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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 14, 2020 17:23:47 GMT
....Mañana.....
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Post by WDB on Nov 14, 2020 18:00:30 GMT
No thanks, don’t want to spoil my tea.
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Post by Alanović on Nov 16, 2020 8:54:07 GMT
It's not range anxiety. It's range management.
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Post by Humph on Nov 16, 2020 8:57:10 GMT
I know I'm eventually going to have to BA, but for now, I just CBA with it all.
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Post by dixinormus on Nov 23, 2020 2:53:13 GMT
Best keep that Punto going, Esp, there’s weird folk visit forums like these that love old Fiat crud 🤣. You might get 500 quid for it one day!
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Post by EspadaIII on Jan 17, 2021 8:01:44 GMT
Took the Pinto to the office on Friday. It sounded like an F1 car and third gear was hard to get, crunching twice before it slotted in.
My usual garage had a look and replaced the back box with a couple of hours. New clutch scheduled for Tuesday. Total bill about £300. Otherwise it still drives well.
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Post by Rob on Jan 17, 2021 10:09:33 GMT
Battery gave out on our Seicento last week. But it was just over 4 years old. It might have trickle charged if I got it into the house but it's fiddly to get in/out and so I decided not to risk it. And didn't want it to leave my wife stranded if it went again.
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Post by Alanović on Jan 18, 2021 8:41:01 GMT
Trading a decent old Punto for Pinto is a bit of a risk.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jan 18, 2021 11:08:24 GMT
Ha! It least our 'Pinto' won't blow up in a rear end bump....
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Post by EspadaIII on Jan 28, 2021 11:35:38 GMT
Car went in for a clutch but they have now decided (as I had thought) that synchro on third has gone, so it needs a rebuild. Should I scrap it but they said no. The basic car is too solid for that. Over 16 years old, 36,000 miles, driven regularly and the engine is strong. Buy a car for £1,500 and you could be buying a wreck; at least this home made wreck we know about. So it's being done.
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Post by Alanović on Jan 28, 2021 12:17:58 GMT
It's an old car, but that's not many miles on it for a gearbox to give up. Or a clutch, come to that.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jan 28, 2021 12:41:55 GMT
Have you met my son Also for the first ten years and 10,000 miles it was driven by an old guy who only went to the shops a short distance away. That probably wore a chunk away as well.
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Post by dixinormus on Jan 28, 2021 18:54:16 GMT
It’s an old Fiat Esp; when you are done with it Al will buy it off you 🤣
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Post by EspadaIII on Feb 3, 2021 11:29:53 GMT
All fixed although for some strange reason both my son and I think that fifth gear is pulling higher revs for the same road speed. Need to find the mph per 1,000 rpm figures.
With the new exhaust, there is a lovely resonance at 4,000rpm but it disappears no more than 100rpm either side. Sounds like a race car.
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 10, 2021 11:57:19 GMT
So, with my son going to London in his Ibiza, the Punto is now designated to my daughter. I rang LV= to put her on the insurance as a learner driver. From now until the end of April they wanted over £3,000!!.
Marmalade wanted under £300 for six months.
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