General What kills 500's - ?

[Jack]

Now that the 'new' 500 is getting on in age, I am wondering about any common causes that might be leading to scrapping of these cars - in years past, Fiats might well have died from terminal rust; is this a cause, are there other reasons ?

(our car is a 2008, with 29K miles - recent MoT's have noticed surface rust on the rear under bodywork and spring wells, which I have since treated - nowhere near terminal, happy to say !)

 

[irc]

I've scrapped 2 with rusty sill problems and one with a broken Dualogic actuator. All were probably fixable but had paintwork or panel damage issues too, so broke them up.
Both rusty ones appeared to have been jacked up on the sills in their past lives, so that probably contributed to it.
Otherwise I've not really seen many that were beyond hope, although I'm mainly working on Pandas not 500s.

 

[Jockstrap]

Old age and terminal decline .
My wee beastie 2008 1.4, 97k miles and tlc.
Killer is paying for labour.