Styling My green fiat stilo project

[MazCinq]

I need a pair of rear ones for mine as I only have the front ones, might buy a full new set maybe, but there again, I might not lol.

 

[Aj80]

So found two of the coils to the spark plugs have perished as the car misfired like crazy but the dash clocks are not working right aswell. For some reason its only the speedo counter and the fuel gauge is this caused by the problem coils or a different reason?

 

[MazCinq]

when was the battery last changed???

 

[Aj80]

A few months ago mate and the flickering gauges only started when it miss fired badly

 

[MazCinq]

hmmmm it is a curious issue, can really see why the coils would effect the dials. have you ordered some new coils???


I just know these Stilo's do really weird things when the battery nears the end of its life, ie throws random fault lights and clocks go weird, also read some where once about a misfire caused by a near dead battery due to the ECU not getting the right Voltage.

 

[Aj80]

Well got two replacements today fitted them and no missfire and the dials work back to how they should again the only conclusion is the damaged coils were arcing when accerating heres a pic of the two damaged and one replacement

 

[Aj80]

Almost forgot sprayed the grill today :lol: heres a before and after pic

 

[Aj80]

Whats everyone think

 

[MazCinq]

black grill is defo an improvement.


well as long as everything is working again its a good result, maybe it was causing a grounding issue maybe, I know these Stilos have weird electrics.

 

[Aj80]

Yep they defo do mate :lol:

 

[Aj80]

So update changed the grill badge only slightly as thought the blue badge didnt look right on the grill so the badge now looks like this if anyone is wondering its the same green as the car

 

[MazCinq]

Epic mod!!!!

 

[Aj80]

Cheers mate wanted to badge to blend in more as blue kinda dont go with the green

 

[Aj80]

As its only a few days till autoitalia car show need to get a few more things done so give the stilo a good hoovering as it needed it :lol: slight debadge, colour coded the door and bumper black strips and painted the calipers hoping to sort a few other things that a want painted before the show

 

[Aj80]

So little update firstly rewrapped the window switch covers from carbon to chameleon vinyl also gloss black around the wing mirrors

 

[MazCinq]

I really like these little touches you do, its the little things that count

 

[Aj80]

Cheers mate thats the aim to make the add ons not to out of place and give others who see the changes the ideas for there cars aswell

 

[Aj80]

So thought I change the vent surrounds as had a little time today from the standard to this not sure if most go for the idea but I quite like it

 

[rat20v]

looks good man, when you get bored of that try flocking, i did most of my old stilo interior bits in flock, looks awesome

real easy to do and long lasting

 

[Aj80]

I have thought about doing that and your parts look good done