edbremner
New member
Hi Guys,
Been away for a while.
My wonderful much loved Cinqi finally had a list of fixes just too long to make it viable to keep on road. I would of held on to her, but my yard already has an Alfa Sud and A35 waiting work, so I took the Cinqi to the scrappie with a heavy heart. When my daughter got home, she asked me where the Cinqi was and when I told her, burst into tears and ran out the room. Sigh, I had felt pretty close to it myself as they took it away on fork-lift. To add insult to injury, I only got £28 quid for it including the alloys!
I simply have never had a car that was as much fun to drive.
Anyway, I started looking for another and realised as others have said, there really arn't so many around now. Well, there were a few, but they were either expensive, a million miles away....or just didn't feel quite right.
Then a Sei came up. Local, under 50,000 miles, clean, genuine history and in budget, so figured it was time to go over the dark side. So, now have a little yellow Sei Sporting SPI. Really good to have little Fiat again and the Sei is a very nice little car....it's just.... well....how would I say it...
For a start, what is it with not having opening back windows? Kids don't like that....and worse, you can't fit a soft roofrack (for surfboards) without a window. Then there is the front electric window switches. On Cinqi, they are next to each other, so you can operate them together, now they are either side of the radio, so you have to do them separately - daft.
As for loosing a water-temp gauge on an engine that suffers from regular burst head gaskets....no big help.
But of course the biggest change is the power-steering. The wonderful direct feeling, with go-kart like steering that the Cinqi had seems to have largely gone. It isn't bad, but is so different and just kind of 'normal', I have to admit I wonder if there are any other issues....tyres, steering rack etc. that are causing the steering to feel 'not quite right', but I will post on this shortly.
So, the only real problem with the Seicento.....is that it isn't quite a Cinquecento.
To be honest, although I still miss the Cinqi and if the right one came up I would certainly be interested, the Sei is still a great fun little car and I love it. With only 47,000 miles on the clock, I expect to be bothering you guys for a year or two longer, at least till I get the Alfasud back on the road.
Good to be back
eib
Been away for a while.
My wonderful much loved Cinqi finally had a list of fixes just too long to make it viable to keep on road. I would of held on to her, but my yard already has an Alfa Sud and A35 waiting work, so I took the Cinqi to the scrappie with a heavy heart. When my daughter got home, she asked me where the Cinqi was and when I told her, burst into tears and ran out the room. Sigh, I had felt pretty close to it myself as they took it away on fork-lift. To add insult to injury, I only got £28 quid for it including the alloys!
I simply have never had a car that was as much fun to drive.
Anyway, I started looking for another and realised as others have said, there really arn't so many around now. Well, there were a few, but they were either expensive, a million miles away....or just didn't feel quite right.
Then a Sei came up. Local, under 50,000 miles, clean, genuine history and in budget, so figured it was time to go over the dark side. So, now have a little yellow Sei Sporting SPI. Really good to have little Fiat again and the Sei is a very nice little car....it's just.... well....how would I say it...
For a start, what is it with not having opening back windows? Kids don't like that....and worse, you can't fit a soft roofrack (for surfboards) without a window. Then there is the front electric window switches. On Cinqi, they are next to each other, so you can operate them together, now they are either side of the radio, so you have to do them separately - daft.
As for loosing a water-temp gauge on an engine that suffers from regular burst head gaskets....no big help.
But of course the biggest change is the power-steering. The wonderful direct feeling, with go-kart like steering that the Cinqi had seems to have largely gone. It isn't bad, but is so different and just kind of 'normal', I have to admit I wonder if there are any other issues....tyres, steering rack etc. that are causing the steering to feel 'not quite right', but I will post on this shortly.
So, the only real problem with the Seicento.....is that it isn't quite a Cinquecento.
To be honest, although I still miss the Cinqi and if the right one came up I would certainly be interested, the Sei is still a great fun little car and I love it. With only 47,000 miles on the clock, I expect to be bothering you guys for a year or two longer, at least till I get the Alfasud back on the road.
Good to be back
eib
.... didn't realise they made any without them.
