Hi, I'm new here, and have joined after a conversation with some very helpful chaps I met at MITCAR this sunday.
They suggested I joined up and asked the question... so here I am!
My stepdaughter's W reg Punto 1.2 8V has suddenly developed a problem, and 2 garages have looked at it, (although not Fiat garages, good local mechanics) and not found a solution. (one of them changed the Throttle Body, no joy). The second looked at all the obvious, and couldn't find anything, but thought it might be the ECU, and offered the information that NO fault codes were stored. Having spoken to a few people who sell "virginized" ECU's on Ebay, they gave me the distinct impression that this wasn't a common ECU fail symptom!
The problem is... it starts instantly, and smoothly, on all 4 cylinders, but will run for about 2 - 5 secs, and cut out. That's it. If you can get it (with much mashing up and down of the throttle) up to about 3,000 rpm, it will run long enough to load the engine and you can just about pull away, but it dies immediately.
My problem is that I'm away from home, and my Wife and Stepdaughter are sort of washing their hands of it, and moving on... I'd like to have a stab at repairing it, to get some return from it, but my knowledge of fiats is almost nil.....
It might even appear on here as spares or repair soon!!
Thanks for your time...any suggestions??
They suggested I joined up and asked the question... so here I am!
My stepdaughter's W reg Punto 1.2 8V has suddenly developed a problem, and 2 garages have looked at it, (although not Fiat garages, good local mechanics) and not found a solution. (one of them changed the Throttle Body, no joy). The second looked at all the obvious, and couldn't find anything, but thought it might be the ECU, and offered the information that NO fault codes were stored. Having spoken to a few people who sell "virginized" ECU's on Ebay, they gave me the distinct impression that this wasn't a common ECU fail symptom!
The problem is... it starts instantly, and smoothly, on all 4 cylinders, but will run for about 2 - 5 secs, and cut out. That's it. If you can get it (with much mashing up and down of the throttle) up to about 3,000 rpm, it will run long enough to load the engine and you can just about pull away, but it dies immediately.
My problem is that I'm away from home, and my Wife and Stepdaughter are sort of washing their hands of it, and moving on... I'd like to have a stab at repairing it, to get some return from it, but my knowledge of fiats is almost nil.....
It might even appear on here as spares or repair soon!!
Thanks for your time...any suggestions??