(T) Dude! What's wrong with your car?

1) I want to show you my feedback but I don't know how. Does this one work: http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=neller2cool&fta b=AllFeedback ? http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=neller2cool ? I give up, How do I do it? Or you can just search for "neller2cool" and read from there.

2) We were haggling remember You start high, I start low, and we meet somewhere in the middle if you want. You can start at £50, I'll start at £5, ~£30 is near the middle

Wait a bloody minute!!!!

Are the inside and outside rubbers different?
http://www.fiatforum.com/classifieds...?product=14270

tippexs only wobbler on the ring trip, thank heavens for small mercies

Jai - did the window fall off its plastic peg?

Ucof - the inside and outside plastic strips have different cut-outs but can be modified to mix and match - use a sharp knife rather than scissors, the plastic tends to split.

I won't be back in Portishead for the forseeable future so you'll have to get by on your own I wish I had your wit, though. You should make Louie a more reasonable offer by private massage... I mean, message... (that was a typo, honest)

-Alex

To the private messagemobile!


Alex - I cant get those plastic strips off. They slide on the runners, but I assume that I need to unhook one end from the door frame to get it out.
I might actually just buy a new outside seal (or two) from someone on here - there's an advert floating about for them.

alex....yep, started with the inner rubber folding down as the window went down, then the window would rotate forward abit, it popped the white peg that hold it in the vertical channel, then it fell off its ledge in the regulator

bugger

loool
mine comes pop the white peg out when it goes down on drivers side

Oh, I forgot 4 more things,

The drivers window sometimes makes a dry squeeking sound when you open it (unless its my arm ).

When you use the remote release to open the boot, it wont re-shut till you push the little lever on the boot catch in manually. No amount of bending or lubing the catch lever, adjustment of the cable, front lever or lock catch has made any difference so far.

The driver seat backrest tilt release doesnt release properly (since my large bouncer mate borrowed it & bent the runner guides (& split 1 of the roller wheels on the runner in half)...

Someones cracked my OSR light lens & the fog light reflector is corroded (as I found out the other night trying out my new "1156 36 LED panel" lights I got off ebay which turned out to too dim to replace 10w sidelights, let alone 21w brake lights by the way... NOT recomended... I`ll be making my own soon).

Thats it... till I remember more...

Hi, I am new to this forum and ucof's thread is responsible for making me register here.
The problems with my Uno! I could go on and on. But let me list it out in brief.
The car is 1999 model 1.0 litre FIRE.

1. Vibrations creeping in at low rpms. It disappears at higher speeds. (I changed my alternator belt and bearing, ac belt, tensioner, suspension bushes, silencer head gasket, apart from clutch master and slave cylinders recently).

2. A strange sound after shifting gears. (It started happening when I had a gearbox oil leak and had to run the car with low oil)

3. Various nicks and dents on body. Traces of rust below doors and on some spots just below the window beadings.

4. Stock steel rims look ugly now with rust and dents on them though the tyres are in good shape.

5. Scratches on the paint.

Yeah, that's right, blame me!

(Welcome to the forum! )

Thanks, ucof. I've been using this forum a lot lately but it was your inviting post that made pour out my troubles)))

Temp gauge doesn't work - dodgy connector onto the engine block thermostat.

Coolant seems to be escaping from somewhere.

Annoying rattle from rear left of car when starting off in the morning - exhaust?

Is this your car you're talking about Ucof?

Temp gauge not working and coolant escaping could be an airlock in the cooling system. No coolant in the area of the temp sensor means no reading. Or could be a sign of headgasket failure. Hopefully it's just a loose wire.

Just wondering, but have you checked your anti-freeze content? With this freezing weather the block is at risk of cracking with no anti-freeze. That would then obviously cause coolant loss.

Rattle from rear does sound like the exhaust. Try replacing the exhaust rubbers, cheap and simple to do. And make sure the back box isn't parting company with the from pipe as this can also cause rattles! Most likely accompanied by a load exhaust roar. If not, just look for something loose around the area that the noise is coming from.

Good luck!

OK here we go the Fuct FIAT currently has

Flasher Relay constantly ticking [think its a bad earth on the rear lights?]

Rear wiper motor squeals during just its first wipe across the screen when it gets switched on

No synchromesh on 3rd gear

Slight blow on the exhaust joints

Disfunctional passenger side window regulator; have a replacement from LouieB but its too cold/wet/snowy at the mo to go fit it!

Front passenger side shock has a leak; secondhand -60mm struts/springs/shox being picked up next week

Dented passenger door, also rusty...but I kinda like it that way

Rusty drivers side wing... and I made it worse by taking the paint off with the flapper wheel and leaving it bare metal....again I kinda like it that way

Rusty drivers door... not distressed this bit YeT with the flapper wheel

Other than that its running sweet at the moment

Sometimes the needle works, but most of the time it doesn't - I'll try bleeding it now.