I only just joined the Scotland Forum but I've had my Punto since August 2012

What I've done so far:

- Ford Focus Induction Kit
- Chromed the dash and added red dots to make the 30mph/50mph/70mph clearer to see
- DMT mirrors
- Debadged Grill
- DRL strip of LEDs
- Chrome Window washer Jets with white LED
- Sport Tyres to replace worn ones on car (H type tyres)
- Mutant Bluetooth USB/Aux car stereo
- Better Speakers (Work in Progress)
- Fiat 100W Subwoofer Punto Sporting standard model (Work in Progress)

I spend a few days tuning the engine bay, touching up all rust with sand paper and Hammerite, getting a clean look, and adding the Punto lettering on the Engine but then the winter salt hit everywhere and bye bye clean look
I also spend ages wiring all my LEDs and made a nice mess with wires everywhere, as you see in the pictures.
Gonna need to re-wire and clean engine bay and want to install an engine undertray to stop future spray messing up the engine and should make the engine last longer as I can see mounting points for one that could be attached. Seems they only come on the HGT model or something.

Plans:
- Rear Speakers
- Alloys


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A few more things I did in the past weeks:

One of the LDRs got water damaged in the winter months so I changed the layout to just a single one in the centre just below the hood. Looks nice I think. I also chromed the front of the car looks very sweet, now going to chrome the rear and maybe redo the outline round the front in slightly wider chrome. Pictures don't really do it justice.
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I'm in the process of installing the 100w sub, I ordered a connection cable from a scrappy and finally figured out the wiring.

I debadged the sides (the Active Sport badges), I used a wallpaper steamer, which worked really well, a few minutes to heat up the steamer, stick the pipe on the badges for a few seconds and they peel of by hand! I've changed the back to display Punto Sport (using the sport bit I cut of the Active-Sport badges that I debadged from the side repeaters)
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I have added Fiat Mudflaps to the rear, looks very sporty! I have ones for the front but think I'll just leave them as it looks really nice as it is and front may overdo it.
I did have a big problem as my exhaust is right behind the right rear wheel and so with the mudflap attached there is only a 20mm gap or so between the flap and the exhaust exit. RESULT: warping and nearly a hole burnt through the flap.
Anyone else faced this problem and have a solution? Obvious would be to move the exhaust, but I'll do that when I need a new exhaust which will be in a few months I think.
So for the moment I have screwed a Mild-Steel plate over the part burned/melted mudflap area to shield the mudflap from the hot exhaust air.

I've redone all my dodgy engine bay wiring. I've rewired so there is a lot less wire mess and added some switches on the dash and fuses in between, and have hookups ready for Footwell LEDs and other stuff.

Like to do/coming up:
- 100w subwoofer to be installed/wired
- Footwell lighting
- Alloy styling
- Rear Chroming
- Rear DRLs/LEDs
- Engine Bay re-styling
- side Mirror styling possibly chromed
- Interior styling, mainly dash
- Underseal + engine undertray
pff quite a list

Just finished adding a 52mm Gauge to the dash and smoothing it out. I ordered a dual pod holder that is window pillar mounted which was meant for a Punto but it didn't fit at all, so ended up having to shape it to fit and broke one of the pods. Darn
So back to the design table and came up with a better idea

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Finished installing the standard sporting fiat sub, taken me ages to figure out the wiring. Ended up taking it apart but still no wiser. Got a connection cable from a scrappy and figured it. doing all the wiring took a while, funny thing is that the active sport mk2b has the mounting point in the bottom of boot and premade seem in bootliner all ready for such a sub.
Also popped in some 90w kenwood speakers in rear which with a little bending of the rims fitted nicely in the original mounts.
But heck that sub is loud. My head-unit bass is now set to -2. It was on +2 before but that's just uncomfortably bass heavy. Maybe I have a glitched sub or too powerful head-unit but the air displacement is bordering on painful on my ears. I don't have a parcel shelf in and the back seats are flat so that makes a difference too of course

My bros just got one of these, he's already after a badgeless grille. looks good on yours

Not been on here in a while!
I had a few accidents with the punto,.. kept me very busy keeping the punto drive-able and all spirit for cleaning, keeping tidy and modding has been lost

A few months ago I was behind a 4x4 and sheep trailer, there's a narrowing of the road to go under a rail bridge, and suddenly the 4x4 slammed on the brakes as a big lorry was going under the bridge at the same time which he had spotted too late. I responded but to avoid the sheep trailer had to swerve into the bridge wall,...kkrrrrrrr.... front side-panel deeply grazed/scratched. Complete sand-down and respray, matching paint colour but will never look the same

A few weeks later while reversing out my own drive on a wet day my shoe slipped of the clutch just as a I stopped, jolting the car backward with a big leap and then stalling straight into a big fence post. Rear bumper cracked and scratched, grille popped out and clips snapped. not repaired yet, will need new bumper

And more accidents kept pilling on, a few weeks later Windscreen wiper on driver side suddenly broke while driving with them on in heavy rain. Classic Punto problem! Annoyingly the wipers were in mid flight across the windscreen and when the wiper arm socket broke it resulted in the wiper juddering all over the window bits of plastic flying everywhere. Luckilly I was 2 miles from my house. wiper arm socket easy fix, but the wiper is missing various plastic attachments

2 weeks ago I was driving daily route to work on narrow single track in Highlands and came round a sharp bend to find a large rock on the road, I tried to avoid it but as the road is so narrow my left front wheel fell off the Asphalt road and I couldn't get back on it as the asphalt is 50mm/inch or 2 thick and my wheel ended up sinking into a small river/ditch allong the side of the road. Ended up hitting couple of big boulders in the river-bed until I came to halt with the car at 45degrees and water steaming from the wheels.
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Front wheel Passenger side was pushed back into the wheel archer/into the car. (gutted) Managed to get a tow from a local with 4x4 back on the road and managed to drive to work with steering wheel now at 10 o'clock to drive straight... not good. To garage as definitely coudn't repair this one myself
Both wishbones snapped/bend and shockabsorber bend. Alloy useable but big chunks had been taken out, needed several patches/welds on exhaust as car underbody had taken beating from asphalt edge and river bed.


BUT am back on the road!

Ouch, that all sounds painful. Good to hear your back on the road now

Thanks Harper, am getting the car back together for the FS Birthday Bash, it's starting to look really good again. Lot's of little things to do still next few evenings to get it ready for showing

thanks Seanantasy for ur mobile number! look forwards to see you & the motor there

Time for updates:
De-badged and doors de-skirted
Abarth Side Skirts fitted (only just in time for the FS Birthday Bash! they were still drying on the way )
Yamaha Parcel Shelf speakers fitted
Chrome Eyelids fitted
Many small repairs (rust/cracked paint etc.)
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Seanantasy said:

Abarth Side Skirts fitted (only just in time for the FS Birthday Bash! they were still drying on the way )

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Looks good, i especially liked the tape holding it on as it dried :laugh:

Close to Elgin a pigeon swooped out the forest and over the highway, seemingly the coast ahead of it seemed clear so it decided to land on the highway and have a little look around for crumbs and human litter on the middle of the road. But it didn't have time to look for crumbs as it hadn't checked behind himself, and suddenly realised that a Punto was heading straight for it at 60mph and it was only 5 meters away. Having just landed, it struggled to get it's wings going again to take off and BAMMMM, ... intro the radiator grill... smashing both pigeon and car grill,.....and most of pigeon came out the other end, a cloud of feathers trailing behind the poor Punto, who didn't even stand a chance to stop or swerve for Mr. or Ms. Pigeon....

I then had many passerby's waiving at me and pointing at my grill as half a spread out bird were still sucked up into my car.
MORE REPAIRS!! RrrrGGGgggg

How do these things keep happening to you? I think you need a man with a red flag walking in front of your punto warning wild-life and stray rocks that you're nearby

Well I travel a 30 mile journey to work every day, so 60 miles there and back, through the mountains, all single track.... plenty of rock falls and wildlife... not to mention the CRAZY tourists that don't know what to do on single track roads!
and a 208 miles every weekend at the moment to go see the wife..... that's a 208 miles on the crazy single track roads in the highlands, (AND you guys experienced those exact roads on the Applecross drive ) I usually have to stop 8 times every weekend for a herd of deer crossing and that's the expected wildlife... it's the unexpected wildlife you gotta watch out for....