Talk:Fiat Uno

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The best used buys are the post 1989 Uno 45 / 1.0l and the 60S / 1.1 Uno FIRE engine cars. The five door cars feel bigger and are more versatile. Five speed gearboxes are weaker than four speeds[1]. Look for rust in the tailgate (except when plastic), doors, wheel arches, and sills[2], but the Uno is no worse for rust than a contemporary Ford Fiesta[3]. Other weak points are; the handbrake cable, clutch cable[4], engine earth cable bolt points, rear wiper. Standard Unos benefit from fitting 145 or 155 section tyres. Uno 45s only came with 135s as standard. Standard FIAT made shock absorbers / dampers are poor and replacing them with quality aftermarket ones, will greatly improve the ride quality.
White cars look like fridges, Rosso Sporting red fades to a horrible pink. Lots of nice metallics are available.
Avoid the diesel[5] - see above. There is no Haynes manual for it either.
Avoid the Selecta automatic - it came with an older type of engine and a penchant for gearbox self destruction which at todays prices will write off the car.
Unos are so cheap that they are almost giving them away. Italian style, with low insurance and high mpg on unleaded (from the late '80s on). They are great motorway cruisers because of class leading aerodynamics, with lots of space, and are good to drive - 'Con Brio'. All this makes a well cared for Uno a great buy for a post driving test first car, or a second family car.
My reasoning:
# The 5 speed gearbox, later used in the Punto, is the better and stronger box.
# The Wings and sills are galvanised...
# Fiesta wasn't galvanised at all until 2005, Uno is mostly galvanised, the Uno is much better for rust, wheras the Fiesta is horrible for rust.
# Mark 2 (post 1989) are on a hydraulic clutch.
# The 1.6 diesel is an earlier FIAT unit with reduced capacity and the turbo removed, they are one of the most powerfull engines in the Uno and thanks to the state of tune are ultra reliable.
If this section is suitable for Wikipedea, it needs completely re-writing. The Uno is a very good second hand car. PiP 05:27, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  As a used buy, ex. section. 

message: Does this section really belong in this article - seems more appropriate in a death of diana article; perhaps adding this section to that article.  This article could link to that section in a trivia section as a compromise.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.228.173 (talk) 18:31, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, along with a bunch of other much-needed cleanups. The death of Diana needs to be handled in the specific article, not repeated (with the risk of corrections getting seriously out of synch) in lots of different places. – Kieran T (talk) 21:40, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notoriety? 

message: Surely this is better than "Start" now? PiP (talk) 23:03, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article classification 

message: This car was a complete sucess, in Brazil.Agre22 (talk) 10:21, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: A sucess in Brazil

message: Must we use exclusively badly polished and beaten up examples in the photos? I was trying to rectify this but someone has replaced the shiny Mk2, with yet another badly abused example... - - - BigglesPiP - Talk |  Contribs - 00:31, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrecks in images. 

message: Just wondering... :-D
(As a Brit and therefore quasi-european who's noticed modern iterations of cars being rather inflated vs the old ones)
Original Panda ... 3350mm or so. Original Uno ... 3600~3750mm.
New "Panda" in Europe ... 3550 ~ 3700mm (and a similar increase in width) ... sold instead as the Uno in Brazil.
I wonder, did Fiat Brasilia figure that their buying public weren't going to swallow the idea that a car could still be sold under the same name when it had grown to match the dimensions of the model that was the next size class up originally, enough to outweigh the brand affection that the Panda had obviously built up (no matter the Uno slightly outselling it) over the ocean? 193.63.174.211 (talk) 15:19, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are Brazilians harder to fool than Europeans? 

message: Come on, this has got to be a joke. According to LNCAP, the Nissan Tsuru and Nissan Tiida are as much of a risk as the Uno and we know they are quite reliable. I just checked them out today. I suggest we remove this section gets removed until LNCAP gets a better reputation and gets more serious about their tests. Royalfighter01 (talk) 04:45, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fiat Uno unsafe by Latin NCAP?? 

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message: The Uno was in production with new Firefy engine, see Fiat Brasil http://www.fiat.com.br/carros/uno.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.40.229.229 (talk) 11:50, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  2017 production 

message: At the reintroduction of the Uno to South Africa in 2006, it was supplied from Brazil. The most noticeable difference from previous models was the rear suspension, a fully-independent setup originally fitted to the Fiat 127/147 which was retained only in the Brazilian and certain Argentinian versions of the Uno, which also required a relocation of the spare wheel inside the engine compartment and the redesign of the engine bonnet and front fenders.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:7F4:C480:47AD:0:0:0:2 (talk) 19:16, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  SA versions of the Uno supplied from Brazil