Hi, new user, visenna here.
I’m from Poland and I do own blue metallic Daihatsu Charade g100 (petrol, 993ccm, 40kW, 1992) for more than 20 years now - it was my first car (a friend imported it from Germany, but after a year concluded it’s too small for him, and that’s how my parents bought it for me). I love it, and it’s still great (in my opinion it’s huge inside for a car so small, a lot of strange things I packed in there, including bathtub-with closed trunk doors!), although unfortunately I have a lot of problems with parts in my country and with mechanics who wants to work with such an old car… That’s how I found this forum - in search for some schematics or help from people with who know Daihatsu. The similar Daihatsu forum in my country died a few years ago (not a lot of Daihatsu in Poland). Currently my friend, who’s a mechanic, said he will try to fix my Daihatsu-after bad work of other mechanik beforehand-but he works daily with french cars, so Daihatsu is out of his area of expertise and he’s struggling a bit.
huge trunk in a small car - a lot can be put inside and still being able to use small parking spots
a stop on the road
English is not my native language, so sorry for all the mistakes!
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witam i zapraszam
Nice g100. Great pics. Not many people here have had their Dai for 20yrs. I hope you find what you are after here. Reach out if you need parts and post in the wanted section.
Kind regards,
Mr Gromsby
[quote=“visenna, post:1, topic:6893”]…English is not my native language, so sorry for all the mistakes…[/quote]What mistakes? Your Engluish translator is working fine.
I would be more worried about this guwno apple. It’ll spoil the juice you are about to press out of it:
I find it odd that there used to be a Polish language Daihatsu forum. When I was last in Poland, I don’t recall ever seeing any Daihatsus whatsoever
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Hehe, I only used a translator for some specific car-mechanics words I didn’t know, I learned both english and german in school (the second one I unfortunately mostly forgotten). Apples were mostly for horses, but we ate the fare shate too:)
There are some Daihatsu in Poland, but not many. I only once saw identical Charade as mine in my city a few years ago and one identical restored to nearly-new for sale in an online advertisement. But this model was more popular at some point-during PRL period it was sold exclusively to higher PZPR members-only those could afford any car (it was a commumist party that ruled for years not-democratically and was connected to Soviet Union. I suppose along Fiat 126p, 125p and maybe Lada? I’m not sure, I don’t remember it myself, because I was too young at the time). A friend of mine had Daihatsu Rocky.
Polish forums:
https://daihatsu.com.pl/
http://forum.charade.pl/
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Then, your vehicle is older than I thought it was. One would think that party big shots would opt for larger more luxurious vehicles that wouldn’t rust so quickly.
It’s impressive to see forums dedicated to extremely rare cars. There’s even one for my Suzuki. It could only be more helpfull that the English-language Suzuki forum of which I’m a member of: Suzuki Klub Polska - Forum Dyskusyjne - www.suzukiklub.pl - Wykaz forów
Since you already know German, you could try posting your oil cooler plumbing question over there. They’re not in the habit of saying, “I don’t know”, even if they truly know nothing: www.daihatsu-forum.de
Since your engine type was installed in later Italian Innocenti cars, there’s a chance that some of these had oil coolers. It would be worth a try, to ask here: Innocenti De Tomaso in "Oldtimer Markt" 02/2010 - Mini Discussion - Das große Mini Forum
Innocenti? | The De Tomaso Forums
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