Introduction
[FONT="]:wave:Hi Everyone,
I managed to get myself a sprint blue 2001 Punto sporting from eBay just a few weeks ago (won the bid and inspected before paying of course) and I don’t regret it one bit! Paid £1200 for it with 55K miles on the clock, it also came with a bit of strange damage to the front end as you will see by the pic's below.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I was surprised to see that it came pre-lowered on Koni springs but not quite sure how much by, they guy I brought it from couldn’t give me a test drive because he was "still a bit baked" apparently, lol, so as you could imagine I could not get a lot of sense out of him but the car seemed sound other than that so wasn’t too bothered. He told me it was 5mm but I was surprised that anyone would bother with such a small amount!
My current plans are, in priority order;[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Here is what I have done so far, first are pic’s of the damage before then my filler work that still needs a lot more smoothing and shaping. I have some spray paint mixed up to my paint code with the primer/lacquer etc, but just need it to stop raining on either a Saturday or Sunday to get started :bang:[/FONT]
[FONT="]In that second pic that piece of the passenger wing was actually curled under in a U shape [/FONT] Wonder WTF happened?!
[FONT="]That last pic is me making sure the paint is a least a slight match using a plant pot, lol. [/FONT]
[FONT="]So there we are, sorry for the outrageously long post but have been strapped for time with work/flat and all so I have been compiling this over the last few days. [/FONT][FONT="]Any observations/criticism positive or negative are welcome. [/FONT]
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Thanks for looking!
Skiz[/FONT]
I managed to get myself a sprint blue 2001 Punto sporting from eBay just a few weeks ago (won the bid and inspected before paying of course) and I don’t regret it one bit! Paid £1200 for it with 55K miles on the clock, it also came with a bit of strange damage to the front end as you will see by the pic's below.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I was surprised to see that it came pre-lowered on Koni springs but not quite sure how much by, they guy I brought it from couldn’t give me a test drive because he was "still a bit baked" apparently, lol, so as you could imagine I could not get a lot of sense out of him but the car seemed sound other than that so wasn’t too bothered. He told me it was 5mm but I was surprised that anyone would bother with such a small amount!
My current plans are, in priority order;[/FONT]
- [FONT="]Fix the damage to front bumper/bonnet and re-spray repaired sections.[/FONT]
- [FONT="]Touch up alloys and re-spray them in anthracite (thought about gloss black for a while, then after seeing another nice Mk2 on here with [/FONT][FONT="]white[/FONT][FONT="] that is what I wanted but decided I don’t want to stand out so much and went with anthracite, the happy alternative )[/FONT]
- [FONT="]Colour code the wing mirrors [/FONT]
- [FONT="]Find a nice clean passenger side light, possibly go dual angel eye or find a standard replacement.[/FONT]
- [FONT="]GSR induction Kit as the come so highly praised and come in that nice blue (need a bit of saving)[/FONT]
- [FONT="]New backbox of some kind, nothing too loud. [/FONT]
- [FONT="]Find more things to do (suggestions?)[/FONT]
[/FONT][FONT="]Here is what I have done so far, first are pic’s of the damage before then my filler work that still needs a lot more smoothing and shaping. I have some spray paint mixed up to my paint code with the primer/lacquer etc, but just need it to stop raining on either a Saturday or Sunday to get started :bang:[/FONT]
[FONT="]In that second pic that piece of the passenger wing was actually curled under in a U shape [/FONT]
Wonder WTF happened?!
[FONT="]That last pic is me making sure the paint is a least a slight match using a plant pot, lol. [/FONT]
[FONT="]So there we are, sorry for the outrageously long post but have been strapped for time with work/flat and all so I have been compiling this over the last few days. [/FONT][FONT="]Any observations/criticism positive or negative are welcome. [/FONT]
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Thanks for looking!
Skiz[/FONT]
