Hi I am new on here so apologies if I post in the wrong place
I have a 500 twinair street 2012 which I bought from a main dealer in 2015 (18k on clock then) which is having a run of bad luck.
It has 33k on the clock now , regular servicing by fiat. in March I had to have a new Twin air unit (£1000); It then had a service a few weeks later and everything ran smooth for a week. Parked the car for four days, went to start it last Friday - nothing. Battery , radio lights all ok but the dash showed the generic fault icon and a car/padlock icon. Recovery service could not start it so it was towed to Fiat. their expert says I need an injector ECU replacement starting at £1000 for the part. so my questions are
needless to say I am pretty annoyed at the possibility of spending over 2.5 grand on the car in less than a month .
I have contacted Fiat Customer services as I am mightily miffed about this. previous Fiats have not suffered the multitude of problems this twinair has.
has any one on here experienced similar problems?
I have a 500 twinair street 2012 which I bought from a main dealer in 2015 (18k on clock then) which is having a run of bad luck.
It has 33k on the clock now , regular servicing by fiat. in March I had to have a new Twin air unit (£1000); It then had a service a few weeks later and everything ran smooth for a week. Parked the car for four days, went to start it last Friday - nothing. Battery , radio lights all ok but the dash showed the generic fault icon and a car/padlock icon. Recovery service could not start it so it was towed to Fiat. their expert says I need an injector ECU replacement starting at £1000 for the part. so my questions are
- should the ECU be failing without warning
- should it be failing at such low mileage or is that irrelevant
- could it be a transponder as internet searching seems to suggest (what ever that is)
needless to say I am pretty annoyed at the possibility of spending over 2.5 grand on the car in less than a month .
I have contacted Fiat Customer services as I am mightily miffed about this. previous Fiats have not suffered the multitude of problems this twinair has.
has any one on here experienced similar problems?