erm, anyone know anything about fiat bravo's

[silverback mike]

Just bought one as a cheap runabout. Its an R reg 1.8hlx in good condition...

Are they any good? Bit late now I know but for the price it couldn't be missed......

[xyyman]

Got a JTD as a runabout. Its comfy, reliable and cheap to run and maintain. Does everything I want it to do. Good luck with yours. I've had mine four years now.

Phil

[silverback mike]

[ChrisEvo2]

Yep, I've had my 1.8 HLX daily rounabout for 10 years now - 125K miles - still going strong, only thing needed has been a clutch + exhaust.

Cheers, Chris

[cooky]

Mrs Cooky smoked a 2ltr a few years back as the 'Asda Express', TBH it was a great runabout nippy as hell and cost 3/5ths of F'all to run. Very reliable and upset a fair bit of exotica when driven like a tosser by yours truely



ps, cant remember which is which Bravo/Brava...ours was 4 door with a boot

[silverback mike]

Thanks folks, I'm impressed with this little thing....going to change the cambelt to make sure and the brakes are a bit soggy, good little motor.

[alfa145uk]

The girlfriend has a 1.8 hlx Bravo. Pretty hard car to fault, been very good to her. I changed the belts & tensioners a couple of years ago, pretty easy to do. Over Xmas the starter motor started catching on the ring gear when it disengages, I replaced it with an old twin spark one I had at the weekend, fiddly but not too bad to do.
The 1.8 also seems a very torquey engine.

[silverback mike]

Even better....just spoken to the previous owner, who had the belt and tensioners changed so it's only the brakes to sort out.