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My daughter purchased a 2015 fiat 500x from a private seller.. lovely car, really smooth perfect car for her, but it developed a fault
She hadn't used it for a while and as she went to pull away from the drive the engine light came on for a few mins and then went off, thinking it just needed abit of juice put back into the alternator I suggested to take it for a spin on a 60mph road..all seemed ok but the engine light came back on, so tested the battery and all seemed fine and not worthy of a new one plus I recalled the previous owner saying that they had put a new one on when the start/stop started playing up just before we purchased it
Then more things started to scroll through, bonging the alerts up, such as passenger airbag, driver assistance, driver mode, electronic power steering ( causing total loss of power steering)
MY wife took it to the local fiat dealer and the suggested it needed a new body control module at a cost of £700 and couldn't be fixed for a couple of weeks which was abit of a headache as she was about to start her training period , 60 miles away and hour and half journey time
Thing was the symptoms of a dodgy BCM didn't relate to the symptoms what the car was doing so we decided to take it to a local garage and seek advice of what they could find.The night before it went to the local garage I reversed it onto the drive and the usual alerts scrolled through, lost the power steering and switched the engine off. With the keys in my hand and out of the ignition barrel the car continued to run for a good minute all by itself, total disbelief
The garage diagnosed a new steering column with a rather large hefty pricetag attached, we didn't know what to do but was 100% assured it was that and the car was worthy of a repair so we went ahead and got it done..3 weeks in the garage as the part had to come from Italy and they had issues coding it remotely so it had to go to main dealer and get it done
We got the car back on Friday, my daughter took it to work Saturday and on the return journey all of those previous issues came back, including the engine running on its own with keys out of the ignition again
Cars gone back into garage today
So any ideas, anyone had similar issues?
It's getting of a pain now
Many thanks in advance
2015 Fiat500x
Hi all, decided to join a fiat forum for some help and guidance.. the story so farMy daughter purchased a 2015 fiat 500x from a private seller.. lovely car, really smooth perfect car for her, but it developed a fault
She hadn't used it for a while and as she went to pull away from the drive the engine light came on for a few mins and then went off, thinking it just needed abit of juice put back into the alternator I suggested to take it for a spin on a 60mph road..all seemed ok but the engine light came back on, so tested the battery and all seemed fine and not worthy of a new one plus I recalled the previous owner saying that they had put a new one on when the start/stop started playing up just before we purchased it
Then more things started to scroll through, bonging the alerts up, such as passenger airbag, driver assistance, driver mode, electronic power steering ( causing total loss of power steering)
MY wife took it to the local fiat dealer and the suggested it needed a new body control module at a cost of £700 and couldn't be fixed for a couple of weeks which was abit of a headache as she was about to start her training period , 60 miles away and hour and half journey time
Thing was the symptoms of a dodgy BCM didn't relate to the symptoms what the car was doing so we decided to take it to a local garage and seek advice of what they could find.The night before it went to the local garage I reversed it onto the drive and the usual alerts scrolled through, lost the power steering and switched the engine off. With the keys in my hand and out of the ignition barrel the car continued to run for a good minute all by itself, total disbelief
The garage diagnosed a new steering column with a rather large hefty pricetag attached, we didn't know what to do but was 100% assured it was that and the car was worthy of a repair so we went ahead and got it done..3 weeks in the garage as the part had to come from Italy and they had issues coding it remotely so it had to go to main dealer and get it done
We got the car back on Friday, my daughter took it to work Saturday and on the return journey all of those previous issues came back, including the engine running on its own with keys out of the ignition again
Cars gone back into garage today
So any ideas, anyone had similar issues?
It's getting of a pain now
Many thanks in advance
- Model
- 2015 fiat 500x 1.4 multiair
- Year
- 2015
- Mileage
- 57000
