fiat panda Double Trouble: The Alessi Saga (alt. Panda-emic)

[Alessi P]

I am not as fat as my hands would lead you to believe.

Anyway, here's my intro to my little FIAT Panda Alessi. I'll be making videos on it while fixing it up (sprucing it up really), and maybe a few drives too. Let me know if there's anything you want to see, or what you're interested in.

I'm trying really hard to source genuine parts for it (and genuine Alessi accessories). I won't post links to anything until I've actually received them as I don't want others getting scammed along side me  Currently placed orders on what I think are parts numbers in Russia, Japan, and a country I didn't even recognise the domain name of.

Oh, and I filmed in vertical because I'm assuming most people will watch on the phone (on the toilet). If you disagree let me know. Audio kinda quiet because I dropped my phone in the sink.

 

[Alessi P]

Stripping some parts off to make sure there’s no corrosion needing looking at. Also give me a chance to clean some bits out too. 
 

oh, and I fixed that headlight. 

[sdkrc]

Those Alessi versions look so damned good. Big fan.

Enjoyed the Hitachi DVD review as well

[Alessi P]

I can’t believe how solid this is for a 15 year old car. My god

[Alessi P]

One more garden shot. Rear bumper and wheel trims can go back on after a quick wash. The from bumper - I’ve had to order some spare trim for and I want to tidy up the fog lights. Have a new badge arriving for the from but a rear badge is in the region of £30. Too rich for my blood right now

[Alessi P]

Getting the fog lights out of this was a right fucker. The front has a lot of wear and tear - over spray on the fog lights and someone has painted the bumper strips (Christ knows why). Got some replacements in the mail so give me a bit of time to get this sanded and fixed up properly. 
 

rear end back together. 

[Dave_Q]

Has @Aston Martin seen this? He has a Panda or 3 including at least one Alessi.

[Alessi P]

Another day, another job. Going to begin fixing up that from bumper. Touch up some stone chips, fix the fog lights up, sand off a few bits of the bad paint. I found a small crack in it, I'm worried that installing these new bumper strips will stress it too much - I'll need to find a way to re enforce it.

I'm going to change the bulbs in the fog lights, because if I need to replace one when it's all back together... Not worth thinking about.

[Alessi P]

Full set of bulbs for the wee thing. I think after 15 years the old ones had their day. 
 

seems boring but thought I would post on the off chance that someone would find it… enlightening 😂

[Alessi P]

Wee bit of JB weld to stop a crack spreading (no jokes please)

Polished up the glass on the fogs, and gave the whole thing a second coat of polish after taking care of some stone chips

 

still awaiting those wee bumper inserts

[Alessi P]

New crash beam installed. Last one was a little bent and had over spray. Oh and I polished the horn (not a euphemism). Dunno why. 

[Alessi P]

New front badge and I’m in the process of creating a new valve cover

[Alessi P]

Front end back together now. Cleaned and patched up, rubber bumper strips replaced. Spent a wee while sorting out some small stone chips and a few little dents. Not perfect, but it's looking very fresh now.

I went to see an auto sign / wrapper about the rear windows. He's going to give me a quote to make something similar. We'll see.

[Kringle]

On 8/7/2021 at 10:34 PM, Alessi P said:

Looks to me like it belongs on that Hoover washing machine behind it!

[Alessi P]

Don’t tell the wife 😂

[Squarepegroundhole]

@Alessi P looking fabulous! Do you have any pictures of the Guacamole Panda? I’m putting a red diesel one back on the road at the moment and also have a blue 1.2. 

[Alessi P]

I'll get you some soon!