Hi Everyone,
Long time lurker and general "taker" from the Fiat Forum so I thought I could give something back in the form of a project.
The project will be a reasonably slow one, due to me being in the process of buying my first house & having an uphill struggle with my better half, convincing her we don't need to sell the car to fund the conveyancing!
The car is a 2002, 3 door Stilo JTD. The aim of the game is to initially refurbish and service the whole thing, then move onto upgrading the head unit to the Connect Nav+, the Abarth clocks and the climate thing, throw in some leather for good measure and then when all is said and done, give the thing a respray and hope to have the best OEM Stilo for miles around (that's the plan)
Jobs list looks like this:
1. Cam belt kit
2. Gearbox mount
3. Make the air con work
4. New disks and pads + full fluid change
5. General service with high end consumables (especially now I'm feeding him Shell V-Power Nitro Diesel, as opposed to Tesco finest)
6. Eliminate as many squeaks, rattles and vibrations as possible
7. Find & Exterminate as many electrical gremlins as is humanly possible
8. Fit Abarth interior + cruise control. Then throw a Subwoofer in
9. Source and fit leather seats
10. Refurbish wheels and fit premium tyres
10. Panel by panel replace if necessary and respray (probably 1 per month based on budget)
Pictures to follow
Long time lurker and general "taker" from the Fiat Forum so I thought I could give something back in the form of a project.
The project will be a reasonably slow one, due to me being in the process of buying my first house & having an uphill struggle with my better half, convincing her we don't need to sell the car to fund the conveyancing!
The car is a 2002, 3 door Stilo JTD. The aim of the game is to initially refurbish and service the whole thing, then move onto upgrading the head unit to the Connect Nav+, the Abarth clocks and the climate thing, throw in some leather for good measure and then when all is said and done, give the thing a respray and hope to have the best OEM Stilo for miles around (that's the plan)
Jobs list looks like this:
1. Cam belt kit
2. Gearbox mount
3. Make the air con work
4. New disks and pads + full fluid change
5. General service with high end consumables (especially now I'm feeding him Shell V-Power Nitro Diesel, as opposed to Tesco finest)
6. Eliminate as many squeaks, rattles and vibrations as possible
7. Find & Exterminate as many electrical gremlins as is humanly possible
8. Fit Abarth interior + cruise control. Then throw a Subwoofer in
9. Source and fit leather seats
10. Refurbish wheels and fit premium tyres
10. Panel by panel replace if necessary and respray (probably 1 per month based on budget)
Pictures to follow