General Help! "Engine Fault" Dealer giving excuses

[FixItAgainTom]

Hi,

I purchased a Fiat Stilo JTD on January 11th 2006, since then I have taken it back to Fiat on three occasions with two problems:

Problems:
1) When starting the car the dashboard displays "ABS Failure Stop engine" with a bleep. This has been resolved (I hope) with a new ECU unit.

2) When driving along randomly get the dashboard display “Engine fault stop engine" for 2 or 3 seconds. Does not seem to be a power loss or any other noticeable faults.

So Fiat has made a few adjustments to the car, but with no success regarding the second fault "Engine Fault".
When I last took my car into Fiat 3 weeks ago they told me to drive the car until the fault occurs again and they would take the car in for a week to resolve the issues once and for all.
I rang them this morning and they basically told me that because the fault displayed only for a few seconds (did not stay permanently on) this is acceptable and is also mentioned in the 'Handbook".
So what they are saying is I have got to put up with this fault as it is not really a fault, but just annoying bleep and message every time it decides it wants to do it.
Personally I think this is unacceptable, and was not one of their selling points when I bought the vehicle.

Can any kind person give any help info etc.. as im not happy!

Many thanks.

 

[xenius]

Well, not much help, but unfortunetly that kind of errrors comes up very often in my Abarth too.

As long as they just blink for a few seconds ans disappears no worries for me though.

But i havnet had the engine one yet, so i guess it must be concerning.

Since its a brand new car, i would givet it a couple of weeks more and take it back for a service, since thats untolerable.

 

[StiloJoe]

Thats not right surely

Id take it back and have words or gota another dealer