Vauxhall Astra tops reliability survey

Published Date: 6th Apr 2010

The new Vauxhall Astra is the most reliable best-selling fleet cars on the road, according to news put out by Warranty Direct at the start of April.

The automotive warranty specialist analysed the reliability of the 10 most popular fleet vehicles in Britain from 2009.

According to the survey 11 per cent of Astras suffered a failure once a year on average, costing £247.49 to repair. BMW's 3-Series was in second place with a 13 per cent failure rate, costing £316.19 and Ford's Fiesta was in third slot with a 19 per cent repair incidence,costing £187.36.

In joint fourth place was the VW Golf and Ford Focus with a 20 per cent incidence, costing £287.43 and £306.50 respectively.

One in 12 VW Golfs will suffer either cooling and heating, or electrical system failures, and while the Astra rarely breaks down, when it does its electrics are often to blame, causing 42 per cent of its failures.

The survey was compiled using Warranty Direct statistics on 3-6 year old cars from its database of 50,000 UK policies.
 
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