n00b so bare with me : electro-hydraulic steering on a mk3 golf ?

[madmanmart]

It's not the case of GTI not being an option because actually I chose the 1.4 over the GTI, but I use it mainly as a city/almost-all-day-long-driven car, so I need high mpg.

I wouldn't have picked the 1.4 as an economy car. My GTI gets better mpg than my 1.4 ever did, was just a too smaller engine for the weight of the car, and the engine tech is rubbish, as its an old SPI design.

The 1.6 is a better fit, in either 75bhp or 100bhp (if you can find it) guise

My 1.4 MPI was pretty good on fuel, loads better than a GTI. The 1.4 SPI is a horrid engine.

If you want a bit more power and good economy then I'd go for a TDI.

[Seanl]

The old elec PAS on Vauxhalls do suffer pretty badly from overheating. Especially badly at full lock. Every one I've driven for a reasonable period (the missus had 2 and my sister had 1) has failed until it cooled due to overheating. The early vauxhall ones are very temperamental, and pull to the side/much easier to steer to one side as well. Even when someone went into the front wing of my missus's car, the garage advised its not worth looking at when we told them that the steering was heavy on that side (even though we knew before it had happened) as its a very common problem. Vauxhall never really dealt with the issue at the time so no real fix tbh. Have a search for those specific things as I did when first driving one. Threw up tons of examples....