JW
New member
Stilo 1.6 Dynamic is now JUST out of warranty. I've had three probs for the whole time I've had the car. Absolutely nothng got done for three years !
Creaking rear suspension
Pulling to the left
Lumpy idle and engine stalling etc
All of these are pretty well documented in this forum
Wrote to Fiat cust care, next thing I get a call from local dealer asking me to take the car in.
Finally they seem to have taken me seriously !
1. Creaking suspension couldn't be heard on the day I took them out for a test. So nothing got done. what is the concensus of opinion among board members. Is it a known issue?
2. Pulling to the left. They agree it does, but they say ALL Stilos do that. Again, the members here seem to have had different results from getting the prob sorted to finally agreeing that it is a design fault. anyone have a definative view on this?
3. Some good news. Instead of just re programming the ECU again, they finally replaced it with one day of the warranty period left. Although they said that nothing was wrong, they even, at the request of FIAT, took and ECU out of a brand new stilo and compared all of the figures with those given by mine. The only difference being something to do with idle rpm. Becasue there WAS a difference they made the replacement. This has in fact sorted all of my engine issues, including, as it happens, all of the faults I kept getting reported on my dash display.
Anyway, anyone any views on the two issues I didn't manage to get Fiat to sort.
Suspension creaks in rear and pulling to the left?
Creaking rear suspension
Pulling to the left
Lumpy idle and engine stalling etc
All of these are pretty well documented in this forum
Wrote to Fiat cust care, next thing I get a call from local dealer asking me to take the car in.
Finally they seem to have taken me seriously !
1. Creaking suspension couldn't be heard on the day I took them out for a test. So nothing got done. what is the concensus of opinion among board members. Is it a known issue?
2. Pulling to the left. They agree it does, but they say ALL Stilos do that. Again, the members here seem to have had different results from getting the prob sorted to finally agreeing that it is a design fault. anyone have a definative view on this?
3. Some good news. Instead of just re programming the ECU again, they finally replaced it with one day of the warranty period left. Although they said that nothing was wrong, they even, at the request of FIAT, took and ECU out of a brand new stilo and compared all of the figures with those given by mine. The only difference being something to do with idle rpm. Becasue there WAS a difference they made the replacement. This has in fact sorted all of my engine issues, including, as it happens, all of the faults I kept getting reported on my dash display.
Anyway, anyone any views on the two issues I didn't manage to get Fiat to sort.
Suspension creaks in rear and pulling to the left?