A car a month for 2020. Idiocy but you love it.

[Toaster Pilot]

Door card cleaned up surprisingly well - need to find some replacement clips in the right colour which I’m guessing is impossible. Might need to paint some white ones.

[Hammer67]

Toaster Pilot said:

Door card cleaned up surprisingly well - need to find some replacement clips in the right colour which I’m guessing is impossible. Might need to paint some white ones.

Interesting use of the term "door card". Must have taken a solid 2 minutes to design that intricate piece of "trim".

[Uncle boshy]

A mate of mine at uni had one. We put speakers in the front cards, then discovered you couldn’t wind the windows down because the speakers were in the way.

It was a very sweaty summer

[Toaster Pilot]

The simplicity of it is amazing though - all the car you need and absolutely nothing you don’t.

[Jonny-Jimbo]

That little Fiat seemingly looks very tidy, well done sir!

I had an Uno in a few weeks ago for some MOT repairs... absolute shocker to drive, very choppy and slow. Best bit of all was the gear linkage was all to pot, so sometimes you'd get 3rd or reverse instead of 1st etc. However, it's little brother, the Seicento is pretty good fun. IRS rear though I guess where the Uno was beam.

[Pupbelly]

Jonny-Jimbo said:

That little Fiat seemingly looks very tidy, well done sir!

Indeed I agree, just hope there isn't lots of rolled up newspaper beneath Polyfiller and baby blue Dulux Once.

[Toaster Pilot]

Pupbelly said:

Indeed I agree, just hope there isn't lots of rolled up newspaper beneath Polyfiller and baby blue Dulux Once.

[mrtwisty]

Pupbelly said:

Indeed I agree, just hope there isn't lots of rolled up newspaper beneath Polyfiller and baby blue Dulux Once.

Its a nearly 40 year old Fiat. If more than 50% of the structure is still ferrous, I'd say you're onto a winner

[pingu393]

Toaster Pilot said:

The simplicity of it is amazing though - all the car you need and absolutely nothing you don’t.

We had a Seat Marbella as a hire car in Espana. Biggest ashtray in the world . The ashtray, not the car .

[Toaster Pilot]

I’m liking the fact that all of the service parts for this appear to be in firm “NOS st we never thought we’d sell and nearly binned” territory so are super cheap. Good stuff.

Did some mild tinkering, mostly checking the lights work which I’m glad to say they do. It’s so basic it doesn’t have a hazard switch, which surprised me!



Have ordered a few bits that’ll let me get stuck into the engine - not that there’s much of it



Also think I’ve found a solution to the mismatched wheel and spare. Might be a while before that turns up though, coming from Italy.

[Pupbelly]

Toaster Pilot said:

Also think I’ve found a solution to the mismatched wheel and spare. Might be a while before that turns up though, coming from Italy.

At least that tyre is rated for 'Motorway' use - an indicator of the potential speeds huh?

[Toaster Pilot]

Pupbelly said:

At least that tyre is rated for 'Motorway' use - an indicator of the potential speeds huh?

it’s an awful winter remould. Will be replacing it with one of the correct wheels.

[Pupbelly]

Looks very clean 'under the hood' from what I can make out. A quick blast with the Karcher will make it like new.

[mrtwisty]

Pupbelly said:

Looks very clean 'under the hood' from what I can make out. A quick blast with the Karcher will make it like new.

You seriously think blasting a pressure washer at an engine and its ancillaries is a good idea?

[Oilchange]

Hammer67 said:

Toaster Pilot said:

Rover got papped at the meet on Saturday - looks far tidier than it actually is!

Welcome to my world.
British? check.
Diesel? check.
Looked upon with derision? check.
Fitted with an engine made by an inferior manufacturer?check.

Edited by Hammer67 on Sunday 2nd February 23:18

[Toaster Pilot]

mrtwisty said:

Pupbelly said:

Looks very clean 'under the hood' from what I can make out. A quick blast with the Karcher will make it like new.

You seriously think blasting a pressure washer at an engine and its ancillaries is a good idea?

It’s quite common with the two bucket types. I’ll not be doing it but there’s probably even less to go wrong with this engine!

[Pupbelly]

Toaster Pilot said:

mrtwisty said:

Pupbelly said:

Looks very clean 'under the hood' from what I can make out. A quick blast with the Karcher will make it like new.

You seriously think blasting a pressure washer at an engine and its ancillaries is a good idea?

It’s quite common with the two bucket types. I’ll not be doing it but there’s probably even less to go wrong with this engine!

Exactly! A modern engine with many ECUs and so on then no its not ideal but does happen in the trade, but with the humble Panda, start her up and give it a blast with some TFR, keeping away from the air intake of course.

[mrtwisty]

Pupbelly said:

Toaster Pilot said:

mrtwisty said:

Pupbelly said:

Looks very clean 'under the hood' from what I can make out. A quick blast with the Karcher will make it like new.

You seriously think blasting a pressure washer at an engine and its ancillaries is a good idea?

It’s quite common with the two bucket types. I’ll not be doing it but there’s probably even less to go wrong with this engine!

Exactly! A modern engine with many ECUs and so on then no its not ideal but does happen in the trade, but with the humble Panda, start her up and give it a blast with some TFR, keeping away from the air intake of course.

I stand corrected!

Still not sure i could bring myself to do it though

[Toaster Pilot]

Well, things moved wildly off the mark from my intended target this year... but that's hardly surprising.

Here's a year in review - I really need to clear the decks in 2021 but the Panda and Aixam are just about to see a flurry of activity!

[anonymous-user]

Well done on keeping going, hopefully the coming year brings some adventures with the sheds and you get to enjoy them.