http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/20/self_combusting_corsas/

Haha, worse build quality than Reno!

this was on watchdog a couple of months ago... i paid special attention to it as i owned an 04 plate corsa sxi, and now my dad owns it!

it's quite shocking, a womans car was on the programme and it was just stood there and hadn't been used for two days or whatever, and the next thing a neighbour was knocking on her door saying your car is on fire!!!

water getting into the abs system and shorting the electrics!

My Missus has a 53 plate SXi :scared:

Best let her know about this :(

heard about this a while ago, heard it was something to do with the ABS wiring.
towed an astra to a VX dealer the other day and a old couple had a newspaper cut of this problem with pic and VX denied they knew anything about it.