Hello Fiat World,
I have just joined and not sure whats happens here but here goes!
I have a 2002 Fiat Punto, I just had the Catalytic converter replaced and picked up car to find the engine management light was on! the mechanic checked it and the fault code 01463 came up, no letters just a number.
This stumped him as there was no fiat fault code 01463. He cancelled it explaing that it MAY be sensors due to the new cat , but a good run should sort it , if not come back next week.
Well it is back on again.
QUESTION- has anyone out there experienced this before?
Thank you

try and blag a code read somewhere else
i think his machines not reading your car right

Thanks for that,
I did find a fault code P01463 on t'internet, something to do with some pressure sensor,which could be along the lines of what he was on about. I,ll go back anyway cause £500+ and the car comes OUT with a fault is pretty sh*tty!

podgersda said:

Thanks for that,
I did find a fault code P01463 on t'internet, something to do with some pressure sensor,which could be along the lines of what he was on about. I,ll go back anyway cause £500+ and the car comes OUT with a fault is pretty sh*tty!

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been thinking on this one
usually cats get changed because they break or they been killed by too much petrol
if yours was killed by too much petrol then the eml would advise this exactly like it is now
so you need a scan to confirm your cat isnt being ruined as soon as you start your engine
any basic scanner or a $8 elm lead connected to a computer with microsoft can pull the reason the lights on

dont leave it
im not right happy with garages attitude to be fair

Hello, thank for all this info.
I know diddley squat about engines and that, but I can't help but feel the garage have done something here/ overlooking something.
There was no problems at all with the car before they got their mitts on it and replacing one part for another seems even to me pretty straight forward!
I gave it the 'good run' he recommended and the light is still on, so it's once again time off work to take this back to the garage.
I took your idea and called the Fiat dealer here, explained it all and he seemed sympathetic and said he would look at it.....next Thursday! and as today is Saturday I felt he was missing the urgency in the matter.
It seems to run OK just that this blasted light stays on.
Blast!!!

Hello All and thank you to A&B for yar help.
Like all good or bad tales they need to be told and this is no different.
For those not sure what has happened, I took my poor Fiat for an MOT to a car doctors...a clinic for cars if you will,here in Aberdeen.
The MOT cost the guts of £500, about $800 and being 10 years old it needed a raft of stuff done, top of the list a new catalytic converter and brakes and springs and shocks!!!!!
Problem 1. the engine management light comes on, 'what's this?' I ask myself.
The mechanic plugs in some box gizmo into a secret panel, it gives a fault reading just like a postcode/zipcode here in the UK-01463.
Now I always worry when professionals scratch their heads and say 'Mmm!'.
'Nothing to worry about' says my little grease covered mechanic fixer, scratching his head,
'I've not heard of 01463 but a good run will fix that!'
Well I do this, driving down the road called, 'This is B**llsh*t Avenue' at least I can say I have given it a go when I go back, and sure enough I do.
BUT on the way there-'PING' a red brake light comes and 'THUMP' a bang from the back.
Armed with a list of new stuff they take the poor car back in, rev the 'B*lls' of it to clear the orange management light
..nothing,
then take it for God knows how many emergancy stops to get the red brake light to come on
...nothing,
and to top it all claim they had three...yes THREE hefty greasey types in the back of the car and just managed to get the THUMP which they state was the exhaust banging the car underside!, other than that no problems, WHAT A LOAD OF CR*P!!!
'Is there enough brake fluid?, would that make the light come on?' I ask,
'Yes and yes' says he..
'Isn't it strange how these faults were not there BEFORE your lot worked on it!'
......silence...
'nope we couldn't find anything!'....
'Oh'
he adds,
'the management light was a lambda sensor, we replaced that at our own expense'
WOOOPEE, bring out the drums, marching bands,
AT THEIR EXPENSE... Fecking barstewards!!

And that good friends sums up my dealing with these people, they stick their heads in a bucket, close their eyes and problems are not there!
So I am F*CKED! what can I do, they fail to recognise there are problems, so they don't exist.
Well dear reader to finish off my tale of woe, the exhaust place I visited say there is plenty of room so it is not the exhaust, so God knows what it is and for the brake light, yes you have guessed it not enough brake fluid!
they replaced my brakes and let the car go out with little to no brake fluid!!
So I leave you with this cautionary warning, if your car need a checked up or fixed at a car doctor,a clinic for cars DON'T go to any in Aberdeen!!

Sorry I meant S and B

Trading Standards. From the sound of it, these guys are not only a danger to your wallet..........

As everyone, sage and grey haired and going deaf (like me) says: "cheap second hand cars are only cheap to run if you can do most of the work yourself".