Zafira Design '07'. I have had constant problems with it. I hate it, hate it, hate it and after spending 13k on I expected something "safe".

At present I can't turn the service light off, was ripped off by Vauxhall for the parts, refused to let them service it too. Does anyone know how to do this as I have been told that if I don't it will start going into 'safe mode'?

This is the worst thing I have ever bought, I have tried to give it back but they are having none of it. Wish I had used the money to buy a BMW, at least they know the meaning of after sales customer care!

23rd Jan 2009, 10:38

Try this...

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_reset_the_service_light_on_a_vauxhall_zafira

23rd Jan 2009, 11:58

03 Zafira 1.6 Club, low miles, car misfiring and seems to be no logic as to when it happens.

One of the spark plugs was very black and sooty, so replaced all 4 plugs, just to have the plug soot up again shortly after, have also..

Cleaned then replaced EGR.

Replaced coil pack and added a fuel additive to try and clear possible blocked injectors, and still the car is still misfiring. If I ever find the solution, I will let you know.

Causes... mechanic and auto spark has looked at the car, and told me plug 4 is misfiring, which I knew already.. they came up with the following possible causes:

Coil pack.

Sticky valves (which are common with Zafiras).

Blocked injector (s).

24th Jan 2009, 11:05

I have a 52 plate Zafira. The light with spanner has been coming on after few minutes of driving for months. Just ignored it as has had the ignition reset and a new chip in the key; being a women I thought that was the problem.

Now I start it, but when put it in gear to drive, I have a major loss of power, so I sit revving the life out of it for 5 minutes, then it seems OK.

From reading all previous comments, it sounds as though this is just the start of my problems.

My husband has taken it to our local garage who are friends. They said they had a Meriva come in, and it was the air flow sensor which cost £53 and was pretty much a one screw job! So am going to buy one of those and get my husband to fit it. Just nervous that this is not going to work as the car is on finance, so I am stuck with it. Wonder if it is covered by our mechanical insurance that the finance company sold us, but has so far been of no use???

Heather.

26th Jan 2009, 09:24

Oh my God, everyone here seems to be having same issues, thank God I came across this site. I was just about to buy a Vauxhall!!

Everyone seems to have same problem and it's not on Parkers guide.

I used to love Vauxhall because it was British car (but now it's American) so you can expect!!! I tried to keep a Vauxhall 5 times in my life, but you know every single time ended up spending a lot more than expected. But same time a Vauxhall Cavalier is one of the best cars though..

So now I have no choice but to buy Toyota (even though I don't personally like to buy Japanese cars).

So if you have Vauxhall please sell, even if you lose money because it'd never be eco-.

Thanks.