Hi
I'm new to this forum and registered as I am having problems with my punto and was hoping someone might be able to help. Just posted this in the newbies forum but thought that this might be a better place for it?
My car is a 2001 Y reg 1.2 base model. I'm having problems with it stalling when in low revs and then not starting again for about 5-10 minutes. For instance it happened on my commute in today whilst I was in crawling traffic. I was at a stand still (pretty much) with the clutch in and it stalled and wouldn't restart. After waiting about 5-10 minutes it restarted and seemed ok. The same thing has happened a few times recently and also in the past - also have problems with starting it sometimes but it seems that if you wait a while it's ok.
Obviously it's not ideal or reliable like this and I was hoping for some suggestions of what to do or what it could be. Took it to a Fiat garage for a diagnostic test a while back but they charged us £60 and told us there was nothing wrong with it. As it seems to come and go does that mean that any garage will tell me the same thing?
Any help/suggestions/comments would be hugely appreciated! Thanks.
I'm new to this forum and registered as I am having problems with my punto and was hoping someone might be able to help. Just posted this in the newbies forum but thought that this might be a better place for it?
My car is a 2001 Y reg 1.2 base model. I'm having problems with it stalling when in low revs and then not starting again for about 5-10 minutes. For instance it happened on my commute in today whilst I was in crawling traffic. I was at a stand still (pretty much) with the clutch in and it stalled and wouldn't restart. After waiting about 5-10 minutes it restarted and seemed ok. The same thing has happened a few times recently and also in the past - also have problems with starting it sometimes but it seems that if you wait a while it's ok.
Obviously it's not ideal or reliable like this and I was hoping for some suggestions of what to do or what it could be. Took it to a Fiat garage for a diagnostic test a while back but they charged us £60 and told us there was nothing wrong with it. As it seems to come and go does that mean that any garage will tell me the same thing?
Any help/suggestions/comments would be hugely appreciated! Thanks.