Hello everyone!

I’m brand new to the forum… All the way over here in South Africa.

I recently bought a non-runner Zafira-B Panoramic with the Z22YH engine and auto transmission (AF20), and I’m hoping to DIY my way through the issues and get it running on a shoestring budget. You can imagine that, if I can pull this off, I will have got an awesome car for dirt cheap. I have 3 little kids, so it will be really handy having a 7-seater when my parents or in-laws come on holiday to spend time with the kids, especially since my current car is a ’97 Astra F hatch!
We don’t have anywhere near the same kind of value-for-money on used cars as the UK/Europe does , so it’s really hard to get a good used car here for cheap, which is why I bought the non-runner… people tend to shy away from cars that need work (and even more from a non-runner) but after hearing his story and doing some research, it seems like the issues that the car has are all fixable without breaking the bank. The guy had just replaced the coil pack in recent months, and then was told by the GM dealership that he’s got faulty injectors. He had them removed and taken to a place that specialises in injectors and was told that they are leaking, but got a crazy quote for the job and decided to cut his losses and sell it.
From my Googling, and poking around forums and watching YouTube, it seem the car is now in “limp mode” (never knew that that was until a few days ago!)… it starts and idles, but roughly. It will move a bit when I put it in Drive / Reverse, but with almost no power… So as it stands, it will only run on a flat road at an absolute crawl.
I’ve been looking around, trying to get info related to the Z22YH, and since you guys in the UK get the Z22YH on multiple Vauxhall cars, I’m hoping that I can get the right info and pointers here. The Zafira is not very popular in South Africa. I see waaaay more VW Tourans and VW Caddys. And even among the few Zafiras that there are, the Z22YH variant is not a common variant, nor is the Panoramic.
All this adds up to a car that I hardly see on the road, but it has the potential to be a really really good car if I can get it running and fix all the issues.

So here’s what I’ve done so far, and the issues I have found:

bought the car
got it towed to my home
bought a bluetooth OBD2 scanner from China to read/clear fault codes and diagnose issues. It cleared some but not all codes, and only a limited number of diagnostic screens are available. I have since ordered an OpCom device, but that's taking a while to ship.
the battery doesn’t hold a charge
rear electric windows weren’t working due to a blown fuse… need to get a replacement
found out how to use the ‘panoramic sliders’ (dunno what the correct name is), but also found out that the front 2 ‘sliders’ are missing
watched a few videos and read a few forums that suggest that the injector seals are likely to be an issue and they need to be replaced, also read a few forum posts on how to test for the fuel pressure regulator being dead... need OpCom for that.
watched a few more videos on how to replace the injector seals, and saw a few genius hacks to do it without that special injector seal tool (more on that in a later post)
got a price for a set of seals from ebay seller Vauxcenter in the UK , local agents can't source them.

I’m at the very beginning of my journey with this car, and I hope it turns out to be a success story rather than a regret.
I’ll add pics of the current condition of the car, plus more info whenever I can, and I’ll keep updating this thread as I make any progress. I will also list the fault codes in another post along with my Googling on what they mean, and what I understand from them.

I hope I will achieve 2 things here…

any/all input from the community here will only help me
maybe someone else with a Zafira has (or will have) similar issues and might one day look through this thread and find useful information