General Cinquecento Speedo Cables Grrrrrrrr

[UnoManiac]

My Speedo Cable on My recently purchased Cinq Sporting went about a week after buying the car, i went to the main dealer and they were totally useless:bang: telling me they no longer produced the part!!!...so i eventually found a Guy on Ebay IN STOCKPORT ( IM IN LONDON) breaking his cinquecento sporting to sell me his Cost me £20 incl Postage for a used part

Not the money thats the problem but inconvience Of having no SPEEDOMETER lol IM also slighty worried the car came wid 39,000 miles an only cost me £500 but dnt know how long a previous owner may of had the car running with no cable!

ANYONE KNOW OF ANY OTHER LITTLE NIGGLES OR PROBLEMS TO LOOK OUT FOR ID BE MORE THAN GRATEFUL!

 

[custard]

well for starters the speedo cable is still produced.
there are 2 versions as well,1 piece and 2 piece cables.

 

[UnoManiac]

What!!!!!! lol
My Local Main dealer told me i could only get the top piece from the speedo of the 2 piece cable

Last time i go back there...

 

[David C]

Just replace the old 2-piece cable with a 1-piece cable.

Desira (Alfa Main Dealers) are well into online trading and can deliver drect to you and are helpful too.

Shop4parts also stock the cable.

 

[UnoManiac]

hmmmmm ive already replaced it with of used cinq sporting 1 but WHEN it goes ill defo check dat 1 out

 

[Sheard]

am also chasing a 2 part speedo cable - main dealer was no use and no scrapped ones to be found - Shop4parts out of stok of one piece cable and say it would not fit anyway - my garage think only option is to get a part specially made .... £50 or more......

 

[mustard]

hello mate, great to see another londoner

other little known problems are clutch cable is known to snap if negleted, i always change mine every 18 months as the first time i bought mine that was the first thing to go. don't have a problem now with it due to me changing it at set intervals.
Also if you hear a clonking noise as the back that will probably be the rear arm bushes but once you change them for polybushes you won't need to worry about them for a long time.

Hope that helps

Mustard