Panda Yet another 100HP

Looks like you're getting used to it.


The seating and gear lever are ace. Every time I get in our Seicento I wonder where the gear lever went.


6-speed box? That was so the car would have a 10.5 metre turning circle and thus make you look a complete jerk when reverse parking etc "Ohhh he can't park his tiny car".


As for skipping the gears - yep. 1-3-6 and other variations when taking it easy.


For the record white cars do not show the muck, as it always dries lighter. Black/dark cars are worse for showing much. Grey are probably the best though for hiding it.

Replacing the rear shocks and springs will solve the bounce..... I actually think white cars look cool with a weeks worth of dirt... or maybe I'm just bone idle.. and the turning circle makes an impreza look like a London cab..

Just took me 3 hours and 45 minutes to clean him. He could use a claybar, but haven't got one. Found a hairline crack in the front bumper in the usual place, near fog light part, when someone clipped it.

I have to go to my sister's later on, but she lives near a billion sap drenching trees. I m gonna have to park miles away and walk.

Anybody else's airvents blow air through when the system is off, but when driving?

I tried to remove the watermark on the seats and made it worse.

Aston Martin said:

Anybody else's airvents blow air through when the system is off, but when driving?

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Figured out that the air re-circulator stops this which is a bit odd.
Also got my new key, the new case feels very very cheap compared to the old one.
Yesterday I went to Hornsea for chippy, just so I could have a lil run in the car.

Today i'm gonna try and sort the AUX cable out.


EDIT: Aux cable in thanks to Matt.

Aston Martin said:

:yuck::yuck::yuck:

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Very nice !!!
If you paint wheel black???

mark 500s said:

If you paint wheel black???

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Eugh, what a way to ruin a lovely set of stock 100HP wheels :yuck:.

You have a very smart Panda there. I like.

Aston Martin said:

Tiny mirrors are very very tiny.

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i love it I've owned mine 6 months now and it puts a smile on my face everyday much better without red stripe

just one other to say....can we swap mirrors? its a straight swap i can get them painted in the pandaemonium silver like yours if you like before they get sent as well. as i have the bigger 2010 mirrors and i prefer the ones you have. it seems that every person who has the smaller mirrors want the bigger ones and visa versa. please please please lol I'm in stafford and i don't mind driving to you and swapping them all over been looking for some 'second hand ones' for a long long time! mine are currently the same colour black as the black 100hp's

Hegnirst said:

i love it I've owned mine 6 months now and it puts a smile on my face everyday much better without red stripe

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Sorry i'm keeping the smaller ones, the big ones look stupid.

Aston Martin said:

Sorry i'm keeping the smaller ones, the big ones look stupid.

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you said you didn't like them?! make your mind up...

Hegnirst said:

you said you didn't like them?! make your mind up...

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I said they were tiny.

Aston Martin said:

I said they were tiny.

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sorry i thought you were implying you didn't like them my bad!

So a greasy concrete roundabout and somewhat excessive speed...


Back end went light and slid a few inches to line-up with the front.

Aston Martin said:

So a greasy concrete roundabout and somewhat excessive speed...


Back end went light and slid a few inches to line-up with the front.

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Any damage? Or did you just give the seat a chocolate kiss?

Aston Martin said:

So a greasy concrete roundabout and somewhat excessive speed...


Back end went light and slid a few inches to line-up with the front.

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It wasn't the Sutton Road roundabout near B&M was it, i lost my back end going rounf there a few months back. Consequently i now go round it at about 5MPH lol

AB100 said:

Any damage? Or did you just give the seat a chocolate kiss?

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No I didn't panic.

adz83 said:

It wasn't the Sutton Road roundabout near B&M was it, i lost my back end going rounf there a few months back. Consequently i now go round it at about 5MPH lol

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It was.

Aston Martin said:

No I didn't panic.




It was.

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I go round it everyday on the way to work, i hate it.

adz83 said:

I go round it everyday on the way to work, i hate it.

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I don't normally use it, I use the Ennerdale one. But I gave someone a lift home.

Time for an update?

Is 100hp actually enough - I was looking at a MiTo with an extra 5hp on top....