bobby tupper
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I'm after some pointers on how to swap the fold up key body on my wives grande punto?? I have the new plastic 3 button body fitted with a blank key blade is it a hard job to swap?
I think you may be able to in theory but it wouldn't be an easy job and not worth the effort, i've not seen the insides of a series one key but i'm sure with a little bit of badgering about you may be able to force the innards into a series 2 key
The buttons on the S1 are diagonal (same key as the 2003 onwards Panda) so they wouldn't line up, without messing with the circuit board itself it's a no-go. Plus, the actual blade shape at the joint is a different shape. Damn Fiat and all the S2 changes!
Yes I meant you would have to mess with the circuit board and put your soldering skills to the test. You can get blank s2 blades which you can cut as well so the joint wouldn't be an issue.
Its one of those anything is possible if you have the time, skill and patience things
True. I think even my OCD doesn't quite go that far
Well I've learned something new today about keys! Can anyone clarify why I have a S1 key when my car is a 58 plate S2?
Well I've learned something new today about keys! Can anyone clarify why I have a S1 key when my car is a 58 plate S2?
Chances are you were one of the earliest S2 owners and they still had various S1 bits and bobs to use up, such as they key. Hopefully that'll be it, can't see you'd have any S1 bits on your car, but Fiat wouldn't surprise me...
I looked at your car just to check if it was an S2. The reg would suggest an S2 (unless its been sat on the forecourt unregistered for a while) and the red badge also suggests an S2
But your lower grill is black not chrome which I thought was only on S1 cars (someone correct me if i'm wrong) or maybe you did this yourself?
Maybe you have a crazy mashup of the two versions, like an S1½
Steering slightly off topic I do love your car! Yellow looks so great on a GP, that one looks like a lovely tidy motor
The only issue that isn't visible in pictures is that there is loads of little stone chips all over the bonnet which i can only assume was the work of motorway miles by the previous owner (she has 70,000 on the clock)
Get yourself a touchup pen, only about a tenner for an official one. Mine arrived today, off to head out and make the most of the sunshine on the driveway now
Get yourself a touchup pen, only about a tenner for an official one. Mine arrived today, off to head out and make the most of the sunshine on the driveway now