Vauxhall Zafira Comfort 2.0 DTI

We love our Vauxhall Zafira Comfort 2.0 DTI, the real workhorse of the family.

It is huge on the inside, and it carries everything at the back, including shopping, bikes garden rubbish, and furniture from Ikea with no problems at all.

The last 2 seats at the back are rather small however the kids love them when we need to transport 7 people. We only tend to carry 4.

Plenty of legroom. And we have had only one problem with the car over 5 years - and that was fixed for £30!

Driving the car is fair, it's not a sports car but the engine does have plenty of umph... motorway cruising is pleasant - and you can easily cruise at a relatively high speed.

Would definitely recommend.

The Vauxhall Zafira Comfort 2.0 DTH (02 reg)is a good people carrier but if you intend to go past 90k then get a simalary priced volkswagon touran.The credit cruch is lowering value of mpv's,so buy now.

The Vauxhall Zafira Comfort 2.0 DTH car that I have was originally a lease car. Made 80k miles in 2 years from new, then I bought it. I am going to run this car into the ground. Now at 135k miles.

I keep refilling stone chip damage to bonnet, which has not yet gone through paint.

Apart from tyres, the following needed replacing:

Glowplugs at 80k and 135k. Mass airflow sensor at 80k.

Unreasonable steering rack + PAS pump assembly at £900 for a "loose trackrod bush MOT fail" at 120k miles. Dealer failed to adjust tracking so front tyres went almost immediately.

Front brake discs + ECU replacement at 110k miles. Also temp sensor and RPM sensor. Cost £1100. Caused by ECU voltage regulator unclipping and rattling around until the wires frayed. ECU replaced because the dealer couldn't understand fault codes stored due to power failure to ECU.

Aircon needed a recharge : inaccessible filler nipple behind everything in engine bay for DIY access.

Battery retention bolt seized and sheared when I changed the battery for the second time in the life of the car.

Fault light came on randomly at speed on motorway recently, but seems to have cleared up again since replacing glow plugs.