Hi All

I lurk around the forum. And have had a few Fiats over recent years. I was lent a Doblo and liked the 1.3 engine, then bought a Panda Trekking and currently own a Qubo Trekking, My wife owns a bought new Panda Easy Plus and this what I am curious about. She has never reset the trip computers and Trip B is reading higher than the Mileometer it has been this way since new. I have (tried to) attached a photo I took yesterday the Trip B reads 925.7 miles the Mileometer reads 916. Has it somehow been clocked from new. Can any one offer an explanation?

Merry Christmas

Regards Thom

Hi Thom. It is not unusual for a car to gather a few safety check miles as it completes its build at the factory, is given a PDI run around the yard before loading onto boat/plane/lorry and then driven around the dealership site a few times before it is buffed up ready for sale in the showroom.....

... so these miles are normally 'removed' at the dealership before the car is passed on to its new owner. I would suggest that your car had the ECU-stored mileage cleared as expected, but not the Trip-B store as it should have been. This will be a manual process I guess and whomever did the main reset probably forgot to do the same to the Trips. For me, that would account for the small 10 mile discrepancy.

Correct, when the Fiats are brand new, they often have an "H" in the display. This means the dealer-mode reset has not been used. It will automatically go off after about 200km.

My dealer did not know of this, so I drove about 190km's, then used the buttons to reset it back to 0. I do not remember how, but I found it here on the forums somewhere.

Hi R1NGA

Thanks for the reply, effectively they (the Fiat dealer) did clock it then.

I have just read what you did to your Panda Trekking, mine handled or perhaps hung on brilliantly it suprised many a drive through the bends until I drove it in to the back of a Transit at a roundabout. I always thought a 100hp would have made the 4x4 the perfect car in many ways (not carrying anything but minimal luggage). I wanted a 100hp but my wife forbade it having been in the 4x4 with me.

So now I have the Qubo which is a decent van come car compromise but no where near the fun the Panda was. I drove the wifes Panda 15 plate on a round trip and kept myself entertained with a bit of moderate hypermiling 55.9 on an engine with less than 1000 miles on the clock. The steering is new and also horribly sticky, I'm not allowed to explore the grip which given two fault crashes last year is fair.

Regards Thom