Hi folks,
Newbie here. Forum looks great, btw, kudos to the team.

I'm coming away from a company car scheme for my wife, and she therefore needs a car. The budget is up to five and a half thousand, and as we have a one year old little girl, we need a decent boot, and to get the child seat in the back. Also Bluetooth would be good, SatNav a bonus, but dependable a must.

I've spent ages on Auto Trader looking at different manufacturers and models, and came across the Qubo - love it, something totally different! Any tips, what to look out for, which one's etc, please chaps and chapesses?

Hi. We have had ours since our little girl was 2. Perfect fit for our isofix Brittax car seat and the high sliding doors are brilliant. Good seat positions for good road view and so on. We have the 95 Hp 1.3. Tested the 75 it was ok but jumped to the extra horses as it was available. Car is strong, we are not precious about scratches etc. Good boot size for pram etc. Love it. Don't pay any extra for integrated sat Nav always always a rip off. Get a good one from Halford or somewhere with a suckered mount all less than 60 new, the dash of the Qubo accepts things like that neatly over the centre console.

Hi IgglePiggle, Welcome to the wonderful world of the Qubist/Fiorinoist, great little motors.
Stacks of info on these cars on the forum.......so thats a good place to start.
Cheers Qube O.

IgglePiggle said:

Hi folks,
Newbie here. Forum looks great, btw, kudos to the team.

I'm coming away from a company car scheme for my wife, and she therefore needs a car. The budget is up to five and a half thousand, and as we have a one year old little girl, we need a decent boot, and to get the child seat in the back. Also Bluetooth would be good, SatNav a bonus, but dependable a must.

I've spent ages on Auto Trader looking at different manufacturers and models, and came across the Qubo - love it, something totally different! Any tips, what to look out for, which one's etc, please chaps and chapesses?

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Welcome IP.

If the Qubo ticks your boxes then thats a good start does for me, into my 2nd month with the Mylife model. It's a little harsh on ride with the state of city roads, get out on open road and motorways its a dream.

Being disabled I had to switch from Mitsubishi Pajero 2.8 SWB to be able to fit my scooter in the back, it was hard work with the Pajero stripping it down into small parts, hope this is better.

Son just brought me a nice present Tom Tom 2 live and 68R mount works just fine pairing took about 2 minuets,all up and running now. grand kids love the back seat and sliding doors, own interior light next they'll be after back of the seat screens for games and video's.

Good little car IP, I'm also in the Midlands.

Phillip.

I wouldn't waste your money! I have a Fiat Qubo. When it had only 5000miles on the clock it filled the driving cab with fumes. I returned it to a Fiat approved dealer in Plymouth. They "repaired the fault". I then drove to Stoke on Trent. When I got there there was smoke pouring out from under the bonnet. The Fiat dealer had forgotten to put the diesel return hose clips on. The RAC filed a report which I took to the Fiat garage. NO APOLOGY. Car had to go in for a steam clean and for all the foam to be replaced. When I picked it up and drove away there was a rattling noise. I lifted the bonnet only to discover they had left a pipe disconnected! I took it back. NO APOLOGY!

The Fiat has been plagued with "Limp MODE" faults (on average 2 a week ever since it went to the garage). Often stopping in the middle of a busy road for no reason. It would then sometimes drive ok for weeks then fail again. It has made 14 visits to the garage each time they wanted to charge £120 to tell me there was nothing wrong with the car (diagnostics were never conclusive). So the Car is now only 4 years old. Done only 50000 miles. It broke down in August and has been in the Fiat approved Garage since the 24th August. Fiat Technical have been involved since 6th October. Fiat technical kept telling the Garage what to change. ALL OF WHICH DID NOT RESOLVE THE FAULT.

Finally, last week, they traced the fault to the fuel pump. The new pump was ordered and it arrived this week and IT WAS THE WRONG PUMP FOR THE CAR. I am expected to pay for all the time for swapping things that were not faulty. The total bill? £2200. I have complained to Fiat, who don't care. I have been a fiat owner for 20 years. The newer models and in particular the Multijet engines, as not reliable. Google 1.3 multijet engine for engine management problems. I am not alone.

I WILL NEVER EVER BUY ANOTHER FIAT.

I pick up the car Tomorrow 11 weeks after it went into the Garage!!!

Anyone want to buy a heap of scrap metal?

Dippydawe said:

I wouldn't waste your money! I have a Fiat Qubo. When it had only 5000miles on the clock it filled the driving cab with fumes. I returned it to a Fiat approved dealer in Plymouth. They "repaired the fault". I then drove to Stoke on Trent. When I got there there was smoke pouring out from under the bonnet. The Fiat dealer had forgotten to put the diesel return hose clips on. The RAC filed a report which I took to the Fiat garage. NO APOLOGY. Car had to go in for a steam clean and for all the foam to be replaced. When I picked it up and drove away there was a rattling noise. I lifted the bonnet only to discover they had left a pipe disconnected! I took it back. NO APOLOGY!

I WILL NEVER EVER BUY ANOTHER FIAT.

I pick up the car Tomorrow 11 weeks after it went into the Garage!!!

Anyone want to buy a heap of scrap metal?

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to put this into perspective,
this - badly maintained - one,
and the used one that had steering geometry issues, are the 2 bad ones seen on here..,

as with all forums - people often join with an issue, get the answers they require , and we never hear from them again..,

I joined to get help with a wiring issue on my Nephews 12 year old FIAT,
been here ever since:worship:

Charlie

All I can say ,every car has its own gremlins, doesn't matter what make it is , some of them go on for years without a problem and some of them ,problems from day one.
I'm happy with mine .:slayer: