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Leader of the Pack!

Looks like the ESP is kicking in?

Proper green laning , I hope you find it much more enjoyable than splashing about in a puddle.

Pedro is killing it!! What a legend

Did the door seals hold?

Awesome work the more panda videos I see the more I want one

How does it compare now to the mk1 panda 4x4

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nice videos, It looks like the bulbs have been turned upside down, I have LED and the light has to reflect off the top of the headlight not the bottom

wondering about the red Skoda in the background. my mother owned this from new and I am desperate to buy it back

As others have said, these are completely illegal in standard factory Halogen Headlamps unfortunately, doesn’t matter if the beams ‘correct’ just fitting these bulbs is illegal and MOT testers now have to check for LeD bulb conversions as part of the MOt test. Problem is, the light gets thrown everywhere by the reflector in the headlamp. To be legal you’d need to fit projector style headlamps with the led bulbs, these and the bulbs need to technically be e-stamped as well to be legal. People here have said about ‘legal’ LeD bulbs but what they mean are performance Halogen bulbs. Osram night breakers and Phillips Racing Vision GR200 performance Halogenbukbs are the market leaders around £20 a pair on Amazon. The thing with LED bulbs and NOT testers is only part of the issue. If you got stopped by a DVSA roadside stop or by Traffic Police, they can have the car taken off the road, towed to impound and get you to pay release fees, a fine, points on your licence and an MOT retest before you. Put the Panda back on the road. Loads of information online, on the DVsA website and enthusiast sites about this mod. Even in your video you can see the bean scatter from the LED’s in the comparison.

In my state (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) switch lamps to LED are currently illegal 😭 Luckily my VW UP have good lamps (better than my mother Hyundai Creta), the only thing I can swap are the yellow-ish H4 lamps for some “super white” lamps, because reflective internals of the headlights. But a lot of people with big expensive SUV who blinds everyone doesn’t seem to have any legal problems with it 🤦🏻‍♂️

Try to use those built-in projector led headlights, they use the lens in the low bream and the housing for the high beam, and don't blind opposing drivers if well aligned. Also they are great for fog time

They're definitely not legal. Some MOT centres don't care, some it's an instafail. I've got some Philips LED coming for my Freelander 2 but I'll be keeping my old ones just in case.

I work for a well known car parts shop and we fit bulbs and sell bulbs. We sell the led conversion kits which say in big letters “off road or track use only”, our mot centre will fail them straight away as the light isn’t reflected correctly, for my panda I use the 150% brighter bulbs, they dramatically improve my vision without blinding people

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Do note that they are illegal. The headlight housing is made to reflect the used light source which I assume is normal incandescent or xenon. LED reflects differently and will need their own specific housing to be on the path of being legal (which still requires a bunch of test stamps and costs, at least in the EU) That is also why it's so EXTREMELY important to level them correctly as you will from time to time probably blind people unintentionally due to the reflections, no amount of levelling will remove that, so be sure to make it as good as can be. I made LED conversion myself some time back and even got it passed in inspection due to a relatively good levelling, but they can still just automatically fail you for using illegal light sources if the inspector is cranky or very by the book.

Have you got a route plan for this run? Or just the TWIS for the fording bits?

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Amazing video! Congratulations!

How does the Panda behave now with permanent 4x4 drive compared to before?Are there significant differences?By the way,kudos to you for your excellent video work.Keep up the good work in the future. Greetings!

😍 Love the cobble stone ford, where is that?

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You are very lucky to have the possibility to running this places, unfortunatly in my country all off road is denied!

I think the best pairing for this system are manual hub lockers on the rear wheels, even if you cut power going to the rear, the diff is going to be driven as the wheels move along so even though it's not as much as when it's driven there is still efficiency losses and wear. This also would open the door to installing a simple rear locking diff or even welded without compromising everyday drivability.

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Very nice. Great 😊👍

The radio antenna bending on the rack, why not replacing it by a smaller one? On my up! the original antenna covered in rubber started to break and I replaced it with an small aluminum antenna from Aliexpress, basically the smallest I could find since my radio works fine even without an antenna, and I mostly only use it to play from my phone Bluetooth anyway.

I want to do something similar but on a smaller scale on my VW UP! I just really need some bigger tires, maybe 15~16” preferably OEM from other VW, so nobody notice at first. I just need it to me a little higher to be more comfortable on bad roads.

Nice ratcheting spanner @12:37 🤣

Such a beast, very nicely done mate

Awesome little rig.

What wheel size aru you running?

your rear diff mount is done i think that is why you have a rub spot on drive shaft where paint has worn off.

Nice upgrade! I had a Vw T4 syncro with VC and sold it because of many issues other owners had with it. That special oil had to be changed periodically, you had to pay attention on hot asphalt roads, not to be stucked on, metal plates inside it could be bended, etc. At that time, I wished some passioned guys like these from Prometeo would designed a mechanical coupling like this for Panda, but for the Transporters. Now, I have a Vw T5 4motion with haldex 4 and rear diff lock. It's better and smarter than VC, but I still need to change the oil and filter, so I wish to change it with a mechanical coupler for safety and redundancy reasons. Hope someone will design one for it.. Until then, a haldex controller will be my next upgrade. That can set the coupling between 100-0 to 50-50. I also wish free wheel hubs for the rear wheels. That would really be a big improvement for your Panda, too. Less rear diff wear and better mileage.

The best laid plans of pandas and men eh. The first time I saw a motor down there it was a Jimmy stuck in that ditch before it had the run off that you boys were in. It was just a swamp before that. He was there for most of the night.

Is that blue the original rear subframe or is it a newer modified one - if so where did you get it from?

Definitely a different persoective for me. We ride dort bikes down there all the time. Coleman Green Lane is one ofy all time faves. CZcams recommedned your mechaincal dif vid to me for some unknown reason but that led me here so I guess it worked out well. You video quality is really quite good. 👍

In short, you are installing the same device present in 1st gen Panda 4x4 (the ones from the 80s, wich had a manual coupler, instead of a viscous coupler. The 3rd gen, if I remember well, use an Haldex couple.

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Unless you put freewheeling hubs on the rear, rhere will still be some friction loss from the rear differential.

What FIAT should have fitted in the factory not the fluid coupling. Awesome mod.

Very cool!! I own a 4x4 Climbing with the incredible 1.3 mjt and Haldex rear diff. It’s incredibly unstoppable. I strongly recommend the diesel engine. Original it has about 145 Nm, but with easy mods can arrive easily to 180 Nm!! After all, you own a really cool build, really like this!

I like how you repurposed one of the cup holders as a mounting spot for the lever lol

I thought 169 4x4 are permanent 4x4

can't wait for the black and white paint job getting done ?

I'd like the LSD that they do. Because when you're struggling for grip, you can tell not all 4 corners have power going to them.

purchase link?

Most interesting... Been thinking about something like this for some time, not realizing someone actually already made it! How about a LSD for either front or rear? Do somebody do that? I have been toying with the idea of splitting the handbrake into two levers to be able to brake one rear wheel.