I bought this a couple of years ago to keep the miles off my mid-life crisis car, and also to get me into some less accessible places for my photography hobby. I'm only selling as I find myself traveling further and to be frank, 400+ miles in a day in a 60bhp Panda is a bit tiresome. I'll be hunting for a Yeti 4x4, which I regard as the Panda's big brother.
I bought it cheap because it was shabby and needed some mechanical work. I’ve actually spent WAY more than I should have done, but that’s just my habit of wanting to tinker and improve.
The basics
2007 Panda 4x4 169
Silver, with the usual black bits
About 125,000 miles (bizarrely with full service history…)
Last service was 29/11/24, about 1,000 miles ago
Averaged 39 mpg in my two years of ownership
Aircon (working)
Ditch-finder winter tyres that actually turned out to be OK - about half-worn.
MOT’d to October 2025 - initially failed on a blown bulb and the fact I forgot to take off the slightly mid-spaced plates
On a personal plate at the moment, but will go back to its old registration - BT07 FHE
The rear subframe is brown, but solid
The bad stuff
OK - let get the bad stuff out of the way first. It’s still cosmetically shabby. I never got round to painting the bumpers which have lots of flaking paint. The roof still has scratches and there are still a few minor dings here and there. I still have the two rattle-cans of paint that I intended to use to make it look a bit more respectable, but in the end, I just CBA.
The only significant rust I found was a holed sill where someone had jacked it up incorrectly. I had this professionally fixed with all the old metal cut out and replaced.
To be honest, it’s REALLY liberating to have an already shabby car that I don’t mind when it picks up another scratch. There’s a scuff on the roof where a tie-down strap rubbed when I had two chunky e-MTBs on the roof bars - I just wasn’t bothered….
Mechanical work done during my tenure
Hope the wife doesn’t see this…
I bought it cheap because it was shabby and needed some mechanical work. I’ve actually spent WAY more than I should have done, but that’s just my habit of wanting to tinker and improve.
The basics
2007 Panda 4x4 169
Silver, with the usual black bits
About 125,000 miles (bizarrely with full service history…)
Last service was 29/11/24, about 1,000 miles ago
Averaged 39 mpg in my two years of ownership
Aircon (working)
Ditch-finder winter tyres that actually turned out to be OK - about half-worn.
MOT’d to October 2025 - initially failed on a blown bulb and the fact I forgot to take off the slightly mid-spaced plates
On a personal plate at the moment, but will go back to its old registration - BT07 FHE
The rear subframe is brown, but solid
The bad stuff
OK - let get the bad stuff out of the way first. It’s still cosmetically shabby. I never got round to painting the bumpers which have lots of flaking paint. The roof still has scratches and there are still a few minor dings here and there. I still have the two rattle-cans of paint that I intended to use to make it look a bit more respectable, but in the end, I just CBA.
The only significant rust I found was a holed sill where someone had jacked it up incorrectly. I had this professionally fixed with all the old metal cut out and replaced.
To be honest, it’s REALLY liberating to have an already shabby car that I don’t mind when it picks up another scratch. There’s a scuff on the roof where a tie-down strap rubbed when I had two chunky e-MTBs on the roof bars - I just wasn’t bothered….
Mechanical work done during my tenure
Hope the wife doesn’t see this…
- New sump
- New coils
- New plug leads
- New shocks x 4
- New discs & pads x 4
- New ARB drop links x 3
- New clutch slave cylinder
- New thermostat
- New viscous coupling (genuine Fiat, bought from Italy)
- 500 Abarth seats, front and back - WAY better than the Panda seats
- JVC wireless CarPlay double-din head unit
- Alpine speakers x 6
- Pioneer 200 watt shallow/flat subwoofer in the boot (very effective)
- Garmin hardwired dashcam
- LED spotlights, wired properly through a relay triggered by high beam
- Twin horns - really loud!