Readers Cars

Please send me details of your Cromas! If you have pictures, send those too (electronically) and I'll put them in the gallery. Any Croma stories or tips you have would be useful. Just e-mail croma-mail@bigfoot.com and get your car on here.

Jani Šolar

It was made in july 1998, and have a 2.0 engine with electronic injection (2.0 ie) with 125 HP. Till now she (??!!!) were drive more than 250.000 km. I bought it 4 years ago and it's look like in the picture..

Mine Croma's returns arounds 9L/100km. The car has done 250000 km with original engine, and it is seems to be done many more. It' is in very good condition. I must take care in oil in engine, because, this is very important in that engine. Only part's i've changed was exhaust valve (all 4). So after 10 years, Croma seems to be in good condition (after that km), there is comeing a little rust in some parts of a car, but nothing alarmed.

Torbjörn Stenberg

and iI live In Sweden, and I have a 1988 Fiat Croma i.e with abs and cat .

I want to tell you a story of how i picture my car, it's comfortable, reasonably fast I've had it up to 180 without any drama and then she accelerated quite strong still, i guess 195/200 is a fair assumtion, very lean on fuel if I drive carefully, and I do belive it has a soul.

About a year ago I had four passangers. and non of them were all that impressed about my precious donna.

The comment about italian cars in general and fiat werem't something very nice. This was in late november and it was cold so i put the automatic heating system at comfortable 22 deg centi and off we went.

After a couple of miles it still did't deliver any warm air and the engine temp didn't move at all. Due to the cold atmoshere no more comments were said during our 150km drive. The next day we went back and still no heat, this day was even colder. As i got home and had left my passangers I went out to drive away alone after an hour, and imideatly it started to produce the nicest of warm comfortable air.

As it turned out the problem was due to a crummy german thermostat that jammed fully open, and after changing to a italian one it stopped.

Remond Kuipers (e-mail address to follow)

Hoi

Our family is a great lover of Fiat. My father has now his fourth FIAT,
his second Croma. My brother drives his thirth FIAT, and has now a FIAT TIPO 2.0 16 Valve. I self drives my fifth FIAT: 2x FIAT 127, FIAT UNO Turbo i.e., Croma 2.0sx and now a Croma Turbo i.e. I collect lots of things about FIAT, especially about all Croma's. I have lots of folders of the Croma from different countries, Articles, pictures, press-maps etc. I know a lot of all Croma's, so have you any questions i might be able to help you!

Let me know if you need something and i hope this web-site becames verey
great, because the Croma is A great Car!!! Success!!!!

Olle Sundqvist

Hello!

First of all, thank you for a superb site! I'm glad to know there are more
people in the world that have discovered these excellent cars that provide
such great value for money. My own Croma is an '89 Turbo with 150 HP, lots
of equipment and ample (to say the least) speed resources. After the
purchase last year, it spent some time in my garage as I had to catch up
with the maintenance issues that the previous owner had neglected. Anyway,
it is now running very well and it will probably give good service for
several years to come as the mileage is fairly low (140 000 km). Moreover,
the body is virtually free of rust - quite amazing in this climate!

Finally, let me inform you that you are in fact wrong as regards the
availability of factory workshop manuals. I have myself been in contact with
Fiat in order to buy one, and I met with a positive response.
As of now, I'm awaiting delivery of a manual in English, which will cost
about GBP 120 which I don't find too unreasonable.

I'm enclosing a photo in case you'd care to display it on your site!

Forza Fiat!

Olle Sundqvist

Dennis

Hey all

Ive got a croma turbo ie. from 12 / 1986 with km 182000 on the meter - and
still going strong.
Ive put in a turbo chip and a KN-filter to increase power.
http://www.knfilter.dk/
177 hk and 302 NM - going flying. ( With cat. )

Ive put in a picture ( on wintertyres sorry ) - my croma is still in its
original paintjob !!

Regards
Dennis

Jonas Z

This guy is really mad. He drag races his Croma. And apparently from the pictures against Nissan 100NXs. Now that can't be right. Can it?