My Tipo 2.0 i.e Sedicivalvole

[IronStar]

7 minutes ago, Simon_punto said:

It’s at my parents just now in their garage but that isn’t really ideal as it has a corrugated roof and drips condensation in the winter.

Those big tablet dehumidifies are worth every single cent they cost.

Something like this, probably available cheaper elsewhere (Amazon? eBay?)

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/285281754?srsltid=AfmBOoop8yt2UYvg9N9hgKJp4kR6f-cZOJUwZswM5ktPkgSMJFlCbXK5

[Matty]

27 minutes ago, Simon_punto said:

It’ll take ages to sell anyway

I reckon you might be surprised 

[Mrcento]

1 hour ago, Simon_punto said:

4. missus hates it

Get rid, 2 lovely Fiats, problem solved 😀

[J-T]

Phwoaar, that’s lovely. If I remember rightly these got an absolutely glowing write up in the press and then Fiat in their wisdom would only import 500.

My dad had a 1.9TD when I was a kid that I wished was a sedici instead. Do these have a plastic tailgate, I’m sure my dads did?

[Simon_punto]

4 hours ago, J-T said:

Phwoaar, that’s lovely. If I remember rightly these got an absolutely glowing write up in the press and then Fiat in their wisdom would only import 500.

My dad had a 1.9TD when I was a kid that I wished was a sedici instead. Do these have a plastic tailgate, I’m sure my dads did?

Yeah and the tailgate weighs a tonne.

oh, add some new struts to the list as they don’t hold the boot up 😂

[GeordieInExile]

Mega. Just mega! 

How come these all had unpainted bumpers? Did the Tipo not have painted ones that early at all, was that a facelift thing?

[Gompo]

Top stuff.

I used to pass one of these on my daily commute back in 2007/2008, but since then I've perhaps only seen them at shows.

[Simon_punto]

14 minutes ago, GeordieInExile said:

Mega. Just mega! 

How come these all had unpainted bumpers? Did the Tipo not have painted ones that early at all, was that a facelift thing?

The 16v had unpainted bumpers with the red stripe, but the un-sporty ones higher in the range had the bottom half of the bumpers in body colour. Strange I know. And they all had red stripes regardless of what colour the car was.

[Simon_punto]

8 minutes ago, Gompo said:

Top stuff.

I used to pass one of these on my daily commute back in 2007/2008, but since then I've perhaps only seen them at shows.

That’s been robbed of its red tinted back lights and alloys and replaced with 14’s off a lower model Tipo.

the expensive hard to get bits are missing 

[andy18s]

Very nice buy. Always wanted a 16v but the stars never aligned for me.

I've always enjoyed my Fiat's from mk1 Strada cl55's,through 105 and 130 Tc's and onto a couple of Tipoes. The last being a 3dr in black 1.4.

 

[privatewire]

That’s just incredible! 

[ProgRocker]

As someone who used to own a Tempra, I approve of this!  

Buona Fortuna!

[horriblemercedes]

3 hours ago, Gompo said:

Top stuff.

I used to pass one of these on my daily commute back in 2007/2008, but since then I've perhaps only seen them at shows.

Must have made quite an impression if you still have the photo 16-17 years later and can find it that readily! 

[Simon_punto]

 

So, I didn’t realise this would be so popular.

A bit of a back story to how I decided at a young age I wanted a 16v Tipo in red-

 

Back in 1993, my dad had a blue G reg 1.4 DGT Tipo and happened to be up at our local Fiat dealer, and on the forecourt for sale was their 6 month old ex-demo red 2.0 i.e (K415KSL- remember that reg)

 

I fell in love with it but unfortunately being the early 90’s the insurance man said no, and I’ll never forget sitting in the back of that car on a snowy test drive. I was gutted.

 

Since buying the Punto, and taking it to shows I got involved with a few people in the old Fiat community and one chap in particular who had a black 1.4 Tipo, not far from me. He mentioned his dad has a red 2.0 that had been off the road for years, had no floor in it and the interior was in his black Tipo, and if I wanted it. At the time I wasn’t in the position to take it but I was sent some photos anyway and found out it was K415KSL). For days I was trying to work out how I could save it and take it on as it was THE car, but unfortunately it was a breaker as the mice had been at the wiring and it had been sitting on grass, it was just too far gone. I actually have a long history with that particular Fiat dealer as I worked there for 11 years as a Fiat/ Abarth specialist and got to know a lot of people at Fiat HQ so that would have been great to save.

 

The ironic thing is that it went to the guy who I bought mine from as he has broken numerous 16v’s over the years so I’m sure there is a piece of K415KSL in my car.

[Gompo]

43 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Must have made quite an impression if you still have the photo 16-17 years later and can find it that readily! 

Haha. I knew within a couple of hundred photos, so didn't take much to find. Also an 8 month period of living in London where my spots improved significantly!

[mk2_craig]

Love the Fiat Tipo and the hot ones in particular. I wish I’d been in the position to buy Nigel Mansells car, which was something of a one-off:

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/06/a-fiat-tipo-once-owned-by-f1-champion-nigel-mansell-could-be-yours/

[Simon_punto]

41 minutes ago, mk2_craig said:

Love the Fiat Tipo and the hot ones in particular. I wish I’d been in the position to buy Nigel Mansells car, which was something of a one-off:

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/06/a-fiat-tipo-once-owned-by-f1-champion-nigel-mansell-could-be-yours/

You have actually done me a massive favour there posting that, because I couldn’t remember what radio I need to find for my car so thank you

[Simon_punto]

 

Started some wee jobs on the Tipo today while the wee man had his nap.

Also realised that my to do list is getting bigger but hey, it’s an old Fiat.

 

Wiper blades on the lights are indeed ruined, I need a drivers side headlamp because that has a massive chip in it, removed some stickers and relocated the Tipo club one to the rear window.

 

Had a new old stock Fiat AA sticker for the windscreen so added that.

 

I also had the rear lights off because a few bulbs had gone, replaced them and gave them a clean, and tried a couple of panels with compound to see how it would come up.

It has been painted (badly) but I’m just wondering if it’d come up with a wet sand and polish. I also polished up the extremely rare back lights when they were off.

To be fair it didn’t come up too bad.

 

Also finished blackening the bumpers and removing paint marks on the black plastics.

 

The interior light wasn’t working, found out there was no bulb in it, put a bulb in and it wouldn’t go off so now know the reason it was removed.

 

Oh and the v5 arrived.

 

The biggest bonus was that my missus, who hates everything about cars, admitted that she preferred this to the Punto.

 

[outlaw118]

Just catching up with everything, but I saw the title, and it earned priority.

Top darts that man, that's bloody AMAZEBALLZ

[Macscrooge]

That’s wonderful!  I nearly had a 1.6 Tipo as a company car back in 1990 but I was seduced by the interior (and cheaper tax) of a Rover 214 instead. 

[stuboy]

5 hours ago, Simon_punto said:

looks smashing

[AnthonyG]

The Mansell Tipo is fascinating, can you imagine a manufacturer making a bespoke version of one of their standard models for one of their drivers today?

The total production cost, pulling it off the line and trimming it in leather, doing the special colour etc, it probably cost more for Fiat to make that car that it would have to just give him a Thema 8.32! 

[IronStar]

57 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

The Mansell Tipo is fascinating, can you imagine a manufacturer making a bespoke version of one of their standard models for one of their drivers today?

The total production cost, pulling it off the line and trimming it in leather, doing the special colour etc, it probably cost more for Fiat to make that car that it would have to just give him a Thema 8.32! 

I’m sure any of manufacturers would bend over backwards to appease someone the caliber of Mansell. 
It likely would, but he probably didn’t want a Thema 8.32 but a bespoke Tipo though. That probably makes him one of us on here, and just made me smile a bit. 😄

[AnthonyG]

Michael Schumacher apparently loved his 00’s Fiat Croma MPV, although I don’t think it was done in a special spec. 

That probably makes him one of us as well! 

[warch]

This is brilliant absolutely love it.

Mass market Italian cars like FIATs are a an endless source of frustration to me in respect of the British car buying public. 
 

For decades they made cars that were reasonably well made and lovely to drive, but absolutely no fucker would buy them because they’d rather buy what everyone else had*.
 

My mate had a 1300 Uno as a first car, went fantastically compared to anything else Mk2 Fiesta/Breadvan Polo etc and was quite stylish as well (single wiper iirc). I did once have a go in a Tipo and liked it. I liked that early Punto with the six speed box too, back when nothing had six gears.

*British bikers are the same, hence why Ducatis are still relatively rare.

[Simon_punto]

Cleaned up the Abarth mats, ready to be refitted to the car tomorrow.
Also picked up an original grundig 3841 radio cassette so waiting on that arriving. It’ll just fill the hole until I get round to wiring it in as I’ll need to find a donor radio plug

[Blue 850]

On 22/11/2024 at 23:05, J-T said:

. Do these have a plastic tailgate, I’m sure my dads did?

They do, an apprentice at the dealer I worked at  found this out the hard way when he raised a new Tipo on the lift with boot open, it hit the ceiling of the workshop and snapped in half just below the rear screen.  😳 

[Simon_punto]

A couple more updates, with plenty to come.

 

Original grundig radio arrived today, popped that in the hole just now. Need to find a wiring loom out of a scrap Tipo so I can make it work. (If anyone has one, message me please)

Also ordered a set of period correct number plates which I can’t wait to get fitted as I think they will transform the car.

 

Today I also managed to finally get access to ePer with my chassis number which reveals something about the car-

 

The build date of my car was 21/10/1991.

The Tipo sedicivavole was launched in the uk February 1992, but my car wasn’t registered until 29/01/1993.

 

So it basically was unregistered for a year, which is strange as there were only 500 cars imported to the UK.

 

But it seems my car is a mega early example. I tried emailing Fiat CS but have been directed to stellantis heritage hub in Italy so not holding out much hope finding anything out.

[mk2_craig]

Your top wiring connector on the stereo looks fairly standard and common with some other cars of the era (Ford, Renner) the label on the back suggests the two larger terminals are earth and live - not sure whether switched live or permanent live. The other three are illumination, then another live and a 12v out power aerial feed I think, though not 100% sure it’s in that order. 

The four bottom pairs of sockets look like they are the speaker feeds, again a standard connector ( the name escapes me ) and new ones readily available on eBay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255761699085

I see there are another six terminals to the right of the fuse which look unfamiliar. At a guess maybe related to some form of amplifier or additional speakers, tweeters perhaps? 

[IronStar]

1 hour ago, Simon_punto said:

 

A couple more updates, with plenty to come.

 

Original grundig radio arrived today, popped that in the hole just now. Need to find a wiring loom out of a scrap Tipo so I can make it work. (If anyone has one, message me please)

Also ordered a set of period correct number plates which I can’t wait to get fitted as I think they will transform the car.

 

Today I also managed to finally get access to ePer with my chassis number which reveals something about the car-

 

The build date of my car was 21/10/1991.

The Tipo sedicivavole was launched in the uk February 1992, but my car wasn’t registered until 29/01/1993.

 

So it basically was unregistered for a year, which is strange as there were only 500 cars imported to the UK.

 

But it seems my car is a mega early example. I tried emailing Fiat CS but have been directed to stellantis heritage hub in Italy so not holding out much hope finding anything out.

Maybe a bit cheeky, but would you point me in the direction of EPER that can decrypt build date for Fiat group or a few vins for me please? I’m interested my own cars