I've just bought a Panda 4x4 (110 nicked at christmas time :-(). I know it's not a landie but still....
Anyhow, does anyone know how to get at the idle jet? I suspect it needs cleaning. Do I have to dismantle half the carb to get at it or will it come out easy?
It's the 999cc FIRE engine.
Cheers, Paul
On or around Thu, 3 Jun 2004 12:42:19 +0100, "Paul Coleman" enlightened us thusly:
I dare you to take to one of the off-road places...
I suspect, presuming you could get decent tyres for it, it'd so remarkably well. They have plenty of ground clearance and weigh next-to-nothing.
I'll confirm that, one was buzzing around the Robin Hoods Bay course some years ago. Admittedly it had dumper truck tyres on and some mods to the wheel arches done with a blunt Gillette but it did the job :)
All the best
There is the story true or not. Of a LR full of squaddies who got so far off road in the Falklands, that they had to give up because it was to severe for them, when a farmer in a Panda 4x4 came hurtling past them carrying on with his farmer duties :)
Like I say I dont know the validity of this story but it made me laugh :)
Dave
I've always fancied a panda 4x4!. Ive seen them off roaded at Weston Coyney a few times. Nice and light, and they were racing up some of the steep slopes that the normal vehicles had trouble on! There was one for sale round here for £25 a year or so ago, but i had nowhere to keep it :(
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I guess there are some experienced people in alt.autos.fiat Check your newsserver for this group, but present certainly in google groups.
Rgds, Jan.
You could have stuck it in the back of the Ambi
:-)
Lee D
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A friend brought one to Tixover for a joke, it actually did surprisingly well so we wrote "Panda Experience" in the mud on the doors and had him follow the Land Rover Experience 110 over every obsticle it came to. This didn't really please the Land Rover experience team and the paying customers started laughing at them, as a result one girl went into a laughter induced asthma attack and had to be Ambulanced away. I couldn't believe how well the Panda did despite being fitted with fairly slick road tyres.
Here are a few links to the pictures from the day:
Fergus
Up here in rainy Scotland one of the more severe off road sites (Drumclog) has a hill names Panda's Rise. This is apparently due to a Fiat Panda being the only thing to get up it.
I also spoke to someone who claimed he and his borther had laid the whole site out using a fiat Panda.
J.
It would be like knightrider! :)
i had a 2 wheel drive around my farm for years had big mud plugging tyres on and it never got set ! gearbox broke in the end - shame !
Smashing little car and very, very capable.
As others have said, enjoy!
In message , Mother writes
Our boys had 2 Panda 4x4's. We would use them up and down a long tidal causeway to launch boats, and they were superb on the sand and slippery rocks. Many happy memories of push-starting the first one before the incoming tide as the light started to fail. Marvellous for all round visibility when you reversed with the tailgate open.
They were great in snow with the narrow tyres (designed for this - built in the Alps?), and they took the boys all over the country to college etc. on Group 1 insurance. Super little cars and we couldn't find anything comparable, so when they left home I had to get the old 110.
The coastguard also used one to patrol the foreshore locally.
Unfortunately I know a lot about rust, nothing about the carbs.
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