Hi all,

I'm Julia and I love my car. I bought it new in 1997 when I had more money than sense and have used and abused it ever since. Sometimes I clean it and sometimes a very nice Polish man at the gym cleans it for me. Usually though it is dirty. Unfortunately the abuse is now starting to show and my poor car is beginning to complain about the lack of TLC over the past 11 years. My children have thrown up in it, I have shopped in it, shagged in it and really cannot bring myself to sell it. So, I am throwing myself at your collective mercies in the hope you can inspire me to look after my car better.

I currently need a new front wheel as I damaged the current one by hitting a curb while trying to find my lipstick. Where is a good supplier for new wheels?

Do you think I am a lost cause?

Help and correction needed.

Julia

What a great post!!

You'd be better getting a 2nd hand wheel from carlt.

Ross

Try carlt on here for a new 'used' wheel, should be plentiful for the 20v n/a. Otherwise eBay, or perhaps Fiat but they'll rip you off mercilessly!

And welcome by the way

Thanks Ross, who is carlt and how do I contact them?

Julia

He is a user on here - call on 07749 069057 or PM

He's on the forum and carlt is the forum breaker of coupes!!

Good prices and reliable.

Ross

what a great post to introsuce yourself!!!
welcome to the forum.
oh and carlt is the way to go if you need any bits for your coupe!!

Thanks Chaps, this really is a fast and furious service. I could get used to this. I'll give Carl a call tomorrow

The man in the garage has hit the inside of the wheel with a hammer to stop the air escaping from the tyre. This seems to have worked in the short term but I'm not sure if the 'hitting with a hammer' trick is the best permanent fix. Want do you think?

Julia

U dont really wanna rely on that in a pinch!!

Ross

erm probably not!!!
just give carlt a bell and he'll sort you out, you'll need to specify which style of wheel you have though.
you'll find most of us really friendly on here and the forum is full of helpful people and information

*swoons at level of attention*

Julia

Mods, can I start a thread about shagging in the coupe ?

I knew of a block who claimed he got the g/f pregnent because he could not pull out as foot was stuck in quarterlight of Ford Anglia

showing my age now

Roof Abuse

What is it with Fiat paintwork? The lacquer on the roof of my coup looks like I've spayed it with nail varnish remover (and I haven't by the way). Who is the King of Paint Jobs here in the South?

Jules x

What else are the stirrups Grab handles for

LOL!!!!
a lot of coupes suffer from their laquer going bad

Well Helloooo Julia



(where's the 'strokes handlebar moustache smiley gone")

Nice to meet you c2d

Jules

Try this:
http://www.fiatcoupeclub.org/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=445228&Main=445228#Post445228

Welcome Julia. Here's a tip for a newbie, be weary of anyone with their name in green, especially JimO and Stan. They're just trouble.

Thanks for the welcome Kenno and the link. Do I really need to beware of the green men or are you just trying to pull my newbee leg?

Jules

no, its the truth!

the red names, they are just pure evil!

I'm serious, they have 'special powers'.. and congrats, you're only one of two that have had their coupé from new (that I know of).

nobody who buys the turbo version from new seems to keep it for 11 years.

instead they get through 3 or 4, kill an engine or two, and end up with a nice plus or LE

*falls off chair*

I can hardly believe this, surely there must be more. I can still remember the day I drove it off the forecourt and I thinking 'yes, you did good girl'. It was a close run thing between the Fiat and the Alfa GTV for me at the time, but I had recently seen a play featuring Agnelli I took that to be the omen to buy the Fiat, and have never looked back since

Jules

Nope, see my post above

most other N/A owners decide that they want a turbo after a while too!

I didn't but a turbo on environmental grounds. I was thinking of trees at the time...or hair or make up or nail colour or something else that just stopped me shelling out another two grand, when all I was interested in was how pretty it looked on the outside

Jules

Hi and welcome

Hi Jules, a big welcome from "Downunder". I know that the first time I saw a Coupe "in the flesh" in Norway, I decided then that I had to have one.

You must have a great pair of binoculars!

Oh, and welcome Julia to the forum. I do have special powers......I'm invisible

"I'm Julia and I love my car"

Quite an interesting first line from a first post. I like it.

Makes it sound like you're an alcoholic, fessing up at an AA meeting.

In case you hadn't noticed, all girls get serious amounts of attention on this forum

you guys make me sick lol!

was fun reading though,and the obligatry welcome to the forum julia.

i know of another coop owner who has had his murple n/a from new,left him a note at a garden centre and he came to a mini meet,loves the forum and was very surprised at the love for the coop.

Probably one of the best first posts ever!

Welcome Julia!

Welcome Julia and Stan you changed back to Boris. Have you got fed up with the pussy?

The little cat was only for Christmas, not for life

And Julia... you haven't had yours as long as I've had mine... *No-one's* had theirs as long as I have

Mwahahahahaha....

Neil

Thats Neil's way of being friendly

Welcome to the forum, your post made me smile this morning which before 11 is an impressive achievement!

Brilliant first post !!
Welcome aboard !!

It's not how long you've had it that matters, but what you do with it when you've got it.

I thought all boys knew that???

Jules

So many lovely welcomes to wake up to. Thank you all so much, I feel quite at home already

Jules x

Bunch of sharks.....

Indeedy. Pitiful

Welcome aboard. You'll like it on here.

Welcome to to the land of mad fccukers... just one question, how come it took 11 years for you to find the forum?

I think this total honesty thing goes a long way in the male attention stakes.

Oh and welcome to the Forum.

She doesn't have a turbo

Sorry Chris - couldn't resist.

I don't need a turbo, speed isn't everything, not to a girly anyway

Jules

I like to cruise through life doing my own thing, if it has taken me this long to find you all I obviously didn't have a need for you before

Seek and ye shall find, and here I am

Jules

Pmsl, so true,

Welcome btw!

Just like they would on an oil rig... or any other place where male is majority

The really odd thing about this thread is that you haven't had all the "begging for a picture" posts that normally accompany a new female poster's first post.

Yet.........

Someone had to do it Clicky

Oh right, of course!

Welcome Julia.

Here is a little vid the boys of FCCUK did to welcome you to the fold.

Hey, Truffle you guys should have had a stylist when you shot the video. Did no one tell the lead chap that his label was sticking out?

Nice try though

Jules

Thank god that's not the vid I thought it was gonna be

More of the shower shot next time please

I really had no idea you all took your fitness so seriously, and there was me thinking you are only interested in cars!

Tsk *slaps hands for being silly*

Jules

LMAO @ truffle!!

I'm choking i'm laughin that much!!!

@c2d - thank god it wasnt a real vid

Ross

p.s. why does beer taste better in the morning?

I havent seen the whole thing. I ran screaming from the room after the first close up crotch shot.

Tsk Truffle, you are a whimp! Couldn't you even manage 7 minutes?

Jules

Oh god no! Reminded me too much of my childhood.



Is that funny? or just plain wrong!

I am disappointed now

You mean to say that when you said " here's a little vid the boys of FCCUK did to welcome you to the fold", you were actually telling me a great big porky!

*goes to find some satisfaction in a double espresso*

Jules (makes note in book - don't listen to students with hangovers)

i'm in your little black book?

Flirting levels, off the dial already.

Good work Truffle

three (predictable) pages in 15 hours - what a surprise

Does the same thing happen when a bloke posts up on the Aga user's forum or the WI chatroom?

I somehow doubt it.

If we keep atttracting new girly members, we're going to have to go the same way as another car forum I was on recently, with a "Lady's corner" so that the fairer sex can discuss stuff like the nicest air freshener or whether Windolene works on headlamps

Which IS the nicest air freshener?

Does windolene work on headlamps

I wouoldnt put it on the plastic covers in the bonnet, but its probably quite good on the sidelamps....

Humm, this is getting a little off topic...

The modern "lady" these days would rather discuss rabbits and battery life. I think it's a girl think

Jules

ps. By the way Truffle, you are in my little black book and it suits you better than my little black dress

welcome - but you should let the boys be the judge of that.......

Sorry proccy, I didn't mean to speak out of turn. Please forgive me, I am new here

Jules

We're badly off topic here. Can we get back to the point, which is shagging in a coupe. Is this something else that's improved no end by possession of a dump valve and turbocharged injection? What I'm trying to ask is this. Does horsepower matter?





I'll get my mac...

Sorry, coat...

well LE's have been proven to be better in this field because of the interior, especially when its that time of the month!

No, i could never take your little black dress away from you. ...
But i'm keeping the heels!


:edit: wow, a few more posts have arrived since i started thinking of a whitty retort.

Hey that didn't take long, I 'm not a 'Newbee' anymore but a 'Discoverer'.

Veggy - sorry to disappoint but this isn't actually a shagging thread. But we do live a free country, and I value freedom of speech so if you want to share your shagging stories here then far be it to from me to hold you back

Jules

The leather always wipes clean no matter what time of the month it is

Jules

Er, nice

I have got 2 chickens in my field, is that the same sort of thing?

Actually, I can now confess to breaking my duck in a Coop only very recently. Bless her cottons.

It was the Plus kit that did for her. Sod horsepower.

That and the Jizbags, natch.

Nice, huh.

I don't think anyone could maintain a manly stance surrounded by an LE Interior

Haha its true C2D, more importantly noones mentioned the use of the coops inbuilt stirrups yet

Phill

One of mines fell off

Over use, under use, or just perhaps not enough Gliptone ?

Mrs McCartney for you then.

PMSL Pete

Do they? I must be owed some . . .

Oxymoron

bwahahaha

Ah, you didn't mention 'shagging' in your first post!

This has got to be a record for posts no? and all it took you guys was a comment...


I'm impressed

[/quote] Ah, you didn't mention 'shagging' in your first post! [/quote]

So thats where I went wrong!

Think everyone's just a bit bored (no offence etc)..

I can confidently confirm, er, I mean, I'm reliably informed, that the rear wing and bootlid are an ideal height for a lady to bend over. Well OK then, a female rather than a lady........

Best to use the nearside though otherwise they complain about the petrol cap digging in. Apparently.

Carl, did those dents come out OK?!?!

I thought Jon-Paul was a bloke's name? Unless you're that one off Hollyoaks??

Geez, she must have had very long legs! I can't lift Dolly that high without putting my back out and the lanolin leaves streaks all over the polish

So thats what that rear screen wiper is for.


hanging on to

Lickyl. Not telling us you were a girl was probably your mistake.

Then again we've only Julias word that she's a girl

'I hit a curb whilst looking for my lipstick'

'The man at the garage hit the inside of the wheel with a hammer to stop the air escaping'

I would like to know how you can curb the inside of a wheel?
You can straighten a steel wheel with a hammer, but a cast alloy would crack and break if hit that hard.

Sorry, no offence intended but this is surely a wind-up?

See 3 posts up. Or Lickyl's profile....

No no no, every post on this thread is deadly serious. Obviously.



(Although my comments about the rear wing actually were!)

Perv

Er, she must have been kinda tall?

Spot on pete!!!!

Ross

Maybe he's had his car lowered

also

There is bending over backwards and bending over forwards, Boos would be about right.

well with high heels on ......

No not on you oh nevermind

I don't know whats worse... the blantant discussion at hand, or the fact that i know some of the people partaking and mental images are NOT welcome.

Ross

Over 100 replies in less than 20 hours.

Good work.

Sexism alive and well, then......

Car's standard.

She was tall.

And forwards, before you ask.

(She's probably still up for it if anyone else is interested - your Coop or hers )

HAHAHAHAAHAHA.

Ross

Hello Greg,

In many ways I wish this a wind up, but sadly it is not. I actually really have no idea at all how the inside of the wheel got damaged. It was originally picked up on the MOT a few years ago, and at that point the 'not very nice man in the garage' accused me of being a careless driver. I can only remember hitting the odd curb when trying to locate things on various occasions in the glove compartment while driving. I have owned the car from new and I have been the sole driver, the only other explanation is that the damage occurred while in the garage being 'serviced'. Until this week I have not had a problem with the wheel, except that I have to top it up with air more frequently, but this week it has decided that it wants to leak air all the time. And yes, the man in the garage did 'hit it with a hammer', he said it might crack but it didn't.

And to any other doubting Thomas's on here, I really am female. I do have a bit of a husky voice at the moment because I have a cold but I am most definitely FEMALE, thank you.

Jules

I've spoken to Carl a couple of times today on the 'phone, maybe he can vouch for me

LOL! Jon-Paul is my boyfriend and we share the username - just to keep you guessing. Maybe it's time I get my own username . . . ?

Probably not, Carl spends most of his spare time on those premium phone lines anyway so he probably was quiet suprised when you called him.

"WOW! They're calling ME now"

It didnt suprise you when all the questions you got from him involved asking what you are wearing?

This is off topic, but I have 4 chickens, 3 Orpingtons and Plymouth Rock, but only one of them is laying at the moment

Are your birds laying Guzbod?

Jules

HAhaha!!!

Ross

Is that a nervous laugh Ross, have you been calling Carl recently?

You're only just noticing that now??

Oh, and hello!

PMSL

"Hello and How I use my Coupe"

hello there, i normally use my coupe to attract members of the opposite sex. This however fails horribly, my coupe will wait until it notices any type of good looking female and kick up a stink

example:

female: "wow, thats a nice looking car"
coupe: "CLUNK!!! SCRAPE!!! GRIND!!! BANG!!!"

*females walk off into the distance*
*coupe goes back to running smoothly*

But you've got a turbo!!!

They are Welsummer and both lay each day. Better than me then !

Bad luck Mike

Although the upside is that any female that can't handle a little clunk, scrape, grind and bang probably isn't worth knowing

Have you tried just leaning against your car rather than driving it? I stopped to see if I could help someone the other day on the A4 heading towards Marlborough (R reg Yellow 16v- anyone here?). I thought he had broken down but he said he was just admiring the view. Some people can love their cars too much!

Julia

haha excellent, saving that quote for posteriety. Mods make this thread a sticky

Now I'm in love! I ADORE my two chickens, just as I loved all their predecessors before they got eaten by the fox. My heart only has two settings, coops and, well, coop, so if you're into chickens you're OK by me. And only one of mine is laying, the other gave up after seeing her beau and two best mates snatched in front of her.

very good point

Carl can't help me out with a new wheel at the moment

Do you think it is still ok for me to drive around with the 'hit with a hammer' wheel? I'm only doing the school run and local shopping at the moment. What do you think?

Julia

depends really, my wheel was hit with a hammer, hit with a shoe, hit on by the other wheels and hit by a very unsuspecting cat and it lasted quite awhile

Hi Julia. Welcome to the forum.

I also own a 1997, red, 20v N/A. I haven't done as much in mine as you have done in yours though! I am not surprised you can not bring yourself to sell it. I bought mine in August and it is the only Coupe I have owned.

Hello Coops

Good to meet you. I've just realised that I didn't buy my car in 1997, but 1998 instead - oops, genuine error. I call it my Essex car because the number plate starts S6 ---.

My car looks just like yours but a bit dirtier

Thanks for the welcome

Jx

Suba has some wheels for sale. They're in anthracite too so you never have to wash them.. not that you would of course.