I have a 2005 punto dualogic multijet its done 43k miles and never had a problems until now, when I select a gear it is jumping into that gear and feels like its pulling with foot on brake?
The only way I can describe this to is when you have a manual clutch and you don't press it all the way in and then try to select a gear and you get that crunching sound.
Anyone experience this?

the release bearing may have failed.

Take to someone like mr clutch and get them to diagnose?

mr clutch are you mad wouldn't have the first clue about the fiat dualogic box and they don't have the diagnostics to fix your problem anyway

take it to fiat and they can do a clutch relearn procedure on it with the fiat examiner and all will be well again

basickly what your car has is the normal manual gearbox with a normal clutch only difference is its all run by hydraulic systems and the clutch an electric actuator how ether if the clutch wears faster than or slower than the ecu expects it can cause jerky or premature take ups which is what you describe

fiat are the only place that can do it I'm afraid


but for god sake don't let anyone but fiat mess with your gearbox

Its at the Fiat dealer now, they could not find anything on the examiner so they need to investigate more.

does it do it in all gears or just 5th etc

T14086 said:

does it do it in all gears or just 5th etc

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Its only when you try engage 1st or reverse, it got so bad today that it was grinding the cogs

Will this be covered by the 3rd year dealer warranty?

what about 5th gear?

T14086 said:

what about 5th gear?

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what about it?
Once the cars is going it will go in higher gears no problem. its only when the car is stationary going into 1st or reverse.

jasonvtr said:

what about it?
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...because,it helps diagnosing the fault if 5th gear can be selected straight from neutral at idle.

Aslong as your service history is correct it should be a problem for 3rd year warranty.

T14086 said:

...because,it helps diagnosing the fault if 5th gear can be selected straight from neutral at idle.

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The computer will not let you select any gear higher than second on the Dualogic, so going into 5th is impossible?
Thanks all for the advice will let you know the out come.

You can do it from the selector shaft,if you take of the end cover you can quickly determine wether its clutch or box related...however why should you if its under warranty

jasonvtr said:

what about it?
Once the cars is going it will go in higher gears no problem. its only when the car is stationary going into 1st or reverse.

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Sounds just like mine (minus the reverse) - http://fiatforum.com/grande-punto-technical/82628-first-second-gear-pt1.html

Would be nice to find a solution to it :chin:

luvduvs said:

Sounds just like mine (minus the reverse) - http://fiatforum.com/grande-punto-technical/82628-first-second-gear-pt1.html

Would be nice to find a solution to it :chin:

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No mine just wont go into 1st or reverse gear to get the car moving, just a grinding sound now???????

jasonvtr said:

No mine just wont go into 1st or reverse gear to get the car moving, just a grinding sound now???????

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Then how do you drive it?

luvduvs said:

Then how do you drive it?

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Its not dive-able anymore
Just had a call from the garage and they still cannot find the fault

jasonvtr said:

Its not dive-able anymore
Just had a call from the garage and they still cannot find the fault

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I'm assuming its still under warranty right? Probably try and ask for a replacement?

They have had the car 3 days now and still not found the fault
I will give them until the end of today to sort things or its war:devil:

Lowtechguy said:

Take to someone like mr clutch and get them to diagnose?

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do forum search on them. they ripped loads off,
i never new there was a multijet dual lodgic mk2b, i want one now

Just had the call, the release bearing as broke up and caused damage to the clutch, Its all covered by the warranty , just have to wait for the parts now should be done for Monday. I HOPE

jasonvtr said:

Just had the call, the release bearing as broke up and caused damage to the clutch, Its all covered by the warranty , just have to wait for the parts now should be done for Monday. I HOPE

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it took them all that time to work it out, but its in the first reply on here