arnietwo
Member
ok guys i need your help. I have owned and maintained my 1995, barchetta for 5 years here in Spain. This year when i took it for its annual test it failed on high emissions. So i put 98 octane fuel in and a carb cleaner and blasted it around the Costa Blanca for a couple of weeks. When i took it back they said it was worse ???
I then took it to a local spanish garage but they said they coudnt fix it ??
I also have a 530D BMW, so i then took it to my other friend, German who has a Merc/ BMW garage and again i was not impressed with his response which was very Little.
So ive now been advised to take it to a Fiat dealers !!
So what is the problema, i have asked about changing lambda sensors, and cat converter but told NO, thats not the issue. So what is the issue ??
I dont like taking it to any garage and usually manage to fix things myself as you will see from my previous posts but im beat this time.
Does anyone know if the barchetta "head" is the same as any other fiat model of the 90s, say the Bravo or Punto. Id rather take the head off a scrapper and see if that worked than take it to a Fiat dealer.
Its cost me nothing so far as both garages did nothing
Ive not looked at the specific values of the emmissions but can do so if anybody needs them to give further advice. Im now 3 months with it off the road and its now cooling down here a bit in España, so time to be out in the B.
saludos Dave
I then took it to a local spanish garage but they said they coudnt fix it ??
I also have a 530D BMW, so i then took it to my other friend, German who has a Merc/ BMW garage and again i was not impressed with his response which was very Little.
So ive now been advised to take it to a Fiat dealers !!
So what is the problema, i have asked about changing lambda sensors, and cat converter but told NO, thats not the issue. So what is the issue ??
I dont like taking it to any garage and usually manage to fix things myself as you will see from my previous posts but im beat this time.
Does anyone know if the barchetta "head" is the same as any other fiat model of the 90s, say the Bravo or Punto. Id rather take the head off a scrapper and see if that worked than take it to a Fiat dealer.
Its cost me nothing so far as both garages did nothing
Ive not looked at the specific values of the emmissions but can do so if anybody needs them to give further advice. Im now 3 months with it off the road and its now cooling down here a bit in España, so time to be out in the B.
saludos Dave