I own a Vauxhall Corsa 2002 automatic/ tip tronic (?) petrol car. I am having a number of problems that are likely caused by the same thing:

1. Since December it occasionally decides not to start. It will turn over but won't maintain the revs and dies. Also the dashboard display goes blank including the gear indicator and mileometer. If left for a while (Ie a few hours) and try again it usually will start.

2. Also, the dash display will occasionally drop out whilst driving and the speedometer and rev count needles will fall to 0 and the hand brake light will come on - 20 seconds later then they will rall eturn to normal. The AA came to look and said it was caused by a hardware error with the aircon and the message was deleted and I was told to not use the aircon and it should be fine.

3. Two days later I was driving the car and the display dropped out again, came back up and then five minutes later, in the middle of a busy crossroads, the car stopped entirely, the dash board display disappeared, the engine cut out, the hazard lights wouldn't work and it wouldn't start again. After being pushed to the side of the road the hazards worked and the engine started. I still waited for the AA to be on the safe side and was advised that this is a notorious problem with the 2001/2 corsa's and that it was likely to be a dodgy connection somewhere.

I have booked that car into a vauxhall garage to have a diagnostic check run but I am concerned about the price of fixing the problem and they are not able to give me a rough estimate. My question is has anyone come accross this before? If so, what was the problem? and how much was it to fix?

Any help/advice would be gratefully received.

Thanks!