US NHTSA Site

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I wish we had a similar site in the UK.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle

Besides all the other interesting stuff the vehicle search (as in the above link) will take you to a Year / Make / Model (2016 / Fiat / 500, 500E, 500L, 500X)
where you can see all the actual faults and Service Bulletins. Can also download the Service Bulletins.

I know these are US model specific info but having gone through all the 500X ones some/quite a few are the same as the UK/EU ones.

Some of the things that caught my eye are:

2.0 and 2.4L MultiAir engines and oil consumption
2.0 and 2.4L MultiAir engines crank imbalance requiring new block
and
all those FLASH Upgrades to fix numerous issues
 
The MultiAir was developed for the 1.4 FIRE engine and released in 2009. Scaling it up for the bigger engines doesn't seem to have gone too well.
 
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