dlyall

1.0 is fine as a first car. We had one as a second car and did about 39k over 4.5 years with very few issues. It's quite capable of staying with motorway traffic but it does lack overtaking power so if you do lots of A/B road driving you may want a 1.4 but the insurance will be quite a bit higher. We sold ours to a 20 year old girl from London and the cheapest quote she could get was £800. IRC, she couldn't even get a quote for a 1.4 so that may be an issue. With regards to the designations, E is the base model - manual windows & mirrors, no rear speakers, no central locking. If it's an older one it'll have black mirror housings. Ours was a 2001 and had body coloured mirrors but black door handles S got electric windows & mirrors, more speakers, central locking, possibly opening rear windows and a different tilt mechanism for the front seats to aid access. SE I think might be a very limited edition and have no idea what it included. If you have a look at Parkers website you can get a full rundown of the specs. HTH Dave

I think they're standard on the S and Sport.

Used to have about 8 litres left in our tank when the light came on. That's about 60 - 70 miles in a 1.0 assuming that you can use all 34 litres that it holds

If anyone's interested I have a storage tray to fit the lower part of the double DIN dash area. Going free to anyone who wants to collect. I'm in Bedford and it'll be available until the end of next week as I'm moving north.

Well as of 2pm today the Lupo has gone. We're moving to Scotland and I'm going to be working at home most of the time so there really wasn't the need for two cars. Anyway I'm pretty happy as I got £3k for her - 2001 "51" 1.0E in Flash Red, 39K. Standard except for ABS, CD and a rear aero wiper. Cheers Dave

ABS was only mandated from last year. Prior to that it was an option on all but the Petrol Sport and GTi. It's easy to spot as the ABS pump is visible on the passenger side of the engine bay. It has 5 or 6 steel brake lines coming out of it. We ordered it with our 1.0E but to be honest the brakes are so weak it's hard to activate it except by braking extremely violently on very slippy roads. In reality I've never had to brake that hard.

It's on the sticker under the boot floor or in the manual. HTH

Just spoke to Wayside in MK. They quoted £210+VAT to change the belt and tensioner which isn't too bad. The water pump doesn't need changing unless it's leaking as it has a metal impeller anyway. They couldn't answer whether or not it was an interference engine.

Does anyone know if the 1.0 is an interference engine or not? Ours is coming up to 38K in 4 years but there's no specific interval for changing the cambelt. The dealer says that they only have to inspect annually after 5 years. I'd rather it didn't let go and cause a large amount of damage but at the same time I don't want to throw money away changing it too early hence the question. If it's not an interference engine I don't have much to worry about if the belt breaks. Has anyone had the belt changed on a 1.0? How much was it and are there any other things worth doing at the same time? TIA Dave

Had the same thing a couple of months back. It turned out to be a duff plug lead

Coin holders I believe. Although they look pretty useless.

Just had the 40k done on our 1.0. £315 from Vindis in Bedford. The only extra over the service was a brake fluid change that was probably an hour of labour and a few quid for fluid. I asked about the cambelt and they told me there was no set interval for that engine. They did advise that it should be inspected at 5 years (next year) and probably replaced for piece of mind.

Ours was bought on 15/11/01 and was made in Brussels. I suspect they had a few production locations rather than switch production near the end of life.

Could be for a first aid kit. Fairly sure that was an option.