One of many faults this car has had, I have the engine management light on and the drive mode selector not working on my 66 reg 1.6 diesel Cross. I plugged in my obd code reader and it is a faulty crankshaft position/cam shaft position sensor faulty so the engine feels sluggish as well. The dealer says it’s not a common fault and not sure if it’s covered yet on my extended warranty. For a three year old car it’s a joke how much it’s been in for repair from me getting it at 18 months old.
Repairs so far:
1)New clutch assembly and master cylinder
2)Near side drip link
3) two new media units
4) rear washer pump
5) wheel arch lining
6) window regulator (which didn’t fix the fault so waited a year for Fiat HQ to come back with a fix)
7)external temperature sensor replaced
8)kept over night to charge for stop/start fix
And I’m sure I’ve missed a few other repairs.
I’ve never known a car like this requiring so many repairs. Has anyone else had such high quantity of faults with their 500x?

And forgot to say the paint is cracking on the front wing which fiat say isn’t covered beyond 3 years so this will need to be paid for.

I've had some very expensive repairs under the warranty, it has cost Fiat well into 5 figures, but not that number

Thermostat housing gasket - WAY more expensive than it sounds, and took 10 days

4 new Injectors

New Common Rail Assmembly

New boot lock assembly

New sensor in door handle

Plus the external temperature sensor decided to wait until the warranty ran out before it let go.

Crikey - won't make you feel any better but we've had ours a few years now and over 30k and all that's gone wrong really that I would class as a factory issue is the rear tailgate handle was broken but we picked that up on purchase and it was replaced under warranty. Yours sound like Friday cars as we used to say (I worked on the Peugeot Talbot line mid 80's at Ryton and they were definitely such a thing!) Hope you get sorted.

Nello said:

Crikey - won't make you feel any better but we've had ours a few years now and over 30k and all that's gone wrong really that I would class as a factory issue is the rear tailgate handle was broken but we picked that up on purchase and it was replaced under warranty. Yours sound like Friday cars as we used to say (I worked on the Peugeot Talbot line mid 80's at Ryton and they were definitely such a thing!) Hope you get sorted.

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To be fair, the thermostat gasket can happen to any car, it wasn't serious, but to get to it the front bodywork and aircon unit have to come off. Seriously. Then, because it was a new design, they didn't have the right tools or gas. The Injectors and Common Rail were replaced to try and resolve one of those faults that just don't show up. It turned out to be a sensor sending the wrong information, but because it was sending SOME info it didn't show up as faulty. A hugely expensive (for Fiat) repair to replace a 5 quid sensor. Since that was resolved I have been immensely happy with it, and would definitely have replaced it with another if Fiat still sold the same spec model.

I have a 2016 Fiat 500x 1.4 - bought as a demo with less than 20km in Nov 2017.
First battery replacement was in March 2018, second replacement June 2019 and currently looking at a third battery replacement (My car is at the dealership)
R/F Window has been a problem since June 2018 - The dealership replaced Sunvisor clips, Window frame and electric motor - Solution still not found.
Day time running lights - Replaced globes x4 times since Nov 2018. The R/F globe was done 3 out of the 4 times.
Replaced Hooter, Turbo, Front Door handles, Boot handle and Coolant tank

camshaft position sensor is not the end of the world, get it changed, should cost no more than £40 for the part

Hiya.
My 65 500x 1.4 petrol multi air manual has just come back from my fiat dealer. At one point it stopped suddenly running as I was going round a roundabout. AA took it to dealer. Eventually (after they had sent the data to Italy) it came back as a faulty crankshaft sensor (apparently it was full of water). Eventually it arrived from italy only for them to find out that the new sensor was OK but the wiring connectors had failed too. They changed that and I've had it back for a week now, touch wood it's OK so far. While in there I had them change the DAB aerial seating as I had no dab signal.
I hope you had yours sorted.

No, after 100.000km the only thing I have replaced is one Lamda sencor!

i think i need a lambda sensor on mine ,engine managment light is on , no stop start no drive select , its a 1.6 d multijet , i have got the ref nos and its £160 for the sensor so not happy , especially when the others see are about £50 engine code shows sensor 1 bank 1