So I was driving to work last week when all of a sudden I could smell a coolant burning smell and steam coming from the bonnet. Got there, pulled the bonnet and there was coolant in my engine bay, which is normally not a very good thing. Drove home that night very carefully and opened it and the whole coolant take had gone in a 20 mile journey! Fiat took it in the next day and the mechanic said oh its your EGR box gone, so in my head I thought what an idiot coolant has nothing to do with the EGR but let him get on with it as it was under warranty. When I got it back the next day I went to my pals workshop as he is a FLA specialist to get some oil. I explained the situtaion to him and straight away he knew what it was. The EGR valve is inside a black case just next to the exhaust manifold and the coolant passes through it to keep the EGR cool. However it doesn't work to well so with a combination of the EGR temperature and the manifold temperature the case eventually crack and your coolant drains like a kenyan well! Luckily this one was under warranty but theyre normally a 800 quid replacement excluding labour! And there is no aftermarket replacement to stop this happening! The car has literally just turned 2 years old so its pretty worrying just how much I'm going to spend on egr boxes in the cars life. So Mjet drivers beware!

Motoring is expensive, nothing to do with money grabbing....I reserve that statement for the banks who f*ck us over all the time!

I dont mean Fiat themselves money grabbing, just the car in general eating all my money away. however this idea hasnt been used on any earlier models or even earlier versions of the 1.6 mjet and no attempt of an improvement has been made

Personally if I had one I'd be getting EGR delete and remap.