I hope your car is fixed. It is a very strange situation with the 1.2 engine. I tested a 15 plate 1.2 500 & Panda inJune. Both were fine. My own 15 plate 1.2 500 is also fine – not aspeed machine but I can drive it anywhere and have never had any issues withdead spots or poor throttle response. Ican’t believe that cars produced after mine (mine was in the dealers stock) arestill having this issue. What is Fiatplaying at? If they have a fix why arethey not spelling it out to all dealers to implement it when needed? It does not sit well on the reputation of thedealers or Fiat and I hope that my car continues to behave well (3000 miles withno problems so far).
I think one of the reasons they will not roll it out is
that means they have to admit their mistake
the cost involved in recalling the cars
I am sure there are plenty of people out there who just accept the situation. If It was not for this forum I would be unaware of the issue.
Bigchrome, thanks for advising. If it is resolved I would be grateful as would others if you could advise what the name of the fix is and we can then go the our dealers and have them fix our cars