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Another Milestone For My Fiat 500

200000 miles

Loads of services
Quite a few tyres
1 radiator
1 set of glow plugs
1 inner CV joint
1 clutch (the clutch was ok release bearing failed)

Upgrades
DPF Delete
Straight through mandrel bend exhaust
Coilover kit
Abarth steering wheel
Abarth wheels
Abarth front discs and calipers (new)
Pipercross panel filter
AmD Tuning remap

I have also achieved 82 mpg on a tank of V power Diesel

Kurt, what else would we spend our money on, drugs. women,alcohol, oh wait.........

I guess 82mpg is little recompense for 200000 miles of hell!!!!

Personally I'd rather boil my own head than drive a Fiat 500 - unless of course someone does a conversion to put one in the boot of a FullFat to save driving the real deal into city centres

I drove a 500 abarth with a monza exhaust system. Very nice car I thought, so much so that I might get rid of the a5 cab for one for the missus.

@riccartonl boil you head in a pot of stew... love it

I think it would be a fun little car to drive for a while. Wouldn't want to get rid of my RR for one though, and a Fiat 500 would struggle to tow my 3500kg trailer.

To be honest, I like having a choice of vehicles. Just when you have a 12 year old car made my Land Rover and a 12 year old car made by Lotus you sometimes don't have a single working car to choose from!

Some might say the worst of both worlds David

The thing I couldn't take with one and shared with the sport and disco as well is the constant banging of my knee on the centre console or running on it during trips. The full fats is nice and soft as is the citroens but hard cheap plastic there isn't for me. And a small car is meant to have a petrol engine that red lines 100rpm past peak power so as James May has said, you change gear when the tappets are dancing on the bonnet' 😄😄😄 FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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