General Best value car i have ever owned

[The Littlest Hobo]

Well its time to say goodbye to our Fiat 500 Pop we purchased back in 2012 for £10,000

I have to say its been an absolute pleasure to own and has been pretty much trouble free. We have moved over to a 2yr old Mini but would recommend the Fiat500 to anyone. I was tempted to offer it for sale on here but in the end we just traded it in.

Its history stacks up like this

Purchase Price £10k
Sale price £3k

Mileage 61,000mls
Services - 4
Replacement exhausts - 0
Replacement door handle hinge thingy - 4
Replacement bootlid wiring - 1

A few tyres and bulbs and thats about it in 11 years. I waxoiled it from new and it was used for what i deem the car to be designed for....driving about town.

I think the car has bucket loads of character and even though i have a big new Merc C300de on the drive i would choose the Fiat instead if i wanted to have some fun.

 

[TQ1]

Only 4 services in 10 years?

Doing mine annually or 9k.

Aside from tyres/brakes I’ve replaced the sump, front wiper motors, battery, repaired the hatch loom & a few exhaust clamps.

 

[John202020]

Mmm our car is 14 years old this year the list is somewhat longer

Exhaust
Front exhaust to gearbox clamp
Entire rear axle
Rear drums, cylinders shoes
Handbrake cables
Rear shocks
Entire front suspension
Front discs pads 3 times
Rear hatch wiring
Earth strap
Sump
Heater matrix
Door hinge
Breather hoses
Spark plug leads
Coolant pipe metal(behind exhaust)
Heater hoses due to bleed valve snapping off
New front bumper crash video
New rear bumper
10 tyres in 8 years