New guy from Brisbane.

[Hilikus]

Hello everyone,

My name is Kieran. I don't currently own an Opel but am looking to get a 2003 Astra SRi Turbo in the next few weeks. My faithful Honda Jazz met it's demise thanks to a truck's failing brakes so just waiting on the insurance to come through. My parents bought a Golf 77TSI after I convinced them to take one for a test drive and I'm thoroughly impressed with how a car drives when it's torque is available low in the rev range so the TS SRi T with it's 250Nm available from 1950rpm looks very interesting to me, plus I've always loved the shape of the 3 door TS Astra.

I don't have any major plans for the Astra other than some Angel Eyes (opinions on Mars Performance's CCFL Angel Eyes?) and maybe allowing it to breathe a little easier (I've read a CDTi airbox can help plus some bits from UK VXR's).

Anyways, look forward to sharing all this with you.

Cheers.

[guy 27]

Welcome to oa

[dutchy]

Welcome Kieran. The sri-t, love 'em too.

[Danny86]

Welcome buddy.. Where in brissy?? I have an AH sri-t with angel eyes they look sexy as!! :)

Danny..

[faneca]

Welcome to OA!

[Hilikus]

Cheers all. Danny, I'm in Mount Cotton, so not technically in Brisbane but that's a minor detail.

[rodsfromday]

Cheers all. Danny, I'm in Mount Cotton, so not technically in Brisbane but that's a minor detail.


Welcome non the less!!

[Hilikus]

So I've arranged to have a look at this on Wednesday. 2003 Holden Astra SRi Turbo on Car Sales (http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/holden-astra-2003-13489606?base=1216&vertical=Car&cr=2&eapi=2&__N=4294739806%204294950628%201282%204294965857%20 4294965856%201216&num=15&silo=Stock&sort=~Odometer)

There are only two others on Car Sales with less kilometres and the prices jump quite a bit. What are some things to look out for? Since the big 120,000km service is due soon, how much am I looking at for that? $800 or $900?

Willhouse's Astra is on car sales also, and looks bloody nice but it might be a bit far away.

[03srit]

Welcome bud. And good luck with the search for one.
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[chrissn89]

Welcome to OA, Willhouse' SRiT is an excellent example and comes tastefully modded.

[dutchy]

there are 2 prices mentioned in that add so is it 7800 or 9500 ?

[Hilikus]

I'm assuming he's dropped the price from $9500 to $7800 but hasn't changed it in the comments section but I'll ask him.

[Hilikus]

Well, went and had a look at it today. It seems to have lived a hard life, didn't look anywhere near as nice as the pictures. Oh well, the search continues.

[willhouse]

Welcome to OA, Willhouse' SRiT is an excellent example and comes tastefully modded.

+1! Ha ha :)

[el3ment]

Welcome to OA... from Brissy here too... south side.

[Hilikus]

Found myself a nice SRi-T :)

[Danny86]

Winning!!!

[hazrd]

Found myself a nice SRi-T :)

You bought wills didn't you ;)

[chrissn89]

You got yourself an excellent sri-T mate enjoy it :)

[faneca]

+1 take care of her and post up pics of when you get it.

We know what it looks like. It just looks awesome in pictures lol

[Elliot_O]

Yew, another Brissy roller! I'm in the city, have to get a cruise going soon.
Congrats on the SRi mate

[willhouse]

I'll be keeping tabs on this ;)

[Hilikus]

Yes I did hazrd. Thank you all. Drove it home today. 910km avergaing 6.9L/100km so pretty happy with that and when I needed to over take people, boy did it get up and go! As a comparison, my mum's 2011 VW Golf 77TSI got 5.9L/100km so considering the Astra has twice as many killer wasps (before FMIC, exhaust and tune) and one less gear to play with you've gotta be happy with that! It really is in great condition and a credit to Chris and Will. I'll look after her gentlemen. One photo from this morning before we left Mudgee...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8089/8382300777_c137d66f1f_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/67732743@N07/8382300777/)

[guy 27]

Will be good to see this back out with us in Qld. :)

[willhouse]

Glad to hear the trip went smoothly. You didn't take that goats track on the way back did you? Ha ha. Bit weird not having the car anymore, first time in nearly 4 years I haven't owned a silver 3 door 2003 Astra MK4!

[dutchy]

Will be good to see this back out with us in Qld. :)

One went and one came back to qld in return :wink5: