Local vocational school was a neat find to do some repairs to this little Fiat! Although it took a couple of weeks but the cost was very low and I actually left with a feeling that they really did the job properly. So what was done? The main thing was to solve the emissions problem. It was easily noticeable that something was not right because of quite large amounts of exhaust smoke. After checking the cylinder pressures (they were ok) the culprit was found to be incorrect ignition timing which was checked with a stroboscope. Correct ignition timing also solved those idling problems.
Students in vocational school took the Uno in a yearly inspection for me (same price that I would have paid) and it got passed, so there's over a year of time to do some (hopefully) joyful riding.
Old battery was a bit shady and impossible to mount properly in place. So a new battery manufactured by a polish company called
Zap was installed. It is this
Silver one.
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| Fiat Uno - new Zap 53ah battery installed. |
Fiat actually recommended to use 30ah batteries with this kind of Uno (EDIT: this information was from the Haynes manual, original Battery capacity at least here is 45ah), but it is appropriate to use a bit stronger battery here where the winters are really cold and the summers, well, not so cold.
While taking picture of a battery I checked the engine oil level which was like that:
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| Fiat Uno oil dipstick |
So the oil level is a bit low. Sadly, I forgot what the oil level was in the last month when I checked it. But there's now a bit of a suspicion that this Fire engine is consuming oil. I'll add it up and check it regularly from now on.
It's been still quite winterish here but it was time to do some leisure-driving with Uno. It is working well for now.
