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Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 17 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | Any advice welcome Hey everyone I have a question to ask about my 1.2 Fiat 500 sport. A message appeared on the dash saying insufficient engine oil pressure stop and turn off. So done this every time it happened and then someone said try putting oil in the car so I opened the oil cap to put the oil in and the cap and bit you put the oil in was stinking of petrol!! I have spoke to a some people and most people have said its a new engine job but I was wondering if anybody had experienced this before?? I've only had the car 5 months and it's a 13 plate. Thanks Suzie x
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![]() | Re: Any advice welcome I'd start by getting it serviced. Get the oil and filters all changed and take it from there. There's really no way the petrol should be getting directly into the oil without there being other majorly obvious issues like no power, plumes of smoke etc! how has fuel consumption seemed before the issue came up?
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 17 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | Re: Any advice welcome It had a full service before I bought it so that was 5 months ago. The fuel was good but recently it has been going through about a tank to a tank and a half a week and I do max of 60/70 miles a day
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Posts: 79 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Any advice welcome Yeah get that back to Arnold Clark and tell them it's not right
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 3,273 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Any advice welcome Low oil pressure can be 3 things. 1) low oil. Did you check the oil level on the dipstick? (Quick edit:do these new fangled cars even have a dipstick nowadays?) 2) Dirty oil pressure sensor. Back to the dealer... 3) Oil pump blocked or dying. Again... back to the dealer |
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![]() | Re: Any advice welcome ![]() It had a full service before I bought it so that was 5 months ago. The fuel was good but recently it has been going through about a tank to a tank and a half a week and I do max of 60/70 miles a day How does it drive? does it feel sluggish, down on power at all? any smoke?
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Posts: 132 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | Re: Any advice welcome If it is under warranty back to the dealers. If the warranty is gone, the above advice is the best starting point. As said because you were told it was serviced, doesn't mean it was. Especially true knowing AC and why I precisely have my car serviced independently. As long as you buy genuine Fiat/Abarth parts and keep the receipts, your warranty remains intact. I found out what the services from dealers are like when I picked up my last car, an Abarth Punto Evo Esseesse. Car was just serviced, just Mot'd. Had 4 buckled wheels 'they missed' and the air filter which is supposed to be cleaned yearly didn't look like it had ever been taken out. They are p#!s poor.
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 17 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | Re: Any advice welcome Thanks for the advice everyone they gave me the car back saying they changed the oil and I've to check the oil levels every day and drive it like normal. But last night the message appeared again so it will be going back to them. The car is still under warranty but parks are useless it took them 8 times to fix the rattling airbox and then it started rattling again and it turned out it was the condenser unit and not the airbox so I don't have much faith in them if I'm honest lol
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 3,273 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Any advice welcome Keep taking it back to them and make sure it's logged, and even better, keep a diary of when you take it back. Wouldn't surprise me if they are trying to fob you off until the warranty is out. |
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Posts: 17 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | Re: Any advice welcome Funnily enough a few people have said that. Because the warranty is up in a few months thats when parks will start to find all the problems but they must be sick of the sight of me I'm in there pretty much every week with the car lol
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 3,273 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 ![]() | Re: Any advice welcome If you are in a position to do so, just leave the car with them and tell them not to contact you until it's fixed properly, and you won't be taking it back until you have completed a successful test drive with a mechanic beside you to prove it's OK. Oh and I'm sure if it takes longer than a certain amount of time, you can either get compensation or another car. Can you tell I can be a bastard of a customer when there's a problem? Hahaha |
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