Cinquecento Update.

[Guest]

best bet since everything else is fine.

[halfpint]

best bet since everything else is fine.

[fullpint]

I have ben down to the car this morning and tried out what Ming said and all is connected and nothing is loose, so it give up and  am going to get a auto techie to look at it.

Bummer mate. Lets hope the auto tech guy gets it sorted with in an hour for you..

[charlie Fett]

yeah I hopeso to, I know they could as they do this sort of thing every week so I will just have to wait till after Christmas as I just don't have the cash to do it at the mo.

[halfpint]

shame you have to wait so long but i know the feeling.

[charlies lil helper]

dw ill have to stay round your some time soon and have a look at it idk if ill be able to find it but we have had a few problems like this in our workshop just need a multi meter if you got one or borrow the one off floody if you can =P

[charlie Fett]

Got some good great news ..........(drum rolls) ................... Joe my police officer matie  (icedjoe on this forum) came over yesterday and used my multi meter and had a play around with it. And with some help from Sean Floody's dad with the aid of a battery from a Merc CLK got her to fire up. It looks like my battery is toast so I new battery is in order, even though at the time of me testing my battery it was good but must have been on it's way out and I at the time didn't own a multi meter so thats all groovie. 

[fullpint]

Bonus....... Mind you in the old days a battery would die veryyyyyyyyyyy slowly. Today however they seem to work one day and fail the next. Giving you no warning. I guess people then look elsewhere as to where the fault could be.. And Im sure in some cases they just give up and sell the car for peanuts not knowing it could just be the battery.
Nice work from icedjoe 

[charlie Fett]

Finally got all the electrical problems sorted out and I installed a new Bosch S4 battery that I got on ebay for £39, turned the key had dash lights and she started up with no problems and sounded great.
Just got to do the rest of the jobs done so she can come along in April or June.  

[halfpint]

awesome that wud be great for ya to finally have track time finally.

[fullpint]

 
So does this mean you are keeping her for a while? Can't wait to see it mate..

[charlie Fett]

I will be keeping her for the rest of this year but maybe selling her next year so I can get my LE coupe, so want it to be ready for April and as you can see, she has changed alot since last April.
Here is how much it has changes from when I first got it till now.   I wish now that I had kept those alloys as they would have looked crackin in white with my new paint work.

[halfpint]

steve can always do the current wheels in white. and she looks ace.

[charlie Fett]

Thanks hun it's getting there, do you think these wheels look ok cos to me they just don't look very motorsport like?

[charlie Fett]

I think the wheels make the car.

[purf]

Hey man car looks great - wheels look good, id personally go more retro but thats me, for the proper hard core racer look - try odd alloys