marky7seven
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Hello Everyone
I hope someone might be able to help or point me in the direction of someone that can help.
We purchased (my wife) a Abarth 595 1.4 T-Jet 165 Turismo 70th Anniversary from a auction. The car has some faults and was modified by the previous owner, and for the last 10 weeks I've been trying to sort the issues out.
The car is misfiring with codes P0300 to P0304.
1/ The first thing I did was change the spark plugs. Issue continued
2/ It had been map, so had this put back to stock. Issue continued
3/ The person that put the map back checked the coil packs switching them around, interestingly this change the codes to P0302 and P0304, I don't know if this is still the case as I don't have the machine to test the codes myself. Issue continued
4/ Car went to Derby Fiat to test and services the car. Annoyingly the car drove lovely after 20 minutes driving, they couldn't find the errors, did the service and asked me to fetch the car back saying its in perfectly good health. I asked them to hold firing and test the car again in 48 hours, and the issue returned. so the car runs ok when its warm. Issue continued
5/ They took some injectors our of another car to test on this one. Issue continued
6/ They did a compression test on the engine after I asked them too, they didn't do this originally. Issue continued
They have now sat on it for 3 weeks after telling me they are contacting Abarth as they think it might be the ECU or Wiring. Spoke to them this morning and they haven't done anything as they want to change me another 6 hours ontop of the charges on top of everything else, which has annoyed me as it wasn't what they said 3 weeks ago. And I told them not to do the service unless the issue is fixed (but I understand the car was running ok when they had it).
So I'm at a lose end now what to do. I'm thinking about getting the car back and taking the ECU out and seeing if I can get it repaired, but surely if the ECU is faulty it would show that.
Finally, I don't know if this will make a different but the previous owner installed a aftermarket exhaust, but this was also done by Stoneacre Derby.
Thank you
Mark
I hope someone might be able to help or point me in the direction of someone that can help.
We purchased (my wife) a Abarth 595 1.4 T-Jet 165 Turismo 70th Anniversary from a auction. The car has some faults and was modified by the previous owner, and for the last 10 weeks I've been trying to sort the issues out.
The car is misfiring with codes P0300 to P0304.
1/ The first thing I did was change the spark plugs. Issue continued
2/ It had been map, so had this put back to stock. Issue continued
3/ The person that put the map back checked the coil packs switching them around, interestingly this change the codes to P0302 and P0304, I don't know if this is still the case as I don't have the machine to test the codes myself. Issue continued
4/ Car went to Derby Fiat to test and services the car. Annoyingly the car drove lovely after 20 minutes driving, they couldn't find the errors, did the service and asked me to fetch the car back saying its in perfectly good health. I asked them to hold firing and test the car again in 48 hours, and the issue returned. so the car runs ok when its warm. Issue continued
5/ They took some injectors our of another car to test on this one. Issue continued
6/ They did a compression test on the engine after I asked them too, they didn't do this originally. Issue continued
They have now sat on it for 3 weeks after telling me they are contacting Abarth as they think it might be the ECU or Wiring. Spoke to them this morning and they haven't done anything as they want to change me another 6 hours ontop of the charges on top of everything else, which has annoyed me as it wasn't what they said 3 weeks ago. And I told them not to do the service unless the issue is fixed (but I understand the car was running ok when they had it).
So I'm at a lose end now what to do. I'm thinking about getting the car back and taking the ECU out and seeing if I can get it repaired, but surely if the ECU is faulty it would show that.
Finally, I don't know if this will make a different but the previous owner installed a aftermarket exhaust, but this was also done by Stoneacre Derby.
Thank you
Mark