500 Forever and ever !

[Stormi]

Could you guys & girls share your opininons concerning the 500. Handling,
driving in the motorways, in winter,consumption, servicing & parts etc.

Scandinavia ! You have studs or winter tires ? How is the road noise ?

Any faults or calling back campaignes occured to you all ?

Thanks :icon_thumright:

[ewandougie]

Could you guys & girls share your opininons concerning the 500. Handling,
driving in the motorways, in winter,consumption, servicing & parts etc.

Scandinavia ! You have studs or winter tires ? How is the road noise ?

Any faults or calling back campaignes occured to you all ?

Thanks :icon_thumright:

Servicing : Expensive!!!

Motorways : O.K but a bit of body roll, and a lot of wheel noise

cosumption : About 45-50 mpg in a 1.2

[wreckmaster]

Could you guys & girls share your opininons concerning the 500. Handling,
driving in the motorways, in winter,consumption, servicing & parts etc.

Scandinavia ! You have studs or winter tires ? How is the road noise ?

Any faults or calling back campaignes occured to you all ?

Thanks :icon_thumright:

-Was perfect on German autobahns in 130-140km/h, but a little too much road noise with 16" wheels.

- Good on winterroads and I use wintertires without studs.

- Average consumption is about 0,6l/10km ( 1,2pop)

- Have only had an oilchange which was not too expensive( 1500kr I think)

- Had recalls on rear brakes and intake manifold

- windshield cracked first week of ownership because of bad fitting from the factory.

- Flashing milage

All in all: 500 for ever:icon_thumleft:

[.Lefteris.]

Servicing : what is this?
Motorways : perfect at 170 - 180 kph (for a small car)
Consumption : what is this?

No problems so far 2.400KM on the clock 11 months old
I just love my little 500 :D

[Stormi]

Thank you all, so far. I can discuss more with VilleV concerning the prices
( insurance, parts, service charges etc.) here in Finland. Will see also what
the new firm here will charge of those.

I guessed that the road noise is one issue, but it doesn´t matter so much ;)
Stereos just louder ... lol

[VilleV]

- No call-backs on mine, but I wouldnt be surprised if Delta was unaware of them...
- And as we discussed I think the biggest drawback is the road noise on studded tyres. With 15" summer tyres its quite ok, but has a lot depending on the road surface!
- Consumption is ok, summer time pretty much the same as Thomas, 6L/100km, and in winter 6.2L/100km, and I do a lot of driving in city!
- Servicing in Delta is very expencive, but you allready knew that. I think servicing the 1.2 is more expencive than servicing the 1.4. Cant remember the reason right now tho. My first yearly service (at 6000km) cost something around 290 euros if I remember it right. I dont want to know what the third year service is going to cost with the distributor belt change...:(
- What gomes to insurances Fiat in general is quite cheap make to insure. Mostly because they are usually driven by older gentlemans with hats on that rarely get into accidents. Mainly because they only take their cars out once a year when they take the car to service.lol And 500 being a small car with a small engine, it´s definitely a lot cheaper to insure than my previous cars have been!
- I have no idea what parts cost. I´ve had no problems on my car so no new parts needed so far.

[Stormi]

Thank you, a lot :) Now my vision is much more clear than before ;)