dafyddcoch said:

A 1.2 on LPG at 192,000 here in Wales. The transmission sounds like gravel and marbles rubbing together when under load, but apart from that and the worn driver's seat, it is still a usable car. A gearbox/diff unit is in my garage, along with a new clutch, so once fitted, it should be nice and quiet.

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I had an Austin Metro like that (though not even 50% of the mileage). One day I noticed a gearbox oil smell and thought better check for leaks. At the first proper curve in the road there was an almighty BANG and the car rolled to the stop engine running but no drive. The differential had fallen apart with pieces getting into the final drive gears and exploded the back out of the gearbox.

Impressive way to finish it off. I'm hoping to fit the new box/diff before anything that drastic happens

dafyddcoch said:

Impressive way to finish it off. I'm hoping to fit the new box/diff before anything that drastic happens

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Oh for sure it was.

I was about 3 miles from home, smelled oil, stopped and took a quick look under the car. Oil was dripping. Not good - better get home. The easiest way back was to loop around a side turning with two 90 degree curves. Half way around the first curve, it failed with a huge BANG!! It was so loud, that people came out of their houses wondering what had happened. Exit yet another Metro to the scrap yard.

The cross pin that retains the differential spur gears had come loose, causing the leak as it rubbed into the gearbox casing. It got eaten by the main bevel gears when I took that curve.

Panda 1.2 petrol selespeed, 2004. 211k (340000) km.

Campinglarsen said:

Panda 1.2 petrol selespeed, 2004. 211k (340000) km.

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I like the auto box Panda, but how have you managed to avoid transmission servo problems?

Passed MOT yesterday. Only needed 1 wiper blade.

Looking at buying this '09 Panda 1.2 Dynamic dualogic. I'm handy with the tools but that mileage scares me!

The Shed got to 130k today. I noticed from my last post on this thread that it's taken 13 months to do 10k. Considering apart from the MOT and Festival Italia in August it's been parked up from May until this month still racking up the miles as reliably as ever. Love this car!

Spike

StiloHal said:

Looking at buying this '09 Panda 1.2 Dynamic dualogic. I'm handy with the tools but that mileage scares me!

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an 09 with 1/4 million miles and dualogic has to be a very big gamble and be very, very cheap

koalar said:

an 09 with 1/4 million miles and dualogic has to be a very big gamble and be very, very cheap

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Recheck your math 1/4 of a million miles would be 250k not 130
But still risking expensive repairs

chris3234 said:

Recheck your math 1/4 of a million miles would be 250k not 130
But still risking expensive repairs

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StiloHal post looks like 243K on my small screen phone screen ? although it an old post

koalar said:

StiloHal post looks like 243K on my small screen phone screen ? although it an old post

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Ignore me I was looking at the post above by somebody with a car on 130k ?

chris3234 said:

Ignore me I was looking at the post above by somebody with a car on 130k ?

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no worries

don't normally reply to old posts. But could believe nobody had noticed it was a dualogic which are troublesome anyhow. Let alone in a High mileage car.

High mileage Duologic is ok as long as you can do the work it will need and it's mega cheap. You can expect to be changing the clutch and will need MES for fault finding.

131750 miles on 1.1 Active. As far as the papertrail shows, it is still on the original clutch, but it is near the end of its life!

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131750 miles on 1.1 Active. As far as the papertrail shows, it is still on the original clutch, but it is near the end of its life!

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131K is still a baby. I scraped two at 200K and 150K both were mechanically still fine.

I find the clutch last well in the punto/panda the release bearing normally goes before the drive plate

Final score for the black MJ Sporting


I didn't make 200K club

A slightly newer Panda has come my way



Seems weird having no 1 at the front of the odometer.

2007 4x4, 130,500

Panda 2011 1.2 (69 hp) 146k miles. Working great and feels gOOd

113,000 miles on my 2010 1.2 eco Dynamic and just passed the MOT with a couple of advisory's for rusty coil springs and a slight mist on the o/s/f strut.