I guess it's time I started a project thread for my car rather than continuing to clog up the annoyed/sad thread with complaints about it. It's called the Teuchter Car because it spends so much time at the garage a mile or so out of town it obviously prefers to live in the country rather than with me. You're unlikely to read much about modifications I'm afraid and this thread is probably just going to be a long list of things going wrong and me asking for help. But hey, better here than in general chat and banter right?
Background
Grande Punto Sporting Mjet 1.6 with 120 bhp.
Only one owner but sadly can't really be described as careful considering it had it's first run in with a pothole before it was even a year old. This was severe enough to take out a wheel and resulted in the first of many trips home on the back of a breakdown truck. There was also a knock-on effect of a front spring breaking a year or so later resulting in me missing a Christmas meet :roll:
After that it behaved until just out of warranty when it started leaking coolant through a crack in the radiator. This was only a symptom though and the problem was eventually traced to a broken water pump. This was replaced and the timing belt was done at the same time.
Since then I've had various problems including corrosion of the clutch supply pipe meaning another trip home on the back of a truck. Wheel bearings seem to go on a regular basis including one on the way back from WCR this year. The hose between the intercooler and the turbo also went this year resulting in another trip to the garage and let's not mention all the parts required to get it through it's MOT last month (front break pads, front link bar, new headlight unit, rear shocks and rear brake caliper from memory :roll: )
Anyway, it's up on the ramps again getting examined for problems with mounts, cv joints and anything else that may have caused the weird knocking noise that disappeared within a couple of days of booking it in. Not heard anything yet and taking that as a good sign :laugh:
Oh yeah, have a picture although most of you have seen it before
tl:dr? Car unfortunately perpeptuating Fiat's reputation for unreliability
Background
Grande Punto Sporting Mjet 1.6 with 120 bhp.
Only one owner but sadly can't really be described as careful considering it had it's first run in with a pothole before it was even a year old. This was severe enough to take out a wheel and resulted in the first of many trips home on the back of a breakdown truck. There was also a knock-on effect of a front spring breaking a year or so later resulting in me missing a Christmas meet :roll:
After that it behaved until just out of warranty when it started leaking coolant through a crack in the radiator. This was only a symptom though and the problem was eventually traced to a broken water pump. This was replaced and the timing belt was done at the same time.
Since then I've had various problems including corrosion of the clutch supply pipe meaning another trip home on the back of a truck. Wheel bearings seem to go on a regular basis including one on the way back from WCR this year. The hose between the intercooler and the turbo also went this year resulting in another trip to the garage and let's not mention all the parts required to get it through it's MOT last month (front break pads, front link bar, new headlight unit, rear shocks and rear brake caliper from memory :roll: )
Anyway, it's up on the ramps again getting examined for problems with mounts, cv joints and anything else that may have caused the weird knocking noise that disappeared within a couple of days of booking it in. Not heard anything yet and taking that as a good sign :laugh:
Oh yeah, have a picture although most of you have seen it before
tl:dr? Car unfortunately perpeptuating Fiat's reputation for unreliability
