FIAT PANDA (169) 4X4 - 2007

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 afield 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.

I created a Reader's Cars thread for it. I can't add HTML into a For Sale thread, but do a search for 'Bad, bad Panda'

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 didn't get round to it....

The only significant rust I found was a holed sill (see the before & after photos) 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 new 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….

Don't be fooled by the photos - it's a decent ten-foot car when it has been cleaned and the back bits, er, blackened, but the photos flatter it - it's not pretty close-up.

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)

Modifications

500 Abarth seats, front and back - WAY better than the Panda seats and good enough for long days (I've done multiple 350+ mile days in it)

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!

So - if you want a mechanically-sound little Panda 4x4 AND you can put up with some scruffiness - this is the one for you. Any questions, just ask