branbb60
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Jesus that's awful mate, I hope you didn't come out of that with much damage. A cars replaceable, you're not!
General How well do you think the Seicento would do in long journeys?
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General How well do you think the Seicento would do in long journeys?
As per other thread, i managed to escape with just a gash on the knee and a broken finger (although the entire hand is in a cast at the mo, thanks to the location of the break).
Both myself and the emergency services personnel that attended were more than mildly surprised that i wasn't more injured, given the extent of the damage.
branbb60
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I'd repeat Woj's advice here. Just chill, Cruise along. Honestly I find that as it's so busy on the motorway these days I'd just chill in L1 and cruise at like 65.
Just wondering, why wouldn't you think the car wouldn't be alright for longer journeys?
No they can't....Good to know these little cars can still protect you
Don't crash and hope someone else doesn't crash into you.
Every month I do 320 miles. At 90Mph without stop. On German autobahn of course
branbb60
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Just because of how old the car is and that its 900cc. Not sure if it would be able to chug at 60mph for two hours.
The 899 engine loves to scream along all day.
For my run to Germany & back it was way way over 60mph.... For a large part of the run it was off the end of the speedo......!!
But as already said, the weakest part of the car and driver combination is probably you, so take it easy...
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branbb60
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I wouldn't worry, up until a recent forced sale (due to ill health
) I had a 1992 Fiat Panda, 23 years old and a 769cc engine, it was my only car and I drove it daily for 3 years, it'd happily thunder along at 70mph (excluding the odd hill that'd stump the impressive 34hp) for the 200 mile journey I'd do fortnightly, I seriously wouldn't worry about your comparatively modern Seicento so long as, as has been already mentioned, all your fluids are topped up and just generally being careful like keeping an eye on the temp gauge (do Seicento's have temp gauges?) etc. For reference the Panda 750 (769cc) is a carburetted engine with a manual choke so no fancy pants fuel injection that Cinq's and Sei's are blessed with and it'd manage those 200 mile fortnightly trips whatever the weather at 70-80mph which equals 4000-4500rpm in top gear
Most (possibly all) Seicento only have a warning light for temperature, not a gauge. A downgrade from the gauge on the Cinquecento.
branbb60
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Exactly.
No temperature gauge.
One thing you need to watch for is that the temperature sensor on the Sei is just a thermal switch, but on the Cinq is a variable resistance sensor for the gauge.
If a Sei gets fitted with the Cinq sensor, the temperature warning light starts to glow dimly when the engine is warming up.
It has come up a lot on here!!
I have flogged my sciento back and forth Swansea/Luton airport over 400 mile round trip at 70/80 mph over the last two years, brilliant. Taking toll now though.
Time for an oil change huh?
I did two years commuting to uni. 100 miles a day mainly M27, three or four days a week in my 97 Cinq. Never let me down other than routine maintenance.
