Tipotwo
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My 2019 (as in January 2019), now 20k mile Tipo has had the following faults, all of which showed up at the end of the 2 year warranty period.
1 - lost DAB radio reception, which needed a new aerial base. The Arnold Clark dealership conned me by getting me to pay for a diagnosis and first changed the antenna, which did not work. I got a local garage to fit the base.
2 - the driver window mechanism failed, a wire snapped, so the glass ended up inside the door. I pulled it back up and taped it shut, till a local garage could source a new mechanism.
3 - the rear brake discs developed a ring of rust, which was recorded as a MOT advisory and which Arnold Clark charged me to remove, but it reappeared within months. For less money, a local garage sourced new discs.
Not so much faults, as issues;
1 - there is an ongoing knock coming from what sounds like it is underneath, at the back of the car. So far, I have had everything out of the boot including the spare tyre and it is not that. It is not the exhaust or anything obvious under the car. I have a horrible feeling it something that has fallen under the back passenger seat, which fell through the gap between it and the boot, which was being used to carry a lot of rubbish to the dump during some work at the house.
2 - the car came with paint protection, which caused water to sheet and just flow off. When that stopped, during the summer, I gave the car a polish with some very old polish I had and under some light, it looks blotchy. The water beads like expected on a polished car, so I will just let it get washed and do no treatment till everything has worn away and try again.
1 - lost DAB radio reception, which needed a new aerial base. The Arnold Clark dealership conned me by getting me to pay for a diagnosis and first changed the antenna, which did not work. I got a local garage to fit the base.
2 - the driver window mechanism failed, a wire snapped, so the glass ended up inside the door. I pulled it back up and taped it shut, till a local garage could source a new mechanism.
3 - the rear brake discs developed a ring of rust, which was recorded as a MOT advisory and which Arnold Clark charged me to remove, but it reappeared within months. For less money, a local garage sourced new discs.
Not so much faults, as issues;
1 - there is an ongoing knock coming from what sounds like it is underneath, at the back of the car. So far, I have had everything out of the boot including the spare tyre and it is not that. It is not the exhaust or anything obvious under the car. I have a horrible feeling it something that has fallen under the back passenger seat, which fell through the gap between it and the boot, which was being used to carry a lot of rubbish to the dump during some work at the house.
2 - the car came with paint protection, which caused water to sheet and just flow off. When that stopped, during the summer, I gave the car a polish with some very old polish I had and under some light, it looks blotchy. The water beads like expected on a polished car, so I will just let it get washed and do no treatment till everything has worn away and try again.
the idea was it would see me at least a decade. But when it gets to starting to need what would have been its 3rd clutch at just over 60k as well as 2 years of the suspension parts just failing one after another I decided to get rid while it still had some value left in it. Clutches shouldn’t be needed every major service 
still, that engine is spotless inside and it won’t rust 
I have a Capri with 140k on it, it’s had 1 wheel bearing (at 110k) And I swapped the rear shocks last year. Weren’t leaking, just had started to corrode. I have an old Audi A8 it’s done 160k, all the wheel bearings and shocks are original and function perfectly. So what did we know then to make parts last that Fiat don’t know now?
