Well, I have owned my wee Abarth 595 roughly a month now. There are things I love about her and things which are slightly getting right on my tits if I am honest. Let me explain. The little Abarth drives great, sounds great and in my opinion looks great. Even better now that I have visited Mark over at Dent-Tek in Chester-le-Street to get a small dent removed out of her passenger door. I am not sure if the little dent was in when I bought the car. I only noticed it whilst parked in Morrisons, covered car park, at Birtley and the light just hit the door, showing up the small dent. So, not sure if it happened whilst I was parked down there. 
Wee Abarth 595 Competizione
Anyhoo! On to the tiniest things that are getting on my nerves. I have noticed a few annoying rattles. I think one is coming from the passenger seat, and the other which is doing my head in is coming from the driver's side, I think it is from the driver's side window. It's a barely perceptible rattle, however for those of you who know what tinnitus is like, well I can only imagine or describe it like that. When I hear it, I can't get it out of my head.... well ear!
Naughty Wee Abarth
Oh! And another quirk of the Abarth I have discovered is that sometimes when I press the driver's side electric window switch, for some reason the stereo will switch from whatever it is playing via media and jump to a radio station, then jump back.
Looks Tiny
Now to the "I don't believe it" part of my post. Yesterday, as I got in, there was some mail waiting for me. As I opened one of the letters, I wasn't best pleased to discover I have been caught speeding, apparently doing 38mph in a 30mph zone. It was on Shield Row Bank. I am proper gutted as normally I don't go over the limit, well not that much, I mean if we are all honest everyone goes over the speed limit at some point.
Looking back at my dash cam footage, I can see where I was caught. Very annoying as I was actually only doing 20mph to 25mph when I passed the sneaky van, which I am sure was illegally parked right up on the footpath. A car in front then turned in to a street and I accelerated in preparation for the bank at Shield Row. No excuse, caught bang to rights, the Wee Abarth is nippier than I thought, and I just didn't feel I was going all that fast.
My last points were on my licence way back when I was around 21, so I guess I haven't done too bad. In the letter, I think I come under a category A, so I may be able to go on one of those speed awareness courses, at a cost of £75 and avoid 3 points on my licence. I guess I will just have to wait and see. I was only 3mph over being allowed off according to the letter.
Had a little blast out today in the Wee Abarth and I must have learnt my lesson as I was back to driving like Miss Daisy, saying which I was still abiding by the rules of the road and not dawdling, so it kind of pissed me off when I had some numpty overtake me down Lanchester Bank crossing the two solid white lines, then cutting back in, in front of me, Why is there never a Copper when people do this? LoL
