Hello,
I've found a 100HP up for £4295, but I assume could get for £4000.
Private sale
2009 (registered June).
58k miles
Black with tinted rears.
4 Goodyear F1s

Finding almost all cars advertised are from dealers with Chinese ditchfinder tyres, so that's a couple of hundred I'd be avoiding with this one.

Looks pretty spotless, but haven't seen it in the flesh yet.

This is for an everyday car, have a Nissan GTR and Impreza Spec-C for fun and the wife has a company car saloon for the main of the family stuff.

So after something that is cheap and problem free to run. Had a £1k MG ZR and hated it so have decided it will have to be something I actually like this time.
Was looking at Aygos, but this appears to be better value.

What do you lot think, and what are the things to look out for?

Cheers

Most of us who have them, love them.

However, as you have use of other cars you may want to test drive, especially over speed bumps just to know about the firm suspension. Plenty of searching on here.

That seems cheap for an 09 plate car. I've just bought a 59 plate 2010 car a few weeks ago and I spent a lot of time looking at prices. For that sort of money I'd expect to get a 57/08 plate car. Does it have a clean history?

Things to look out for, as already mentioned, the ride is hard but that's a design feature not a problem. Other than the usual things you'd look at when buying a used car there's not much to worry about. The only thing I've seen, and it's not just on a 100hp, but many Panda's is that the bottom of the seat back starts to wear through as there is a metal bar at the base of the seat which seems to cause the seat material to rip.

Mike

BT52 said:

I've found a 100HP up for £4295, but I assume could get for £4000.

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£4000 is about right for a privately sold '09 with that mileage, providing it's in decent order & has no recorded history. Price guide for a 40k '09 car here.

Condition is everything though; if its A1 you've found a bargain; if it's tatty with a few faults, perhaps better to walk away at any price.

After 58k, I'd budget for an immediate cambelt swap & full service if you do buy the car. Make sure there are no warning lights on, and check both the keys will actually start the car (replacements are surprisingly costly).

jrkitching said:

£4000 is about right for a privately sold '09 with that mileage, providing it's in decent order & has no recorded history. Price guide for a 40k '09 car here.

Condition is everything though; if its A1 you've found a bargain; if it's tatty with a few faults, perhaps better to walk away at any price.

After 58k, I'd budget for an immediate cambelt swap & full service if you do buy the car. Make sure there are no warning lights on, and check both the keys will actually start the car (replacements are surprisingly costly).

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Agree with all that and would add to take a careful look at the way the tyres are wearing to try to check suspension alignment.

jrkitching said:

Condition is everything though; if its A1 you've found a bargain; if it's tatty with a few faults, perhaps better to walk away at any price.

After 58k, I'd budget for an immediate cambelt swap & full service if you do buy the car. Make sure there are no warning lights on, and check both the keys will actually start the car (replacements are surprisingly costly).

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Thanks for that.
It has just had a service from a Fiat dealer a week or two ago. I thought cambelt was at more like 72k?
There's a £4k blue one on Autotrader with only 25k miles, but a year older.

Not so keen on the blue personally though.

Quite excited at the prospect I have to say. Have plenty of experience of seriously fast stuff and, but there's something about a small low powered car like this that could be more fun more of the time.

BT52 said:

I thought cambelt was at more like 72k?

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You'll likely get as many different opinions as there are folks on the forum. Even FIAT themselves revise cambelt change recommendations & it can be hard to keep up! But it'll wreck your engine if it breaks, and you've no way of knowing how the car's been driven, so I'd say it'd be good insurance to change it now. There are plenty of threads in which this subject's been debated before.

Belated update on this.
The black one was in a poor state, dents and stonechips everywhere and felt old despite the 09 plate.

The blue one felt brand new. Not a mark on it. Only downside was the two ditchfinder front tyres.
Agreed on £3800 and now it's mine and I absolutely love it. Just gone over 25k miles, two new F1s on the front and it's brilliant.

Day after I bought it someone on a different forum said they thought they recognised it, and sure enough, it was in Evo magazine in 09 against the 500, Twingo, Fiesta etc.



Not concerned about it having been in a magazine test. I took my Exige along to one years back and they drive the cars hard, but well, they don't abuse them and the Fiat press office will have made sure it was well pampered afterwards.

More pics at it's new home. Didn't like the stripe at first, but now I have got used to it and it has the magazine history I will keep them.

Wow, that first picture is awesome! I wish I could get a picture like it of my Panda...

And welcome to the Panda World!