Well moved sisters car last weekend only to find it was a total dog to start...

did the usual
charge battery with pulse charger
clean throttle body
do relearn on throttle
de wet plugs and silicone grease in the caps...

seemed fine..

then out the blue last night "my cars still playing up"

So done a bit more DIY forensics on it tonight...

It seems they have inherited the same crappy earth strap design that grace most Fiats.. On the grande and evo i have you could see the cable and mine have been greased up since new....

Sisters 500 however got neglected.. and it now bites me on the arse in the depths of a stormy winter ... GREAT... :bang:


Just put my 100a load tester on the battery after a 10 second burn it was still reading a healthy 11.5v... slapped it on the engine block and it instantly dropped to about 10v

with a bit of head bending and torch shining both ends of the cable from chassis to gear box are lovely and green :bang:



Looks like a lovely job to swap over (or in my case put a tempory earth lead on to stop it from breaking down till i can get the part number (i can see the label on the cable) but cant read it where it is and get a new one ordered...

Oh dear. I wonder how is came about having a early mk3 Panda part fitted?!

Most Easterly Pandas said:

Oh dear. I wonder how is came about having a early mk3 Panda part fitted?!

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standard parts...all made by the million , and slowly used up over the years..??



that's my guess

Charlie

Most Easterly Pandas said:

Oh dear. I wonder how is came about having a early mk3 Panda part fitted?!

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that is the version revision date jon 27 /07 /10 is the date of production..


strangely the new KA doesnt have the plastic sheath on it but its the same cable

Most Easterly Pandas said:

Oh dear. I wonder how is came about having a early mk3 Panda part fitted?!

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I know someone who when he took apart his 2007 Saab 9-3 to sell off as spare parts, found items marked with 'Cadillac' stickers. He subsequently discovered that the Cadillac BLS which was made by Saab at the same factory, used parts interchangeable between both models.

Andy Monty said:

that is the version revision date jon 27 /07 /10 is the date of production..


strangely the new KA doesnt have the plastic sheath on it but its the same cable

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But 169 is Panda chassis, I know 500 shares the same platform, but should still have 500 chassis number shouldn't it?

Fecked if I know then again the 500 is a panda in drag :O