Storm White

I sold it privately, and I lost about £2k on it - January is not the best time of year to sell a car! However I got an amazing deal on the 500, so it all worked out OK. The first person to see it bought it immediately. I knew people would say I didn't do my research. You can be sure I did, but ultimately I decided I preferred nice holidays to a nice car. I just didn't love it enough. Oh and the 500 is BRILLIANT, it's so chuckable and cheeeeeaaaap to run!

What do you mean?

I loved my 370, but after just 6 months I decided it wasn't for me I'm afraid... I never really got to use the power of it, I hardly drove it, I found it hard to park (being a woman!) - and I decided I didn't love it enough to fork out for 4 new tyres in one go. And road tax. Even on my tiny mileage, £100 to fill the tank HURT! I did know about the running costs before I bought one, but decided I'd rather spend my cash on holidays instead. So I'm now the proud owner of this: It's an Abarth 500 Esseesse. Cheap to run, quick, so easy to park and SUCH fun to drive! The 370 was awesome but now I'll just admire them from afar...thanks for the help and advice on here

It looks absolutely freaking awesome! Thing is, it's exactly the same as mine yet somehow looks better..

Clearly the Z didn't attract quite enough attention! Lovely upgrade.

No GT pack though. Can't believe people didn't spec it.

I love the colour, it really suits them. To be honest, they'd look awesome in any colour. White gets my vote though!

Well, it seems OK now, touch wood!

Ha, brilliant!

.... and it went off again this morning. I KNEW it! I've turned the ultrasonics off, hopefully that will work for now. Do they stay off until I switch them back on again?

Looking good! You'll be very glad of that roof when it's frosty.

It's not gone off so far - so maybe they have fixed it! Will keep you posted.

Well I have it back. The boot catch doesn't seem any different! They also told me my car doesn't have the anti-intruder function.

Update. They still have no idea why it's going off, but they seem to think that fixing the bootlid has sorted the problem. I'm not so sure, because if the bootlid was the problem, why does the alarm only go off when it's parked on my drive? I'm picking it up tomorrow, so we shall see. To be honest, if it does go off again I'll sell it. I can't be arsed with a car that has to keep going to the dealers, I had enough of that with Renaults. Fingers crossed!

Well it's been at the dealers for two days now, and they still don't know what's wrong! Initially they couldn't get their diagnostic computer to connect to my car, when they finally did, it reported no faults. They've told me that they're now leaving it on a sloping ramp to see if the alarm goes off. In the meantime, I'm driving round in a Qashqai On the bright side, they've fixed the sticky bootlid.

.... and it's just gone off again! Will update when it's (hopefully) back from Nissan on Weds.

Yeah I could try leaving it in gear. Nope, not tried disabling the ultrasonics yet. It's going to the dealers on Tues so I'll leave them to work it out I think! The thing is, it goes for days without doing it...then suddenly it went off twice last night. 4am wake up, awesome Ha, no! It's never been especially windy. What's even stranger is that last week there was TORRENTIAL rain one night, the hardest rain I've seen in ages. It woke us up, and it set a couple of car alarms off down the street....but not mine

I spoke too soon .. Put the handbrake on tightly, and the alarm still went off some time later. Ah well, hope the dealer can fix it.

I think I've figured out why it's doing it. I think it's because sometimes I don't put the handbrake on tightly enough, and it moves just a tiny bit, setting off the alarm. That explains why it doesn't do it on level ground. I'm still going to take it into Nissan to double-check though, and I might as well get the sticky boot lid fixed and get them to activate the anti-intruder thing.

Wow, I never realised the paint match was so bad on some of them! My sills look a slightly different colour but I'm not too fussed. The front and rear bumpers are fine.

That Titanium colour is lovely.

Thanks Chris, will give that a try.. It varies. Usually quite a long time, and very randomly. Last week it did it twice in one night, then there was nothing for a few days. It's odd that it's only at home. I've got it booked in for next Tues, and I'll get the boot catch sorted as well. I also want them to activate the anti-intruder function, because they didn't/couldn't do it last time I asked.

Grrrr, my alarm keeps going off, but strangely only when the car is parked at home. My drive is slightly sloped, so could this be the tilt sensor being a bit over-sensitive? Time to give the dealer a call I guess. I want the sticky boot catch fixed anyway.

^ let me know how you get on. I'm interested in either Falken 452s or Vreds, and I will need all four replacing at the same time, so I don't want to have to remortgage the house.

I've just read through that entire topic, people have come out with some right @*!#! Fair enough if you don't like the looks, but how can people say it has a crap interior? The interior is gorgeous. Someone said they've never seen a woman driving one. Well I do - and it's mine! I think it's a badge thing, nothing more. For me, it's an awesome car for the price. I do think the guy who thinks he'll pick up a 3-year-old 370 for 16k is dreaming though.