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Technical 500 and Panda share fuel tanks?

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My friend's daughter has had some b****d drill a hole in the tank of her 2009 Fiat 500 (1.2 Lounge) for the fuel. The Fiat dealers want over £560 for a new one.

Apart from repairing it, which I believe will be possible once it's out, it seems that the Panda and the 500 share tanks. This doesn't surprise me but the dealers seem oblivious to the fact. When I asked, they said they were different:

http://www.fiatdily.cz/dil/8664

OK, it's in Czech but it came up on a search and is self-explanatory. Got a second-hand one from a 1.4 500 (£100) but feel we could have done better by getting a cheaper one off an old Panda. Collecting tank tomorrow so I hope it is the same!
 
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tommo1 said:
My friend's daughter has had some b****d drill a hole in the tank of her 2009 Fiat 500 (1.2 Lounge) for the fuel. The Fiat dealers want over £560 for a new one.

Apart from repairing it, which I believe will be possible once it's out, it seems that the Panda and the 500 share tanks. This doesn't surprise me but the dealers seem oblivious to the fact. When I asked, they said they were different:

http://www.fiatdily.cz/dil/8664

OK, it's in Czech but it came up on a search and is self-explanatory. Got a second-hand one from a 1.4 500 (£100) but feel we could have done better by getting a cheaper one off an old Panda. Collecting tank tomorrow so I hope it is the same!
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What a dastardly selfish thing to do. Condolences.

I've posted this before - my 2010 cars (500 & Panda, both 1.2's) have the same fuel tank & the part numbers are identical.
 
jrkitching said:
I've posted this before - my 2010 cars (500 & Panda, both 1.2's) have the same fuel tank & the part numbers are identical.
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I used the forum search feature and nothing came up. The search feature on most forums seem to be next to useless.
There seem to be 3 different part nos for the same tank, probably different manufacturers or a change of mounting or materials.
 
The tank swap went OK. The one that went in had the part number 51818384. The one that came out was 51706595.

http://www.fiatdily.cz/dil/8664

I have a Panda multijet myself and it seems the diesel tanks are different because they don't have breathers. This may be because of the smaller amount of vapour but without them, how do you fill the tank to the brim?

Anyway, fella charged £50 to change the tank, it worked out in total less that the excess on a claim. Well worth the effort.
 
tommo1 said:
...how do you fill the tank to the brim? ...
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FIAT specifically recommends that you don't. See this thread:

https://www.fiatforum.com/panda/259531-poor-mpg.html?p=2672942

and scroll down to post #12.

For completeness, I'd add that some folks here have repeatedly brimmed their cars without apparent problems, but personally I don't like the idea of deliberately running with fuel in the vapour space and potentially soaking the activated charcoal in the evaporative control system canister.

This is one instance when I'd advise reading the manual & following the instructions.
 
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