Well, it's finally time to sell the Croma, the company Zafira Tourer has arrived and the old girl's on ebay, here if anyone's after a 2.4. I'd just like to say long may the Croma section of the Fiat Forum continue, it's one of the more civilized and useful ones out there. (Unless of course that has changed recently, I haven't been on here for a while )

May your alternators keep working and your banana arms be play-free

Well best of luck. That Zafira Tourer looks proper lovely - you'll have to let us know if it's any good, as it's a natural replacement for the Croma.

Your Croma looks pretty good too. You should get a decent price for that.

I for one will be sorry to see you go. Thanks again for all of your help and advice over the years.

Hope you get a decent price for it.

Good luck with the sale, although school boy error covering the plate IMO. How do you expect people to be able to complete a HPI check etc?

And too few capital letters and exclamation marks.

It does look smart though. I like the false boot floor. I made one myself out of OSB and covered it with a charcoal grey carpet but the proper one looks much better.

The Zafira Tourer is good, the ride is better than the Croma and the boot's better too. Steering is good. However, the visibility is worse, the seats are harder, and four cylinders / 165BHP are never going to match five cylinders / 200BHP

Strangely, the gearbox on the Zafira seems more indecisive than the Croma. So, plus and minus points all round. What a shame a 2.2 200BHP S-Max wasn't on my company car list though, I have a feeling it would be a lot more fun . As a works van, the Zafira Tourer is good, I've done over 5000 miles in two months and we're getting along well. Shame it sounds like a Taxi

As for people doing an HPI check, they can send me a message asking for it, I'll have their details as well then

Won't be able to prove nout though, what good is an eBay user name? Just think your going to put bidders off, but your choice.

Best of luck with the Zafira, I borrowed one a couple of years ago and quite liked it apart from getting nicked for speeding. I expect the new version of the Zafira is better than the previous one though, my only criticism was it felt very cheap interior trim wise, the Croma being far superior. Sorry to see you go but I will be joining the ex Croma owners club myself in the next 12 months.
I have not decided what to replace it with but would not be averse to another Fiat.

Good luck with the sale DIDI - and the Zafira!

Lindsay, I see you have a bid, but look him up, he has had 11 bid retractions in the last 6 months, may be nothing wrong, but worth investigating.
I bought a camera a few weeks ago, and was bidding against someone who had 48 retractions, he was bidding on a lot of different cameras, and thought this is how it is done. Your bidder has bids on 4 cars, presumably to retract at least 3.
Best wishes with company car, hope they pay for all your motoring.
Keith

Good luck fella, hope you wont be too long before your back on here to say hello and how you are missing us ;-)

keithglos said:

Your bidder has bids on 4 cars, presumably to retract at least 3.
Best wishes with company car, hope they pay for all your motoring.
Keith

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Wow, Keith, never had you figured for a cyber-stalker

In all seriousness, I'm not too fussed if the chap in question pulls out, one bidder is enough for me and if this one retracts, I'm optimistic that one of the other watchers (not saying how many ) will step up. If it doesn't sell this time, there's always next week...

Thanks for the kind words.

cromas are like classic pandas 90% of the watchers will be nosey FFers

bobbyblue said:

Best of luck with the Zafira, I borrowed one a couple of years ago and quite liked it apart from getting nicked for speeding. I expect the new version of the Zafira is better than the previous one though, my only criticism was it felt very cheap interior trim wise, the Croma being far superior.

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I agree about the ordinary Zafira however the new Tourer version is a big step up and (on my SE version anyway) is a very pleasant place to be. Materials are as good or better than the Croma Prestigio and the design is well thought out. I was very pleasantly surprised and, being GM, it all seems familiar with an orange LED display...oh, and the stereo is the best I've ever had in 25 years of motoring

dave said:

cromas are like classic pandas 90% of the watchers will be nosey FFers

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Don't forget the traders wondering what the f*&£ their p/ex is worth

evo-number-one said:

Good luck with the sale DIDI - and the Zafira!

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Thank you

tarquin1867 said:

Good luck fella, hope you wont be too long before your back on here to say hello and how you are missing us ;-)

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If I remember (and that's not guaranteed as I seem to have frequent CRAFT moments) then I'll come back every so often to let you know how the Zafira Tourer is doing so you can decide whether to get one when you leave the Croma Club

In all seriousness, I've got this one for four years and anticipate doing between 100 and 120K in that time, so it should be a fair test...

BrianMcL said:

I for one will be sorry to see you go. Thanks again for all of your help and advice over the years.

Hope you get a decent price for it.

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Thank you - so do I

I don't! I want to win it for £1310!!!

best of luck with the sale.