Sell an Opel Corsa in the Netherlands

A Corsa has been on Dutch plates since 1983 and there has not been a year since when nobody wanted a used one. What reaches us is usually a Corsa D well into its second decade, or a Corsa F that is only a few years old.

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Where the Opel Corsa sits on the Dutch market

Four generations are in circulation here. The Corsa C ran until 2007, the D from 2006 to 2014, the E from 2014 to 2019, and the F from 2019 onwards. The line that matters to a seller runs through 2017, the year PSA bought Opel from General Motors. The C, D and E are General Motors cars, with the D and E built on a platform Opel developed together with Fiat and shared with the Grande Punto. The F is a PSA car, on the same underpinnings as the Peugeot 208.

The engines follow that split. The General Motors cars were sold here with 1.0, 1.2 and 1.4 petrol engines, a 1.3 CDTI diesel of Fiat design, and the 1.6 turbo in the OPC above the lot. The Corsa F brought a 1.2 litre three cylinder, with or without a turbocharger, a 1.5 diesel, and a battery electric version sold first as the Corsa-e. Diesel never took hold on a car this size in the Netherlands. The register holds a few thousand of the 1.3 CDTI against tens of thousands of petrol cars, and only a couple of hundred of the 1.5. Your kenteken, the Dutch number plate, settles which one is parked outside.

What actually moves the price

We will not quote a number on this page, it would be stale within weeks. These are the things that genuinely shift what we offer.

The wet timing belt on a 1.2 PureTech

The three cylinder petrol engine in the Corsa F drives its camshafts with a belt that runs inside the engine, in the oil. On a great many of these engines the belt broke up early and the debris found its way into the oil pump. Stellantis ended up extending the cover on it to ten years with a mileage cap, on condition that the services were done on time and with the right oil. That makes the service record the first thing to find on a Corsa F, ahead of everything else about the car.

Easytronic, if an older one is an automatic

Automatic Corsas of the C, D and E years are often the ZF Easytronic, which is an ordinary manual gearbox with a computer working the clutch rather than a torque converter. It takes its time between gears and it always did. Tell us whether it still selects every gear, how it pulls away from a standstill, and whether a garage has ever been inside it.

Three doors or five

Three door Corsas are a large minority on the Dutch register rather than a rarity, and they are the harder ones to place, because most people shopping for a used supermini want the back doors. It is not a fault and it is not a deduction we hide. It is the reason two Corsas of the same year and mileage do not fetch the same. You do not have to tell us which you have, the register holds the body style.

An electric Corsa and what came with it

The Corsa-e went on sale in 2020 with a 50 kWh battery and a larger one followed later. Charge it to full, photograph the range the car shows and send that next to the mileage, because what the car gives today is what we price and the brochure figure is not. Then look in the boot for the mode 3 cable and in the door bin for the charge card.

Worth telling us yourself

The register covers the facts. The rest of it is only in your head, so this is the part of the request worth a minute.

Which generation, and whether the petrol engine is the 1.2 PureTech
For a PureTech, when the belt was last done and who serviced the car
Whether an older automatic is the Easytronic, and how it behaves cold
For an electric Corsa, the range at a full charge and which cables are with it

Common questions about selling a Opel Corsa

My Corsa has the PureTech engine and the belt has never been touched.

Then say exactly that. It is the first thing we look at on this engine and it is not a reason to walk away from the car. A documented belt change, or a full record from a franchised dealer, moves the offer up. No record at all moves it down. We would far rather price it in now than find it out on the day.

Is the Easytronic gearbox a reason you would refuse the car?

No. It is a known gearbox with known manners and we buy them as they are. What we need to know is whether the car still drives and whether it will select reverse, because that decides whether we can move it on its own wheels or have to collect it another way.

Mine is a three door. Does that take a big bite out of the price?

No. It narrows the group of people who want the car, which shows up as a modest difference against the same car with five doors. Year, mileage and condition still do most of the work on a Corsa.

It will not start. Do I say that now or on the day?

Say so in the request. It changes what the car is worth and not whether we want it. We then arrange a collection in which the car never has to move under its own power, which is an ordinary day for us.

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