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Panda My new ride.
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As a top engineer once side to me, if something has changed and after that you have a issue normally it's 99% something linked with what you have touched!
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All I did was take the wheels off...replace the track rod ends and then refit the wheels.....
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Finally got around to replacing the rear discs and pads that I've been meaning to do since Christmas.... its not due a service for another 5000 miles so hopefully I won't need to go near it with a spanner now until the end of the year.
Perhaps keeping the receipts for parts with MOT certificates would set the mind on any potential purchaser at ease when the time to change comes.I can understand that not having a full book of service stamps can put some people off buying a car but once I've explained to a potential purchaser what a service history actually involves and what the car they might buy off me has enjoyed they soon change their mind.
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I keep the receipts for everything I do to the car and record mileages and dates that jobs are done, both previous owners kept every bit of paperwork and passed it on to me in a nice big ring binder complete with magazines featuring the 100hp and the original sales receipt.
That's got to be a good move, for me that would be as good as a main dealer history. However, I'd be thinking more about selling (if you wanted to of course) a long way down the line when there are hardly any left. When it's 10 years old only a real fan of the model would be interested because your pride and joy will be worth naff all. But when it's 20 years old and most of the others have become cookers or fridges, that history file will be gold dust to the buyer.
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As long as there are no serious issues and it doesn't get crashed I think this little car will be with me for a long time yet.
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Off to Cornwall for a week tomorrow, first trip away as a family with the panda... its had a bath and now its ready to put up with a week of whining eight year old daughter and one grandchild plus all the rubbish we have to take with us...should be fun.
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Week in Cornwall complete... just over 500 miles done with the 'lil' panda full to bursting point and no problems at all... love this car so much.
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Ok...i need some new drop links and as mine has Koni's fitted i need the earlier type where the joints both face the same way.....now the price from Fiat and shop4parts is daylight robbery considering the newer version is about a quarter of the price, can you get the earlier ones anywhere else?? or are they common to any other model or make?....help please as i'm really not a tight arse but there is no good reason for the earlier part to be so expensive.
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Right...so i've owned the little white terror for a year now so how's it been using a 100HP in every weather and pretty much every road conditions from floods to rutted farm tracks and even a family holiday...well pretty good i'd say, its been totally reliable and everything still works as it should although i'm not sure i'd have a white one again.
It still puts a huge smile on my face when i drive it and i don't think i've ever owned a car with such a giant personality... it's more like a family pet than a car!!, its heavier on fuel than its size suggests but thats down to way it gets driven and you do need to keep an eye on the state of the front suspension (tracking etc) or it wears tyres pretty quickly...the ride can get a bit wearing on bad roads but ninety percent of the time i wouldn't have it any other way, and the paint is too thin as it really does pick up stone chips very easily... so to sum up..the engine is a peach.. the seats are excellent and in fact the whole driving position/ dashboard interface is really very good particularly the gearchange which is just brilliant, it really is such a cool little car that drives like something for twice the price but doesn't have big car running costs... here's to the next year of fun motoring!!
It still puts a huge smile on my face when i drive it and i don't think i've ever owned a car with such a giant personality... it's more like a family pet than a car!!, its heavier on fuel than its size suggests but thats down to way it gets driven and you do need to keep an eye on the state of the front suspension (tracking etc) or it wears tyres pretty quickly...the ride can get a bit wearing on bad roads but ninety percent of the time i wouldn't have it any other way, and the paint is too thin as it really does pick up stone chips very easily... so to sum up..the engine is a peach.. the seats are excellent and in fact the whole driving position/ dashboard interface is really very good particularly the gearchange which is just brilliant, it really is such a cool little car that drives like something for twice the price but doesn't have big car running costs... here's to the next year of fun motoring!!
Right...so i've owned the little white terror for a year now so how's it been using a 100HP in every weather and pretty much every road conditions from floods to rutted farm tracks and even a family holiday...well pretty good i'd say, its been totally reliable and everything still works as it should although i'm not sure i'd have a white one again.
It still puts a huge smile on my face when i drive it and i don't think i've ever owned a car with such a giant personality... it's more like a family pet than a car!!, its heavier on fuel than its size suggests but thats down to way it gets driven and you do need to keep an eye on the state of the front suspension (tracking etc) or it wears tyres pretty quickly...the ride can get a bit wearing on bad roads but ninety percent of the time i wouldn't have it any other way, and the paint is too thin as it really does pick up stone chips very easily... so to sum up..the engine is a peach.. the seats are excellent and in fact the whole driving position/ dashboard interface is really very good particularly the gearchange which is just brilliant, it really is such a cool little car that drives like something for twice the price but doesn't have big car running costs... here's to the next year of fun motoring!!
All good. I still like the white. Doesn't show the muck!
The car turns cream.
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Outta here.
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Back again...:doh:
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10000 mile service done today and nothing else untoward found that needs doing.....onward......
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Ok..heading in to my second winter with the HP and all is good, fitted some adjustable drop links as I have koni's and can't use the newer type ones so i'm thinking it'll be more cost effective in the long term.
My next door neighbour has bought herself a hoofing great jeep 4x4 in anticipation of another bad winter and laughed at me in my little white panda... it went through floods last year without any issues so we'll see who has the last laugh when you have to fill it with fuel and tax it Mrs moneybags..
Still loving every 100hp minute...onward!!....
My next door neighbour has bought herself a hoofing great jeep 4x4 in anticipation of another bad winter and laughed at me in my little white panda... it went through floods last year without any issues so we'll see who has the last laugh when you have to fill it with fuel and tax it Mrs moneybags..
Still loving every 100hp minute...onward!!....
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Car looks good in your sig all dirty. Is it lowered much on the Konis?
Dirty? That's not dirty, believe me.
The Koni dmapers don't affect ride height though I'm not sure if Gav has changed springs. Looks pretty normal.
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Hello from Percy Panda. He rules OK!
Hello from Percy Panda. He rules OK!
