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Originally Posted by extreme_torque Brilliant looking car. I think your's is the most lovingly kept Punto I have seen. Easy to see your love for the car. |
Thanks a lot for the kind words extreme_torque! Glad you liked it.
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Originally Posted by guyfrmblr Karthik, the new seat cover looks fantastic . Congratulations, you have a very good taste.
The interior of the red rocket looks 97% perfect. I have reduced 3% for the HU. It looks 50 years older in comparison with the other interior parts. I suggest you to go with a good touch screen HU which will complement with the other interior parts . |
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Originally Posted by nkrishnap I would deduct 10 instead of 3 not just due to the looks of the player, the way it sounds too. The red rocket now has everything going except for ICE.
Karthik, time to think about upgrading ICE, the red rocket very much needs it. |
Next on the anvil, but need a few more months to recover from the Karlsson damage, hehe. I'm not too much of an audiophile, so anything basic with better sounding audio would be good for me. Touchscreen HU? Ouch! That would mean blue&Me goes for a toss. I'll need to give that some thought before opting for it.
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Originally Posted by shashank.nk The interiors look lovely Karthik! The quality of stitching and the leather looks top-class. I hope it lasts long enough too. The only possible downside will be excessive sweating on long journeys. |
Thanks a lot shashank, your stanley review helped a lot in this decision
. I doubt the sweating part though. As long as the AC is on, real leather shouldn't cause sweating I think. I've done plenty of 500+km per day runs in the Linea and never once found myself sweating with the ACC on. Art leather does trigger a lot of sweating though.
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Like others have said, ICE upgrade and possibly xenons/DRL's are left.
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I have OSRAM 5LED DRLs ready in the box. I just need some time to unpack them and wire them into the front grill someplace. I just need a weekend or two to be able to manage half a day for this DIY; should try to complete it next weekend *winks*
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Originally Posted by k_ajay Krishna, along with ICE, also scope exists to upgrade the headlights and add appropriate looking DRLs. Reference here.
Whatsay, namesake? |
Absolutely agree. Projectors + DRLs + ICE + Dayline LED taillamps should complete the picture and wind up this year-long modification story for good.
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Originally Posted by srishiva Loverly overall changes done to the car. It has transformed the car completely. But isn't the leather a little coarse grained? |
Thanks a lot srishiva. This grain is what they have for black color in the 1.5mm Scandinavian range. The very fine grained one was available in Napa leather which was another 20k more, Ouch! It looked killer though.
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Originally Posted by ku69rd The interiors look awesome now Karthik and goes well with the exterior. Good thought into planning the interiors. |
Thanks a lot ku69rd! Part of the credit goes to Sajith for suggesting this design when I visited Karlsson first - it was supposedly an existing design on one of the earlier Alfa Romeo models it seems. That had orange in the same places where I now have red - the piping outlines and the single stitches.
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The pedals are lovely where did you procure them from?
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Originally Posted by tabrez Actually, they're part of the Sports kit that is retro-fitted to the base 90bhp Model (including the black roof top which is factory made). The entire kit retails at Rs.22k |
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Originally Posted by Achyuth Vaibhav The pedals are stock fitment and came with the car when he bought it. They are OEM Abarth pedals and is available in the Sport Version. |
Achyuth is right - the pedals came stock with the car from day 1. When I bought the Punto 90HP, it was sold under the guise of a limited edition 'Sports' model which had decals, black mirrors, chrome pedals, chrome exhaust tip, chrome accents (in the interiors) on the dash and door SILs if my memory serves me right. The chrome pedal pictures are there right on page 1 of my ownership review.
Now, probably Fiat has separated the goodies and is charging 22k for the 'Sports' kit. Interesting.
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@KarthikK, saw you and your car near JP nagar on 15th. Your Red Rocket was looking awesome.
Regards
Achyuth
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Thanks for spotting me! You should have waved or something, I'd have been glad to stop by for a chat.