I've never seen the Pandaghini nor Bruiser, yet I see your neighbours XR3i nearly everyday.
And yet I've seen your Firebird twice on the road and once at a show. I don't travel far for work in the Panda though so unless you go through Slaithwaite during the week you won't see it. Bruiser travels to Lockwood everyday so I'd expect you to at least see him.
. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little sad, after all, this has been our family bus for 12 years. But, all things must come to an end. He's still with us for now, but my parents are on the lookout for another car.
Your Panda looks pretty cool without the grill inserts in the bumper! If you squint, the radiator (or is it a condenser?) looks like an intercooler!
£48? Almost half as bad as genuine Peugeot prices! Could always try a bit of wire mesh - "yeah, it's a sport model..."Haha, I thought that! It's a new radiator too so it shines a bit more. It doesn't have air con so there's no condenser.
I should really get round to putting the trims and grilles back in before a stone or something busts my radiator. The fog light trims don't clip in properly though and the old radiator grille doesn't fit the new bumper, and I just haven't got round to sorting it out. The missing bumper trim I need is £48 and I'm super tight with my money so I've been holding off buying that too.
Most genuine dealers are a bugger for body parts. In the case of my Corsa, you can get it all separately, but the whole assembly is to the tune of about £500 before VAT. So, any separate parts are rather dear.That's the thing, it's not a dealer price, it's the cheapest on eBay! Fiat don't sell the bumper strips separately, I already tried.
Ah that's no good then. I guess I'm lucky with the Corsa, since there were nearly half a million made in this country alone, parts are nice and cheap.Full bumpers are priced quite high too. I was going to get a secondhand one to replace mine, but it ended up being cheaper just ordering a bare primered one from Euro Car Parts. I can afford the £48, I'm just a typical northerner and hate spending money.
I'd think twice before filling her up then*The Pandaghini reached 59,000 on Christmas Eve!
That means I'm coming up to covering a whopping 3,000 miles since I bought him. I really need to get out more. Look at how satisfying my fuel gauge and temperature gauge look being almost symmetrical though.
Also, festive Panda!
Pfft, you wish, try a quart of oil every 30 miles!
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I'm in the process of fixing this finally at least.
The funny thing is they use oil even when they're not incontinent. My 100HP remains the only car I've owned that needed regularly topping up with oil. Not excessive amounts, but I used to check it every 1000 miles and top it up each time - usually it would have gone from the middle point between the two dipstick marks to the lower mark. Worth it though, because that engine was cracking.I'm good, I think I'll stick to about half a litre every 4 or 5 months.
