General Essesse Kit on youtube

[alainmengoli]

Found this clip and it's not bad at explaining what gets changed for the £2.5k they charge (not much in my opinion). I thouhgt the Ecu was just updated not changed?


DIY:
- disks and pads x4 £400
- springs x4 £80
- wheels x4 £500 (if you could buy htose specific ones)
- air filter £38
- remap £250
-decals £50

Total = £1218 + 8 hrs labour (free)
and they can get the parts cheaper!!!

 

[Mark Elvin]

Where did you get the prices for the parts from?????

I was thinking that a possible way around the warranty issue with changing the springs on the car would be to fit Essesse ones!!!!

 

[alainmengoli]

WEll I was quoted £2.5 K for the essesse kit, disk and pads should be no more than £400 if less (comparing it with bigger cars I had bought similar parts for),
Remapping/rollingroad to suit your car not generic map as supplied by fiat, usually £200-£400. Spings seen prices here for £78, BMC filter £38, decal can be eseally made by any graphics designer company such as image works.

The wheels I was told are made by Fiat not OZ (the bought the design). Hence if you are not bothered with having a cast abarth symbol on the wheel I would by any white multispoke wheel.

About warranty I don't think it will work as quoted by my dealer essesse kit are only for Abarth cars where they order the part using your vin number and parts cannot be bought seperately beside he air filter.

For £2.5K I reckon you could DIY a much better car than the essesse, as you said this would void the warranty, maybe in 3 years. I have managed to hack into my motorbike before using a laptop and free software online. In the perfect world I would use the turbo, injector rail, and plenum chamber off the GP essesse that way I get 180bhp. It can be done and should not have issues as it's basically the same engine as the GP.

 

[csabaszalma]

Already posted here:

https://www.fiatforum.com/500/177721-abarth-transformation-esseesse.html

 

[alainmengoli]

I should start checking previous posts, but the main argument was on the rip off price of the essesse kit, must be the expensive wodden trunk it come in, oh well I might still get it in 6 months.

 

[Mark Elvin]

I've found a place just up the road from me that does springs for the 1.2 500 for £72 a set.

I figure the springs & strut brace will come in somewhere around £100 all in.

 

[alainmengoli]

Man I need to move to Bristol, cheap parts and the Dr to valet my car

 

[Mark Elvin]

Here you go - Apex Lowering springs, I spoke to them, they can get the 1.2 specific ones that are pt.no. 30-5220

 

[306maxi]

Where did you get the prices for the parts from?????

I was thinking that a possible way around the warranty issue with changing the springs on the car would be to fit Essesse ones!!!!

Hmmm I'm not sure on the prices either. I think £500 is a very optimistic price for 4 rims of OZ/Speedline/BBS quality (I would say 700-800 is probably a better guesss) and it also doesn't take into account the cost of the 4 tyres either as I think the kit comes with Pirelli P-Zero's.

Obvious question but do you get to keep the parts they take off? If you do I guess the price overall isn't too bad considering the level of service should be quite good but if not it's a huge ripoff

 

[Mark Elvin]

Just looking on the Apex springs site, there are 4 different sets of springs available, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 & Abarth.

Give me a degree of confidence that they may have actually taken into account the different kerb weights of the cars.

 

[alainmengoli]

The reason I said £400 for the OZ is that they don't make them Fiat do so why pay big ££ for cheap er quality.

 

[forevertom]

Would be alright if you could buy the kit without the wheels.

I think I prefer the optional abarth ones. Think they are called petal or something.

 

[306maxi]

The reason I said £400 for the OZ is that they don't make them Fiat do so why pay big ££ for cheap er quality.

Do you have a link for this information? I would be very surprised if Fiat were making their own alloys. OZ do loads of OEM wheels so why would Fiat take it upon themselves to make these rims in particular? If they did purchase the design I don't see them producing the rims in a significantly different manner anyway.

 

[alainmengoli]

The info was given to me by the abarth rep. But my argument was that there are many similar wheels out there very cheap. Don't get me wrong, I might still buy the SS kit in the future just to cover myself with warranty issues.