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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2019 18:16:49 GMT
The Punto passenger door has been black, yellow, silver, black and now black again. The front bumper is blue. All other panels strangely original... So far.
I am to blame for the first replacement (a long story regarding a disgruntled defrocked-copper who didn't like an expert valuer sniffing around his neighbours house and I genuinely had to run - well drive - for my life) and my son is responsible for two others.
Must tell you the story of the copper when I have half an hour to type it.
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Post by Alanović on Nov 11, 2019 8:28:37 GMT
Hang on. Off to get some popcorn.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2019 13:04:10 GMT
Let me know when you are back and sitting comfortably, and then I'll begin...
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Post by Alanović on Nov 11, 2019 13:10:58 GMT
Sitting comfortably.
(Yes, I'm just about old enough to remember that...)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2019 20:37:01 GMT
Punto service and MoT today.
It is 15 years and three months old. 30,050 miles, 9,000 in the last 12 months. Mechanically it is remarkably good. It was given a good once over by the garage. Oil and air filters renewed, new oil, two bulbs, two wiper blades and a tyre. Headlights re-aimed. £244 all in. Checked the plugs but still good. No rust anywhere.
It has a dicky rear wash and the rear wiper arm is bent out of position. I can get a replacement from the local Fiat specialist scrappy.
Brakes were renewed last year. Nothing else to worry about.
Despite looking like a shed, it drives very well and is a great car for wanting to be anonymous. I see similar aged Puntos looking really fresh and i wish I could rebody ours. But it's cheap motoring for a son who still drives around looking for an accident.
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Post by Humph on Nov 22, 2019 14:35:43 GMT
Sounds like a strong wee car. My son has been fully qualified driving for two years now and kept on the Aygo he learned on. It has been a great little starter car, and we have just had the quote for his third year of insurance at around £600 with his two years no claims. Still feels like a lot, but he's only 19 so I guess he's still seen as high risk.
He hasn't bashed it at all ( although he's apparently allergic to washing it or checking the tyres or fluids ) so when it does get a clean up, it still looks smart.
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Post by Alanović on Nov 22, 2019 14:37:12 GMT
No safety checking and routine maintenance, keys removed.
You boomers really are too soft on Gen Z.
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Post by Humph on Nov 22, 2019 14:40:44 GMT
I'd have to take the Qashqai keys too...
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Post by Alanović on Nov 22, 2019 14:45:25 GMT
Good idea.
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Post by Humph on Nov 22, 2019 14:46:29 GMT
I'll let you know how that goes...
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Post by Alanović on Nov 22, 2019 15:02:53 GMT
Where do we send the get well cards? Cheshire Royal Infirmary?
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Post by EspadaIII on Jan 10, 2020 12:15:26 GMT
Son #1 came home on Wednesday night. Dad.. passenger side wiper is not working. I go out yesterday morning and indeed the whole arm and spindle are loose.
Garage says the linkage is very worn. A nice split pin repair has been effected so saving the cost of a new motor assembly. Phew.
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Post by Alanović on Jan 10, 2020 12:17:47 GMT
Can you bin the Punto and give him the Captur?
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Post by Humph on Jan 10, 2020 12:28:15 GMT
I had a Rover 800 a long time ago. A wiper arm flew off at a junction in heavy rain and hit a policeman who was on points duty in the chest. He was kind enough to hand it back to me through the window so I didn't get wet.
He was quite phlegmatic about it when I apologised. "Rover isn't it Sir"
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Post by Hofmeister on Jan 10, 2020 13:15:41 GMT
Son #1 came home on Wednesday night. Dad.. passenger side wiper is not working. I go out yesterday morning and indeed the whole arm and spindle are loose. Garage says the linkage is very worn. A nice split pin repair has been effected so saving the cost of a new motor assembly. Phew. I remember many years ago, think it was a sit up and beg Ford pop with the wiper spindles/motor at the top of the screen, my father was driving down the road in the pishing rain, when the wipers simply disappeared, you could hear the motor, but no wipers. So he gets out, wanders down the road to find them, no good. He turns walks back to the car to see them waving at him over the roof of the car, they had simply slipped round 180 degrees on the spindles. We wont mention the Ford with the vacuum operated wipers.......
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