Fiat Sedici : Good for a little 4x4 ?

[brianashley]

Want to get a little frugal 4x4 to get me to north wales for walking/camping trips. Will buy another set of rims and winter tyre them so will not run on summer tyres during the cold . . Will be 400 mile journeys . And need to be small for all the tiny back roads etc .


what are they like ?

[waynedear]

I don't know but I am considering buying one, they seem reasonably capable, plenty of clips on youtube (include Suzuki SX4 as well, same car)
I can't find out which gearbox the 6 speed has, if it's the Fiat/Alfa/GM m32 they can cause problems.

[Stuart J]

brianashley said:

Want to get a little frugal 4x4 to get me to north wales for walking/camping trips. Will buy another set of rims and winter tyre them so will not run on summer tyres during the cold . . Will be 400 mile journeys . And need to be small for all the tiny back roads etc .


what are they like ?

Re Tyres im running the Michelin cross climate on my Octavia scout 4x4 as I didn't fancy swapping wheels all the time and I'm pretty impressed with them, I haven't driven in snow yet but on very frosty mornings the grip was excellent and also very very good in standing water and very quiet at motorway speeds .

http://m.michelin.co.uk/tyres/michelin-crossclimat...

Edited by Stuart J on Monday 17th April 09:12

[TC8]

I have a SX4 4x4 with the newer petrol engine (not sure the Sedici was around long enough to get this). But anyway, i'm well pleased with it.

It's typical Suzuki in that it is very plain and functional inside and seems to be very reliable. Not particularly quick, but not horribly slow either- certainly perfectly OK on motorways. Nice enough to drive and fairly frugal too. The boot's not huge, but there's a decent carrying capacity with the seats down.

I'm a farmer and use the car to get about off road a fair bit. Being a car rather than a full on 4x4, you need to keep an eye on ground clearance (though if you look at some of the full size 4x4s around, there's some behemoths with negligible ground clearance).

All in all would recommend.

[Yardelli]

My wife had one for a few years and it was an excellant little car. We had the 1.6 Petrol which is a cam-chain Suzuki unit. A bit noisey on the run but went well enough - averaged about 34mpg on a run. A bit basic inside even with the 'posher' Eleganza trim and the plastics (of which there is alot) tend to scuff up easily. However it was superb in the snow - the 4x4 system works really well. They are cheap as now - so much so the wife has even talked about getting another even though we are looking at 500X's. The Diesel is the stock 1.9 Fiat MJ. They revised them slightly in 2009 just as they phased them out of the UK so only a couple sold here - the revised car had the uprated 2.0 Diesel and a facelifted dash/nose. If anyone sees one of those for sale let me know!
Only issue we had was a rear bearing went which only comes as part of a complete hub assembly so costs about £350 IIRC. Recomended although I also hear great things about the 4x4 Panda's as well.

[Alex Langheck]

I would have thought either of the Panda 4x4 would be a good choice - and with the Twin Air petrol engine, or the diesel MultiJet engines. Looking at them myself to replace a 595 Competizione;