Punto (Mk2/2b) Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread).

[mcjacko1987]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

FCS, don't forget to tell the Insurers!

dont forget to tell them wat?

 

[fingers99]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

dont forget to tell them wat?

That you've modded the car!

full sporting interior installed and it was provided with sporting skirts and rear bumper wich i have now put on. skirts i did today so no pics of them on yet....

also iv instaled the induction kit from my old punto and im going to put on the back box from it on my new one to

 

[mcjacko1987]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

That you've modded the car!

oh yeah i no

 

[mcjacko1987]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

i will use this now as my progress thread on my new punto as a few things done already when i baught it.

updates now are ff sticker on rear of window, exhaust off my other punto now on it. also put on a bee-sting ariel today. but hopefully tomorrow will recive tint spray for the rear lights. soon as iv done them il will get some pics on here of the changes.

 

[mcjacko1987]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

oh just to let you guys know, he still hasnt put a claim in so it seems so i realy am thinking he wasn't insured lol.

btw can i change the title on this thread? if so how?

 

[MikeSalt]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

tyres nearly new. 205 wide also

Just out of interest, name and shame the tyres you were using. At 205-width on something as light as a Punto, the potential for aquaplaning is high. When I switched from 155 Pirelli P3000s to 185 Yokohama A539s, dry grip was fantastic, but wet grip was just awful. It was a case of grip...grip...let go completely! And I struggled to catch it when this happened. I then switched to Yokohama s.Drive tyres, and they are great in the dry, and really progressive and predictable in the wet. I've not had a single slide-induced scary moment with them on the corners.

 

[mcjacko1987]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

Just out of interest, name and shame the tyres you were using. At 205-width on something as light as a Punto, the potential for aquaplaning is high.

Yeah i know that now lol.grip was bril in dry weather.but like you say grip is very minor limited in wet. I wont be going so wide on my new punto. Was also a paxn gettin wheels on that wide.had to use 2cm spacers and open arches. Money i spent on getting the wheels and getting them on the car i could have got a decent set of new alloys!

 

[missey]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

btw can i change the title on this thread? if so how?

Ask me nicely ... actually...grovel :nerner:

 

[mcjacko1987]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

Ask me nicely ... actually...grovel :nerner:

Oh thats so nice of you haha.pleeeeaaasee

 

[bredsticz]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

£350 quid? Thats cheap, what was wrong with it?

Also I have really wide tyres now and in the wet my back end is always trying to slide out on round-a-bouts etc. not nice losing it though! I did twice in the ice, luckily 1st one a curb stopped me (damaging my alloy though) and 2nd wasn't as bad just slid sideways (10 MPH aswell!)

 

[mcjacko1987]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

£350 quid? Thats cheap, what was wrong with it?

Also I have really wide tyres now and in the wet my back end is always trying to slide out on round-a-bouts etc. not nice losing it though! I did twice in the ice, luckily 1st one a curb stopped me (damaging my alloy though) and 2nd wasn't as bad just slid sideways (10 MPH aswell!)

£350 and wasnt taxed and no mot.mot cost me £80 (needed to plates welding underneath.but that was all.geting it to my house,paying tax,mot and for the car.was arround £500 total

 

[bredsticz]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

Bargain! Done a compression test? Make sure engine is perfectly sound! Don't wanna put all these things on the car for it to emerge a few months later! Happened to me, turns out the cylinder head was slightly cracked, as I drove it it got worse. Would have noticed before hand if I had tested it

 

[mcjacko1987]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

Bargain! Done a compression test? Make sure engine is perfectly sound! Don't wanna put all these things on the car for it to emerge a few months later! Happened to me, turns out the cylinder head was slightly cracked, as I drove it it got worse. Would have noticed before hand if I had tested it

Not done no tests but bin driving it since november without any probs.plus wer i got mot done was a m8s garage.gave it a once over and said its in realy good nick for age

 

[bredsticz]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

Looks all good then, MOT wouldn't check engine though, and your mates garage might not have. I just think them sorta deals are too good to be true! Good luck with it though! Couldn't have asked for better if everything's good!

Just to say, took me 6 months to notice anything wrong on my car!

 

[mcjacko1987]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

Looks all good then, MOT wouldn't check engine though, and your mates garage might not have. I just think them sorta deals are too good to be true! Good luck with it though! Couldn't have asked for better if everything's good!

Just to say, took me 6 months to notice anything wrong on my car!

yeah i know anything could go wrong.
guy i got it off was a member on here, probly still is but cant remember his name lol. but he seemed a decent guy. he wanted a quick sell as he wanted a deposit for a mk2b. he did have it on here for £450 for 2months but no interest so he dropped it to £350. its as though the car was ment for me haha

 

[DaveMcT]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

Do change the oil and coolant. There's a good chance its been "forgotten"

 

[pooroldcodger]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

Going back to the original crash. Back in the mists of time when I was younger and considerably dafter, I overtook a pick up truck on a country lane - no great drama and quite safe, except the next corner I came to (a left hander unfortunately) I lost the back end (it was a Sierra) and went through a convenient gap in the hedge in to a field. Very luckily I didn't hit anything hard (it was 5am) and I was able to get back on the road.
The only damage was to the tyres and rims on the offside.
I had never had a crash before. I had taken an advance drivers course voluntarily when I was only 21, so I was quite shocked as to what had gone wrong.
When the tyre man came out to fit me up with 2 new wheels and tyres, he found a big nail through the back drivers side tyre. He had found the problem. I had had a puncture just before the bend, but the tyre hadn't deflated completely, but the first bend I came to, I had no grip from the back end at all.
Maybe the op had a puncture he wasn't aware of?
O'h yes, and the pick up truck I had passed - National Tyres !

 

[mcjacko1987]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

Going back to the original crash. Back in the mists of time when I was younger and considerably dafter, I overtook a pick up truck on a country lane - no great drama and quite safe, except the next corner I came to (a left hander unfortunately) I lost the back end (it was a Sierra) and went through a convenient gap in the hedge in to a field. Very luckily I didn't hit anything hard (it was 5am) and I was able to get back on the road.
The only damage was to the tyres and rims on the offside.
I had never had a crash before. I had taken an advance drivers course voluntarily when I was only 21, so I was quite shocked as to what had gone wrong.
When the tyre man came out to fit me up with 2 new wheels and tyres, he found a big nail through the back drivers side tyre. He had found the problem. I had had a puncture just before the bend, but the tyre hadn't deflated completely, but the first bend I came to, I had no grip from the back end at all.
Maybe the op had a puncture he wasn't aware of?
O'h yes, and the pick up truck I had passed - National Tyres !

Incredable. Glad no-one was hurt.

 

[mcjacko1987]

re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

Do change the oil and coolant. There's a good chance its been "forgotten"

First thing i did

 

[mcjacko1987]

Re: Out with the old, in with the new (my punto mk2a progress thread)

Tint spray didn't arrive yesterday. Hopefully today it will come. Iv just noticed iv no pics of the sideskirt fitted also. So wen lights are tinted and i do pics there wil be a few things changed from my last pics