What extras has anyone ordered on top of the standard Panda spec?..

Are there any essentials, thinking of ordering a few bits , but doubt if what I want will be cheap and if theres any alternative to the brio brochure?

Sliding rear seat, Skydome roof. WeeSmurf has them and I would say the seat is almost essential.

i got the Dynamic Sound (with the sub and MP3 Player and loads of speakers ect)
i also got the 15' low profile alloys

since then i have rear smoked lights, re branded with Abarth badges, chrome interior (round the air vents and gear stick) and also round the number plate.

I also went to FIAT and ordered the window blinds, its a shame they dont do them for the front 2 windows but apart form that they look fab, and you can still open the windows with them on!

I have got ALL the options for the Sporting.


I.e. None.

H

So far the only things have been, the rear seat back out of a Eleganza and the head rests that was in our local scrap yard. A rather nice set of red and black racing type seat covers, and on Sunday i'm going to see about a set of 15" TSW Catalonya wheels and a set of Continental tyres cas the road noise coming from the tyres on our Sporting is now nipping my skull. As old wheels and tyres have only done 4k I will put old one's away in garage and re-fit when we part with car.
Will post pix when I get them fitted.

Ian

Halfords 'Girl-Friend-Proof' seat covers, in fetching black nylon Numpty-Hide, with cute red piping round the edges. Nice? Nope. Functional? Yep.

4x4 came with alloys, Skydome, climate aircon, added the Slidey rear seat. Blagged 'free' Panda mats, but they got put on the bill.

All I've added since has been the JVC MP3 head unit, I have some replacement front speakers and tweeters to fit when I get the time.

What do I use most out of the options? Well, the alloy wheels seem to get used most days, as do the seat covers and mats, slidey rear seat next, the JVC is on most of the time. Alloy roof bars get used about once a month, as does the towbar. I'd really like an underseat sub-woofer, but hey, I can live without.

I use the cigarette lighter socket a lot for a mini-fridge coolbox in the summer, wish there was a socket in the boot, instead of the nice but dim boot-light.



OMIGAWD!!!!

Not another boot-light thread.........

Wife1 has got a Dynamic the only extras she got was the m/paint and an MP3 player but since then i put some alloys on it with 175/70 tyres and it looks pretty good...

The problem with pandas is that you need a lot of extras to make them really nice cars and although you can get a good discount on the basic car the extras all seem to come at full price (unless you can find a demonstator or pre registered car with them on) My Panda Eleganza was bought secondhand t 18 months 2k miles and has dualogic, air conditioning and a sunroof, and the extra airbags - I'd like all these things when she is eventually changed but couldn't afford them from new - she depreciated by 41% in the first 18 months before I bought her because of the high cost of the extras.

...on the Classic Panda forum, we'd be happy with door pockets...

Russ

Stuartl said:

Sliding rear seat, Skydome roof. WeeSmurf has them and I would say the seat is almost essential.

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Must say I went a wee bit daft on options ... In addition to the above, I've also got side and window air-bags, roof bars, side-rubbing strips and made-to-measure seat covers... My seat covers are essential with the sliding rear seat option, as they have a built-in flap to cover the contents of the boot when the rear seat is fully forward... as Fiat don't provide any extra cover on the sliding seat of the Panda but do on other cars like the Idea .

Oh and eight-spoke alloys when I finally get time to sort out tyres and fit them... (Ta Stuart )