Hy, I'm new on this forum and I am from Romania. I have a Fiat Seicento Sporting Abarth :slayer: (the black & orange version) that needs its front shock absorbers changed because they are making a strange noise and the rod of the absorber moves in all possible directions. The car has 138.000 km made and the suspension was never changed.

Now, I was wondering if the Seicento Sporting Abarth has different suspension compared to a standard Seicento?

From what I saw, the Sporting Abarth version has a more rigid and lower suspension... is this right?

The height of the body can be changed by the shock absorbers or depends just by the springs I am using... because if it is so, the problem is more simple (I wanna keep my current height setting... lower would be too much for my 14" wheels and for romanian "beautiful" streets)?
I am waiting for your advices on what shocks to choose for my Sei Sporting .

PS: I wanna also to apologize :worship: for my English if I made mistakes. And if someone wants to see my car I can upload some pics.

Shocks are the same. Might as well replace the top mounts (indeed, the problem my be the top mounts) while you're at it. Munroe and Bilstein make nice standard spec shocks. It's the springs that set the ride height.

A good guide in the guides, above.

tnt said:

And if someone wants to see my car I can upload some pics.

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Lets have a look then

Your English is a lot better than my Romanian, thats for sure.

Welcome

Cheers

PD

Some pics then...

But please don't forget about my questions!

The above pictures were made after I bought the car and the number plates were the bulgarian ones... the car was first registered in Bulgaria because of the huge taxes here in Romania (for Euro 2 cars).
Now, I have payed the registration tax and the new romanian number plates are like in the picture below...

Welcome to the FF

Nice Looking Sei Sporting Abarth mate

tnt said:

Now, I was wondering if the Seicento Sporting Abarth has different suspension compared to a standard Seicento?

From what I saw, the Sporting Abarth version has a more rigid and lower suspension... is this right?

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Its got the same suspension as a normal seicento sporting if thats what you mean yes. So fine for your car yes. Other models (s, sx, etc) have slightly higher suspension (20mm i think???)

tnt said:

The height of the body can be changed by the shock absorbers or depends just by the springs I am using... because if it is so, the problem is more simple (I wanna keep my current height setting... lower would be too much for my 14" wheels and for romanian "beautiful" streets)?
I am waiting for your advices on what shocks to choose for my Sei Sporting .

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As already said, ride height is set by springs not shocks.

tnt said:

PS: I wanna also to apologize :worship: for my English if I made mistakes. And if someone wants to see my car I can upload some pics.

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Better than many of the british members, don't worry about it

Very nice Pics ,It's the same as mine

Ok, I found a guy here that imports suspensions from Apex and he told me that he can bring me only the full suspension kit (4 shocks & 4 springs) which is quite expensive... about 400 euro. Are they any producers that sells just the shocks for Seicento Sporting?

And if someone has an ideea... how much the shipping to Romania will cost?

apex kit in UK called £220, then shipping to romania is about £30 to £40.

With the great exchange rate, try shopping in the UK and ask if they will post!

http://www.europerformance.co.uk/pages/products/product_info.mhtml?product=3666157


Ming

Tenneco Europe seem to be the suppliers of Monroe dampers.

http://www.taec.nl/pdfonline/MONROE080519.pdf

is the catalogue and they seem to have Romanian distribution.

It lists both OE and sensatrac units for your car.

Cheers

PD

Would this fit on my Seicento Sporting?

tnt said:

Would this fit on my Seicento Sporting?

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Yup

Cheers

PD

tnt said:

Would this fit on my Seicento Sporting?

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Yer mate