Stilo My second Stilo (Schumacher)

Didn't notice the cruise control, I'll take a look, I was thinking of getting a short shift gear changer, one on eBay for £113, I've had a couple of Abarth's and always found the gear change sluggish, this one seem to struggle to get in third, any suggestions? Good idea or bad, thanks for the link, it's like a full service history haha!!!, I've had fitted windows blinds also, sounds like this car has has lots of time and effort and big dollars spent on it

zieonth said:

Love to get my hands on this magazine, auto Italia where the car was featured at some point, I like the name Enzo

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Was it you asking for a copy on eBay a few weeks ago?
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Yes that was me, the ad is still there I think

zieonth said:

Didn't notice the cruise control, I'll take a look, I was thinking of getting a short shift gear changer, one on eBay for £113, I've had a couple of Abarth's and always found the gear change sluggish, this one seem to struggle to get in third, any suggestions? Good idea or bad, thanks for the link, it's like a full service history haha!!!, I've had fitted windows blinds also, sounds like this car has has lots of time and effort and big dollars spent on it

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The cruise control (if it's still fitted) is under the indicator stalk. Not sure on 3rd gear it was always ok with me. And yes plenty of dollars spent!

zieonth said:

Any other pictures? It's really interesting to find previous owners and where the car has been, its in limerick, Ireland now

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gadge Didn't we have three of them up on the banking at Brooklands one year? I can't remember which year, but there may be pictures in the Brooklands gallery for the whichever year it was.
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Davren said:

gadge Didn't we have three of them up on the banking at Brooklands one year? I can't remember which year, but there may be pictures in the Brooklands gallery for the whichever year it was.
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Yes it was a classic picture that was, I can't seem to find it but I know it's in here somewhere so will have a look tomorrow.

This one here was one of my favourites..... I had to wait until almost the end of the show for everyone o leave so I could take it.



And then this one outside stoneleigh Abbey (I think?)

Yellow Peril said:

They don't. That cover was swapped from a FIAT coupe. The factory one looks like this:

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Ah that explains it. Was thrown by the inscription shown on the pics. I knew the coupe had / has alloy top.

Looks like the engine bay is same / standard kit like my 'normal' abarth.

Hi, need a little help, just had "Enzo" out for a proper drive since I purchased it a couple of months back, the weather has been awful and it my weekend driver, anyway the car seems to shudder under breaking, is the discs or pads? Also I'm finding the gears hard to change, especially third, has anyone put the car through its paces in relation to the revving range, has 8000 on the clock, I'm certainly not a boy racer at 42 years old but I put the foot down earlier and seems to pull back at 7000 ish, never experienced this in my other cars, thanks for any help, I'm no mechanic unfortunately

Yellow Peril said:

They don't. That cover was swapped from a FIAT coupe. The factory one looks like this:

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Think that's my engine bay - with the screen wash cap missing!

zieonth said:

Hi, need a little help, just had "Enzo" out for a proper drive since I purchased it a couple of months back, the weather has been awful and it my weekend driver, anyway the car seems to shudder under breaking, is the discs or pads? Also I'm finding the gears hard to change, especially third, has anyone put the car through its paces in relation to the revving range, has 8000 on the clock, I'm certainly not a boy racer at 42 years old but I put the foot down earlier and seems to pull back at 7000 ish, never experienced this in my other cars, thanks for any help, I'm no mechanic unfortunately

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Shuddering under braking points to warped discs and replacment is the easiest way really to sort it. The gear change could be the linkage cables seizing up.

zieonth said:

Hi, need a little help, just had "Enzo" out for a proper drive since I purchased it a couple of months back, the weather has been awful and it my weekend driver, anyway the car seems to shudder under breaking, is the discs or pads?

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People will typically cry warped discs at this point, although it takes a lot of energy to warp a disc.

I've only ever managed to warp 1 set of front discs ever and that was on my Alfa 156 GTA (3.2 V6). That had 4 piston brembo brakes on the front and I was stopping from about 100mph into a tight 90 left of about 20mph. Alfa released an update for the cars to upgrade them from 305mm to 330mm discs as they were aware they warped their brakes easily.

There is an off chance if it's been stood for a long long time that the discs have suffered the elements too.

More often than not - and especially if the discs are newer - it'll be poor fitment. For the sake of an hour sat on the garage floor it's a 'free' fix to try.

Whip the discs off the hub, take a wire brush (preferably drill powered) round the hub and the inside mounting face of the disc and refit, see if that solves your problem.

If however the discs are getting on in life, you find that they have quite a lip on the top edge or inside edge of the disc, the disc is excessively scored or grooved at any point or cracks are visible in the disc - replace the disc. Also if you see that you have rusty looking areas of the braking surface of the disc you may also need to replace the disc and inspect pads and calipers to find out why the pad isn't making full contact with the disc.

The saga continues!

Finally got around to servicing 'Hank' yesterday. Some silly bugger had fitted a stubby oil filter and had really welded it on. Anyone that has worked on these knows how limited access is so that didn't help things! It took me and an ex Jag engineer 3 hours to get it out but hey ho, it's done now. Surprisingly, the oil wasn't too bad.

On to the plugs and we have another winner though :bang:


We even got time to replace the rear exhaust mount. This is what was left


Next job, brakes

Whoa! What's the story with those plugs? when I had it I fitted NGK irridiums in it why would anyone fit odd plugs???

gadge said:

when I had it I fitted NGK irridiums in it

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Wrong car gadge

Minus8 said:

Wrong car gadge

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Oops sorry bud I was getting my wires crossed

gadge said:

Oops sorry bud I was getting my wires crossed

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No worries! Still need an answer to why someone would fit odd plugs though! I can only imagine someone has bought a 4 pack then just not bothered buying another when they realised they had 5 cylinders.

For all the neglect this car has been through, that has to be the cheapest and laziest lack of maintenance yet

gadge said:

Oops sorry bud I was getting my wires crossed

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I'd wager a weak / failing coil pack so they decided to fit a new plug in the hope that'd cure or mask it for a little while.

Resurrecting an old thread here but it looks like the Schumacher side skirt badges were literally stuck over Abarth badges by Fiat then. I assume one came off or something and the owner removed both, then subsequently stuck one onto the boot or something. Love the story where is the car now, still going strong?