General Drivers side door handle HANGING OFF!!!!!! :(

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General Drivers side door handle HANGING OFF!!!!!! :(

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Has any one elses driver side door handle fell off or is it just mine?

Ive took it into fiat and they said theyve never seen it happen before. All i did was pull the handle to get into car n it snapped the rod that holds the right side of the handle on!!!! :( Luckily i still have a months warranty so its covered! But still, bit dissapointed! :( Having to use Duckt tape to hold it on at mo till she goes in on the 7th Jan!
 
mmmm you have a 3 yr warranty?!...so oldest 500 is 2008 reg...?!

how do you only have a month left?
 
By the look of Fiat's configurator, looks like anyone would be LUCKY to have just the door handle hanging off! :devil:
Or are these just 2010 modifications? Not sure about them really..... :D
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I have had it replaced under warranty and the dealer said it was a manufacturing fault!!!! :eek:

I only pull the handle gentley every time i get in. And as for the year of car its a 57 plate. So, the dealer said it only got till end of this month till warranty runs out. Asked them to give it a quick going over to see if anything else needs doing and they said it was fine apart from my tires are wearing. Priced me some up at £90+!!!! :eek:

Not looking forward to paying that really, but its gotta be done! Might see if i can get away with putting normal tyres on and not Low profile ones!
 
I have had it replaced under warranty and the dealer said it was a manufacturing fault!!!! :eek:
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Fair enough. I can't see why people have the idea that dealers don't want to do warranty work. It's not as if they do it for free, given that Fiat pay them to do it.
 
I have just had the driver's side exterior door handle come off in my hand this weekend.
My 500 lounge is 2 years and 10 months old and is on a Lease system through the NHS.
The local FIAT garage has told the lease company that this is not a common problem, so as a result I have to foot the bill to repair - £97. No mean amount for something that to me is faulty and not up to the use I put it through : that is getting in the car !!!!
 
I have just had the driver's side exterior door handle come off in my hand this weekend.
My 500 lounge is 2 years and 10 months old and is on a Lease system through the NHS.
The local FIAT garage has told the lease company that this is not a common problem, so as a result I have to foot the bill to repair - £97. No mean amount for something that to me is faulty and not up to the use I put it through : that is getting in the car !!!!

I realise it is a lease car, but is it worth contacting Fiat CS and complaining - strongly? Summat stinks...:chin:
 
I have just had the driver's side exterior door handle come off in my hand this weekend.
My 500 lounge is 2 years and 10 months old and is on a Lease system through the NHS.
The local FIAT garage has told the lease company that this is not a common problem, so as a result I have to foot the bill to repair - £97. No mean amount for something that to me is faulty and not up to the use I put it through : that is getting in the car !!!!


Thats rubbish. Fight them as much as you can. I am not saying success is guaranteed but this is definately a case worth fighting for.
 
Why should the frequency of a problem affect their liability to put it right?
I was about to say that too. They should fix that under guarantee and you're not the one to pay for this. Robin, this happens at dealerships, same issue with the Beetle. The matter of the fact is that even if at the end was something not that common they were fixing it under guarantee. :/
 
I had it with a TV recently where the bit that received the signal from the remote stopped working. The guy in the repair shop (taking it in to repair it under warranty) suggested that there couldn't be a problem with it and it was some form of "user error" because that model TV is not known to suffer from this problem.

Needless to say, after they had replaced the working remote (despite me having ruled that out by using a second remote which would not communicate with the TV teither) they investigated it properly, found the fault was as described, and fixed it.
 
I had it with a TV recently where the bit that received the signal from the remote stopped working. The guy in the repair shop (taking it in to repair it under warranty) suggested that there couldn't be a problem with it and it was some form of "user error" because that model TV is not known to suffer from this problem.

Needless to say, after they had replaced the working remote (despite me having ruled that out by using a second remote which would not communicate with the TV teither) they investigated it properly, found the fault was as described, and fixed it.

That's hilarious :D
 
I'm running the exactly the same 500 1.4, red with white strips. 57plate. my drivers door handle had recently come off as well. Fiat gave me no reason but charged me £147 for the repair.....
 
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