Thinking about trading in the CR-Z for a Fiat 500 Abarth, thoughts?

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Buy & put one next to it. It's against the law not to.
 
Would make for a great pic!

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Such a tiny car! Lol jk..

Hope to finally see it in person this year, and not some rental 500L in white full of dealer stickers...hah
 
GenesisCoupe said:
Such a tiny car! Lol jk..

Hope to finally see it in person this year, and not some rental 500L in white full of dealer stickers...hah
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You will for sure

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These wheels and tires became available today, company is called 1552, same people that make the wheels for Ken Blocks. AWD 65' Stang. Price is ironically $1552 with tires and TPMS as well, as shipping.

I don't have a rich Uncle but I wish I did, want these wheels so bad it hurts 😈
 
I know i could text you this, but Naperville Fiat has 14 Abarths in stock. Not 1 is a stick. My salesman who is trying to fiind me a car is a detailer, that helped his friend develop Prima polishes... and he loves the name i have picked out for a car i dont own yet.. where do i find the Euro spec wheels?
 
Yeah....I'm getting my 3 seasons put on tomorrow morning and this happened today ❄⛄🌊

14 Abarth's and 28 pedals, hmmm....BIG problem! As far as the Euro spec wheels, not sure where people get them from. I'm thinking someone has a friend of connection of some kind. I'm thinking some of them are reproductions. I think I've got a line on a set, stay "tuned".
 
Billy Baldone said:
I know i could text you this, but Naperville Fiat has 14 Abarths in stock. Not 1 is a stick. My salesman who is trying to fiind me a car is a detailer, that helped his friend develop Prima polishes... and he loves the name i have picked out for a car i dont own yet.. where do i find the Euro spec wheels?
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Out of the 5 Abarth's on the lot 10 minutes from my house 2 are manuals LOL.

Parks FIAT of Wesley Chapel | Competitive New Car Prices on 2015 - 2016 models | Dealer | Winter Haven & Clearwater
 
2 is better than none but my God why no sticks, this car should be experienced rowing your own....PERIOD!

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I'm not coordinated enough to do do all that fancy foot work but I always blip on all downshifts🇮🇹 🏁

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Oh, my guy told me the factory either makes sticks, or autos at one time. If they start knocking 5k off 2016s, i may be ordering one
 
Yellow yellow yellow 🇮🇹

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...and so it begins once again!

Hit the quarter wash on the way back from Discount Tire and then did a WGU RW, CG Diablo wheel cleaning with my wheel woolies and race brushes. Dried off the car with a coat of WGU FrankenDetailer, stuff works well with the KSG.
 
Klasse Act said:
...and so it begins once again!

Hit the quarter wash on the way back from Discount Tire and then did a WGU RW, CG Diablo wheel cleaning with my wheel woolies and race brushes. Dried off the car with a coat of WGU FrankenDetailer, stuff works well with the KSG.
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....and so it ends!

Found out one of my wheels has a crack in it, caused the TPMS to turn on, Discount Tire thought it was a TPMS so they installed one for free since I'm such a good customer but it never reset. They then checked the wheels and found a crack in it, even dunked it and it bubbled out of the crack, crazy stuff because I've been driving the car since last Friday (Good Friday).

So today I pulled some strings and had my stock wheels picked up and dropped off at the Discount Tire near my work and they swapped out the red wheels for the stock wheels on the summer tires and guess what, the TPMS still flashed when I started the car up but I'm thinking because I had the other set of TPMS on the passenger side floor mat it kept it on, even showed the P/S showing 10 psi which is clearly wasn't.

I'm hoping for the problem to go away with the other set of TPMS out of the car, I plan on checking all the PSI in a little bit because I trust my good old Griots digital tire gauge so I'm going to do my own PSI reset and see how it goes tomorrow.

As far as the red wheels go, this is a sign from the car Gods, they need to go but I only have 3 for sale, hopefully I find someone who's looking for spare wheels to keep in stock, wish me luck so I can recoop some of the $750 I spent on them last year, this really sucks.

BTW the guy at Discount Tire didn't charge me a dime to break down 2 set of tires off of wheels and re-mount a set, pretty nice, I guess I did something good for someone at some point in my life. He also showed me these Drag brand wheels that are going to be my winter wheels for sure, without a doubt and I feel that I'm going to have my stock wheels powder coated a few shades darker to give it a custom yet stock look since its the OEM wheels. I really wanna keep my OEM wheels as they are forged from the factory, strong for sure!

In closing my cell phone is in the shop too, its been a $hitty week for things for sure!
 
That sucks, sorry to hear about your bad luck. Maybe the car gods are telling you to look into those euro spec rims (I think they look really sharp) :cool:.

TPMS can be finicky. About 3 weeks ago I put my summer wheels on. I usually wait for the sensor light to go off before stopping at the tire shop to be re calibrated but it didn't come on. Last week we were supposed to get snow so I put the winter wheels back on and a couple day later the sensor light comes on. I just put the summer tires back on and so far no light.
 
Damn, that's a shame. Sorry to hear, bro. Those wheels sure looked great on there. The only positive things I could say is at least you caught it in time instead of dealing with a failure while on the move, and it's not some major mechanical issue.

Going with something like dark gunmetal?

I'm sending my summer wheels go be powder coated as well - hyper black.
 
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