Opel Insignia Hatch, A

An enormous car for the money that rides well and was never taken seriously, which is exactly why it's cheap now.

Overview

The A is the hatchback Opel Insignia, built 2008–2017 and facelifted in 2013. 3 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €1,050–€4,950, and 0 of the 3 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The 1.8 A18XER is both the cheapest way in, from €1,450, and the lowest-risk engine of the range, which makes it the obvious starting point. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.

Body stylehatchbackProduction2008–2017
Platform siblingsA Sports Tourer wagonFacelift (LCI)2013
What changed at the 2013 facelift
New nose, lights and a much-improved interior; New 1.4 and 1.6 turbo petrol engines; Revised 2.0 CDTI diesels. The engine changes are the ones that matter, a car built in the changeover year can carry either engine, so check the engine code on the block rather than the registration date.

Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 20082012

The 3 variants sold before the 2013 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.

3 of 3
BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
1.8A18XERpetrol20082012140 PS175 NmR21€1,050€3,100€1,450Buy w/ conditionsView
2.0 CDTIA20DTHdiesel20082012160 PS350 NmR34€1,250€4,050€1,750Buy w/ conditionsView
2.0 TurboA20NHTpetrol20082012220 PS350 NmR32€1,550€4,550€2,100Buy w/ conditionsView

Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 20132017

The 3 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.

3 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.

3 of 3
BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
1.8A18XERpetrol20132015140 PS175 NmR21€1,150€3,350€1,600Buy w/ conditionsView
2.0 CDTIA20DTHdiesel20132017160 PS350 NmR34€1,350€4,450€1,900Buy w/ conditionsView
2.0 TurboA20NHTpetrol20132015220 PS350 NmR32€1,700€4,950€2,300Buy w/ conditionsView

Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →

Model-year availability

Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.

Variant08091011121314151617
1.8 A18XER
2.0 CDTI A20DTH
2.0 Turbo A20NHT

● full year · arrives or leaves mid-generation. Years from 2013 in the accent colour are facelift (LCI) cars. Verify the engine code, not the model year.

Rating map, price against risk

Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.

Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.

cheap · low risk€1.5k€1.8k€2kR1R2R3R4R5good-buy price →risk ↓1.8 A18XER: Buy with conditions, risk 2, good buy €1,4501.82.0 CDTI A20DTH: Buy with conditions, risk 3, good buy €1,7502.0 CDTI2.0 Turbo A20NHT: Buy with conditions, risk 3, good buy €2,1002.0 Turbo
Buy / strong buy Buy with conditions Caution / avoidLeft is cheaper, up is safer. The top-left corner is where the value is.

Prices across the range

Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.

Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. OPC cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.

Cheapest good buy€1,4501.8 A18XER
Median good buy€1,750across 3 engines
Dearest good buy€2,1002.0 Turbo A20NHT
Full range€1,050€4,950P10 to P90

Every standard engine · cheapest first · 1.8 A18XER highlighted as best value

€2k€3k€4kGood buy
1.8 A18XER€1,4502.0 CDTI A20DTH€1,7502.0 Turbo A20NHT€2,100

at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile

Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these

Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.

Module and infotainment faultsInsignia platform€150–€900
Warning lights that come and go, an infotainment screen that freezes or reboots, and occasional electric-window or central-locking failures. These carry a lot of electronic modules for their price and the wiring and connectors age. A weak battery is the most common root cause, since low voltage upsets several modules at once, though genuine module failures happen.
Check: Scan every module rather than just the engine, work the infotainment for a few minutes, and check whether the battery has been replaced.
ElectricalcommonPartly detectableevidence: documented110200k km

Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 3 times: OPC cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.

Buying summary

Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.

Best value: 2.0 CDTI, the engine most of these carry. Two things decide it: whether the particulate filter has been looked after, and whether the timing chain has been done, because the chain is a known wear item and the repair costs a large share of the car. Buy a facelift car if you can, since the 2013 update fixed the worst of the interior and the infotainment. Electrical faults are common and usually cheap, so scan every module.

Cheapest and dearest in this chassis

The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.

Lowest entry price

1.8 A18XER : from €1,050, risk 2

2.0 CDTI A20DTH : from €1,250, risk 3

2.0 Turbo A20NHT : from €1,550, risk 3

Lowest risk

1.8 A18XER : risk 2, good buy at €1,450

2.0 CDTI A20DTH : risk 3, good buy at €1,750

2.0 Turbo A20NHT : risk 3, good buy at €2,100