How did you guess. Yes it was backworth they have been fantastic they are sorting her out on Tuesday. I'm really suprised how great there service is.. I would recommend them to anyone.
Only thing I need to know now is does anyone know the price I should be looking at for timing belt replacement and water pump, I've noticed the fan belt is looking abit tierd so I want to be safe and get it replaced. I would do it myself but I just don't have the know how.
For the power I've always recommended the 1.4 it pulls suprisingly well and is a very responsive engine revs alway up to 7000 and very long gears. It keeps up with my mates 1.6 Honda civic.
Geordie born and bread mate, when I had my Black Mk1 Punto 55s a few year back I bought a full Sporting interior from them for like £50 lol, always used them when I was up there and always found them very fairly priced, also I know a couple of people that have bought cars from them and always heard good things lol.
I know what you mean about Fiats, I've had loads of cars over the years and I have owned more fiats than any other makes lol.
the only cars I have washed and polished regular were my Mk1 16v Sporting Punto and my Cinq, I even used to own a Jaguar XJ6 which in the 6months I owned it, I washed it once and it never got polished lol. Once Fiats are in your blood its like crack, they are really hard to kick the addiction, every time I leave and go to another stable, I drive along and admire almost every fiat I see and secretly wish I had another one.
As it says under my Avitar, 100% Fiat Addict
on the coolant, take the bottom hose off and drain it all out, re-fit the hose and then fill it with plain water, once full, take the bottom hose off again but leave a hose pipe running into the top, this will flush the system and give you a clean start, leave for 5mins and the turn off hose and leave to drain, re-fit the hose and then re-fill with the coolant of choice and blam, your done.
Red coolant for the 1.4. !
I agree the engine is good for its size. We have a 1.4 stilo 5dr and a 1.4 (90) bravo . The stilo outperforms the bravo. Stilo looks funny but you can get loads of stuff in it including a big dog. Drives all day and turns in nearly 50mpg on long runs.
If its the same as my 1.2 16v it would be 10w 40. If you put your reg in the europarts web site and it can tell you there for definate on there menu system
The correct oil for the 1.4 16 valve starfire engine is 5W/40. This is in the instruction book for this car. For some reason non Fiat sources often recommend 10W/40.
I was under the impression that all 16v engines were coded SUPERfire not StarFire.
And yes, stupid question lol that's perfectly normal for any car.
Geordie born and bread mate, when I had my Black Mk1 Punto 55s a few year back I bought a full Sporting interior from them for like £50 lol, always used them when I was up there and always found them very fairly priced, also I know a couple of people that have bought cars from them and always heard good things lol.
I know what you mean about Fiats, I've had loads of cars over the years and I have owned more fiats than any other makes lol.
the only cars I have washed and polished regular were my Mk1 16v Sporting Punto and my Cinq, I even used to own a Jaguar XJ6 which in the 6months I owned it, I washed it once and it never got polished lol. Once Fiats are in your blood its like crack, they are really hard to kick the addiction, every time I leave and go to another stable, I drive along and admire almost every fiat I see and secretly wish I had another one.
As it says under my Avitar, 100% Fiat Addict
Yep I have had both bravo 90bhp and now stilo totally agree I used to get 26 city and 37.5 motorway in the bravo but the stilo I'm getting 39 city and 44 motorway massive difference in power. Mind you I did have a faulty fiat bravo from day one still loved it though. My stilo has 93k on it but feels as tight as the bravo was and that had 7 miles on the clock when I got it. Sorry my stilo has 94k now yes you have read that right I've done 1k miles in under 2 weeks. Just shows how much I love the dear thing.
There is no compare between the looks on both cars the bravo is just Italian p**n really beautiful looking car. The stilo I love its looks as it just looks mean as if its the beast on the road. Either way two great looking cars I still say too my self fiat is always ahead of the game when it comes to design and personally I think that's there problem with sales. They bring great looking cars out to early before other companys but people are just too afraid when it comes too different. Look at the ford focus the fiat bravo was discontinued 2013 I think and ford has only just cought up with design. I bet if fiat waited just a year or two and started to sell the bravo again with a slight facelift it would sell better as people have now adjusted to the newer designs.
That's my conclusion anyway, sorry I'm going on again...
I was mistaken. In fact the 95bhp 1.4 16 valve is known as starjet as far as I know, but someone may know the official designation.