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Grande Punto "Jess The Diesel Machine".

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Introduction

Well it was late december 09 and I found a beaut on auto trader. two 110mile roundtrips later and I brought her home.
56 plate 1.9 Mjet Sporting
38,000 miles on the clock FSH
Climate Control,
SkyDome,
Cruise Control,

Within the first week I peeled the "lovely":rolleyes: 'Woodleigh of Chestefields' Sticker off and she stayed like this for about 4 months.
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couple of clean reflection shots
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I also managed to do a wee bit of damage to one of my alloys on a mahoosive pot hole
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:rolleyes: Not impressed!

I then decided to get some new plates
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the front one is a self adhesive vinyl. Ordered from Crags plate, an Irish website.

Couple more reflection shots :rolleyes:
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A wee bit bumpy, needs machine polishing I think

Also Ordered a Shark Fin, after a little modding to boost reception it was on, aslo tinted the windows my self, dark smoke, 20% light transmission. i'll get it done professionally next year but for £6 I gave it a shot and it came out pretty well... eventually:rolleyes:
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Next up was these two little puppies
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Thanks very much to Cooks who supplied them quickly and at a very good price (y)

and after a week in the body shop they came out like this :D
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Thanks very much to SIS body repair in Stone, Stafford for a cracking job :D





need save some money for now but in the pipe line so far is as follows:-
  • new indicator bulbs :rolleyes:
  • european reverse light with a red bulb in so the back end is symetrical-ish
  • vinyl bit behind sky dome (will be done this week)
  • either refurb alloys in anthracite or get some abarths
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  • angel eyes, daylines without the led's or some "home made" gp s1 headlights taken apart sprayed black and a bi-xenon projector incorporated:rolleyes:
  • Remap next year!
  • Induction possibly GSR
  • Get the dash looking something similar to this
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and who knows what else :)
comments welcome :)
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Re: "Jess The Diesel Machine"

Rawb said:
I'll be the first person to mention this...

Needs lowering on Eibachs, they seem to be the best.
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I want to do this but the nose is now a couple of inches lower due to the airdam and the speed humps around here are quite fierce :/ will decide next year when funds allow :rolleyes:

Fiatpuntomk2b said:
also white wheels (yummy )
nice project uve got there
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ooooo white:idea:, hadn't even considered it. I was set with either refurb in anthracite, even though the mjet alloys are a right pain in the arse to clean. Or the abarths above.
 
Re: "Jess The Diesel Machine"

looks really good. Go for the esseesse 18" wheels or some 18" wheels and then lower it and it shouldnt matter to much about the air dam then, also the sporting springs are -20mm so the eibach are only in essence -30mm for the -50mm eibach sportlines.

defiently needs abarth headlamps, you can pick then up for around £250 :) look much better than the angeleyes and ull pay nearly the same for the S2 lamps.

Think you should de badge the rear aswell and have you thought about a bonnet wrap would look good with you black off the kit and some gloss black wingmirror caps to match (y)
 
Re: "Jess The Diesel Machine"

grande punto said:
Looks good mate !!.Is that festival park and parkhall/buxton on them pictures ??? (y)
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It's up the roaches and the winking man, decided go for a drive out up leek / buxton way then realised they've put an average speed camera limit of 50 along the cat and fiddle (a537) (n)

1.8Stilo said:
looks really good. Go for the esseesse 18" wheels or some 18" wheels and then lower it and it shouldnt matter to much about the air dam then, also the sporting springs are -20mm so the eibach are only in essence -30mm for the -50mm eibach sportlines.

defiently needs abarth headlamps, you can pick then up for around £250 :) look much better than the angeleyes and ull pay nearly the same for the S2 lamps.

Think you should de badge the rear aswell and have you thought about a bonnet wrap would look good with you black off the kit and some gloss black wingmirror caps to match (y)
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I was considerin 18" to compensate for the required higher ride height... however I've just managed to scrape the bottom of the nose using my drive way to do a 2 point turn :bang:

yeah the black bonnet looks good on "myatts" but I fear it wouldn't have the same contrast with the dark colour of the blue compared to myatts white one :rolleyes:

I definately agree with the headlights... I hate the chrome bling but will definately have to wait til next year for them :eek:

Also I want to get rid of the Punto and just leave the P =D Just can't bring myself to do it just yet hehe

Thanks for the great comments guys (y)
 
Re: "Jess The Diesel Machine"

Also get a chrome coated glowing red bulb for your european reverse light as the red bulb can colour the clear reflector too much :D

PM me your address if you want and I'll post my ones to you as the EVO has a different fitment so couldn't use mine :mad:

And these wheels would look gorgeous on your car

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OZ superturismo's
 
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Re: "Jess The Diesel Machine"

willeywilson said:
Next up was these two little puppies
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Thanks very much to Cooks who supplied them quickly and at a very good price (y)
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lookin good

love the rear bumper suits it really well. where u get it from im interested in getting one now :)
 
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Re: "Jess The Diesel Machine"

Jesus christ did you really need to quote all that :eek::D ?
anywhooo...
The bumper I aquired from Cooks on here as he didnt want them.
However they can be brought direct from Fiat ... http://www.fiat-accessories.com/Fiat-Grande-Punto-Rear-Dam

it is just the lower part though like in one of my pictures.
I've had them smoothed into the existing bumper rather than just stuck on using "fiat adhesive kit" :rolleyes:
 
Re: "Jess The Diesel Machine"

willeywilson said:
Jesus christ did you really need to quote all that :eek::D ?
anywhooo...
The bumper I aquired from Cooks on here as he didnt want them.
However they can be brought direct from Fiat ... http://www.fiat-accessories.com/Fiat-Grande-Punto-Rear-Dam

it is just the lower part though like in one of my pictures.
I've had them smoothed into the existing bumper rather than just stuck on using "fiat adhesive kit" :rolleyes:
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I was thinking that myself. I would dread it, if someone did that on my thread as I have like 50 pictures on the initial post! haha

Looking sweet as buddy
 
Re: "Jess The Diesel Machine"

Jonny29 said:
The dash is nice where did you get the pic from?
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www.grandepuntoclub.com It's all in Italian though :rolleyes: You may need to sign up to view this page but it's the following link is to the guy over there that has done all the custom ones on that forum... I am led to believe
http://www.grandepuntoclub.com/foru...tart=225&sid=f4ec7890d2f8633758d55350d1f5c3f9
(y)

Use Babelfish or google translate, to translate but you will have to sign up on the original website rather than through a translator :/
 
Re: "Jess The Diesel Machine"

karbineftw said:
I was thinking that myself. I would dread it, if someone did that on my thread as I have like 50 pictures on the initial post! haha

Looking sweet as buddy
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haha cheers mate, ahhh well it bulks it out i suppose ;) I have a whole 2 pages now haha :D, will be next year when the more serious mods start though :(
 
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