General Check your wheel nuts...

[pandissimo]

Just back from a blissful camping trip. Checking the trailer over in the field -( I built it from a flatpack kit) found the wheel nuts were just a bit loose. Thought I'd check out the Pandas too, they weren't loose but did take another quarter of a turn on the wheel brace to tighten them up fully. I'm no 100 kilo gorilla so presume they needed a little tightening....

Also checked the nuts on the towbar - one of them was a bit loose too. :-(. Must be the hot weather!

The chemical toilet leaked a little in the boot - it only had water in it - so I pulled the boot liner out and checked the spare tyre pressure while I was drying it out.

I didn't realise it's one of those 'space saver' things that has big sticker on it saying '80KM/H MAX' .

Are all the Panda spare tyres 'space-savers'?

 

[Wee Smurf]

Are all the Panda spare tyres 'space-savers'?

You could have got a proper wheel instead of the space-saver as an option when buying the car...

 

[Doug123]

It's listed as an option....for £20. I wish I'd got one, but mine was pre-registered so factory options were off the agenda!
Doug

 

[doctorchris]

If you have the 4x4 a normal size wheel is just too big to fit in the well in the boot.
The trouble with checking Panda wheelnuts is that Fiat do not provide the tightening torques. If you have alloys it is very easy to overtighten them. My local tyre fitter reckons that the alloys should be tightened to 84 lb.ft. which is not very tight.

 

[Soepy]

You could have got a proper wheel instead of the space-saver as an option when buying the car...

Depends whether you have the alloys. In that case you have no choice.

 

[Jai]

the 14" alloy will fit in there, put ours there after the tyre was popped off the bead in the scrape, the cover folded flat over it.

 

[kipster]

It's suprising how many cars you see on the motorway doing 80mph with those things fitted. They are fit for purpose, but not speeds like that. It will have you in the first hedge at high speeds. And the Police will chuck the book at you for it. You can't say, "i thought it said mph officer" cause our limit is not 80.

 

[fiatdownunder]

let this be a lesson to all out there, always check your nuts to make sure they are tight before doin anything with them!

 

[pandissimo]

let this be a lesson to all out there, always check your nuts to make sure they are tight before doin anything with them!

Not much to do in Auckland in the evening then?

 

[petebarchetta]

You could have got a proper wheel instead of the space-saver as an option when buying the car...

the width of the wheels arent all of the panda's wheels space savers??