Punto Fail

Kitty
Kitty Posts: 2,844
edited March 2011 in The Crudcatcher
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The middle knob on my punto has broken like the one above, guess how much to get it fixed? :(
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  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Loctite-Super-G ... 304&sr=8-1

    ^ £2.79
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    It's a Fiat - you're lucky that's all that's broken.
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  • Andy
    Andy Posts: 8,207
    Need a ride in my car darling?
  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    cooldad wrote:
    It's a Fiat - you're lucky that's all that's broken.

    Yeah I've forked out quite a lot for it since I've had it.
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  • VWsurfbum
    VWsurfbum Posts: 7,881
    F ix I t Again Tomorrow
    Kazza the Tranny
    Now for sale Fatty
  • cazmotron
    cazmotron Posts: 161
    also known as:
    Fecking Insult To Automotive Technology

    Had a Punto for a while, think it cost as much to keep it working as it did to buy new
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  • bentes
    bentes Posts: 286
    cazmotron wrote:
    also known as:
    Fecking Insult To Automotive Technology

    That's "FITAT"...
  • cazmotron
    cazmotron Posts: 161
    bentes wrote:
    cazmotron wrote:
    also known as:
    Fecking Insult To Automotive Technology

    That's "FITAT"...

    Do'h should be Fecking Insulting Automotive Technology.

    I really should pay more attention to what I am typing and not get distracted by shiny things
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  • Andy
    Andy Posts: 8,207
    Or learn to get a new joke instead of recycling old ones?
  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    Andy wrote:
    Or learn to get a new joke instead of recycling old ones?

    i'll recycle your old joke in a minute.
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  • mudsucker
    mudsucker Posts: 730
    You haven't got an good old joke recycling in you :D

    A Fix it again Toni eh?

    My first car was a Cinquecento. Great little car. It did have quite a bit of work done to it though.

    So how much Kitty?
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  • kenan
    kenan Posts: 952
    mudsucker wrote:
    My first car was a Cinquecento. Great little car.

    You are joking right?
  • VWsurfbum
    VWsurfbum Posts: 7,881
    Jake151 wrote:
    Your car has no radio...
    its above the vents
    Kazza the Tranny
    Now for sale Fatty
  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    mudsucker wrote:
    You haven't got an good old joke recycling in you :D

    A Fix it again Toni eh?

    My first car was a Cinquecento. Great little car. It did have quite a bit of work done to it though.

    So how much Kitty?

    £60 :(
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  • Arkady001
    Arkady001 Posts: 201
    Kitty wrote:
    mudsucker wrote:
    You haven't got an good old joke recycling in you :D

    A Fix it again Toni eh?

    My first car was a Cinquecento. Great little car. It did have quite a bit of work done to it though.

    So how much Kitty?

    £60 :(

    Sounds about right - £10 for the part and an hour's labour.
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  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    ive got a 10 pound part for you.
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  • sniper68
    sniper68 Posts: 2,910
    Just ask the dealer for a new Punto and save a tenner :wink:
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  • bobpzero
    bobpzero Posts: 1,431
    VWsurfbum wrote:
    F ix I t Again Tomorrow
    a fiat worse than death :lol:
  • sandy hill
    sandy hill Posts: 390
    An hours labour? Under two minutes.
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  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    Arkady001 wrote:
    Kitty wrote:
    mudsucker wrote:
    You haven't got an good old joke recycling in you :D

    A Fix it again Toni eh?

    My first car was a Cinquecento. Great little car. It did have quite a bit of work done to it though.

    So how much Kitty?

    £60 :(

    Sounds about right - £10 for the part and an hour's labour.

    £35 for the part from Fiat :(
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  • thekickingmule
    thekickingmule Posts: 7,957
    Scrap Yards = Win. Seriously, There are shed loads of punto's in scrap yards. That part would have cost you £2 probably. FIAT charge the most ridiculous of prices. I'm glad mine finally died.
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  • Arkady001
    Arkady001 Posts: 201
    Kitty wrote:
    Arkady001 wrote:
    Kitty wrote:
    mudsucker wrote:
    You haven't got an good old joke recycling in you :D

    A Fix it again Toni eh?

    My first car was a Cinquecento. Great little car. It did have quite a bit of work done to it though.

    So how much Kitty?

    £60 :(

    Sounds about right - £10 for the part and an hour's labour.

    £35 for the part from Fiat :(

    Even more of a bargain then - two minutes or 59 minutes, it's still an hours' labour.
    If you worked in a garage, you'd want paying wouldn't you?

    If you don't want to pay garage prices, buy a Haynes manual and learn to do it yourself - it's easier than you think: I swapped out an entire suspension system in a Ford Mustang in about 10 hours using basic Halfords tools and some downloaded instruction manuals...(though the Mustang is pretty basic engineering, admittedly...lol)

    Most people expect to earn about £500-£600 a week for this kind of semi-skilled work - how do you expect their employers to find that kind of money if they don't charge customers for the work they do?
    Mechanics routinely charge between £60 and £80 per hour - more if it's a specialised dealer like BMW or Mercedes (the most expensive IIRC at £130ph), but still pretty cheap compared to the photographic industry: I charge £300 for a half day and £500 for a full days' shoot + prints/digital files and expenses on top of that - so that a typical portrait session works out at about £600 and a wedding at about £2,000 for the client.

    I appreciate that money is tight everywhere, but people need to be a little more realistic about what they pay for peoples' time.
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  • sniper68
    sniper68 Posts: 2,910
    Kitty wrote:

    £35 for the part from Fiat :(
    So buy the part and push it on :D Why pay somepne £25 to do a 5 second job :wink:
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  • Kitty
    Kitty Posts: 2,844
    It the switch that's broken so a bit more hard work.
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Ebay? Just looked and you can get the whole panel for around £30, or just the switch for a fiver. Looking at the switch you unscrew from the front and unplug the block connector from the rear.

    http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trks ... Categories

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/117-PUNTO-mk1-hea ... 415759b99d

    A local independant garage can fit it for you at much less than a Fiat garage.

    HTH
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  • Arkady001
    Arkady001 Posts: 201
    redvee wrote:
    Ebay? Just looked and you can get the whole panel for around £30, or just the switch for a fiver. Looking at the switch you unscrew from the front and unplug the block connector from the rear.

    http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trks ... Categories

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/117-PUNTO-mk1-hea ... 415759b99d

    A local independant garage can fit it for you at much less than a Fiat garage.

    HTH

    Pretty much everything bar suspension and engine management is within most people's capabilities with the right tools and some common sense - and a Haynes manual...lol

    Apart from changing the bulbs on my girlfriend's Micra bizarrely - that requires the wheels be taken off and all manner of faffage (OK it's do-able on a home-ramp, but there was 30" of snow on the drive when it needed doing so I just said "fukkit" and took it to the local version of Quick-Fit where they did it for nothing)...
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  • weeksy59
    weeksy59 Posts: 2,606
    The wife has had a Punto for over 3 years and cost Sod all to keep on the road.

    I hate it personally.. but she loves it.
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