Lot 77 - 06 Fiat Panda 1.1 (another pile of crap? stop it!)

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Nowhere near, just a progress shot

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davepoth said:

Metal flake coat next then?

don't think the budget quite stretches that far

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TooMany2cvs said:

Give it a week or two, and he'll probably sell you the actual star of the thread!

This one's staying, it has work to do as a loan car

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Time to prime the rocker cover



Panda joined by an old friend that has been languishing in the corner for too long

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Mr E said:

When someone complains about it you simply show them the 'before' pictures?

Sounds about right

Waiting on a rocker cover gasket and it'll be time to start putting the engine back together

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Still in a pile of bits. I've found myself wanting a small petrol runaround recently though so that might be enough to get my finger out and get on with it!

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eltax91 said:

The MX5?

MX5 has working power steering for the first time in a while - I need someone to weld it up now!

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eltax91 said:

I know an ace and cheap fabricator. Lutterworth too far?

Nah not really......

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Panda is still in bits but just to convince you that I haven't become any more sane recently meet the newest member of the fleet



Yes it's a 1.9 dci, yes it's done some miles and yes it has some of the usual 1.9dci problems

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to be fair it was cheap, doesn't run THAT badly and has a few months MOT

EGR valve was more carbon than metal so I'm hoping it'll be the cause of the occasional running problems

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It isn't a bad thing to drive at all and is a lot more useful than the Kangoo it replaces in my fleet

New EGR valve will hopefully sort out it's issues, MAF looks pretty new.

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It cost less than that repair bill so I'm quite happy to bin it if it becomes real trouble, itll pay for itself pretty quickly anyway

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Crap van news - EGR valve to replace the EGR valve shaped lump of coal seems to have sorted the running problems so far

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Haha fair enough, I think it was Bosch but I'll have another look at it and check out the live data

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"DROIVEWAYS TARMACCED FOR CASH" "ALL SCRAP METAL WANTED" that kind of thing?

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bomma220 said:

PMS laughing at this thread every time it pops up

Just a thought for the signwriting on the van along the lines of WBAC:

'I Value And Buy Immensely Grotty Car Or Commercial Knackerbags'

IVABIGCOCK

love it

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I have a Rover 216 Cabriolet complete with K series goodness but disappointingly for you it works 100%!

Radiator arrived for this Panda the other day (£9 delivered from Amazon for a Magneti Morelli part, amazing) along with a couple of coolant hoses so I'm almost ready to start reassembling it!

Small problem of a locking wheel nut key-less Fiesta blocking access in my workshop - that should be gone in a week or so once Ford get me a new key and I'll be able to crack on with the Panda!

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eltax91 said:

Amazon do car parts?!

Outrageously cheap ones in very small stock levels it seems - they have quite a lot of radiators for less than £10, brake calipers, etc etc

Depends on the vehicle how lucky you are

(they do also have parts for normal prices on par with ECP/GSF but for some reason they have tons of stupidly cheap ones)

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This pile of st is still in bits but I really must get it moving soon - need the space back that it and all of its parts take up.

Hopefully get round to it in the coming weeks but I said that ages ago