muddy panda
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Hello, the dreaded "Airbag Failure" message came up on my 63 Panda 4x4 last week. I got the RAC out who did a number of checks, disconnected the battery etc & they diagnosed it as "faulty instrument cluster causing can-bus fault".
Because my car had been in an accident about 3 months ago, I tried to claim through my insurance company for the repair but they say the two incidents are not connected.
Rang my local Fiat dealer today (who I never use since I took it in for a warranty repair & I later found out they hadn't done anything apart from tell me they'd fixed it) who said I'd have to wait nearly 4 weeks before they could look at it.
I'm currently in a hire car because I don't want to risk driving it & either the airbags deploying whilst driving or not deploying at all, so I think I'm facing getting the car recovered to another garage or getting someone out to fix it outside my house? Has anyone experienced the same fault & if so what did you do?
Because my car had been in an accident about 3 months ago, I tried to claim through my insurance company for the repair but they say the two incidents are not connected.
Rang my local Fiat dealer today (who I never use since I took it in for a warranty repair & I later found out they hadn't done anything apart from tell me they'd fixed it) who said I'd have to wait nearly 4 weeks before they could look at it.
I'm currently in a hire car because I don't want to risk driving it & either the airbags deploying whilst driving or not deploying at all, so I think I'm facing getting the car recovered to another garage or getting someone out to fix it outside my house? Has anyone experienced the same fault & if so what did you do?