Shortstuff
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I bought this car in October and have had ongoing problems... could really use some help. The car on finance and is still under warranty from the dealer and although I really do love the car and want to keep it, it is getting to the point where I'm feeling I should demand an exchange...
In the weeks that I've had the car it has spent three days in the workshop and they have fixed one of the problems (after two attempts), but they don't seem to be taking the other problems seriously...
Firstly it is drinking diesel, seems to be doing about 30mpg... the salesman had told me it would use less diesel than my previous car (1.7 Astra ctdi) but it is using nearly double. Also it is sometimes, on starting, displaying what seems to be a rather common warning message about excess coolant temperature - the temp gauge reads as if it's overheating, the car says it is overheating... but by the time I have my phone ready to take a photo as proof, it's all gone back to normal.
The car was last at the workshop on the 5th and apparently the diagnostic did show something (they didn't tell me what error code/s) and it had been sent to Fiat for analysis. I was told I'd have the results within a few days... still waiting...
Any ideas on what could be going on please? I really don't want to resort to insisting on an exchange because I love the car... but I don't know what to do from here...
In the weeks that I've had the car it has spent three days in the workshop and they have fixed one of the problems (after two attempts), but they don't seem to be taking the other problems seriously...
Firstly it is drinking diesel, seems to be doing about 30mpg... the salesman had told me it would use less diesel than my previous car (1.7 Astra ctdi) but it is using nearly double. Also it is sometimes, on starting, displaying what seems to be a rather common warning message about excess coolant temperature - the temp gauge reads as if it's overheating, the car says it is overheating... but by the time I have my phone ready to take a photo as proof, it's all gone back to normal.
The car was last at the workshop on the 5th and apparently the diagnostic did show something (they didn't tell me what error code/s) and it had been sent to Fiat for analysis. I was told I'd have the results within a few days... still waiting...
Any ideas on what could be going on please? I really don't want to resort to insisting on an exchange because I love the car... but I don't know what to do from here...