Hallo everybody. Trully glad that find you. We own the new Panda 4x4, the Climbing edition from November 2004. It's like a full year now. We are very happy with the car. It is like driving a toy but yet very comfortable and with high sense of security and reliability. We live in Corfu, the most rainy island in Greece and awfully demanding roads. During the summer we made a good tour
from here to the north-east end of the country, that is up to the rivers of Evros and back home.A total of 3000 Km with at least 600 of them in woodlands and fire-roads just after the spring. We felt very lucky for choosing this car. The only pproblem we faced is that after a lot of time on hot black top and with an average speed about 120 Km/h the tyres (Pirelli 185 Snow Control) did not performed very well in sudden turns and brakes.Offcourse this was not really serius since you can easily predict it and control it with such tires, which I consider they are generally excellent. But most of the time it went like a train, especially during rain showers on dirt roads. I do have some questions to pose and hope for your help. I read to the manuals and the salesman also told us that you cannot put on these tyres snow-chains. So then, what happens if there is ice on the road during winter time? Anyone has the same scheme and allready tried it? Do they need change (the rear front and vice versa after 10000Km as usual)? And something else; the average fuel consumption according to the trip computer is 8,1 Lt/100Km wich is far more what FIAT claims that is 7,5 and do not forget. We do'nt live in the city. Believe me I try to drive really ecologically;I hate consuming fuel and certainly I cannot afford it. Any suggestions? As an end I would like to agree with those feeling that some more power would be much better. It could make this beutiful car almost perfect. Thank you...
from here to the north-east end of the country, that is up to the rivers of Evros and back home.A total of 3000 Km with at least 600 of them in woodlands and fire-roads just after the spring. We felt very lucky for choosing this car. The only pproblem we faced is that after a lot of time on hot black top and with an average speed about 120 Km/h the tyres (Pirelli 185 Snow Control) did not performed very well in sudden turns and brakes.Offcourse this was not really serius since you can easily predict it and control it with such tires, which I consider they are generally excellent. But most of the time it went like a train, especially during rain showers on dirt roads. I do have some questions to pose and hope for your help. I read to the manuals and the salesman also told us that you cannot put on these tyres snow-chains. So then, what happens if there is ice on the road during winter time? Anyone has the same scheme and allready tried it? Do they need change (the rear front and vice versa after 10000Km as usual)? And something else; the average fuel consumption according to the trip computer is 8,1 Lt/100Km wich is far more what FIAT claims that is 7,5 and do not forget. We do'nt live in the city. Believe me I try to drive really ecologically;I hate consuming fuel and certainly I cannot afford it. Any suggestions? As an end I would like to agree with those feeling that some more power would be much better. It could make this beutiful car almost perfect. Thank you...
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