Must admit my experience with Mac’s have been relatively problem free! It helps that they have people you can see in person too if you do want to complain!
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Must admit my experience with Mac’s have been relatively problem free! It helps that they have people you can see in person too if you do want to complain!
Absolute bane of my life this last week!
Todays real grump "Fiat" I came back to Fiat as I have always liked them... Fiat number 6 has reminded me that Fiat are 100% unreliable and absolute ****e cars on the whole...…
:bang::bang: its constantly giving a million and one engine failure warnings, airbag warning, handbrake lever creeps up causing the dash alarm and beeping... Handbrake is totally unreliable and sometimes works sometimes does naff all on either side... never ever consistent…. ABS warming light comes and goes with speed bumps / closing a door a bit too hard.... For no obvious reason often cuts out and then wont restart until the battery is disconnected and reconnected..... Perfect on a 50mph road shortly after a blind summit whilst turning into a side street.... On the bright side still smashing out 50mpg even with the above and it still pulls well in all gears!:slayer:
It's a Stilo, you didn't expect it to have 0 electrical issues did you?
It's a Stilo, you didn't expect it to have 0 electrical issues did you?
One or two not all of them ever
Absolute bane of my life this last week!
Todays real grump "Fiat" I came back to Fiat as I have always liked them... Fiat number 6 has reminded me that Fiat are 100% unreliable and absolute ****e cars on the whole...…
On the bright side still smashing out 50mpg even with the above and it still pulls well in all gears!:slayer:
It's a Stilo, you didn't expect it to have 0 electrical issues did you?
So its not new then. A lot of its state will be down to its previous owners, how they've driven it and how they've looked after it, or not. Very unfair to blame Fiat for it all.
Engine failure warnings: Have you diagnosed and attempted a fix? If not, then it will keep lighting the warning until the problem is fixed. Needs MES diagnostic scan to read the codes.
Airbag warning: Possibly the only genuine Fiat blameworthy issue. Stilos do seem to eat their airbag modules, hiding in the centre console, under the heater. Need to replace like with like, a search on Ebay will usually find a replacement.
Handbrake: If it is trying to rise, the cable has too much slack, which could indicate seized adjusters. Maintenance!
ABS: If jolts cause any electrical issues, look for poor connections. Again, MES should highlight which wheel to start at.
Cutting out: Poor connections, possibly at ECU. OR, might start with the main battery cables, they are known to corrode internally, especially Pandas and Puntos, so no reason that Stilos should be immune. Might even be the cause of all the electrical maladies.
So, please, look at each issue methodically, and fix them, then enjoy the car. If you need help, then explain what you've found, best in a new thread, and help will arrive.
When FIAT Opted to clone a VW golf.
They shouldve learnt from their familys
Alfa Arna disaster.
Almost proud to say the Stilo is the one 'practical'FIAT we've not owned
They shouldve learnt from their familys
Alfa Arna disaster.
Almost proud to say the Stilo is the one 'practical'FIAT we've not owned
I admire your optimism... the faults keep adding up and up.... Front Passenger seat belt has retracted so tight there's no slack to pull it out (Yes I am doing it gently)... Rear middle did the same so was cut off before MOT!
The bonnet release that has been a nightmare to latch is now so latched it wont open...
Ashtray no longer stays shut for more than a few seconds before popping down again.
It's now complaining that various bulbs are not working when they infact are... contacts look clean and the correct wattage bulbs put in...
It died a proper death today - cut out and wouldn't restart. AA didn't even try to diagnose just towed it home and said good luck....
I'll break it to get my money back and the rest can be binned
M4 motorway severely congested this afternoon travelling from Bath to Swindon.
Cause: 5 cars spread over that distance, all families on hols, travelling slower than the trucks. Convoys of trucks in lane 2, turns it into a single lane road.
If you can't, or won't, travel at least as fast as the trucks, the motorway is not for you. Actually dangerous.
Cause: 5 cars spread over that distance, all families on hols, travelling slower than the trucks. Convoys of trucks in lane 2, turns it into a single lane road.
If you can't, or won't, travel at least as fast as the trucks, the motorway is not for you. Actually dangerous.
This sort of weather brings out the kind of folk whose cars only do one speed, somewhere around 45mph, so in a national limit, they do 45, on a motorway they do 45, in a built up area they do 45 and passing a school in a 20 limit they do 45, these are the same people who’s mirrors are purely decorative and get annoyed and start flashing headlights if you over take them.
Private seller, who, after messing me around for the last two weeks, proving near impossible to contact, after having agreed to meet and buy the vehicle, finally emails me at the last minute to inform me that the car was sold the day before...
They're closing my local Fiat dealership...
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Not too grumpy but a bit miffed.
This went pop at the first corner of the second session on track today...
...these things happen, no way of predicting it, but the steering went funny so I had to decide weather to try and make it round the corner or go round the back. A fraction of a split second I decided to go straight. Too late! I straddled the curb on the corner and smashed the sump guard...
...now I'm trying to reach my mate so I can borrow a small trailer and get my spare sump from the Punto HGT I have near Spalding. :devil:
This went pop at the first corner of the second session on track today...
...these things happen, no way of predicting it, but the steering went funny so I had to decide weather to try and make it round the corner or go round the back. A fraction of a split second I decided to go straight. Too late! I straddled the curb on the corner and smashed the sump guard...
...now I'm trying to reach my mate so I can borrow a small trailer and get my spare sump from the Punto HGT I have near Spalding. :devil:
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What car was that on?
Except its clearly rotten as hell and the rubber is also all deteriorated and cracked to shreds.....
But no way of knowing these things are going to fail.
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I know I'm going to get a lot of hatred for this, but never mind: FOOTBALL!!!!
I get that a lot of people like it, that's fine, but what irritates the hell out of me is the way it just takes over in life. Everyone witters on about it like it's actually important! It takes over the TV; pubs get packed with drunk morons who make an absolute racket, and the regular pub events suddenly get shoved aside; the Facebook news feed becomes stuffed with people suddenly becoming patriotic, etc.
GET A LIFE!!!!!!!
I get that a lot of people like it, that's fine, but what irritates the hell out of me is the way it just takes over in life. Everyone witters on about it like it's actually important! It takes over the TV; pubs get packed with drunk morons who make an absolute racket, and the regular pub events suddenly get shoved aside; the Facebook news feed becomes stuffed with people suddenly becoming patriotic, etc.
GET A LIFE!!!!!!!
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I don't have a problem with the Olympics: the major difference being that unlike fooballists, Olympians actually have a use in life, and fit their sport in around an actual, real job.
For example: a family friend has represented Team GB in the women's wheelchair basketball team no fewer than 4 times, yet she manages to work a full time office job...
Another example: I used to work with a dwarf who was a weightlifter, and could lift nearly 3 times his own body weight, yet works full time in a factory that makes life saving medical equipment...
For example: a family friend has represented Team GB in the women's wheelchair basketball team no fewer than 4 times, yet she manages to work a full time office job...
Another example: I used to work with a dwarf who was a weightlifter, and could lift nearly 3 times his own body weight, yet works full time in a factory that makes life saving medical equipment...
Next-door-neighbour frequently burns rubbish in a garden incinerator. (Like a dustbin with a chimney) So much so and so often, I'm convinced he brings rubbish home. Like a child playing with fire.
He recently got a job driving a van for a local furniture company.
Tonight he spent some time clearing out the back of the van, and now has a pile of cardboard packaging on his front drive, next to his wheelie bins.
That is commercial waste. To take it back from the customer to the store or warehouse is fine, as then it should go into the commercial waste skip. To offload it here, tidy the van and put it all back in the van strictly needs his home to be a registered waste transfer station, but with just clean cardboard, probably ok.
So to offload it here he needs to be a licensed waste carrier, and his home to be a licensed waste transfer station. If he burns it, he also needs to be a licensed waste processing site.
Probably a fail on all counts.
So what are his plans? My thoughts on options:
1. Burn it. More nasty smoke into my house as that's where the prevailing wind will bring it.
2. Take it to the local tip as domestic waste.
3. Put it out for the bin lorry.
All three are offences for commercial waste. So what should I do?
If I wait until he has a 'burns night', the evidence will be gone before the council arrive to investigate.
Should I report it now?
Thoughts?
He recently got a job driving a van for a local furniture company.
Tonight he spent some time clearing out the back of the van, and now has a pile of cardboard packaging on his front drive, next to his wheelie bins.
That is commercial waste. To take it back from the customer to the store or warehouse is fine, as then it should go into the commercial waste skip. To offload it here, tidy the van and put it all back in the van strictly needs his home to be a registered waste transfer station, but with just clean cardboard, probably ok.
So to offload it here he needs to be a licensed waste carrier, and his home to be a licensed waste transfer station. If he burns it, he also needs to be a licensed waste processing site.
Probably a fail on all counts.
So what are his plans? My thoughts on options:
1. Burn it. More nasty smoke into my house as that's where the prevailing wind will bring it.
2. Take it to the local tip as domestic waste.
3. Put it out for the bin lorry.
All three are offences for commercial waste. So what should I do?
If I wait until he has a 'burns night', the evidence will be gone before the council arrive to investigate.
Should I report it now?
Thoughts?
There was a story recently about a woman who ordered something for her company from amazon, delivered to her home address, the opened the box took out the item and recycled the box in the appropriate waste, now obviously this is the short story and we don’t know if this was a regular thing, but a busybody searched the recycling and saw the business name and her home address and she was very heavily fined for disposing of commercial waste in her home bin.
So if he bins it you definitely have a case for reporting it to the council.
If he burns it then again you have a very good case to report it to the council, obviously most places (well here in Norfolk) have little rules when it come to having a bonfire in your own back garden, but to burn commercial waste would require a waste management licence and would be against the terms of any licence if done at a commercial property.
Another story was a local farmer I used to know many years ago, farmers can burn waste it’s part of agriculture, but he had another company on his farm that use to produce a lot of boxes and packaging, so he sent his labourers out under. The cover of darkness to burn it all in a distant field with some cuttings and old straw so to the casual observer they were burning agricultural waste. Totally against the law but it was his way around paying huge bills, I never did find out if her got caught but his other business went bust.
If he just loads it out and back into the van and takes it back to work then you probably can’t really do much about it, in that case it’s not really harming anyone, and if there were some rule or regulation he was breaking it would be unlikely to be worth the council doing anything about it, the cost of taking the case up, investigating etc would not be a good use of council money.
Thats my take on the situation anyway, and I’d be pretty blood angry if someone was bringing home waste to burn when there is likely to be appropriate bins where he works to take that waste away
From another source, it appears that the company is run by his partner's father. A family connection would explain why an employee was willing to dispose of commercial waste at home, to save the company the proper disposal costs.
About half the pile disappeared yesterday. Don't know where, but my guess is local tip as household waste. Can't see point in only taking half of it back to the warehouse.
About half the pile disappeared yesterday. Don't know where, but my guess is local tip as household waste. Can't see point in only taking half of it back to the warehouse.
