It's nothing to do with the valve, it's just the car warming up. Once mine's up to temperature I have to work REALLY hard to get a pop on upshifts, whereas if I go for it straight away while it's still cold it'll pop basically every time.

Just to note that running hard when cold is never really a good idea, especially on cars that are closer to tolerances like ours, in your daily runabout crapbox it doesn't really matter because they're designed and built with non-car people in mind, whereas performance-oriented models are a bit more sensitive to that sort of thing.

Why not just post the details on this thread and then everyone can benefit?

because if there's a discount code available on a PUBLIC forum, everyone can get it, which means it stops being an owner's club only discount, so it gets disabled.

Oooh go on then, I don't have any NY plans so a trip to Brooklands again would be great!

Welcome Fliss!

Always nice to see a car changing hands and the new owner becoming part of the community, compared to some of the other owners clubs out there with the more common brands this place is bloody brilliant. If you haven't already, check out the Abarth Owners Club on Facebook, and if you're that way inclined there are loads of regional groups as well. I bet you'll find information on there a lot easier too, this place gets a lot less traffic than Facebook does.

The car does look very good, you should be in luck with it being well cared for. I personally had issues with mine, the previous owner did a lot of stuff himself, didn't seem to be that skilled, and whilst he was on the AOC (and the Punto Collective, we have a group just for us which helps us out massively  ) made a grand total of one post. I'd imagine that even if the previous owner of yours isn't on the Facebook group anymore, someone will recognise the car and may be able to help.

Will be buying the full weekend package as soon as I can afford it! Fingers crossed the 70th Anniversary gets us another track parade for next year, and it goes as well as this year's did!

Opposite ends of the scale! I'm only 24, apparently I'm actually quite odd in the events circle, most members are 30s/40s/50s, the youngins do all the Modified stuff or the sit in car parks revving and stuff, and the older ones go to the big things like Brooklands, Bicester, Silverstone Classic etc. 

I remember Colin telling me a story once  about a young lad turning up to an event in his 595 and being very surprised to find out he was the only one under 30 there! I'm a fan of it being a more mature group though, you find horror stories from some other owners clubs and you see some cars getting absolutely ruined with fartcans, £10 bodykits off eBay and 4 million degrees of camber etc etc, whereas here it just feels more friendly, sensible and very little willy-waving!

I just had this happen to me yesterday, ordered a new MAP sensor and will be replacing it when it arrives midweek. A productive trip to the shop a handful of miles away I didn't even get halfway through! It did induce a whole lot of panic, as I went to Germany and back the weekend before, and not having had a problem before it was a bit of a worry that perhaps it was a far more serious fault. I do also have a Bluespark fitted, and apart from me being useless before and not noticing a poor connection this is the first actual problem I've had with the car. I think I'll be doing some better waterproofing of the connection to reduce the likelihood of failure in the future.

I'll update in due course.