Hi does any body know of a good independant garage in northamptonshire
Doblo is in fiat dealership at the moment took it in on wedensday 06/10/06 for starting problem, told by garage it would be a couple of days before they could look at it, rung on friday 08/10/06 told battery was dead would be at least monday before they could fix it appentley waiting for battery to be delivered, ( where from italy !!!! ) car is still under warrenty (doblo 1.3 family):bang:

maisie the ugly bug said:

Hi does any body know of a good independant garage in northamptonshire
Doblo is in fiat dealership at the moment took it in on wedensday 06/10/06 for starting problem, told by garage it would be a couple of days before they could look at it, rung on friday 08/10/06 told battery was dead would be at least monday before they could fix it appentley waiting for battery to be delivered, ( where from italy !!!! ) car is still under warrenty (doblo 1.3 family):bang:

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Yes more than likely from Italy as under warranty terms dealers MUST fit one of the approved batteries for that car.

maisie the ugly bug said:

Hi does any body know of a good independant garage in northamptonshire

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Hi maisie

I use an independant garage to service and repair Mrs_G's Doblo Cargo. I have had nothing but very good service at a fair price (unlike the crap service at an expensive price from the supplying fiat dealer! ).

In the past year they have done the following:

Serviced the van about 7 times (2 of those included cambelt changes).
Traced and cured poor running due to a dirty egr vavle (cleaned it rather than just fit a new one ).
Repaired 5th gear when it literally fell apart and the van had to be recovered.
Fitted a new clutch when the original failed at 193,000 miles.
Supplied and fitted an excellent set of reinforced van spec tyres. Showing very little wear at approx 15,000 miles.

I also use them for any adhoc work on my 3.5 ton van that falls outside of its service contract with the local Iveco dealer - again excellent service.

Oh, they also service and repair our Volvo V70.

I have no interest in the garage other than being a very satisfied customer. :yeahthat:

Progress Motors
Baird Court
Park Farm Ind Est
Wellingborough
NN8 6QJ

Tel: 01933 676788 - Ask for Mike, tell him Niall recommended him on the Fiat Forum web site.

friday to monday is normal wait for a part

dave said:

friday to monday is normal wait for a part

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If it's Fiat Monday to Friday is the norm. (Unfortunately).

i find 95% of the time they get me a bit next working day

cheers for the advice will make a note of the garage number, you would have thought a fiat dealer would keep batterys instock! not that expensive .

maisie the ugly bug said:

cheers for the advice will make a note of the garage number, you would have thought a fiat dealer would keep batterys instock! not that expensive .

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£70 odd...thats quite expensive especially to keep 30 different rating/sizes in stock,very few dealers could afford do this,maybe a few punto/stilo batteries but thats about it.
Anyway thats another matter,there are (from memory) 4 choices (makes) of battery approved by Fiat,maybe one of these types is available locally to your dealer,they should have a list of these as sent out to dealers as per service news.