She's Gone, Don't Laugh I Bought A Multipla!

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For a few weeks now Ive been toying with the idea of getting rid of the Galaxy. It was getting rather long in the tooth and I was sick of

[gio]

For a few weeks now Ive been toying with the idea of getting rid of the Galaxy. It was getting rather long in the tooth and I was sick of

[gregers]

;) :D how is the old froggy???

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Cheers Gio, dont believe the belts have been done, and a major service will be performed this week so hopefully no worries! I got it through a contact in the trade but

the car was a steal, without going into figures I couldn't have got a decent Mk1 tdi for the cash.

 

My big worry was the annual trip to the airport (in 2 weeks) with Mrs & me, two kids and the inlaws plus 6 cases, buggy and hand luggage.

The Gal was fine, with the 7th seat out and the cases stacked up in its place and behind the remaining rearmost seat.

Looking into the back of "the frog" (thats what i was thinking too Gregers) I was worried about space so we have just performed a trial loading run, needn't have worried.

The rearmost seats are a wierd set-up, the central one slides forward but the outer 2 have 2 sets of mountings, one being approximately 6" further forward than the others. So, with the rear seats in their most forward positions, I got 2 cases on the floor long ways on and the other 4 standing up sideways on with the buggy trapped between them and the seats. Neat but still with plenty room for another case if we needed to or all the hand luggage with space to spare! There was even room for me to sit comfortably in the 2 outer rear seats and im 6'6" and the wrong side of 18 stone! Admittedly the central rear seat has virtually no leg room just like the rearmost in the Gal' when they were slid forwards

 

Anyhow, more than happy with the frog, looking forward to my holiday, but I have taken out breakdown cover just in case (Well it is a fiat after all!) ;)

Edited June 1, 2008 by tiny

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Nearly bought one of those for the missus a few years back, drove OK and nice concept but turned out to be a nightmare getting my deposit back since the seller was Arthur Daily in disguise selling from home, finally ended up with an A class. Looked at a facelift "froggy" last year but added costs of importing were too high and ended up with a Zafira which is a much better car from all angles. I had a Tipo for 9 years and Lancia before that, so I am quite familiar with Fiats. They are basically OK but they all seem to suffer electrical problems, mine, broken wires in the main wiring loom which took months to locate as the fault was intermittent.

For me driving and sitting in the Multipla has a holiday feeling to it, I guess it's because of the oddball clocks and there's all that glass. My concern is the width, it will probably suffer side dents with parallel parking and occupants of that middle front seat might get on my nerves or my elbows on theirs. ;-)

Anyway I hope you enjoy it, but no match for a shalaxy.

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ended up with a Zafira which is a much better car from all angles

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

 

 

 

"Anyway I hope you enjoy it, but no match for a shalaxy."

 

Chalk and cheese mate, if I bought an 02 "Shalaxy" with 47k in the condition that this fiats in i'd be paying somewhere between 6-7k (going by the book), how about paying LESS than 1/3 of that for a more than capable alternative? And i'm saying alternative NOT equivalent, different horses for different courses.

 

As far as reliability goes, speaking from experience the Galaxy doesn't set a very high benchmark! That is not a criticism, I think the Galaxy is a great car (im reluctant to say love Galaxy's after watching a rather disturbing programme on the telly the other night!) I would have another tomorrow if i thought they represented good value for money.

 

I will probably spend as much time lying on my back under this car or banging my head against a wall as I did with the Gal' if I didn't want the frustrations that breakdowns and faults cause I would have bought a Toyota or Honda or other meticulously engineered Japanese car.

 

At least when I am exhausting my encyclopedic knowledge of expletives next time something breaks, I'll know I didn't pay a premium price for the pleasure.