4x4Panda said:

Hi All

My car will be 3 years old in May, so between now and then I'm obviously keen to ensure anything that the warranty could cover, does get addressed. And that's the thing, aside from the useless stop-start system and the squeaky rear brakes (that were sorted out), the car has been fine. The car is nearly at 13k miles and is really my station car, but gets used all the time for anything really by either me or the wife.

I will ask the garage to check the rear diff seals - which I think i read about on here, but aside from that, what else should I have looked over?

I did briefly toy with replacing it with a new Ford Fiesta, but I'm just not sure i could bear to part with the little FIAT as we are all rather attached to it

Thanks in advance

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deeyup said:

I'm doing the same. My car is 3 in March. Suffers the same stop/start uselessness and squeaky rear brakes, been like that since new almost.

Going to send it in for a check over in the next few weeks. Apart from what you've mention, the dif, I'm unsure of any other likely faults to highlight?

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Goudrons said:

Inspect the bonnet for chips.

All three of ours are now showing chips in the paint, one has quite a nasty chunk of paint missing and it's not like it's ever seen a motorway!

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Tom95 said:

This.

Mine has a couple of chips already and has done less than 10,000kms/6,000mi. None are on the bonnet itself though, only the plastic 'bumper' front panel. Paint seems to be a bit thin.

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Herts Hillhopper said:

One key thing - get the dealer to do the MOT, and do it in good time (maybe a month?) before the car is three, so that if it fails on anything that is covered by warranty. it gets fixed for free

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