hello everyone. im pretty new here.

i have recently bought a 1.6 16v fiat stilo.
i saw it on autotrader for £700
tax till august , moted till march 2013.
65,000 miles
slight paint fading on bonnet
and blow in exhaust.


so i jumped on a train from london to cheltenham (across the country towards wales) with a one way ticket... and bought it...
bearing in mind i was driving my first car beforehand ( a ford KA 1.3 LOL u all owe me a slap)

so when i saw it... the bonnet had a serious paint problem , the laqure top coat was completely buggered. it was peeling . the entire car is faded from a rich red to almost coral red . ill show you some pics in a little bit of the paintwork problems and fading.

i knocked the guy down to £650 straight away due to this....
also had a few bulb warnings on the dash... easy fix..
then came the dreaded moment... ( i dont have log books for it but im waiting for them to come through "HE SAID"

so i called dvla an asked them if there was any markers on the car, they said no. they also told me log books had been applied for the vehicle from the new owner but they couldnt tell me the name of the person who had applied [data protection act] .. fair doos.

i did a MY REG CHECK (clear)

i also have a contact that works for the PLOD ... he did a check on the plate for me an everything was fine... naughty naughty

i took a copy of the blokes drivers licence and his NHS DOCTORS REGISTRATION CARD [ yes he was a doctor].. just to be sure.. knocked him down to £600 cos of the logbooks... and i drove the car home to london.

so on the way back i relised the cars temp kept rising on the motorway when i booted it...
this turned out to be a slight leak leak in the rad.... this is now fixed...
however now i think the sensor is broken cos the needle thinks its on cocaine.. .. cold hot cold hot cold hot up down up down up down.. there are no more leaks. the hoses are good.. and i changed the coolant... so must be the sensor.

the blow in the exhaust.... that ended up being the gasket on the downpipe fromt he engine .. thats now fixed

i now have the logbooks.

but now i have more problems ...

ive had to keep change stop brake bulbs 3 times in the left brakelight since i bought it ... hmm ?

i have had to change the clutch... u would of LOLed so hard at the state of the old one ..... i mean ive seen less mess in a SAW film. it was torn apart.
so the gearbox had to come off and ect ect ect . not just the clutch ... the clutch hydralics ended up dying on me 2 days after i bought it...
ive gone thru 3 used master clutch clyinders from the breakers as they kept just deciding not to work... ive now bought a brand new one...
oh btw if you live in south east london... and your trying to find stilo hydraulic clutch components in breakers yards... give up .. cos what i could find.. ive bought for spares.. =D

so i was pretty pi$*ed at this bloke.. he had obviously lied to me about all the problems with this car...
i said to him.. ive spent more time fixing it then driving it since i purchased it..
said that im gonna park it back up on his drive and burn it if he didnt compensate me for the problems he decided not to tell me about.

i managed to swindle back £100 from him , he sent it via postale order the next day .. so ive now paid £500 for the car... (touch)

right so the cars on what like.. 66 ... 67 thousand miles so the service lights come on .. this gonna be done in next few weeks

ive changed the brake pads... and the disks as these were metal on metal ..

so ive paid in total prob somewhere in the reigion of 900 - £1000 ..



now the tracking rod end ont he left hand wheel has play on it.. this is producing a pretty annoying knocking sound as i steer left and right..
so now i have to fork out for them.. ill fit them myself and then get the tracking checked at a garage after..
( i may need advice on this.. as im not too clued up on some aspects of mechanics)
so if anyone wants to give me there 10 pence of advice... all is welcomed


KEEP AN EYE ON THIS THREAD..
soon im lowering her..
and going to respray her. tint windows.. might even put a bigger engine in her next year when i hit 25.. and me insurance drops a little

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Thermostat is shot. need a new one.

i changed the tracking rod ends today but nearly totaled the car in the process..

TIP dont use the spare wheel jack to hold up the car for a prolonged amount of time LOL

mine buckled and snapped , luckily i had the wheel off and sat under the car under the drivers door saving my little beauty from hitting the floor


the replacement went well tho, the new ends are bolted in place and tight, my annoying steering knocking has gone.

the left side rod end bolt was bent and had a crack in the bolt and was ready to snap... !!! couldnt belive the state of it ! could of gone at any moment



ANYWAYS....

im thinking of purchasing a electric spray gun and covering the car in matte black , using Plastidip paint.

for you that dont know what it is.. its an amazing elastic/rubber paint. you need minimal masking to spray the car..

u can spray over the windows , lights.... everything.. wait for it to dry and peel it off !

i sticker bombed the back window.

ignore the door stacks.. they are coming off .. was bored an hey , £1.60 for 12 stickers.. touch .

yeh shes getting some new wheels , thinking 17s. lower profile tyre. then lower her 25-30mm

theres currently a shortage on plastidip paint in mattte black which im planning on using.. grrr
so looks like a waiting game .

Sounds like you have had your fair share of probs but at least its better off for them being fixed, yeah seen plasti dip paints, you should for a matt blue or matt red would be cool and no need to change theogbook then

once its dropped it will look much better, i am about to lower my stilo jtd multi, once decked i will sort teh exhuast as i dont want to rip it off getting of my drive, and i have a front lip spoiler waiting to go on, i use golf vr6 deep splitters, as there cheap and always available and on my last wagon i went through 3 in a year.

PULL THEM DOOR STICKERS OFF NOW lol

like the back window but i think the stilo lends it self to clean lines, i sticker bombed my last cars back window and fuel cap but pulled it all off and looked better for it

loose the tights

clock34 said:

loose the tights

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They are already gone courtesy of essex police) thurrock sat night bout 4 weeks ago,

OFFICER: why was you wheelspinning infront of us in macdonalds car park sir..

ME: cos i didnt see u behind me officer..

OFFICER: ooh sir look at your lights.. (rips em off) HERES A £30 FINE ,

ME: =[ sighs

OFFICER: is that a aftermarket exhaust.. bit loud eh

ME: glasspack cheerybomb officer.. but i bought it already on the car and got an mot with it on

OFFICER: hmmmm ( hands me a SECT 59 )

ME: carrys on into drive thru

rat20v said:

once its dropped it will look much better,

PULL THEM DOOR STICKERS OFF NOW lol

like the back window but i think the stilo lends it self to clean lines, i sticker bombed my last cars back window and fuel cap but pulled it all off and looked better for it

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agreed. cant wait to drop her. but wana fit on some new wheels and tyres first to see what space i got to work with.. want her proper slammed .

shes got stickers on the fuel cap already.

as for the door stacks.. yeh was kind of a impulse thing ,

i got
SPARCO
MAGNEX
RECARO
FUISON
PIRRELLI
BILSTIEN
(ALL THESE MAKES ARE NOT ON MY CAR ... YET.)

they are coming off LOL

i also got 35w 8000k xenons fitted .. but im thinking of taking them back off aswell as i didnt relise how S**t hot the po po are on tugging ya for them .
all this self leveling c**P ya need and washers on the headlight lenses pfft

only paid £30 for them anyways

WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPERTUNITY TO BUMLICK ALL MEMBERS AND MODS/ADMINS AND JUST SAY

wow.. 4 replies within an hour of my first post...

i was a member of another forum , not gonna say who but its absolute C**P i been posting there for weeks an only had 2 replies.. people just screen watch on it.. its boring..

so yeh hey everyone ! lol

I'm sat here laughing my head off at your posts, In a good way.

Think you will fit in well here, Nice car too.

Oh and your jack, I did the same with my ex transporter T5 but it did hit the floor with a thud.
Wasn't mine by that point so i didn't care!!

lol. better behave with a sec 59 then or your car will be a cube .

glad there gone, will look better without them or with a light smoke.

Muppet1 said:

I'm sat here laughing my head off at your posts, In a good way.

Think you will fit in well here, Nice car too.

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LOL.. see a forum that has members with senses of humour,
i hate forums with members that are just way to SERIOUSSS

i dont see the point in posting on forums like a robot tbh. if ya have a personality.. LET It SHINE !

cheers bout me car.

yeh im a netHEAD so will always be here posting ona reg.

FEEL FREE TO ADD ME ON FB ALL ! http://www.facebook.com/evilmerx

im always on there too

clock34 said:

lol. better behave with a sec 59 then or your car will be a cube .

glad there gone, will look better without them or with a light smoke.

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yeh i know. i cant risk loosing me car its my life. LITTERALLY

my KA i had previously became a cube.. the day i got my stilo i crushed it. and god did i BURN her up on the way to the scrappy.
R.I.P Carbon ka

hey u wana see pics of her.. ..

this is how she looked before i crushed her lol

infact just before i crushed her i finsihed wrapping her.
she was head to toe in black carbon wrap. she was more of a practice car for wrapping techniques

an i tell u what not braggin.. but GOLLY gosh i can wrap vehicles GOOD !

mercer said:

LOL.. see a forum that has members with senses of humour,
i hate forums with members that are just way to SERIOUSSS

i dont see the point in posting on forums like a robot tbh. if ya have a personality.. LET It SHINE !

cheers bout me car.

yeh im a netHEAD so will always be here posting ona reg.

FEEL FREE TO ADD ME ON FB ALL ! http://www.facebook.com/evilmerx

im always on there too

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Let's not mention names eh? (VAG)

A positive we can all take from this is that another Stilo is being taken into good hands and is being put right, that's what we like to see on here!

If you want it slammed, get 16" wheels, and if your painting it matte black you definately need wheels with a polished dished lip on them! Would look amazeballs! (**** did I just say that?!)

That Ka looks mint...my mate has one, the chassis's ****ed - everytime he brakes or steers it veers violently to one side! Good laugh though...

I want to see it in cube form

MarkThompson4 said:

Let's not mention names eh? (VAG)

A positive we can all take from this is that another Stilo is being taken into good hands and is being put right, that's what we like to see on here!

If you want it slammed, get 16" wheels, and if your painting it matte black you definately need wheels with a polished dished lip on them! Would look amazeballs! (**** did I just say that?!)

That Ka looks mint...my mate has one, the chassis's ****ed - everytime he brakes or steers it veers violently to one side! Good laugh though...

I want to see it in cube form

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that ka was 2 litre turbo ONCE apon a time ( SIGHS) , wont go into specifics


it was completely stripped out and rebuilt then blew the big engine up, had to put the 1.3 endura back in afterwards for a few months, put the standard bonnet back on cos the ali g vents looked cack when it was topping out at 80mph ( my beast of a 1.3 engines limit lol)
and wrapped her head to toe in carbon wrap
by time i was finished she must of been having an identity crisis.
needless to say.. she was bulletproof untill i decided to take her to fast round a a corner on an ind estate lock in cruise here in south east. hit a conrete step coming off a factorys backdoor and bent the entire left hand rear wheel assembly . she was wobbling like a kids pull along wobble toy by time she hit scrap heap.

oh an my stilos got stilo steel 16's on her atm. as u can see in the pics. just a bigger profile tyre aswell

so i got plenty of space to play with. im thinkin 17's max . 30 mm drop get them tyres under the arches lol

mercer said:

oh an my stilos got stilo steel 16's on her atm. as u can see in the pics. just a bigger profile tyre aswell

so i got plenty of space to play with. im thinkin 17's max . 30 mm drop get them tyres under the arches lol

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Cool, get some nice 16's then And some low profile tyres as well, they help lower it as well but make the arch gap bigger, unless you slam it of course

My Stilo has 15's with 195/65's as standard but I put 185/55's all round which has lowered an inch lol but the arch gap is huge, I plan on lowering mine 100mm on them wheels/tyres :devil:

depends whats your preference is.

dont u think that 15s look like tonka wheels on a stilo?

mercer said:

yeh i know. i cant risk loosing me car its my life. LITTERALLY

my KA i had previously became a cube.. the day i got my stilo i crushed it. and god did i BURN her up on the way to the scrappy.
R.I.P Carbon ka

hey u wana see pics of her.. ..

this is how she looked before i crushed her lol

infact just before i crushed her i finsihed wrapping her.
she was head to toe in black carbon wrap. she was more of a practice car for wrapping techniques

an i tell u what not braggin.. but GOLLY gosh i can wrap vehicles GOOD !

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Ahhhhhh yes, the memories, my previous was a ka aswel (also in that colour) although I never cubed mine sadly however I'll put beer tokens on it being one now given the amount of rust growing on it?? Lovely slick gearbox though? Just ashame it was made on a Friday night 5 mins before shift change....... And that's saying something from a fiat owner!

Anyways, happy motoring mercer, you've already experienced the best bits of fiat ownership

17's look sweet , i have 17's on my wagon and it will be dropped around 50-60mm, but i may step up to 18's for some tuck and camber. The stilo arches are huge