General What you don't want to see on the dash of your Croma....

[Radlet6]

I have been raking through some old stuff and came across this vid taken on my mobile when I was having all kinds of electrical issues with the ESP and gearbox; taken one rainy night in November 2008 after it stranded my partner in the middle of effin nowhere. It was trailered away by the RAC only just before I managed to get there with a gallon of unleaded and a box of matches.....

Just thought I would share these happy days.

https://www.fiatforum.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=75789


PS. And yes that is the ESP system failure warning light you can see glowing happily at the end of the vid.

 

[Hellcat]

Yey!

Ours started doing that this week. %£&%%$ thing.

 

[Radlet6]

Is it doing it constantly or intermittently?

Ours was only intermittent - hence the vid to prove to the garage it was doing it. Mind I think a refusal to go anywhere was a pretty damned good indication.

 

[dave]

bad earth?

 

[Radlet6]

No, it was an errant piece of solder floating around one of the plugs into the ECU.

 

[Doofer]

I got the exact same barrage of messages when my alternator packed in, leading to a flat battery.

The annoying this is that it has all this apparent cleverness, but didn't tell me when the alternator stopped charging the battery - only when the battery became flat as a result.

 

[notorious]

Yup but for 25 eur some spare wire and half an hour spare time this always tells me what's going on with the alternator....




http://postimage.org/image/1ouwktgf8/

 

[Hellcat]

I'm going to try a long reset by removing the negative from the battery. If this doesn't make the errors go away - then I'll try a overnight battery charge to ensure the battery is 100%. If the error goes away then it would indicate the altenator is shagged.

 

[tarquin1867]

I'm going to try a long reset by removing the negative from the battery. If this doesn't make the errors go away - then I'll try a overnight battery charge to ensure the battery is 100%. If the error goes away then it would indicate the altenator is shagged.

The Bravo looks good/great but whats it like at carrying fishing tackle and three blokes?

 

[Hellcat]

The Bravo looks good/great but whats it like at carrying fishing tackle and three blokes?

A bit OT but I'd think it would be ok. It depends how much kit you're talking about. Obviously not as huge as the Croma, but its much bigger than a GP.