MotorPunk’s £16 Panda

[motorpunk]

Bladder level; 78%
Caffiene; DANGER LOW

[motorpunk]

Target; Costa.

[motorpunk]

£2.49 for millionaires shortbread. Surely Costa could charge a premium for foodstuffs offered to such wealthy people.  I ordered a piece and they did NOT ask for proof of income. Strange times.

[motorpunk]

Back on the motorway. Tailed by pigs for a few miles, perhaps tipped off by Costas finance/shortbread authorities. Managed to shake ‘em off. Destination - the garden of En-ger-Lund.

[Asimo]

All that sugar’s going to give you a massive slump soon.

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

ARE WE THERE YET !

[motorpunk]

 

Nyyyyyeeeeeeooooooow.

 

That, children, is the sound of a motorcar.

[motorpunk]

[some action sequences shortened]

[motorpunk]

More coffee. Yes, I have a strange gait.

[motorpunk]

I’ve just noticed what appears to be a dried cat turd in passenger footwell.

[motorpunk]

Arrival = yes.

@SmokinWaffle is lovely. There’s a BX bonnet behind the bins and a Panda round the back. My kinda place. 

[motorpunk]

Flat things = two.

An tyre. Das batterie.

All fixable. Car looks lovely. Man will take it away as it won’t fit in my boot.

’waffle is a nice shiter. 
 

I now own four cars, currently only one is working. I am a true ‘shiter.

[SmokinWaffle]

11 hours ago, motorpunk said:

’waffle is a nice shiter. 

Appreciate it - and you.

Big thanks to @motorpunk for making this an easy process - my life has been stressful to say the least recently - I've been struggling to keep my head totally above water -  he's been so patient and kind. Big respect. I like a bright pair of shoes too so props on that.

[motorpunk]

Update!

After the first class help from @SmokinWaffle and @worldofceri, the Panda will today be gifted to my daughter as a birthday prezzy. Tyre fixed, radio fixed, battery charged, cleaned inside and out, MOT’d and brakes sorted. She has no idea what she’s getting. Her dream car is an Abarth 500, so if she squints a bit, she can live the dream.

I’ll update this thread if/when anything interesting happens with the car. Thanks again Shiters. This is a great community.

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

I look forward to the explaination technique of how this is related to a 500 abarth  in the eyes of a young lady. I ask as i have 2 young daughters who will need persuading when time comes that my choice if 1st car for them is related to an expensive exotic. 

[Jim Bell]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174574848518

 

[yes oui si]

Mildly cripple them, which means they can get an Abarth 595 on Motability. 

If my surgery doesnt succeed this year, I'll be eyeing them up myself. 

[Aston Martin]

Is it too late for me to be your daughter?

[SiC]

Sounds like your daughter is much more appreciative than this bozo (well the suits/hoody wearing advert agency anyway)

That advert really winds me up!

[Aston Martin]

1 minute ago, SiC said:

Sounds like your daughter is much more appreciative than this bozo (well the advert agency anyway)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ANny8roV0

 

 

Bloody hell, they finally uploaded it. 👍👍👍

[motorpunk]

10 minutes ago, Aston Martin said:

Is it too late for me to be your daughter?

😄

[motorpunk]

Five months on and, finally, the Panda is on the road. Junior is waiting for a driving test (booked for 2022, none available before!) so got learner insurance, tax and L plates. And we fired up the Panda for it’s first proper drive.

It had needed a new alternator and battery, which is groovy, and it’s had another clean although it was pretty clean anyway.

Junior drove to McDonalds, as you do, then drove it like an Italian down some country lanes, then a few busy junctions when the (squeaky) clutch pedal stuck to the floor and freaked her out a bit. And me. A squirt of WD40 in the slave plunger seems to have fixed it, but it’s a dead cheap part so I’ll get the village spanner monkeys to replace it. Prob a symptom of having stood for yonks. There’s also a yellow warning triangle on the dash which, because it’s Italian, can almost certainly be ignored.

It feels tight and nippy and a cracking little car that’ll improve with some use. Junior loves it and so do I. Still can’t believe we won it!

 

[vaughant]

On 4/5/2021 at 9:44 PM, SiC said:

Sounds like your daughter is much more appreciative than this bozo (well the suits/hoody wearing advert agency anyway)

That advert really winds me up!

I don't know I think it's quite sweet. We've got to remember what's cool to us now may not be to a young lad for a first car. 

My boy was a bit like this when I gave him his Ka, didn't even want to go out for a drive in it, not nasty but just made up a load of excuses.

I just think he wasn't massively arsed about driving unlike me who woke up at midnight when he was 17 super excited about the driving lesson I was having later that day.

He soon realised his mates were driving and girls really don't like walking if they can get a lift instead hence all of a sudden he was interested in passing his test and the little Ka was seen as "cool" by the chicks apparently, who knew? 

My first car was a green Fiat Uno 5dr with a "baby on board" sticker on it (which seemed hysterical to almost everyone for some odd reason) when all my mates were getting 3dr fiestas and escorts and I had the piss ripped out of me..... Until the traffic light grand prix as the little 60S went really well compared to the pig iron 1.1 Ford. 

Had it 2 years and really liked it until it started falling apart from teenage abuse and neglect. 

Shame as I had a nice 1300 with weber carb ready to go in from a rotten donor. 

It did lead to an Uno Turbo which was ace so the same could happen to @motorpunk daughter with the Uno's natural replacement the 595? Or perhaps @Kiltoxcould recommend the hot panda 100 model 🤣🤣🤣🤣. 

[UltraWomble]

Weird innit - a lot of kids these days seem really either not arsed at all about driving or terribly bothered about what they are seen in.

Me - loved my cars, still do. But when I was 17 it was ace - freedom, a place to sh*g in, somewhere private and a means to get anywhere I wanted to go.

[DVee8]

@motorpunk.If she has a test booked for next year, that will put her in the system. Download the Testi app, it is a cancellation app. My 17 year old did.

His test was booked for this month or next I can't remember. He used Testi, passed in May.

As for the yellow triangle, check the bulbs. Ours came on when a DRL has blown

[vaughant]

2 hours ago, UltraWomble said:

Weird innit - a lot of kids these days seem really either not arsed at all about driving or terribly bothered about what they are seen in.

Me - loved my cars, still do. But when I was 17 it was ace - freedom, a place to sh*g in, somewhere private and a means to get anywhere I wanted to go.

Very much so, and for all the above reasons 😉😉. 

I think they've got too many other means of meeting people now, a bit like Harry Redknapp said, why do kids want to play football in the park when they can play with Ronaldo and Messi at home. Sad but true. For me it was a case of passed test, put 250 miles on the car in the 1st weekend!!! 

 

HOWEVER

 

Girls who own cars would never do some of those things quoted above I'm certain of it,certainly not those who own Pandas, no god damn way. 

[St.Jude]

On 3/1/2021 at 9:20 PM, motorpunk said:

I am the sex. Touch my undercarriage. I am engorged.

I mean, and I say this with the greatest of respect, you need to re-do this photo in a grey suit and grey wig. Because I swear to Christ you look like Swiss Toni after a night with Ted.

[yes oui si]

La donna è mobile in more ways than one 😂

[motorpunk]

This has a niggle which is foxing me…

It keeps draining the battery. It doesn’t get a lot of use, but is started every 2-3 days and run for 15 mins or so, so the battery shouldn’t die. It had a new battery and alternator not that long ago. Today it wouldn’t even start off jump leads. It shows all the symptoms of a flat battery (very slowly churns over one or twice then clicks and clicks like a flat battery), but even when I fit a fully charged battery it does the same, and if I use jump leads it does the same. I’ve checked for electrical stuff left switched on but can’t see anything. I’ve bought a battery isolator to fit to help alleviate the problem but of course I still need the thing moving under its own steam and charging its own battery. Any ideas? Suggestions of things to check? A new voltmeter and jump start battery pack are on order. Help?! 

[red5]

Take your jump leads, attach one clamp to the battery neg and the other to a decent (earth) connection on the engine - it'll eliminate a bad earth strap/broken/corroded - or, it won't and there is your fault.