Fiat Panda 1000 1990

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Sat 9 Nov 2002 21:57
Fiat Panda 1000 1990 - AllTorque
I've bought a 1990 Panda 1000 for my daughter as her first car, as it's appeared a number of times in HJ's column as a reasonable starter car.

One job I think needs doing is replacing a rubber cover on the top of the OSF shock absorber. I believe this also acts as a bump stop?

Does anyone know if this is an MOT fail point? In the Haynes book it looks straight forward to replace with a spring compressor and ball joint splitter; is it so? What size ball joint splitter will I need? Will any of the alignments need resetting when it's reassembled?

After 20+ years it's good to be doing something with cars again, but those days it was the cars that were rusty - now it's me.


Thanks if anyone can advise,


AT

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Sat 9 Nov 2002 22:35
Fiat Panda 1000 1990 - jc
I had a torn one;I trimmed it so it was even all the way round-it passed MOT's for 3 years after that.
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