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Grande Punto kaci1991 My New/First Fiat (Grande Punto 1.4 16v Sporting)

Introduction

Hi everyone! :)

So... Never been on any type of forum before but here goes..

Picked up this car last Thursday as a Birthday present to myself. Payed £4,000 for it, with 57,500 miles on the clock so not too bad (so I'm told!? lol) Have a couple of friends with GPs so knew what they were like and that I liked them! (Plus now have a 'helper technician'! :p) Pics below are from when I picked it up and I'll be making some changes in time.. Had a few teething problems with the car (on day 1!) but think I've got those sorted now so just to enjoy having a car again - had an OLD Clio a couple of years ago but been 'bussing it' since (n).

Already made a couple of changes (with some help from the 'Punto Technician' :p like spraying the front grill full black and tinted the rear lights as well as changing the outline of the rear lights to black rather than the red that they came with. Not taken any newer pics yet though!

Interior is nice too (for me anyways) with it's 'Orange Smarties' effect lol - Look dirty on the pics but they're not! Although will be getting a thorough clean when weather permits (Snow in March (n)!!! )

Got my list of things to do to the car but for now it's nice to actually have one and changes will come as/when funds allow.. So for now... Meet RuFuZ!! :D

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Looking good Kelly as you well know and welcome to the Punto family keep it updated on here too.. :D and i apologise for the awful picture of me spraying! :( plenty of mods to come and we'll have to get some pics up of our cars together soon!

P.s i love how i've been named the 'Punto Technician'.. (y)
 
Hey guys, thanks for the comments :)

Here are some pics of the car with the newly sprayed lights and front grill.. Some of you might notice that the 'before' pic of the rear light is from a grey Punto - It is! I didn't take a close up of the light before I sprayed them so borrowed a friend's light for the pic of 'before' :)

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Got quite a few ideas for the car but for now it's all 'trivial' stuff..

Window tinting
Move 'Punto' from the right to under the badge on the back (like the Evos)
Badgeless front grill
Spray wheels if not new alloys
Can't decide what else to do atm but any ideas welcome :) :) (y)
 
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As far as I'm aware there's 3 types; the white ones you have, the grey ones I have and the black ones which are the abarth ones, but I'm not sure there's much difference between the grey and abarth ones.
oh yeah sorry I know the ones you mean - I had a blonde moment there and thought we were on the rear lights lol.. Yeah I like those black/grey front headlights - Will add to the list Thanks :)
 
Hey guys, thanks for the comments :)

Here are some pics of the car with the newly sprayed lights and front grill.. Some of you might notice that the 'before' pic of the rear light is from a grey Punto - It is! I didn't take a close up of the light before I sprayed them so borrowed a friend's light for the pic of 'before' :)

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Got quite a few ideas for the car but for now it's all 'trivial' stuff..

Window tinting
Move 'Punto' from the right to under the badge on the back (like the Evos)
Badgeless front grill
Spray wheels if not new alloys
Can't decide what else to do atm but any ideas welcome :) :) (y)

How do you paint the outerpart only?? Did you just mask the rest off?
 
Looking good Kelly as you well know and welcome to the Punto family keep it updated on here too.. :D and i apologise for the awful picture of me spraying! :( plenty of mods to come and we'll have to get some pics up of our cars together soon!

P.s i love how i've been named the 'Punto Technician'.. (y)
I'm looking at spraying my grill, did you do both or just the top one? Also any prep involved or just spray?
Cheers
 
I'm looking at spraying my grill, did you do both or just the top one? Also any prep involved or just spray?
Cheers
Hi,

Yeah it's just the top one that's sprayed.. Don't think it would make much difference on the bottom one. Nope no prep, just took that badges off and sprayed it (and the outers of the rear lights) with Halfords own brand gloss black paint... £7.49 for 500ml :) lol
 
Hi,

Yeah it's just the top one that's sprayed.. Don't think it would make much difference on the bottom one. Nope no prep, just took that badges off and sprayed it (and the outers of the rear lights) with Halfords own brand gloss black paint... £7.49 for 500ml :) lol

I'm desperate to do this but never actually sprayed anything in my life before :eek:
 
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