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Cinquecento My Cinquecento Sporting! - Lemans 24hr bound!

Introduction

Hi Chaps/Ladies.

I have owned quite a few different cars ( among them a panda 100hp) but I had an itch to scratch in the shape of a Cinq sporting!

So after a look about I have ended up with this R plate example.

Its in great nick! 54k from new and was cheap! - can anyone tell me what alloys are on it? look puntoish!? - no rust, unmarked interior and well i love it.

This car is doing the 1400 mile round trip to my annual pilgrimage to the lemans 24hrs and I like my cars to be perfect so I have a list of things that need doing! -

The rear wiper arm is inoperative ( suspect motor as there is power)

The car has the incorrect front badge and has been debadged ( badly) at the rear ( where can I source some badges?!)

CV joint going on the outer passanger ( slight but changing because its no work really to sort)

Speedo not working ( The cable was broken but then so was the plastic speedo drive in the gearbox) I have one on order from fiat then I need to work out how to fit it! :cry:

Crack in rear bumper so im going to get it resprayed

And thats about it!

Oh the clutch cable went but it happened to break just outside of eurocarparts! so i went back in got a cable and did it in the carpark :D

I have since driven it from bath to the middle of somerset, down to surrey and back in a day! its happy at outside lane speeds so it should be fine for the jaunt to lemans.

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Cheers all
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Lots of work done yesterday.

got some time on my mates ramp so did the following

balanced all 4 wheels and cleaned the hub faces. this has got rid of the wobble at 70mph (y)

Compression test, just to check. got a healthy engine all nice level figures

Fixed the speedo!

Fixed the rear wiper arm

Did the tracking

Fixed the exhaust leak from a poor fit by a previous garage ( its almost new!)

Gave it all a good look over under the car, no rust anywhere! remarkably solid and no impending issues.
 
Well, It did it ! and did it well. It was fantastic companion. Feel sad that its for sale. is there a cinq section for me to list it in?

Great stuff, get some photos up.

There is a cinq section when you sell it in the classifieds, just select it on the drop down menu.

Nath
 
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