I'm having an intermittent problem with getting a gear on cold mornings from start-up. The symptoms don't quite match those I've seen posted on older threads. I would greatly appreciate any advice or suggestions.
The car is an 09 plate 1.4 Punto Grande Active with 5-speed Dualogic semi-auto box.
The car starts always starts without problem.
Normally there is no problem with putting the gear stick into Drive/Reverse and off it goes.
About 5%-10% of starts however putting the gear stick into Drive/Reverse results in an audible attempt by the car to select gear (with the window down I can hear the servos) but no gear is selected. The LCD gear indicator stays on N. At least once I know it was stuck in gear (we tried to push it,it was facing the wrong way for the towing arm and I'd called for a recovery).
There is no warning light on the dash cluster. There is no message displayed on the LCD panel on the dash cluster. An audible beeping alarm (the one you get if your start/stop the engine with the gear stick in the wrong position) comes on after about 5 seconds of trying to get a gear.
If you keep trying to select a gear, it eventually gets one. It could be the fourth or fortieth attempt.
Once it's got a gear it will keep on going,changing up and down the box without problem for the entire journey. The problem has only been observed from cold start, and usually only on cold and damp mornings/evenings.
I've taken it to the independent garage I've been using for years (non-specialist) and of course, the car behaved flawlessly. When they connect a code reader they get the following codes:
P060C Control unit faulty
P2916/P2914 Gearbox subsystem
But Fiat can't advise them what this means, I've known the garage owner for many years and he summarised the response he had from Fiat as, "Buggered if we know".
When I contact my local Fiat dealer (West's of King's Lynn - they were useless planks for Renault/Nissan, now they're the official useless planks for Fiat as well), I just get the helpful response,"We don't do automatics".
Any suggestions? - or names of Norfolk/Cambridgeshire dualogic specialists?
The car is an 09 plate 1.4 Punto Grande Active with 5-speed Dualogic semi-auto box.
The car starts always starts without problem.
Normally there is no problem with putting the gear stick into Drive/Reverse and off it goes.
About 5%-10% of starts however putting the gear stick into Drive/Reverse results in an audible attempt by the car to select gear (with the window down I can hear the servos) but no gear is selected. The LCD gear indicator stays on N. At least once I know it was stuck in gear (we tried to push it,it was facing the wrong way for the towing arm and I'd called for a recovery).
There is no warning light on the dash cluster. There is no message displayed on the LCD panel on the dash cluster. An audible beeping alarm (the one you get if your start/stop the engine with the gear stick in the wrong position) comes on after about 5 seconds of trying to get a gear.
If you keep trying to select a gear, it eventually gets one. It could be the fourth or fortieth attempt.
Once it's got a gear it will keep on going,changing up and down the box without problem for the entire journey. The problem has only been observed from cold start, and usually only on cold and damp mornings/evenings.
I've taken it to the independent garage I've been using for years (non-specialist) and of course, the car behaved flawlessly. When they connect a code reader they get the following codes:
P060C Control unit faulty
P2916/P2914 Gearbox subsystem
But Fiat can't advise them what this means, I've known the garage owner for many years and he summarised the response he had from Fiat as, "Buggered if we know".
When I contact my local Fiat dealer (West's of King's Lynn - they were useless planks for Renault/Nissan, now they're the official useless planks for Fiat as well), I just get the helpful response,"We don't do automatics".
Any suggestions? - or names of Norfolk/Cambridgeshire dualogic specialists?