ahmett
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You know what Heidi my driver side door is feeling a bit stiff compared to the passenger side so I think I will grease it before it is too late and the handle comes off!Thanks. Will take it in for a greasing first
You know what Heidi my driver side door is feeling a bit stiff compared to the passenger side so I think I will grease it before it is too late and the handle comes off!Thanks. Will take it in for a greasing first
Lol. Mine going in Tuesday for a greasing then if broken will order the eBay kit
Yes ! I am a very petite five foot nothing and I went to open the car two weeks ago and the handle came off in my hand. The warranty ran out last month! I tried glueing it back on but nothing works. Very annoyed as I havent the strength to have a petrol lawnmower because of the pull thats involved.Has any one elses driver side door handle fell off or is it just mine?
Ive took it into fiat and they said theyve never seen it happen before. All i did was pull the handle to get into car n it snapped the rod that holds the right side of the handle on!!!!Luckily i still have a months warranty so its covered! But still, bit dissapointed!
Having to use Duckt tape to hold it on at mo till she goes in on the 7th Jan!
I had both door handles replaced on my 59 plate 1.2 Sport, under warranty, apparently it was a common issue!
I won't buy another Fiat, I got suckered into buying the 500 and whilst it's a lot of car for a small car Fiat just do-not cross the T and dot the i's.
Our driver side handle broke in just the same way as everyone else's, it was reluctantly repaired under warranty. The tracking had been so far out from new that the insides of the front tyres were onto fabric. It appears tracking isn't part of a PDI.
Another classic fault was the gear shift gaiter, that was also reluctantly replaced under warranty.
Considering my experiences with our Ducatto 2.8 JTD i'm looking round the Fiat 500 and spotting all sorts of stuff that never becomes a problem with our VW's.
No more Fiat for us.
Don't disagree. To me that would be annoying, but not so annoying as to make me get rid though!It's a good point and I do have an answer.
First years service produced a comment that the tyres were wearing unevenly though I don't understand why I didn't ask for a tracking check. When I confronted the service manager he acknowledged that removing a tracking check from PDI had produced a lot of problems with new cars.
His thoughts were mostly about cars entering and leaving transporters.
Having said all that, it doesn't take that long to do a tracking check and any dealer worth his salt will do one as part of PDI even if they don't get paid by Fiat.
Right now i'm looking at the shock absorber top mountings on the 500, they collect all the water coming off the screen and are due to corrode and an early replacement but not in warranty so Fiat couldn't be bothered to fit simple protection in much the same way as couldn't be bothered to protect the sump on most of their range.
Door handle repair in detail.......see the pdf attached.
Successful job, easier than posting this file!