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Hi al,
Ever since I hit a deer last year, I've been having an issue with the Turbo on my 1.4 MultiAir Lounge.
Much of the time it works fine, but when I leave work at the end of the day it simply doesn't work at all. This means I'm just driving a big, fat 1.4 with no extra power, making it near impossible to even reach 60mph...
If I put it in "sport" mode to display the "turbo meter", I can see that it simply never gets enough power. See video here:
This is me accelerating with my foot to the floor out of a 30 into national in 4th gear.
Legal disclaimer: Filmed by passenger.
The fix is to drive for a couple of minutes, stop, turn the engine off and on again and set off again and it seems to be fine.
As I say, this only really happens in the evenings when I leave work. In the morning it's fine (90% of the time), when I drive on a heated engine it's fine.
As an aside, my cruise control often doesn't work at the same time either (as in pressing any CC buttons do nothing) - I have no idea if this is connected.
So anyway, I eventually bit the bullet and took the car to my local Fiat specialist (Desira). They had the car for a day and diagnosed a damaged intercooler as the cause, causing the turbo to not get enough air flow to work.
I gave them all the information that I've put in this thread (and showed them video) and that was their diagnosis.
Today they replaced the intercooler, and charged me almost £400 for the pleasure... Only, I've just come home from work and the problem remains.
My question is two-fold:
1. Does anyone have any idea what the issue might actually be? It's clearly not the intercooler as that's now brand new.
2. What do I say when I phone them up tomorrow? Clearly they have mis-diagnosed the cause but I can't imagine they are likely to agree to doing further repairs free of charge...
Appreciate any help or advice anyone can give, I'm at my wits end with this now
Ever since I hit a deer last year, I've been having an issue with the Turbo on my 1.4 MultiAir Lounge.
Much of the time it works fine, but when I leave work at the end of the day it simply doesn't work at all. This means I'm just driving a big, fat 1.4 with no extra power, making it near impossible to even reach 60mph...
If I put it in "sport" mode to display the "turbo meter", I can see that it simply never gets enough power. See video here:
This is me accelerating with my foot to the floor out of a 30 into national in 4th gear.
Legal disclaimer: Filmed by passenger.
The fix is to drive for a couple of minutes, stop, turn the engine off and on again and set off again and it seems to be fine.
As I say, this only really happens in the evenings when I leave work. In the morning it's fine (90% of the time), when I drive on a heated engine it's fine.
As an aside, my cruise control often doesn't work at the same time either (as in pressing any CC buttons do nothing) - I have no idea if this is connected.
So anyway, I eventually bit the bullet and took the car to my local Fiat specialist (Desira). They had the car for a day and diagnosed a damaged intercooler as the cause, causing the turbo to not get enough air flow to work.
I gave them all the information that I've put in this thread (and showed them video) and that was their diagnosis.
Today they replaced the intercooler, and charged me almost £400 for the pleasure... Only, I've just come home from work and the problem remains.
My question is two-fold:
1. Does anyone have any idea what the issue might actually be? It's clearly not the intercooler as that's now brand new.
2. What do I say when I phone them up tomorrow? Clearly they have mis-diagnosed the cause but I can't imagine they are likely to agree to doing further repairs free of charge...
Appreciate any help or advice anyone can give, I'm at my wits end with this now
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