Fiat is the 8th most reliable car brand?

[AnthonyH]

If you believe the website below Fiat is the 8th most reliable brand of car. They use an index that aggregates Fiat as 15th best for number of repairs and 5th best for cheap car parts, giving 8th best overall. What do you think?

Car Reliability Index | Check How Reliable Your Car Is

Explore our car reliability index for detailed ratings based on real claims data, ensuring you can make an informed decision when selecting your next vehicle.

www.motoreasy.com

 

[porta]

If it’s true, regarding actual data, then that’s excellent…however, if you look on forums and complaints websites, Dacia isn’t exactly ‘trouble free’, maybe the cheapness of repair is what’s swinging it…but, if that was the case, Fiats parts and labour prices would sink it. Maybe AI is being a little ‘forgiving’. Having said that, by the time I’d left the motor trade, ‘98, and having worked on everything from Fiat to LR, PSA to VAG and BMW, there was certainly a lift in Fiat/Lancia/Alfa and a decline in VAG, and Land Rover was, and always will be, bought by masochists or those that really don’t need one

 

[AnthonyH]

If it’s true, regarding actual data, then that’s excellent…however, if you look on forums and complaints websites, Dacia isn’t exactly ‘trouble free’, maybe the cheapness of repair is what’s swinging it…but, if that was the case, Fiats parts and labour prices would sink it. Maybe AI is being a little ‘forgiving’. Having said that, by the time I’d left the motor trade, ‘98, and having worked on everything from Fiat to LR, PSA to VAG and BMW, there was certainly a lift in Fiat/Lancia/Alfa and a decline in VAG, and Land Rover was, and always will be, bought by masochists or those that really don’t need one

The website has lots of leeway for giving more weight to cheap parts, i mean Fiat parts are pretty much always available on eBay from multilple sellers at sometimes dirt cheap price.

I would dread owning a Range Rover all of the engines blowing up must be a nightmare, or BMW because the parts cost are extortion.

I used to joke about wanting a Tesla, now I joke about how its the last brand of car i'd want.

 

[AnthonyH]

These are supposedly the worst brands...

 

[porta]

I can well believe that

 

[ben]

Oh the irony!

 

[PuntoHowTo]

As there is no way of seeing the data set behind it. who knows how accurate that is? Is this all cars going back decades, given that Saab is on the list and Chevrolet I can't help but think this is covering a lot of much older cars in some cases.

If is is taking into account the cost, that might not be a fair metric, given that one Bentley repair can cost the same as many dozens of Fiat repairs, but does that make fiats more reliable? cheaper yes but reliable? In considering the cost of repair they may be skewing the results regarding reliability

 

[AnthonyH]

The website list is "powered by AI" so they borrowed someone else's engine i'd imagine.

And then they try to sell services as a middleman, for example you enter a need for tyres and a few personal details and they go online and find a garage for you.

I wonder if they make any money.