Power cut today so I haven't been able to bake cakes for tomorrow's track day.

I have a ruddy great generator outside my garden...



...keeping the neighbors happy.

My bedroom sounds like I'm sat in a cruising C-130 so I should sleep well tonight.

Wing repair is done, not sure if I'm being an overly precious dick about it but while it's the right colour to my eye it's a little bit obvious where it was done as the shadow falls wrong on the crease. But at the same time given where it is and the fact the car is pearlescent I don't know if it would be actually possible to get it perfect without doing the whole wing again which would then need to blend into the door and bonnet. On the subject of bonnets it was only half covered during spraying by the look of it as there is a beautiful line where the masking ended..which I shall hopefully polish out when I'm allowed to.



On the plus side the crack in the paint was found to go all the way to the metal so I'm glad it's patched up.

Checking the MOT history website, and seeing that my parents old metallic orange Punto mk2 ELX hasn't been tested this year, so I can only assume it has been scrapped. [emoji20]

Thank you for the 8.5 years of stylish, reliable service you gave us, and for making me realise how good Fiats are.

Rust In Peace, W815 OCU.

puntofan01 said:

Checking the MOT history website, and seeing that my parents old metallic orange Punto mk2 hasn't been tested this year, so I can only assume it has been scrapped. [emoji20]

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It's still taxed so doesn't mean it's been scrapped as yet.

Most odd! The mot ran out well over a month ago.

puntofan01 said:

checking the mot history website, and seeing that my parents old metallic orange punto mk2 elx hasn't been tested this year, so i can only assume it has been scrapped. [emoji20]

thank you for the 8.5 years of stylish, reliable service you gave us, and for making me realise how good fiats are.

Rust in peace, w815 ocu.

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3 years ago today since my parents traded it in. I still miss it.

My warranty replacement alloys have failed lacquer..
The same as the originals..
Who'd have expected that..

It's the lot of the cheap car used until no longer viable then scrapped. I've had 4 previous cars only one that's still on the road is the Suzuki under a private plate. I forget the plate but the defect list on the last mot was a little long. The defect list on my wife's old micra ran to quite a few pages but all advisory so it still lives although it's untaxed but was freshly mot'd in Feb so probably still around given tax is only 15 days over.

I must admit, if I had somewhere to keep them, I would dearly love to have both the Puntos in that picture back. My old grey 1 is still going: it's just been mot'd again, but I do wonder how much longer it'll survive for.

varesecrazy said:

My warranty replacement alloys have failed lacquer..
The same as the originals..
Who'd have expected that..

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Citroen is on its 3rd set...it's almost if they are all made badly.

StevenRB45 said:

Citroen is on its 3rd set...it's almost if they are all made badly.

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but - did you get to keep the old ones..:devil:

puntofan01 said:

Most odd! The mot ran out well over a month ago.

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Just looked up my old punto and it's just past its MOT in the last few days with one advisory.

I'm guessing it's been sold as the usual MOT date was July time

I see!

One of my neighbours has the following cars:
Audi S3 in black
Audi S3 in blue
Audi RS3 in black
Audi A3 in silver...

I'm sure they are great cars n'all but if I could afford four really expensive cars I'd be a bit more varied in my fleet!

If I had that much money, I'd buy a nice car, like a Fiat, and put the rest towards a house, lol!

Probably works for them or something, surely to have that many Audis!

Paddynabs said:

One of my neighbours has the following cars:
Audi S3 in black
Audi S3 in blue
Audi RS3 in black
Audi A3 in silver...

I'm sure they are great cars n'all but if I could afford four really expensive cars I'd be a bit more varied in my fleet!

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Sounds like one of them will be full of drugs lol, probs the silver a3!

trawling my PC for some tech info pics..

I found pics of our old 156

really good car 1.8 TS , and 65K miles



sold it on when we were not really using it,

sadly found it in a local scrap yard 6 months later
( probably due to the long-term airbag squib's intermittent fault light becoming an MOT fail)

I now have a complete exhaust again !

'M' sport badges on every BMW has annoyed me today. Sat at some lights when a youth in a 1 - series pulls up along side, going onto a dual carriageway so expected him to get a move on, he pulls off and ahead of another car then fails to get anywhere. I see looking at the back it's a 118 with M badges all over it.

The car he fails to get away from is an old boy in a 406 estate.

Seriously no point trying to look cool I. A fancy car with M-Sport all over it if you can't put accelerate a sensible family estate car from the late 90s