Punto (Mk2/2b) My HGT Punto

my favourite colour, pitty fiat still dont produce any of there current range models. Its one of the things i miss about my stilo - as its different!

the old cam shaft variator, yessss a common things on the old 1.8 block! Assume you have the diesel roar at start up

defiently need the suspension kit with the 15" wheels, but i prefer them

enjoy, she looks smashing

Looks great! That first pic looks like a scale model of an HGT for some reason hehe.

Add de-tangoing the indicators to the list

Yeah when i got it it sounded like a tractor .... smooth now tho

Colin how do it de tango them then .....:yuck:

Adz

Colour is amazing. Looks stunning

Is it true about HGT's having quite a lot of engine trouble?

adz182 said:

Yeah when i got it it sounded like a tractor .... smooth now tho

Colin how do it de tango them then .....:yuck:

Adz

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I think it involves taking the light unit apart. Dave's done it on his.

karbineftw said:

Colour is amazing. Looks stunning

Is it true about HGT's having quite a lot of engine trouble?

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If the oil has ran low it starves the variator and f**ks it up and makes it sound like a tractor .. thats the most common thing i think !!

Adz

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Except that their pretty solid. Just make sure you stick to the 36k cambelt change rather than 72k Fiat originally recommended!!. If your variator goes again GSR do an uprated one.

adz182 said:

If the oil has ran low it starves the variator and f**ks it up and makes it sound like a tractor .. thats the most common thing i think !!

Adz

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is this common in any other models?

midget4hire said:

is this common in any other models?

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Don't worry your 1.4 has no variator.

looks awesome, i want another sprint blue mk2

I like
Wats with the dice on the rear bumper lol

Nice to see all's well with it and its running sweet now

i would however like to make it clear, that the grande punto incident was not as the OP stated, due to driving on bald tyres in the snow, they had approx 2.5mm left on them all over at that point. and as he knows after it eating through a new tyre mega quick, the tracking was badly out (partly caused by that incident and slowing the car down by touching the kerb, i will admit) and that ate through the tyres at a huge rate.

The bump was caused by a woman in a range rover of all things deciding she couldnt risk damaging her 4x4, even though it had tons of grip, and stopped in the middle of the road after pulling out of a junction in front of me to call her husband.

with the road being slightly downhill and the grip deteriorating, it left me with 2 choices, go under a range rover, or slow the car against a kerb, which i did do, and my momentum took me into the grande and about 3mph. as soon as she pulled out infront of me and stopped for no reason, i was more or less a passenger and there was no way i could avoid a little bump.

and neither could the 3 other cars that came down the road minutes later when she left her jeep in the road, one managed to do the same i did on the other side of the road, one stuffed his scenic into a wall at about 15mph, and the other car went into the scenic that was in the wall

strangely, when the police arrived, they inspected all the cars and measured their tyre tread depth, all were found to be totally legal, and the woman in the 4x4 ended up getting a severe ticking off and i believe was up for careless driving due to the incident.

so rather than making me look like a complete idiot, perhaps you should have asked for the facts of the matter rather than posting whatever the hell you like without the slightest consideration towards another member of this forum.

mrcinquecento said:

Nice to see all's well with it and its running sweet now

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Does that insinuate you knew all wasn't well and it wasn't running sweet before you sold it? I.E. cutting out by itself?

Need i say more??

col7104 said:

Does that insinuate you knew all wasn't well and it wasn't running sweet before you sold it? I.E. cutting out by itself?

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i was reffering to the variator.

As far as i was aware, all problems were sorted. i had a problem the day after i got the car, it went to my local garage, they inspected it, found a small problem with the charging system, cleaned up all the contacts, fitted a new battery and i never had any problems afterwards, that was 2 months BEFORE i sold the car with zero bother. no warning lights, no cutting out, no problems at all.

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Need i say more??

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very selective information there. did i not say in the post that the tyres were not in that condition in the incident? the wear was caused after the incident, not good, i agree, but it was in now way contributary to how the bumper got cracked.

they were inspected at the time by the police and were totaly legal, as were the brake pads on visual inspection. i went on information from the owner before me that the pads were new and had no reason to doubt that. when it turned out they were not, i appologised and refunded you the cost of standard hgt pads as a goodwill gesture. strangely, no mention of that anywhere or the fact with all repair costs an values you've mentioned added in, you still got the car well below bottom end book value

I can only appologise that problems showed up after you got the car, and like i say, i'm happy the car is getting treated well and has a new lease of life, it's really, really good to see but would rather you didn't have a personal dig at me on a forum and told a story that wasn't actually true without the facts.

pretty poor form imo

d0wnin said:

I like
Wats with the dice on the rear bumper lol

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:yeahthat: you did tell me at stanford but i completly forgotten lol.

lovely little car and looks great in the flesh hope to see it again sometime

Fair cop mark . In all fairness you did refund the price of the pads . Not having a dig mate if you didnt know about the problems you didnt know !
Just s**t when u get a new car and have to spend as much as the car is worth putting things right .. Guess thats life lol

Its all good now had a damn good blast yesterday after the rain and toyos stick like s**t to a blanket

Cant wait to take it on combe!!!!

d0wnin said:

I like
Wats with the dice on the rear bumper lol

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Ummmm just because i found them while sorting my shed and put them on there lol ..................:idea:

nice car adz. Come to puntomk2, we show you how to de-tango headlights :devil: