Michael Dranfield said:

You must have gone through some exhausts and front tyres in 190'000 miles .my 2003 doblo has only done 43'000 miles and needs new front tyres at 5_7 k and typical exhaust life is 18 months . I once paid over £200 for a genuine main dealer cost part that rotted in 18 months so now I buy the £30 e bay specials and they last just as long.

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Neilycus said:

Yep your right mate, they are great cars really robust, surprised me how solid mine felt not having had a fiat since my rotten fiat 127 in the in the late eighties, always remember the drivers window mech was knackered and the glass fell through the the bottom of the rotten door when it dropped down.

Anyway I digress, we just did another trip to Somerset 762 miles at around 46 to the gallon AND survived incredibly as half way to birmingham a large block of concrete fell off a lorry and typically we went into it, very scary, the steel wheel totally destroyed new tyre broken open but thanfully we survived and thanks to a fantastic set of welsh guys working on the free recovery area in the 50mph workzone we got on our way 2 hours later, typically my teenage daughter in the back didnt notice anything, sat with her headphones on in the back!!!.

Only thing I need though is Cruise for those long journeys, but its so prohibitively expensive to justify for a 12 year old vehicle, 1.9jtd 04 I thinkits an 8 valver, 104k so far. Neil.

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