hi, can anyone advise where the bolts are that hold the front bumper on a seicento? ive undone all the ones i can see but it dont move so i must be missing something and dont wana break my daughters car.
please any advice

There are 2 on top, 2 underneath at the corners, and 4 inside the wheel arch (2 each side).

Thanks

Ahhh thanks, its the 4 inside the arches i didn't know about so i need to take arch liners out?? also perhaps you would know if i need to strip off bumper and rad to change the cooling fan?

with these car being 10 + years old ,bets to remove the rad and fan in one piece then take it off ... as the bolts will be rusty and might snap ..

Ming

thanks, will definitely take your good advice on that, things are so tightly squeezed in. last cars i worked on you could hold a party under the bonnet lol, is the refilling and bleeding of the coolant an easy task?? any any pit falls i should look out for ?? you guys know your way around these cars and what you have learned could most probably save me making a stupid mistake

Yeah it is pretty easy. Fill it up, open header tank cap, open bleed screw. Till it falls out blled screw.

Start car, heater matrix on full with bleed screw open. fluid comes out, close it. Leave car started till fan comes on .

Then that's it . But you need to make sure the fan comes on, this is the part that blow most headgaskets

Ming

its the fan that's caused all the problems. started some time ago with jammed fan....fixed that and tested by shorting it with paperclip across terminals...all was well and fan worked...recently fan stopped working again....sparky said there was a dead short in fan, 30amp fuse was blown and switch on side of rad was shot...i must confess i was a bit surprised it was fan,fuse,and switch all at same time so plan is to take bumper off (it needs re-lacquering any way)so i can see what I'm doing and after replacing fuse test fan again and if it don't work then , following your advice, remove rad and replace fan and switch at same time. one last thing though...where is bleed nipple?

just an update.....didn't need to take the rad out as fan bolts are very new, not even dirty but a bit suspect is that they felt like they were only put on yesterday and the fan has a date stamp of April 2006 the car is 1999 so its had probs before?? also with old fan still attached shorted switch on side of rad and turned ignition on only to find fuse blew immediately, any views would be good

Depending on car you may have 2 bleed nipple.

Main one is just next to the driver side headnight, and there may be one at the bulk head where the water pipes goes into the heater matrix.

thanks for that, its just a bit confusing with so many pipes under there as this one has air con as well.........odd thing though Fiat told me the fan off a sporting would be different as this car has air-con but decided to give it a try and brought a second hand sporting fan anyway and surprise its exactly the same as the one that was on there even same part number stamp!

You have aircon in your car??

quite a few seis had ac. optional extra though

clock34 said:

quite a few seis had ac. optional extra though

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unless you had a 'suite' model where its standard