john, i suspect its been priced at this level because of the rev issue. once thats fixed if all else is ok he could probably make 1k on it

That said alarm bells are ringing for me at the moment, if the last owner didnt fix it it could be for a number of reasons, non of which would put me in the mind set to buy the car
he couldnt find it
he couldnt afford to fix it
he wasnt assed about fixing it
he new what it is, and its expensive to fix it

at the end of the day there a 22k new sports car, any maintance bill is going to be steep if you cant do your own work/diognisis

if the prices like 400+ for a clutch, 500+for a turbo fitted worrys you, i would duck out now mate

if that's not the case, welcome to coupe ownership and im glad your taking on a coupe to save it

please forgive the negativity in this post, and in the above but its for good reason, every month we see some one like your self come on the forum with out perhaps doing as much research as they could have.
perhaps with out the nessery budget needed to keep them on the road.

We then get to read fault finding posts for the next 2-4 weeks. these get increasingly desperate. The next thing we see is the coupe name get dragged though the mud once again.
and finally the for sale "spars or repair post" or get to witness yet another coupe get broken and sold for bits of some one's drive

im making a lot of assumptions which are probably not fair, and this is no personal attack on you, or any one else

just the standard buyer be ware post

cheers for the linkm there was no smoke from the turbo,

when i said its fine he said u sure? i can leave it running for longer.

Good post Sam.All true.

^^^^ a agree fella,

totally,

ill add this thread, makes good reading

http://www.fiatcoupeclub.org/forum/...;Main=63386&Number=775681#Post775681

What price is it being sold for? Seem to have missed that

you going to do the cam belt your self?

i thought that was the cam belt kit fitted ffs!


What idiot goes to the expense of putting a brand new cam belt kit in to sell the car for similar money. LOL

More money than sense.

Totally worth a punt at that sort of money. Aslong as you can afford to throw away £500 or can content yourself with 5000rpm should the worst happen

Mine had that problem.... cams totally fccuked. One cam didn't exists at all, worn dowm almost circular.

ah yes, the 16vt is known to suffer with quite sever cam lob wear on some of the higher mileage less well looked after examples

TBH, from what i have read on this and another thread i would suggest the following....



Treat the purchase of this car as a project, expect, and plan for, everything to be wrong / broken and spending lots of money. That way you can be pleasantly surprised when /IF you find some bits are ok.

If you expect it to be a quick reliable car for silly low money that you can simply reconnect a magic vacuum hose on to cure the 5k flat spot issue you are sure to be dissapointed.

£500

i thought it could have been the cam.

Alotho more reason to upgrade the cams.

What are the best performance cams.

^ and more importantly price lol

I agree with the caution here. But let's put it in a different perspective:

£500 is a tiny amount of money for this car.

If the OP is a car enthusiast with the time, patience, a budget for repairs, mechchanical skills, AND this is not his daily driver then he should buy it.

If he thinks that a quick fix will get him a cheap reliable car that will only need washing every sunday, then he should not buy it.

Financialy, even if it is knackered beyond repair he will get his money back, and in the process will learn lots about fiat coupes.

I can't believe that this is what it has come to for the Coupe - £500 for a runner with Tax and MOT.

I have a safe warm and dry lockup, I think I might buy a few coupes at rockbottom prices and just store them for 5 years or more.
Slowly i'll restore them all for when the prices really do go up in value and the 6000 or so currently on the UK roads becomes 2000.

Poweritalia don't touch the 16v models any more so you'll have to find somewhere else. There is a list of coupé friendly garages in the Basic FAQ section of the forum.

just been on the phone to poweritalia,

Said it wont be the cam, he said it will 99% be a map sensor or a water temp sensor but if it was water temp it would idle wrongly.

so will prob be a map sensor.