Lot 77 - 06 Fiat Panda 1.1 (another pile of crap? stop it!)
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Sounds identical to all my auction car buying stories 
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I hate to say it, but the spluttering and non start after overheating make me wonder if its lost compression.
Bit of a shame. Even at 180k and shed like condition £200 would have been a winner if it was a runner. Still might be SOME value to a breaker, although I'm not sure what parts fitted to that particular car would be an improvement.
.I hate to say it, but the spluttering and non start after overheating make me wonder if its lost compression.
Bit of a shame. Even at 180k and shed like condition £200 would have been a winner if it was a runner. Still might be SOME value to a breaker, although I'm not sure what parts fitted to that particular car would be an improvement.
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renorti said:
take the electric steering column out, sell on ebay £120, cat converter £15,battery £5. key,engine ecu and bsm{module} thats £100 on ebay. front wings,front bumper and headlamps another £150 all easily out in one day. weigh car in £30. bit of profit, don't buy another!
This, it sounds like a money pit that will always stink or be unreliable or both. At least this way you can minimise your losses.renorti said:
take the electric steering column out, sell on ebay £120, cat converter £15,battery £5. key,engine ecu and bsm{module} thats £100 on ebay. front wings,front bumper and headlamps another £150 all easily out in one day. weigh car in £30. bit of profit, don't buy another!
Sounds like a good way to fill my workshop with parts that will take forever to shiftNobody's paying £30 for stripped shells any more either - be lucky not to need to pay to shift it
.patmahe said:
renorti said:
take the electric steering column out, sell on ebay £120, cat converter £15,battery £5. key,engine ecu and bsm{module} thats £100 on ebay. front wings,front bumper and headlamps another £150 all easily out in one day. weigh car in £30. bit of profit, don't buy another!
This, it sounds like a money pit that will always stink or be unreliable or both. At least this way you can minimise your losses.
Plugs from GSF are wrong, suspect the leads aren't 100% either.
However, fitted the leads and the old plugs and it started up with another struggle but wouldn't idle properly. Cleaned up the throttle body in the parts washer and it now starts easily but again, crap idle.
Suspect the idle stepper motor on the throttle body has had it - but it's a built in non removable part as far as I can see
Compression test was fine - little bit lower on 1 but nothing out of the ordinary for a 180k mile engine
However, fitted the leads and the old plugs and it started up with another struggle but wouldn't idle properly. Cleaned up the throttle body in the parts washer and it now starts easily but again, crap idle.
Suspect the idle stepper motor on the throttle body has had it - but it's a built in non removable part as far as I can see
Compression test was fine - little bit lower on 1 but nothing out of the ordinary for a 180k mile engine
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