Throwing Money, Time and Brand New Parts at a "Worthless" £300 Opel Corsa 

I know it's strange, but I find it so much more satisfying to watch this than some Ferrari barn find.

I honestly kinda hate this throwaway society sometimes. So many perfectly functional cars that just need a little bit of work are now considered "worthless".

So happy to see 90's econoboxes that usually thrown into scrapyard gets restored!! keep up the good work!!!

There is nothing worthless about that red nugget

A 'worthless' car that gets you around is the best thing to have! No depreciation!

Here in Brazil, the Corsa is considered an iconic car, it was manufactured between 1993 and 2014! It's still a joy for younger people to this day, even a 2000 Corsa was my first car!

i'll always stand by the fact that old cars are worth keeping around for so many reasons. they're cooler, easier to maintain, so much cheaper, and have worlds more soul than any new car.

Old Opels have the perk of being completely repairable for absolutely free. At least 7 out of 10 times only some elbowgrease is needed 💪

These Opel Corsa's are beasts. No matter the abuse they always soldier through. If you're on a tight budget or if you are just buying your first car. You can't go wrong with a Corsa. Either the B or the C.

There is nothing better then videos of restoring old cars back to life, no matter the make. So satisfying!

I had exactly the same model, red, 5 doors, mine was a 1.0 12v from 98 or 99, was a world cup edition. It was imported from Germany around 2013 and it was in my family until 2018 or so. I had the same problems, throttle body was dirty, gearbox was full of oil. Otherwise besides normal service i changed one sender pump unit, one camshaft sensor. Also my rear axle broke exactly under the left side spring holder. I was doing some offroad but nothing extreme. I had to weld it back. 😁 The car it’s still on the road, my father sold the car in our city, the new owner it’s happy with her. Remember when this car managed to start at -27 C in hard Romanian winter but the idle motor was giving high rev to the engine, around 2000 rps intermitently. At least it’s was starting. Good old times. Now i have a 1.2 Corsa D from 2011. The gearbox it’s covered in oil already. 😂

43min video? Let's go!!!!

I had an Opel Corsa, "nomed Chevrolet Corsa" here in Brazil, I used it for 10 years, it was a great car, it met all the requirements, work, travel, tours, etc., I really like the Corsa, tks for video

Honestly seeing 90's econo shitboxes in prime condition will get my attention over triple digit priced supercars any day. Shows the owner has taste / Mechanical ability and interesting character.

I know what it's like to spend money on something "worthless"... I just bought a 1995 Renault 19 RN for €330!! The car is in good condition, but with a lot of mechanical work to do... People say it's worthless. But for me, it's worth A LOT!

Honestly, the only thing that separates a worthless old thing and an worthwhile old thing is time. Keep caring for it long enough and it will become as valuable as an oldtimer in the future and people will moan that we should have kept more around! Great job.

Not worthless at all. I had a Corsa 1.5TD a few years back that I got free. Drove it for 4 years on a mixture of paraffin, cooking oil and red diesel and it only needed a couple of shock absorbers. Wrecked it when I hit a badger For the past 8 years I've driven a 2001 Passat TDI Estate that cost me £160. I get parts cheap from a "new old stock" shop on ebay. Cheap motoring is great

I think every city in Europe was full of these - often in that faded red lol. Usually they weren't looked after and were run into the ground. Nice to see how well they can polish up. Question is whether it's worth doing. Still fun to watch it being done. :)

I’m an aircraft mechanic, I really enjoy seeing videos like this. It reminds my how I also use so much time and money restoring old cheap cars to high standards😅 It’s just so satisfying saving cars like this from the scraps. Keep up the good work!

Holden Barina in Australia. I've just bought a 2011 about 1 month ago. It's has just 40,350 kms on the clock. 1.6 litre manual and it's great fun to drive.

Here in brazil we see a lot of those Opel Corsas branded as Chevrolet, they seem to last forever with minimum maintenance. The advantage is that there is almost no eletronics to break like in modern cars.

I come from a higher upper class family. Where i live having money makes people think you sell drugs. Instead of getting a 20k eur car that makes cops to stop you daily i got a junked A170 w169 A class and then i redid everything at home garage, paid 1700EUR for the car and 3800EUR in parts. Took me 3 weeks of work (i bought all the workshop tools for the a class, engine and frame holder etc) The car is probably the most well functioning A class in Serbia

you are doing a really good job fixing old cars, and i think i speak for all people when i say we love reviving old cars. Wish you would upload more often

8:21 the red paint of the engine bay really pops versus the externals! That’s some intense fade over the years

Congratulations sir. Refurbishing this Opel Corsa you're doing a lot more for the environment, keeping this car on the roads for more years, without the contamination created by making new cars, specially electric ones with their not-so-green and prone-to-catch fire lithium batteries.

I would love to have one of these as my daily. They are common sight here in Brazil, very economic and reliable cars.

I tend to forget that these are older and rare cars that need good care now. In Norway, i would reckon that every 4th car you’d see at some point would be an Opel. That was when this Corsa was new. Now these Opels are most gone, and the memory is what’s left. New Opel cars never managed to get quite the same market position. So now Opels are more rare than ever in Norway. (That’s how i experience it). So these cars are an important part of history that needs care. Love to see you do this on an Opel. My father had an old Opel Omega A. I have a special relationship towards older Opels, so i love to see you take care of one.

*THIS* is how you save the environment; keep old cars in good condition, working at maximum efficiency, and use them for as long as it's economically viable for you. *NOT* by throwing them in the bin and buying brand new EVs, made from parts shipped across the planet in freighters, powered by batteries with lithium mined by child-labourers.

You definitely have the Latin American spirit with cars. beautiful Opel Corsa (in my country; México, it was known as Chevrolet Chevy Swing in its first versions). greetings and success!

Fantastic engine bay clean. Looks brand new. Great.

Just came back from the handout, and you dropped a video about the Corsa? LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

This kind of work would actually help us in the sense its worth it to the planet to keep things working, until we fully switch over to an alternative

I'm brazilian, happy owner of a corsa (here with chevrolet brand) my car is 2001 model, it's so nice to see corsa content!

Bro my viewers call me crazy but you are way more crazy than me 😅 Love it... Cheers 💪

I am really glad you’re doing this. It justifies my driving/maintaining a 1993 MX5 Mazda Miata as a daily. Of course, living in California we have minimal issues with rust.

That why Hilux ugly, old and 700k down is still going. Fk a new car and new problems.

Really good video, I learnt mechanics from my Father. You work very precisely like him. Your a pleasure to watch. Very proffessional videos.

This Corsa B series is still a very commun car in Portugal !!! I pass my drivers licence in a 1995 Corsa 1.5 Turbo diesel 😊 it was shuch a rocket 😅

I had a UK version of this car, did a lot of my own servicing to that car. So good to see one going and what can be done to keep them running. While they might be considered worthless, they offer people a cost effective means to get from A to B. Great to to watch, you have a real attention to detail, keep up the good work!

Buen trabajo, donde se consiguen los productos, en especial el de restaurar plasticos?

Min farmor har en exakt likadan, som hon älskar. Den håller på att ge upp så är definitivt intresserad den dagen du vill sälja den.

I also have an old shitbox and I love to fix something cheap that nobody notice except me. I really appreciate your work and your attention for any detail. This car deserves attention and she had it. Good job, I appreciate it, keep it up!

All things considered the Corsa B is a very reliable little car. They drive quite nice if maintained, are easy to repair and cheap to operate as well. Back in the day every second learner started in one of these. Rust is the only issue they have, really. They don't build simple cars like this anymore. So I think it's great to keep it around. Especially in this day and age. Driving this thing is way more enviromentally friendly than constructing a modern car which is way heavier, larger and contains way more plastics and electronics. Because every car nowadays needs to be a driving infotainment system with at least 150HP. What ever happend to small cars with like 45 or 60 HP, a radio and maybe a sun roof or AC.

Man a Mechanic Like you would be awesome to have worked on my 1990 toyota corola.

Härligt att du är tillbaka igen! Har bara kollat 10 min men älskar att du aldrig lämnar något åt slumpen!

In other countries, it's worth putting $4000+ dollars into a car because it can be hard to find a car for that money

I don’t even know this channel exist but I love watching people restoring nuggets cheap cars

Man sees 90s car Man sees car getting the love it deserves Man happy (:

This was really entertaining and of good quality, thank you! Look forward to the next one

Great to see the love for the B corsa

This car already looks kind of retro, and probably worth £300 scrap. Maybe a bit of a hot take but the price will start to rise over the next 10 years.

Impressive work - using top quality parts and taking time to prep for paint, carefully removing gaskets etc. Any plans to paint correct the bodywork?

What a comprehensive work. Thanks for the video. Also wondering about body polishing procces.

This is a great video concept, I’m having a blast looking and learning from this project. Keep up the good work you got my support.

I liked the accent, because as a brazilian guy, I have some difficulties with english accents haha. I liked all the video as well. Congratulations for the awesome work!

Where/how did you learn English? You don't speak with much of a Swedish accent!

The attention to detail and level of finish you've done here is both incredible and inspiring. Cleaning and painting everything makes such a big difference. The engine bay is like show quality when you're finished. Well done keep up the good work 👏

Very nice video. These cars are legendary in Mexico. They were sold as Chevrolet Chevys and they were so popular that they were sold until 2012 under the same platform. The motor looks different tho, yours in DOHC and the ones sold here were SOHC

Checked back yesterday, no video. today? BOOM new video!

The way things are unrepairable nowadays, this makes lots of sense. I have a 2004 1.4 16v Polo thats like new. I'm second owner, bought it from an old chap in Liverpool who hardly used it in 2016 with 13k on it. It was like showroom condition and still is, looked after it and done whatever it needed. Just over 63k now and NO plans to get rid for anything else, reliable as they come.

Lovely work - you are so neat and precise!

Making old things last longer is a smart thing to do, hence people don't do it. :)

Why are you saying this Opel is worthless? It's actually now a classic, 20+ years old. This will only increase in value in the next few years. Doing all this work will increase its value even more.

Absoluetly LOVE these type of videos man! Thanks for making one like this❤❤

Great stuff. Love how you clean the surfaces every chance you get. Very satisfying to watch

Insane how much room they've given you on the belt side of the engine. I would KILL for that much room in a majority of transverse engined cars

Nice work man. Opel Corsa B is highly underrated in my opinion, almost everything can be fixed pretty fast und cheap - a perfect daily driver. And I bet it will survive longer than many modern cars...

Shouldn't we focus on repairing things that work instead of manufacturing tons of garbage that lasts for a couple of years and is impossible to fix after that? Wouldn't that be actually beneficial for the climate and humanity as a whole? I'm getting sick of modern day economy that is based on constant growth, artificial needs and at the same time, patronizing us, regular folks, for destroying the planet.

Love your attention to detail, you can never need too much extra cleaning 💪

Top shelf renewing,, 🍻😎👍‍‍

A superb job. Great to see older cars getting the special treatment 😇

Nice mini series, I like your work. I find these new times very strange when the cars are the topic. Cars from 1995 - 2010 are different in their philosophy to modern new cars. They are functional and durable. I hate modern high tech digitalized cars with huge flat screens in cabin. I like buttons, I like analoge dials and gages, I like dashboard with real arrows I don't want screen with pictures. The engines were better too. Small, durable petrol and diesel engines, 4 pistons, simple and effective. Now we have these shitty 3 piston engines which die after 150 000 - 200 000 km. The cars are expensive to run, there are too many things in them. I am planning to buy Volvo from late 2000's, invest some money in it and drive it for some time.

Cheers from the Croatia. You're doing great stuff with this car. In my country they would say "You're an idiot wasting money on this shitbox, you could save the money and buy something better"... Some people just don't understand the enjoyment on this and how relaxing it is. Just leave me alone to do what i love till i am young and healthy.

I know is not the same car, but my father had an 1995 opel astra caravan 1.4 that have run 315.000 km without problems. Another thing i noticed is the wheels bearing never went bad even the payload sometimes was over the limit. The only thing he replaced were the brake pads, battery, wipers, oil, filters, tyres, pivots.. i mean.. it was a saving machine

I miss my Opel Corsa, it was a 99 coupé, 1.4 sport with a/c, power steering, and abs, it was only with me for 1.5 years, it caught on fire while it was parked during a morning while I was working. So glad to see someone appreciate and keep on the road this kind of cars. I miss small cars on the road, tired of egg shaped SUVs

Old Is Gold And Should Never Throwaway of memories and old car is the memory 👉💯 If stupid can't throwaway his beloved old wife then how they throwaway his old car? Don't give lame excuse for throwaway old car

This is nice to see. I've spent obscene amounts of money on cars others consider "throw-aways". That term is alien to me. An oil analysis on my 86 Olds Calais came back showing I was getting antifreeze in my oil and let to replacement of the head just a few years ago. Worth it? I love the car. Cheaper than a new car payment. Good work. This is the sort of car I'd walk across a show field to see.

I got a 2008 corsa d and Iam shocked to see how this engine is to mine and its 15 years older. I just recently did the water pump and serviced the gearbox. A little maintenance goes a long way with these cars. They‘ll last forever if the rust doesn‘t get them.

Shall I tell you why this is not worthless? After the age of 60 my mother got interested in cars and started driving and now she has a Corsa of this exact model and she drives it daily without any problems !

it is sad seeing people not wanting to bother to go this far with maintenance because of the value of the car, some even refuse to do frequent oil changes because of low value of one

It's not worthless! It's really nice to see otherwise forgotten cars receiving attention. These little cars may not be fast, but they are certainly suitable as daily drivers. In fact, the same Corsa B structure was used in Brazil until 2012. Really nice work!

Good stuff! Alot of these procedures I've done on my own 5D B Corsa :) We have a different engine though; you have a twincam, mine is the sleepy ol' C14NZ (8 valve) :) I've also tried very hard to find a gasket set for my throttle body but it seems they've completely vanished, been thinking of buying cork sheet and making custom gaskets since one of them on my throttle body is sweating a bit as it is so it's in need of a replacement. Also kinda wanna replace the fuel pressure regulator diaphragm but those aswell are none existant :| People call these cars trash but they're actually very fun to drive around town because they're so agile and responsive, you can take corners very fast where bigger cars need to slow down significantly. With the lack of ANY modern systems, you're in direct contact with the road (no power steering, no traction control, etc). Due to their lack of power you can actually rev up and pedal it while still going within the speed limits LOL. Someone said it very well "it's alot more fun to drive a slow car fast, than to drive a fast car slow" and this is a very meaningful thing to consider if you wanna avoid speeding tickets several times a year or getting your license revoked. Nothing's gonna change my mind, old and simple hatchbacks such as this Corsa are FUN. They are not fast or comfortable, but they are fun :)

This whole video had me screaming”GM, why?!”. Great job polishing a turd, If only gm ever cared about this car as much as you do!

Thats REALLY nice work!!! Mayba you can do the same with my 2001 Renault Twingo 16 V ;)

How to recondition a car in an optimal way with a minimum expense, very good indeed, I have a Golf 4 1.6 16v benzina with 204,000km and I treat it in the same way, congratulations again

Old cars are relatively easy to repair...word is slowly getting around in supposedly rich countries like Germany...there is too much trouble with modern cars. I drive a 12 year old Dacia Lodgy and am so impressed by the low costs for maintenance and repairs.

No car is worthless, fixing an old car is cheaper than paying £500 a month renting a new one.

Hose on a plastic tube should be fixed only with spring loaded clamps because of plastic shrinkage during cold temperatures which leads to loosing clamping force on a regular screw clamp.

Aqui no brasil chamamos de Chevrolet corsa. Pois a opel nunca veio para nosso pais . Limpeza incrível

It would be funny as hell to deliver it to a car mechanic and see their reaction when they open the hood. EJO AUTO: "You ok there champ?" Mechanic: " I can work for free" 🥵

I have an Astra F 2.0 8 valve Euro for 21 years now they can say about an Astra what they want butt it is n great old car easy to work on and are very very reliable vw owners like to talk bad about Opel butt I know what I have.

Do another video of a car which is cheap but you do all that work. :) You will get helluva alot more subscribers!

I prefer to watch work on these old cars. Too much perfectly good cars that need a bit of work are going to the junk yard instead. Thank you for this video.

Wow that throttle body was bad! Top work. :)

i love watching old "crap" get revived and a fresh start. cars literally can last forever if treated well. unless they're a ford focus 1 liter ecoboom lol

I just poured $7,000 in repairs into a 2007 Lexus LS460L with 190,000 miles… if you like the car, why not? I paused before giving the OK for them to do the work and thought about what car I could get for $7,000 WITH those repairs made to it… I couldn’t think of any. I especially couldn’t think of any car that is $7,000 that makes me that happy WITH those repairs done to it.

en grej som många inte vet är att de klassiska metalbandet som slangklemma har ett visst moment i sig, för att skydda motorn så kan dem åka av vid vissa tryck. VS skruv slangklemman sitter fast och slangen och i värsta fall andra grejer går sönder.

Awesome video! And this little Corsa get a 2nd life. :)

This repair/restoration is much much green than throw away this car and buy a new electric car

I love watching regular cars getting such TLC.