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General Disappearing dealerships

I have to say it's not surprising. My experience of the Fiat dealer network was pretty average. Some great dealers like Griffin Mill in Pontypridd and W Sanders in Holsworthy, the rest like Vospers and Wessex Garages pretty dreadful. I love the cars generally but I have very little loyalty to the brand/service.

Fiats are not selling particularly well in general, I believe registrations are significantly down year-on-year once again. Have a look at the latest SMMT data - the overall market is nearly 7% down in terms of registration numbers for 2018 compared to 2017, but Fiat are nearly 31% down!
https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/

Admittedly that is quite a crude way of looking at it, but clearly it isn't a positive picture.
 
Super Uwe said:
I have to say it's not surprising. My experience of the Fiat dealer network was pretty average. Some great dealers like Griffin Mill in Pontypridd and W Sanders in Holsworthy, the rest like Vospers and Wessex Garages pretty dreadful. I love the cars generally but I have very little loyalty to the brand/service.

Fiats are not selling particularly well in general, I believe registrations are significantly down year-on-year once again. Have a look at the latest SMMT data - the overall market is nearly 7% down in terms of registration numbers for 2018 compared to 2017, but Fiat are nearly 31% down!
https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/

Admittedly that is quite a crude way of looking at it, but clearly it isn't a positive picture.
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Not very good figures from Europe either.
http://carsalesbase.com/european-car-sales-data/fiat/
 
ambient white said:
Not very good figures from Europe either.
http://carsalesbase.com/european-car-sales-data/fiat/
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Interesting - subjective observation here in rural Italy is that the small 500 is running out of steam - not many late-reg ones around - the big so-called 500 is doing well, the Tipo is not doing badly, the Panda is selling well - lots of new/newish ones around - and that there are many more Jeeps (the smallish ones based on the 500 platform) than there used to be.
 
I would be interested to know what mark-up fiat dealers make on spare parts because last year when placing an order for service parts a main dealer sold me an oil filter for £4.00 when other dealers were retailing these around £12, genuine Fiat parts are traditionally very expensive compared with parts for other brands, last year ,I ordered 5 rear wing bolts for my Tipo and the cost was just over £17 .
 
NitramA said:
Simonstones ....... If you know Bristol they couldn’t be in a worse place as it’s grid lock around them for most of the day.
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Indeed. I have a Jeep (I'm here for my wife's Fiat) where the dealer situation is even worse. Jeep and Fiat are now both owned by FCA (Fiat Chrysler Autos), but there are still far more Fiat dealers than Jeep. I am in Wales, and there is only one Jeep dealer in Wales - in far-off Haverfordwest, not even Cardiff or Newport. My nearest Jeep dealer is Simonstone, although I have never been there. Usually I do my own maintenance and get parts from certain grey importers.
 
Came across something which suggests if a dealer doesn't want to sell Fiats anymore they have to give them 2 years notice. Whether Fiat has to give them considerably less am not sure. Appears dealer in Blackpool now no longer does them as been told by couple of members on here. So Preston, Lancashire or Keswick, Cumbria if my car still under warranty. Missed one of the "inspections", so not sure.
 
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