Well mudflaps are on.. Don't have pics to hand, maybe post some later.
However, the little 500 has sprang its first problem for me - its a weird non-start issue which i cannot find anything like searching the forum. So the wife comes out of work, unlocks the car with remote as usual, everything is normal so far, puts key in and turns ignition on, dash comes on, radio comes on (cause she never turns it off), everything normal still. Goes to start it, dash goes off and absolutely nothing. She rang me to tell me and I drove down expecting the battery to be completely flat or something but no that seems ok, the battery might be a bit weak but to eliminate I tried another known good battery on it as the battery was a touch low, reading 12.2v. And still nothing.
So as it stands now. Remote locking does not work, central locking does not work, when you open the door the dash turns on as usual and tell you time and mileage but when you put key in and turn ignition on nothing happens, like i mean zero happens, no dash, no relays click, no fuel pump, ditto, nada, zilch.
So to me atm its kinda seems like the ignition switch has failed, Have tried the spare key as well, its the same so its not the key or anything. What confuses me though is if the ignition switch failed, why on earth would the remote locking and central locking stop working as well.
And just to make this a little more strange, like twice when trying to start it out of about 3 million the dash has come on but it flickers like it has a dodgy connection but then dies and won't turn on again if you try to actually start the engine. This behaviour makes me feel the ignition switch must work and it might be a main loom connector somewhere that isn't working.
So, after a while (this was friday after work all this) I gave up, first time ever that I've not managed to limp a fiat home when something has gone wrong
Sunday I went down, had not really thought of a definitive reason why it would do what it is doing but went back down, they only thing i could think of trying that i hadn't on Friday was to put a jump lead from battery to engine to just check its not the main earth or something but was exactly same. A friend came with me who has AA cover and ultimately we had to get AA out to recover it home, he also spent an hour going through it, testing everything I had already and he also was completely stumped by it and towed it back to my house.
So its sitting outside now and i can at least go mess with it easily. I really need some wiring diagrams but not 100% they are in the haynes - looked on their website and it says 53-61plate. Our is a 62 plate 1.3 multijet 95hp - can anyone confirm if that model is covered, just slightly worried it will only have the 75hp one in there and having looked at my mates panda multijet 75hp I know its not the same - it will be similar of course but certainly not the same.
Someone must have a copy they can check before i spent my dollar on a book to find its not much help. Any other sources of wiring diagrams? I have downloaded the eLearn from the downloads section but not had chance to look at it as of yet.