Seicento Sporting Speed tests
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i've never seen them crack, where abouts did you hear that? the linkages are prone to seizing, and need constantly greasing to prevent that. if they're well serviced, the handbrake will work ok.
saying that, i binned mine, moved my front brake discs to the back and fitted puntoGT rear calipers on custom brackets.
saying that, i binned mine, moved my front brake discs to the back and fitted puntoGT rear calipers on custom brackets.
I watched it being repaired on a 1 year old Seicento Sporting. The same one that the door hinge snapped off the A pillar at just over 2 years old. And had a new gearbox by 45k....GeX said:
Wasn't built to take the sort of abuse it did really, but it was bloody good fun
Lopéz said:I watched it being repaired on a 1 year old Seicento Sporting. The same one that the door hinge snapped off the A pillar at just over 2 years old. And had a new gearbox by 45k....
Wasn't built to take the sort of abuse it did really, but it was bloody good fun
That must have been a Friday afternoon car. The one sat outside this house right now is coming up on 7 years old, and hasn't had anything that bad go wrong with it
You just know I'm tempting fate by saying that....
AmDaMan said:
its exactly the same, yeah
Lopéz said:I watched it being repaired on a 1 year old Seicento Sporting. The same one that the door hinge snapped off the A pillar at just over 2 years old. And had a new gearbox by 45k....
Wasn't built to take the sort of abuse it did really, but it was bloody good fun
they are bloody good fun to throw about, mine (cinq) is built to take abuse though
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Yeah agree about the handbrake on these, mine never really worked all that well.
Big thumbs up to these cars, people slate them, but I had mine for 5 years cost me pennies to run and was damn good fun to chuck around at legal speeds. Mine was totally abused but nothing major went wrong with it for 90k miles that I owned it.
I swapped my front brakes with Red dot grooved items and pads, and was very impressed with the difference it made over standard. Also had 195's which helped for grip.
These cars are easy to lock up as standard, if it's pre ABS and has the skinny 165 tyres on.
Big thumbs up to these cars, people slate them, but I had mine for 5 years cost me pennies to run and was damn good fun to chuck around at legal speeds. Mine was totally abused but nothing major went wrong with it for 90k miles that I owned it.
I swapped my front brakes with Red dot grooved items and pads, and was very impressed with the difference it made over standard. Also had 195's which helped for grip.
These cars are easy to lock up as standard, if it's pre ABS and has the skinny 165 tyres on.
Mr_White said:
Nah mate.. Im not making anything up. Im not one of those Chavvy losers who only talks about how much "Brake" the engine has got. My brother timed from when i let my foot off the Clutch. Ill have to Camera it next time for Proof.
Never done it myself but in my opinion the only why to take amateur measurements is like this:FrannoBaz said:
1) use GPS to calibrate speedo - so you know where the needle actually is for each speed you're interested in.
2) do the driving whilst someone else films the speedo - making sure to film dead straight on to minimise parallax.
3) measure times from the video - making sure the video is running exactly in real time (not at 60fps if recorded at 50fps etc.)
That should be accurate to maybe a quarter second at best, but more like half a second. Errors come from not being able to totally eliminate parallax and the low resolution of speedo.