Faults:

Brake drums.

Brake pads.

One shock absorber.

Pipe going to the rear window that squirts water onto the back window.

One door lock; that's it.

In two years I am happy with that.

General Comments:

This car was my first car. I went everywhere in it.

The car was very good on fuel.

Went straight though the MOTs.

I liked how you could get so many things in it. The car was a bit of a box shape. Lower the back seats, then it was like mini van. I got a fridge in it once.

The Fiat Uno did not like the motorway.

I knew it was only a little engine with a four gears. She never broke down.

Good old car.

Faults:

The motor worked very unreliably, in cold conditions and when driving over 100 km/h it coughed.

Rear window cleaner stopped working.

Front window had cracks.

Bad balance, heavy front and light rear, when slippery, the rear part of the car is in danger of rotation.

General Comments:

The car needs whole time driving and correcting the direction.

Base is very hard, all the holes in road feel inside.

There is no noise insulation.

Warming system is quite bad in Finnish winter.

Faults:

The only thing that has gone wrong with my "new" car are:

The areal came off when I was trying to adjust it (That's where I found the only rust on the car)

The choke broke today whilst my younger brother was trying to figure out how it works.

General Comments:

Great car I like it.

All it needs is a new radio and a sound system.

Faults:

I had a gearbox problem at 60,000 and a broken selector at 160,000.

I have replaced the front discs three times, the front brakes, front struts and the bearings all round.

I have replaced the head gasket and the exhaust four times.

The drivers seat is now very worn.

The main lights are poor.

General Comments:

The above items have been acceptable to me as normal wear and tear, considering my car has done 190,000 miles.

It is used daily and has never let me down and left me stranded. Even with a blown head gasket, it still kept going.

The seats come out easily and because of this I have been able to get long pieces of timber in and some very heavy loads.

The car is easy to work on; the front brakes are well designed and come off very easily. Likewise, the binnacle containing the light switches etc. has been well thought out (though not necessarily very attractive to look at), and is ergonomically very easy to use without taking ones hands off the steering wheel.

It goes everywhere quickly, never returns less than fifty miles to the gallon and is a pleasure to drive.

Insurance is cheap, parts are cheap, but the best bit of all is the fantastic engine which just continues to storm along.

Faults:

A faulty connection to the starter motor, causing the engine not to start.

Faulty connections to the electric fan, which caused the engine to overheat.

Head Gasket started leaking at 92000 miles, so was replaced.

Rear indicators sometimes don't work, but then fix themselves.

Front brake Calipers Seized, was easily fixed by soaking them in WD40.

Windscreen wiper motor gave up, replaced by one from the scrap yard cheaply.

Rear screen washer has never worked.

The car has rust on the drivers door and around the sunroof.

General Comments:

Compared with my last car, this car is very similar, but seems to be less reliable. However, most things that go wrong are very easy to fix. Apart from a very small amount of rust, the car seems to have survived very well for its age.

The engine itself is great for the size, it screams away from traffic lights and loves to rev. It also seems quite robust, as apart from the leaking gasket I have never had problems with the engine. The high mileage doesn't seem to have affected it's performance either.

The car also seems to be well designed, with plenty of room for both front and rear seat passengers.

The car is ideal for a student or as a first car as it is cheap to run and insure, while being quite nippy and fairly reliable.