The New Fiat 500 Abarth (only) Thread

Ok, I am looking at a 13 and 15 model years. The upgraded gauges and lowered seats don't seem like they are worth the 3k price difference around here. Money best spent on Road Race Motorsports or 500 Madness goodies.

 

Also change hoses, clamps and diverter valve, three areas that will cause you to loose boost pressure. I think I still have the piggyback and the CAI kit for my 13 around somewhere.

 

The driver's seat is manually-adjustable for height.

 

yep - very odd/awkward mechanism as well!

 

FIFY

 

Lol

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For kicks, here are my two nearest cars and possible competitors, chump change prices:

http://www.centeracura.com/used/MINI/2012-MINI-Cooper+Coupe-c56a6db90a0e0aea33de5982d1ffb534.htm
http://www.centeracura.com/used/FIAT/2013-FIAT-500-c8c888f40a0e0a6b1729fadfe2c1fe91.htm

 

The Abarth with those miles should easily be under 10k.
Find one with less miles for same or less $$

 

I don’t think so, in my 2012..??



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It is. Have a 12 myself. Forget what side, but it's as if your pumping a handle to raise and lower. Can't see it being used much. Mines all the way down

 

Oh that’s right. Mine’s all the way down too, still kinda high. Like I said though, I’m used to it now, no problem


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Have you tried Craigslist and Autotrader?

edit: I wanted to get one of these as a fun daily but their small size kind of worries me in case of an accident.

 

If you like silver and don't mind it being a Cabrio:

https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?listingId=472307455&zip=90293&referrer=%2Fcars-for-sale%2Fsearchresults.xhtml%3Fzip%3D90293%26extColorsSimple%3DBLUE%252CGRAY%252CSILVER%26startYear%3D1981%26sortBy%3DderivedpriceDESC%26incremental%3Dall%26firstRecord%3D0%26endYear%3D2019%26modelCodeList%3DFIAT500%26makeCodeList%3DFIAT%26searchRadius%3D100%26trimCodeList%3DFIAT500%257CAbarth%26transmissionCodes%3DMAN&startYear=1981&numRecords=25&firstRecord=0&endYear=2019&modelCodeList=FIAT500&makeCodeList=FIAT&searchRadius=100&makeCode1=FIAT&modelCode1=FIAT500

 

I have done autotrader, cargurus, cars.com, and carmax. I am looking for a dealer, not private party, i have a car i can't seem to sell, so i'll trade it in.

small i want for a reason, i have a big red suv now, and people in LA don't care if they cut you off or drift half in your lane during rush hour on sunset blvd. side swiping will be the most likely scenario, so that smaller fiat is less of a target.

 

What's the other car you have? In my experience if it's cheap enough it usually goes pretty quickly on Craigslist.

 

I paid 11k for my 2013 with 18K miles just back in Oct. Dealer is asking too much for that miles.

I found this on Facebook, look for the Abarth classified group. Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Tuned 2009 BMW 535i, gobs of power, 500+whp on E85, could keep and do the last upgrades for the 700hp range but detonate my tranny.

 

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All Fiat 500s are now turbo models for 2018. Dealers haven't seen 2018s yet. Expect huge cuts on remaining 2017s.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/2018-fiat-500-hatchback-abarth-chicago/

I'm very glad I buy my cars used.

 

Yeah, this was not a car I wanted to get new, no matter what a deal it is. It has been fun so far. Canyon run to get home tonight, looking forward to it.

Guys, thanks for the suggestion, enjoying it a lot so far, driving position is unique, but I dig it. Sound system sucks, build quality of crap plastic door panels, but it is a hoot.

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Is getting in to reverse a total PITA for everyone? it is HARD in this thing

 

Does it grind a bit? I test drove an Abarth 2 years ago and it was doing that.

When I rented a 500L in Italy, it kind of did something similar when first starting it up and putting it into either reverse or first gear.

 

I actually saw our very own pchop on a Fiat forum describing it. Non synchro reverse. Stop car totally, go in to any forward gear and then slip in to reverse. That seems to work. Hope to get an ecu this week and find stereo upgrades. Audio is garbage in this thing.

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i upgraded to a short shifter and the reverse grind went away!!!!
it used to annoy the crap out of me