Next month's issue of Car Mechanics out April 18th has a 'Fiat Coupe Survival Guide'.

They reveal the whole truth and nothing but.........

...information gleaned from this forum, hopefully with acknowledgements

Out tomorrow Grab one before they dissapear.

John

Good post guy's i'll make sure I get a copy of this. It's quite a good magazine too. Baz76 tipped me off about it a few months ago as they were doing the same for the Nissan figaro. (very thoughtfull forum this ) Hope I remembered to say thanks Baz. If not here is a big public thank you









and a kiss

(Don't tell Stan he'll only get jealous)

Will be heading down the local news agents to pick up the following. Cheers for the heads up, never actually bought this magazine before.

Made me laugh they they have Oil filter wrenches on test too. Wonder if that will include the Tuna can version or a pair of MattBs grippy pink marigolds

No tongues!


Just a word of caution on this: Halford's often have the Practical Mechanics magazines on sale, just make sure you buy the new issue. Both of our local Halford's seem to wait for a LONG time before replacing the old issues at the display

Survial Guide!!!!...doesn't exactly give a confidence inducing image of the coop does it

just got mine from morrisons,so get down there now before they sell out...

Can someone scan the article in?

Ross

Just go out and buy the mag Ross! ..and read the whole mag..that'll teach you a thing or 2 about car mechanicals

Oh and Stan.....




















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Baz

A very good article. Only skim read it so far but the facts seem to be correct for a change. Nice mention of FCCUK too

L&M must have a very good PR man. They always appear in any article written about the Coupe, especialy in Auto Italia.

Well worth the cover fee.

Errr....don't we have to wary about scanning magazine articles and then posting them on here? Breach of copyright?

Personally I do not want to see this scanned and any link WILL get deleted.

The magazine is in print and easily obtainable and deserves our support buy paying the full asking price (£3.60). It's a different matter sharing scans of old articles out of print, which is still illegal BTW

Please respect this. The magazine have given the forum and club a good plug. It is the least we can do in return.

Got my copy!

Interesting write-up, quite positive and *nearly* avoids the engine-out cam belt scenario/red key debates but not quite!

Seems like a very positive write-up and as above, nice to see AA and the Club getting mentioned

Good article.

Go get it!

It appears from the article that bonnets are available new from a main dealer for £511. I thought they were unavailable.

Well they are listed at AA in the UK and also on a German site too

Flick to the back page and read what Ted Connolly has to say about timing chains and belts.........interesting!

Well there's some shoddy photoshopping. Why cut around the car, the wheels etc, but then not through the windows? You can see the fence behind the car. They even cut through the holes in the wipers, seems odd.

Also, FYI my coupe is originally from (and spent alot of its life being serviced by) Middleton FIAT in Bognor, which is the garage where the coupe in this article is to be found.

Oooioh forgot about this. i'm off getting mine now

Blinking Yellow one again...
Not a bad write up though.

I have just read through the back page. Will certainly remember this if my belt ever snaps...but is it true? There must be a few on here who could either back this up or equally call it nonsense?

can you explain what the article says ?

It essentially says that when a cam belt snaps it does not damage the pistons, only the valves are damaged.

Ah.. that chestnut

depends on who you talk to and who rebuilds it methinks.

Possibly on the engine type too?

When the belt on my second Tipo 16v went "ge-donk" at 43k miles (I was doing approx 50mph constant - not accelerating) it resulted in all 16 valves being bent/distorted , but very fortunately no piston damage .

Mechanic put all the old valves in a vase afterwards and presented it to me as a flower arrangement for the Wife!

This magazine should be in stock as it seems to be in a lot of shops (unlike Auto Italia - which can easily run out if you're not careful ) so doubt you need to panic buy - will probably get my copy tomorrow from Tesco in Bangor.

Good mag this for the home enthusiast mechanic - my mate (who was a pro car mechanic for a number of years) has every issue since about 1986!! Very handy when they printed a Mercedes 190 project guide a few years ago - I managed to copy all the articles from him when I had my MB. They seem to run a few older Fiat (boggo models) & Alfa articles on a regular basis as well - not seen the Coupe mentioned in it before to my knowledge.

The yellow20v they feature really is mint. I had a brief look at it as walked past it to get to the parts desk. They've had it a few months, and remember it started out at 6 grand!