Welcome to the Forum!
ahh nice!
the floor pan does not look overly bad. some cutting out and welding new in on the boot floor should be easy enough. the sills.. yeah sometimes its more easy to actually cut the outer sill off, weld up the inner sill then weld the outer sill back on. its something i have tried to avoid doing to be fair but it is the more "correct" way to do it.
on my crazy panda (the one that started off like yours), one of the rear sills was bad. because i didnt really care about dents and marks i just bent the metal back, built up the far inner and middle sill then just folded the outer sill back down and welded that. its no way the right way of doing it, but it worked.
give the brake lines a good checking over or just replace them all for what it takes, i renewed the whole lot on both of my pandas just because they are kinda the most important part of the car. cylinders, disks and pads are quite cheap for this car which is nice.
for the bonnet i would just bend it back into somewhat of an original shape for now. if you wait one may even turn up in the right colour.
the doors are a pain sadly, replacement ones are about you just have to keep a look out for them. as MOT's go, so long as they have no sharp edges they will pass no matter how bad they are.
for the electronics, most of the time you can get away with cleaning up the earthing points and all will be fine if as said the mice have not got to any wires.
i will highly advise you check the condition of the inner CV boots. on this car the CV boots hold in the gearbox oil. if they have split you will end up with about 300ml of dirty oil left in the gearbox not doing things much good.
also check over the 4x4 prop shaft, my crazy panda when i first got it had some of the UJ needle bearings completely missing! should not really be a problem at 40k though!
if your gear stick acts like a spoon in a bowl of rice pudding when changing gear, 2 small fixes will make it good again
please have a look through some of my threads on what i did when i got
Talon,
Fallout and the
Marbella.
though i think you could relate more to Fallout looking at the boot floor in yours somehow i think fallout's was worse! (being a car used for moving sheep, maybe it was the sheep wee that rotted it all)
when it comes to cleaning the car.. i just jetwashed... everything. took all the interior out and just jetwashed the whole inside of the car. works well :slayer:
we love pictures on here,
get an album set up in the Gallery, stick all your pictures in there as you go about your project and add the "linked medium" of the pictures to the update posts
good luck with this project, always nice to have new folk on here looking to get an old panda back on the road again.
hey and once you get it up and running, bring it to some car shows, and the 4x4 events we have!
