After selling bumble I've bought a 2008 silver dynamic 1.2 with 68k on the clock. Pre reg and one careless! lady owner since it was 3 months old.
It was up for £1500 but due to needing an exhaust and a few dents and scratches sorting I got it for £1300. It drives nice and drives well. Suspension nice and firm etc.
it's got rear headrests and split rear seats but no roof bars and the nice dark dashboard which is different from bumble which was also a dynamic.
I think I'm going to put new active spec dark grey bumpers and grille on it and a new set of badges.
Anyone know the best place to get the new bumpers from?
Euro car parts have the grill for £20 and the bumpers for around £70 ish each.
So was wondering if anyone knows of anywhere cheaper?
Thank you in advance.

Just noticed the rear seats slide aswell. Nice touch.

Check state of back axle.

Was just surface rust. Wire brushed it, then hammerited it then waxoyled it.

dozer said:

Just noticed the rear seats slide aswell. Nice touch.

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I could do with a split folding and sliding rear seat. Anyone know the models these were used in?

Mines the dynamic on a 58 and it's got them. Did the mamy have them aswell? They will slide right forward to nearly double the boot space.

Mine is a 57 Dynamic. Maybe it was an option on my model.

dozer said:

I think I'm going to put new active spec dark grey bumpers and grille on it and a new set of badges.
Anyone know the best place to get the new bumpers from?
Euro car parts have the grill for £20 and the bumpers for around £70 ish each.
So was wondering if anyone knows of anywhere cheaper?
Thank you in advance.

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For bumpers and other parts try unto.pl I use them for cinq stuff and im sure they've got panda bumpers on there as well. Normally I just search the car model comes up with all parts they have for that car.

Got 2 active style textured bumpers and an active style grille from euro car parts for £140. Walking back to car and there's water dripping from the radiator, damn! So back into ecp for a radiator for £50. Wasn't going to fit the bumpers until after the paint was sorted but as the front bumper needs to come off to fit the radiator I fitted the new front bumper and grill.
For a cheap bumper the quality and fit is perfect.
It's going in for paint work on thurs/fri then fit new wheel trims and both fiat badges then it'll be perfect.

DaveMcT said:

I could do with a split folding and sliding rear seat. Anyone know the models these were used in?

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It was an optional extra. One I opted for when buying my Panda back in 2005. Has been invaluable over the years for me. I doubt if I would have been able to fit a double pram into my boot without it. I probably would have had to sell up when my second child came along. He loves my Panda and would be very sad if it went now...

Wee Smurf said:

It was an optional extra. One I opted for when buying my Panda back in 2005. Has been invaluable over the years for me. I doubt if I would have been able to fit a double pram into my boot without it. I probably would have had to sell up when my second child came along. He loves my Panda and would be very sad if it went now...

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I didn't buy my mother's low miles & cared-for Duologic because we (we thought) needed a larger car to carry all the baby stuff. A split fold rear seat or the possibility of fitting one, would have sealed the deal.

DaveMcT said:

I didn't buy my mother's low miles & cared-for Duologic because we (we thought) needed a larger car to carry all the baby stuff. A split fold rear seat or the possibility of fitting one, would have sealed the deal.

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My Panda was our main car till our second child came along and we figured holidays might be difficult. I put the pram in the roofbox and the luggage in the boot when it was just one child.

I also got dirty looks from the nursery staff who weren't impressed with me when they asked when I would be getting a bigger car for two kids and I answered that I would be keeping the Panda and that I had got a double pram which fitted in the boot. Lol. I'll admit it was a squeeze with the double pram but I only needed it for a couple of years.

The back seat is a great space for the kids. They're in ISOfix high back seats and I installed twin DVD players as well. They tend to be somewhat quieter in my car than the Honda.

Jobs completed so far...
New exhaust (down pipe back)
N/S rear door repaired and painted.
Paint and waxoyled rear axle.
New front and rear bumpers (active spec)
New grill (active spec)
New front and rear fiat badges.
New fiat wheel trims
New rear wiper arm and blade
New radiator

Jobs pending...
Timing belt kit and water pump
Change gearbox oil
Front brake pads
Gear stick gaiter - does the gear knob just pull off??

Spent a bit on it but it's still cheaper than the prices some people are asking for 2007 cars.

I paid £2,000 for a low miles great condition 57 Dynamic with 35K on the clock and full service history. Cam belt cost another £200 because my wife was collecting and I didn't want a "car's stopped" phone call half way home.

I should have checked the rear axle which while not terminally corroded was pretty bad. My mistake should have taken £200 off the price.

So I have probably paid a bit too much but I wont be selling for a good few years so no biggie.

It's low mileage so that sounds ok to me and if I could of found a similar car not too far away I probably would of gone for it.
Although the volvo garage I bought it from had give it an interim service, today I bought shell helix oil, an oil filter, air filter, front brake pads, water pump, timing belt kit, alternator belt and antifreeze so I'm in for about £1750 and my time!
It had a top to bottom, front to back steam clean today. It looks a totally different car from when I picked it up last Saturday. I'm happy with it and that's all that matters.
The timing belt replacement looks a bit technical going off the haynes manual!

Jobs done today..
Fitted front pads
Changed oil + filter.
Cut and fitted some new cup holder bases.