Car help, Corsa?

[st3v3]

My mate has bought a Corsa (52 plate?) and when I drove it home for him, about 10 miles it was perfectly fine no issues.

It's been parked up at his mums for about a month an half, not used and started once.

Today, we go to shift it and find the front near side 'down' as if the tire was flat but it wasn't - I reckon it's slightly deflated but think there's a suspension issue but nothing's visibly wrong.

Then, there's a brake problem. When it's going on the clutch it stutters every other few seconds; and when I light brake there's a non-constant squeek. It starts smelling really bad of brake pad and when you turn the wheel while stationary then go to set of it's really juddery unless you put a fair bit of throttle on.


I'm wondering if the suspension thing is 1 drivers wheel being slightly down compared to the rest but the gap from wheel arch to tyre seem's less than the passenger side yet no-ones touched the car at all and I'm thinking the drivers brake disc is slightly warped (surely it can't just be crap in brakes) - but it's random coincidence 2 things happen in same 'area' which are related and appear at same time?


Watcha's think?
pics of wheel gappage:

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https://img693.imageshack.us/img693/2131/dsc00642p.jpg
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[delvey91]

It looks far to low on both sides tbh.
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[st3v3]

I think it's been lowered a few mill by previous owner who owned a garage, but drivers side is an inch or 2 lower than other 3... it wasn't to start.
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[lonner]

your mate has got some money to spend in afraid

it sounds like the drive shaft is fooked and if it clunks on both locks he needs 2

the sag may be the mac pherson strut has lost its damping and again will need replacing .

it may well have warped discs too so yet more cost


if he got this from a garage id be paying them a visit and talking to trading standards as it sounds like a right minger but then its an old boys car so all the normal faults that driving like a top racing driver causes


good luck

[st3v3]

He got it off a garage owner who's not a teenage 'yoofie' and wouldn't really be bombing around pretending he's lewis hamilton, and he's not spending a couple K on it to find bit's going wrong so soon so yeah, he'd have a word. (tho it was a private sale as his own car not a business deal)

Il let him know tomorrow cos he is planning to spend cash on it, but is it possible for me to drive it so much distance and not notice these faults 'then'; - where as I have now? Surely they can't appear overnight?

It just doesn't make sense..

I'm thinking a new strut and brake disc at worst may fix it; if that fails I'd imagine he'll be off back with it
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[michaelnabbi]

you might find you have a broken coil spring caused by a fked top strut mount quite common on corsas easy to spot just jack both sides up and try and turn the wheel lock to lock by hand if it goes smooth top strut ok. while doing this have a look at the spring and see if it is trying to twist/untwist if it is top strut bearing is no good also sound like you have a seized brake caliper again while jacked up try and spin the wheels should be nice and free if not then caliper is either seized or pad is seized in carrier hope this helps
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[st3v3]

Does yeah, thanks.

Can't get front drivers wheel off though at the moment, the locking nut key socket thing bust on us, I've done another thread just below this asking if the one of out a random Ebay set will be an ok replacement?
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