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Please help me, need to fix car!

TrueUnitedFan
Posts: 315 Forumite
I'm looking to improve the car to make to get the best out of it as possible and make it as efficient as possible I have a 2002 fiat punto. It has 90,000 on the clock, 6 previous owners, who I don't think looked after the car in the best possible way.
Basically, my car wouldn't move as it ran out of petrol. Is there anything I should change on the car because it ran out of petrol?
I'm looking at changing the spark plugs are these any good?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bosch-024223...7529551&sr=1-8
I'm also looking at getting these to clean out all the crap out of the fuel system.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Redex-RDX02-...7529954&sr=8-1
Or because I've ran out of petrol, should I just replace the fuel pump with a new one.
Is there anything else I should change on the car? Or possibly should I just get a full service history?
somebody said this:
New oil and filter.
New plugs, leads, rotor arm and dizzy cap
New air filter
New Fuel filter
That'd be a good start.
No need to change the fuel pump - it either works or it doesnt.
New fuel filter? = http://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-In...7543260&sr=1-1
New Air Filter (gonna treat myself!) = http://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-Pe...543313&sr=8-15
rotor arm? Can't seem to find this for the fiat punto 2002. any of this? http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_tr...r+arm&_sacat=0
not sure what kind of leads I should be looking for to get can you put me in the right direction please.
distrubitor cap? could you point me in the right direction on ebay or w/e in which ones I should be buying?
Can someone help me find the following above and is anything else I should be replacing!
Will thank everyone!
Basically, my car wouldn't move as it ran out of petrol. Is there anything I should change on the car because it ran out of petrol?
I'm looking at changing the spark plugs are these any good?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bosch-024223...7529551&sr=1-8
I'm also looking at getting these to clean out all the crap out of the fuel system.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Redex-RDX02-...7529954&sr=8-1
Or because I've ran out of petrol, should I just replace the fuel pump with a new one.
Is there anything else I should change on the car? Or possibly should I just get a full service history?
somebody said this:
New oil and filter.
New plugs, leads, rotor arm and dizzy cap
New air filter
New Fuel filter
That'd be a good start.
No need to change the fuel pump - it either works or it doesnt.
New fuel filter? = http://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-In...7543260&sr=1-1
New Air Filter (gonna treat myself!) = http://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-Pe...543313&sr=8-15
rotor arm? Can't seem to find this for the fiat punto 2002. any of this? http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_tr...r+arm&_sacat=0
not sure what kind of leads I should be looking for to get can you put me in the right direction please.
distrubitor cap? could you point me in the right direction on ebay or w/e in which ones I should be buying?
Can someone help me find the following above and is anything else I should be replacing!
Will thank everyone!
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Comments
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You'd be better posting in the car section rather than insurance
As it is a petrol car then running out of fuel does no damage to the car - if that was the case my first car would have been on the scrap heap decades before it eventually did go. Running out of fuel with a diesel vehicle is another matter.0 -
sorry, wrong section. will report to a mod to delete the thread.
thanks!0
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