General New Marea old problems?

[sahmraw]

Hi there, am new to forum and new owner of V reg Marea 16v 1.6 auto ELX.

car is lovely and bought it in Leeds last week hubby collected yesterday and brought it back to London.

When we test drove it we noticed the suspension was knocking. Have managed to buy 2 new suspensions from road and rally in chesterfield on way down from Leeds. was fairly cheap £45 each. apparently it is £50 for fitting in Chesterfield. nayone know of a good garage within 25 miles of East London 9i.e essex, kent, london, hertfordshire or surrey who may quote a similar price to fit?

Also on the way the doug noticed the following, when it got dark the milegage gauge bulb did not light up, a warning light that should only work on a diesel (according to thte manual, but we have a petrol car) intermittently flashed, the lights that tell you which automatic gear does not come on and then the airbag light came on and stayed on.

I am hoping it is not the airbags failing and would think it was this if the other dashboard lights were behaving themselves. Methinks there is an electrical fault afoot and hope it is something fairly asy and cheap to fix, as I am disabled, on benefits and have just spent every penny buying and insuring this car.

i love the rive of this car though. It is really lovely. Does about £35 for petrol from Leeds, through chesterfield and onto London sound reasonable. was approximately 217 miles.

The car other than this is in decent cndition. The dealer had a new exhasust out on but it is still blowing and needs readjusting. however, I cannot take it back to the garage in Leeds where it was fitted. Perhaps could be done when i get the suspension done.

I would be grateful for any help with this matter. My hubby can just about drive a car, but has NO mechanical know how at all. It will be down to me to get it sorted.

The name's Kizzy by the way so feel free to call me that ​

 

[BRAVARulez]

Hi there. Lets take it from the begining!
The bulb from the dashboard its a small problem and it can be changed also by you ( but there are some steps that you have to follow to do that, if you search the forum you will find plenty of threads). About the flashing light is the injector and in that point i must say that the Bravo-Brava-Marea 1.6 engines suffer in that section. Its a common problem and shows that one injector or more it going they way out. You can measure them to see which one is the faulty and you can replace them from a scrapyard for a £5. You can also find a lot of threads about that using the search and typing injector measurement Jug ohm. Now for the Airbag light i must say that is also common problem but most annoying because you will need to spent a lot of money to fix it and make sure that is not going to be fixed in first time. My opinion is to go back where you bought the car and tell them to fix the airbag and the dash bulb. As for the injectors they are not going to find any fault because there is no fault code stored to the ECU and that is going to happen when the injector light will stay on permanetly and after that more troubles will come up ( because you have to go to fiat dealer to erase the fault which takes about 5 minutes and £35 to £50 from your pocket). Try to fix the injectors problem before the light stay on. I hope i helped

 

[sahmraw]

Hi there. Lets take it from the begining!
The bulb from the dashboard its a small problem and it can be changed also by you ( but there are some steps that you have to follow to do that, if you search the forum you will find plenty of threads). About the flashing light is the injector and in that point i must say that the Bravo-Brava-Marea 1.6 engines suffer in that section. Its a common problem and shows that one injector or more it going they way out. You can measure them to see which one is the faulty and you can replace them from a scrapyard for a £5. You can also find a lot of threads about that using the search and typing injector measurement Jug ohm. Now for the Airbag light i must say that is also common problem but most annoying because you will need to spent a lot of money to fix it and make sure that is not going to be fixed in first time. My opinion is to go back where you bought the car and tell them to fix the airbag and the dash bulb. As for the injectors they are not going to find any fault because there is no fault code stored to the ECU and that is going to happen when the injector light will stay on permanetly and after that more troubles will come up ( because you have to go to fiat dealer to erase the fault which takes about 5 minutes and £35 to £50 from your pocket). Try to fix the injectors problem before the light stay on. I hope i helped

Hi thanks for this. We rang the garage and they are trying to say that the light is on because the battery needed charging. They want us to charge the battery and give them a ring back. We are actually going to change the battery with the one in our motability car and see what happens. The garage is about 200 miles away, but that will not stop us from getting them to sort it. This is ridiculous. The man knew I am disabled and need the car as well.

Have not had luck with injector measurement posts yet, but still searching. I have suspension and brakes I have bought to get fitted. I love the car and don't want to have to get rid.

 

[BRAVARulez]

Try the link below for how to measure the injectors. Tip you will need a multimeter to do that. If you dont have one find someone who knows how to use it, its easy and Jug explains with every detail how to do it.
https://www.fiatforum.com/bravo-technical/74239-bravo-three-cylinders.html

 

[sahmraw]

Try the link below for how to measure the injectors. Tip you will need a multimeter to do that. If you dont have one find someone who knows how to use it, its easy and Jug explains with every detail how to do it.
https://www.fiatforum.com/bravo-technical/74239-bravo-three-cylinders.html

thanks.