(T) Recall on Stilos?

They are a special spring set, soley for that model. They are marked with joint brands 'Eibach' and 'Prodrive'. And painted a lovely deep red to match the rest of the car!

That is true - at least it was true when I bought the car back in 2006 from the main dealer / importer at that time. They had mounted Eibach kits to several Stilos, also the MW. Abarths don't exist in Norway, just 1.6 and some 1.8.

If you (or I in this case) ditch an OEM part for an aftermarked part, such as springs, I alter the car's type approval. It would not be street legal, and insurance is invalid. So I have to show the car to the authorities and get new registration papers. This is serious, and spring numbers have to correspond with TUV and specific car model. Spring numbers etc. will be written into the registration papers.

Why they accepted just Eibach I don't know.

The warranty would still be valid. The warranty would also be valid after the mount of the GSR induction, but not if this was a direct reason for the fault.

I just had both of my front coils and struts replaced. The coils had fractured :S

52 plate stilo active.

Hey man,

I had a front coil spring snap on my Stilo Abarth at 40k when it was just 4 years old. I got them replaced by my main agent Forward Auto's for 200 quid and it's been fine ever since. I rang up fiat customer services and said that I was shocked that the spring would break consdering the age of the car and the distance it had been. A really nice bloke spoke to me and also my main agent who explained the situation, I recieved a letter of apology from Fiat and a £100 gift voucher, maybe worth getting them done at the main agent as it's not too expensive and then calling up fiat and see how you go.

There customer care team seem to be pretty good these days and were of great help, unlike they used to be when I had my cinq sporting, corroded fuel tank, had been a recall, they had already replaced the tank and the replacement failed within 2 years of it being fitted, got nowhere fast.

But since the change in leadership fiat seems to have changed it's spots and actually look after there customers. I'm going to use my £100 gift voucher towards the £900 quid clutch job that im getting done at Forwards so all in all, £800 really which has cheered me up a little. Still annoyed it's failed at 53k though, but ho hum the joys of motoring.

first post on here , our stilo spring went bang two days ago . nice to find its not just us!

The front spring on the drivers side snapped on mine, so fitted new ones on the front passenger side too. The mechanic that replaced them said that he had a hell of a job to replace them as they were slightly curved and were always popping out of his fitting machine! The fiat garage told him that there was'nt a recall on them.

There isn't.

Use Search and you'll find absolutely masses of info on spring failure.

But there was a recall notice to have the springcatchers fitted though.

Yeh i got inundated with letters from fiat about my 1.2 active, so i booked it in with my local dealer, only for the near side spring to let go 2 days before it was due to go in.
Not sure what they did to the offside spring but looks like they put new clamps on it (didnt fit any covers on it to stop it bursting tyres).
Luckly when it let go it didnt go into tyre sidewall