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Stilo Stilo 3 door 1.9 JTD (the Banana)

Introduction

I've been in the Panda section for years now with various Pandas but this is my first Stilo.
Given to me by my Brother in-law a couple of weeks ago. He owned it from new (I was at dealers at the time as I set the deal up) so I've known the car all its days.
It's been sitting at the side of his house for the past 4 years and as you can see is looking a bit sorry for itself. Mechanically its sound, well apart from 2 broken front springs. I plan on bringing it back to life to use a a run round and add a few little things to it as I go along, one of them being a sky roof it is possible, and I'm keeping it yellow although not exactly Broom as I intend to wrap it.

Must say I'm looking forward to working on it.
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Thought I would bring things up to date on what's been happening over the past couple of months.
Firstly I picked the wrap for the car and tried it out on the bonnet. All was going well until good old Fiat's lacguer stuck to the wrap instead of the car.
Before

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After. You can just see where it lifted at the bottom right. It will need to be done again.

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I did the hatch later.
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New 35 mm lower springs, new damper, wishbones, drop links, discs, pads etc.
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And finally car on the lift to remove all mechanics.
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I decided to pull the engine and gearbox out as one, quicker to do and it going to make things easier changing clutch and timing belt etc.
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With it all out I couldn't pass up the opportunity to clean everything.
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Just the radiator and panel to clean and we are up to date.
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Wow you've been busy (y).

Are you still going to convert the roof ?, if so where are you getting the bits from.
 
So finally got the car almost finished. Got stuck into the wrap.

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And just kept going until it was finished.

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Painted the wheels matte Grey.

Modified the rear bumper to accept the twin tail pipe I wanted.

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Fitted the badges back on.

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The put the interior back in and cleaned it as it was pretty bad. Then finally sorted out the door panels as they where badly scuffed.

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So what's left to do? fit spacers to the wheels to bring them out to the arch (looking like 20mm rear and 10mm front) and get the guy with the computer to come round and code the key back into the car after it lost its signal from sitting about so long.
 
Was thinking exactly the same thing myself :cool:
After giving it a lot of thought I came up with the bright idea of using the grey metallic rubber paint spray I had sitting about the garage for ages. That way when it gets scuffed looking again I can just peel it off and spray it again. The good bit was it looks pretty original.
 
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Is it resilient ?, as some stuff like this goes on and looks good for a few months, but then peels off and makes it look scabby ?
 
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