Hello friends, I am from New Delhi area in India. I have a FIAT Grande Punto Emotion Petrol 1.4 2009 model and have tried to maintain it in pristine condition since I bought it in 2010. It is single hand driven.

So far things were alright, but since the time all service centres closed in my area, I am having to depend on the one mechanic who used to take care of my car when he worked at one of the good service centres. Since the time the centre closed, this mechanic is now working privately with some non-authorised service centre in NOIDA.

I would like some help / suggestion with a specific problem.

This week, after many months, I gave him the car to service it and also to rectify a problem with the gear lever which was quite hard and jammed, probably due to lack of use, as I was out of the country for two years. He rectified it with some part replacement and it is very smooth now.

Only one electrical problem was there with the reverse beep not working at times, which I asked him to rectify.

However, after he returned the car to me, the very next morning I was not able to power the radio on, and also couldn't hear anything on the phone through Blue&Me. But I could see that the Blue&Me is working properly, WITHOUT SOUND.

I sent the car back to him with my driver and after a while he reported that the radio / stereo unit needs replacing. I may be wrong but I got a feeling that he is trying to make some money by selling me an after-market unit. He was talking of about INR 20,000/- for a used radio. I checked at 99rpm and the price is INR 50,000/-!!

I was shocked and I am still not able to believe that the stereo has conked out. I believe there could be a wiring or fuse issue. However, all fuses in the dashboard and under the hood were checked and found ok.

I just read on the Fiat Forum that there is a 10A fuse on the rear of the Blaupunkt unit which might be blown. I asked the mechanic and he said there is no such fuse behind the unit. But when I checked the pinout diagrams on the internet, almost all models I checked, had the fuse.

Can anyone throw some light on this issue, or suggest something? Is it possible while he was trying to repair the reverse beep, that he managed to short circuit the output of the stereo? But in that case, wouldn't this fuse behind the unit blow?

I am planning to take the car to another auto electrician tomorrow but I thought of asking on this form.

Shall greatly appreciate any help.

Regards
Sumit

Hi Sumit

This was one of the threads that SEARCH found..

The interior light..and or.. the illumination for the 12v power -lighter socket are possibly on the same fused supply

So check if they function

Charlie

Hi Charlie

Thanks for your reply. However I just realised that I forgot to mention the most important thing in my post, which is, the mechanic had temporarily replaced my stereo with that from another car and that another stereo worked. It was only because of what he did, that I started suspecting that they never checked the fuse behind the stereo.

By the way, I did check the cigarette lighter and interior lights and both are working fine.

Update: the fuse in the rear of the stereo is fine. Does this mean that the stereo is fried?