Warning don't buy fiat!!!

jm2926

Glasgow Audi dealer charges for insurance on courtesy cars, seems to be common. I've just traded in my fiat 500 after 4 years for another one (Abarth 500) and its great. Not sure what the process at the fiat dealer is for courtesy cars, never had a warranty issue, and use Indy for servicing.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

BoP will now interpret for the hard of reading

OP bought a car of a dodgy dealer, it was an Italian number.

It was carp

The dealer, Fred of bangers r us, cannot service it.

She paid cash.

I suggest she contacts te Daily Mail

sillygoose

jm2926 wrote: »

Glasgow Audi dealer charges for insurance on courtesy cars, seems to be common. I've just traded in my fiat 500 after 4 years for another one (Abarth 500) and its great. Not sure what the process at the fiat dealer is for courtesy cars, never had a warranty issue, and use Indy for servicing.

Fiat 500 doesn't count as its a Ford Ka with a bit more 'hairdresser' added.

jm2926

sillygoose wrote: »

Fiat 500 doesn't count as its a Ford Ka with a bit more 'hairdresser' added.

Lol, what does that make the Abarth?

(Can you get a Ka with a 1.4 turbo engine and 17" wheels?)

fluffnutter

Johno100 wrote: »

I've never understood this. One of the principals of insurance is that to insurer something you have to have an insurable interest in it. I don't have any more insurable interest in a courtesy car than I do in the car that just went down my street. So how can I take out insurance on a courtesy car?

I guess you do have an insurable interest if the car hire firm charges you if you damage its courtesy car.

Discodee

Hi There is loads more to say, just don't have time. The dealer ignores all emails. I have only done 50 miles in the car and the engine is faulty and brakes dont feel right.

Re the spare wheel, the inflation kit onlu works in mid tyre punctures, but isnt guaranteed to work, so what do you do if you're driving home from London on the M1???
Plus once you've used the kit you can't repair the tyre you have to replace it.
My gripe is, I bought this qubo to get nmore space in the boot. Now I am going to have to buy a space saver wheel and keep it in the boot. Defeated object. may as well have bought a small car. Whos great idea was this? When i asked fiat what you do if the kit doesnt work, they said "call the AA" Well firstly thats all well and good if you HAVE AA. secondly why would you want to wait 3 hours for AA to tow you off the M1, then find someone to put a new tyre on etc when you can change the wheel in 5 mins. What if you're on your way to the airport to catch a flight??? madness. I wasn't TOLD there was no spare wheel, and we don't do urban driving, our car is used for long distance journeys so I need one (Or a space saver, who cares so long as there is a wheel)
Then apart from the insurance/garage issue th garage also can't look at it for 11 days/ Again, what if I was going on holiday at the w/e? And like I said there is far more but I don't have time to type it all. I just thought I would warn others. You can heed it or not but I wish I'd never seen a fliuppin Fiat. it is just dire customer sevice

pulliptears

Deep_In_Debt wrote: »

I had a Fiat many years ago. Good little rust bucket and was always going wrong.

We used to reckon that FIAT was short for - Fix It Again Tomorrow.

Sounds like mine, I had a Punto. Seemed like every weekend I was fixing the electrics on the thing (If you braked and indicated at the same time the back end lit up like Blackpool in September). Our not so loving relationship came to a swift end when the head gasket blew at just 38,000 miles.

I believe the 1.9 CDTi Astra and Vectra Gearboxes are made by Fiat as well, they fail in spectacular fashion at around 70k taking clutch and flywheel with them.....

ILW

Discodee wrote: »

Hi There is loads more to say, just don't have time. The dealer ignores all emails. I have only done 50 miles in the car and the engine is faulty and brakes dont feel right.

Re the spare wheel, the inflation kit onlu works in mid tyre punctures, but isnt guaranteed to work, so what do you do if you're driving home from London on the M1???
Plus once you've used the kit you can't repair the tyre you have to replace it.
My gripe is, I bought this qubo to get nmore space in the boot. Now I am going to have to buy a space saver wheel and keep it in the boot. Defeated object. may as well have bought a small car. Whos great idea was this? When i asked fiat what you do if the kit doesnt work, they said "call the AA" Well firstly thats all well and good if you HAVE AA. secondly why would you want to wait 3 hours for AA to tow you off the M1, then find someone to put a new tyre on etc when you can change the wheel in 5 mins. What if you're on your way to the airport to catch a flight??? madness. I wasn't TOLD there was no spare wheel, and we don't do urban driving, our car is used for long distance journeys so I need one (Or a space saver, who cares so long as there is a wheel)
Then apart from the insurance/garage issue th garage also can't look at it for 11 days/ Again, what if I was going on holiday at the w/e? And like I said there is far more but I don't have time to type it all. I just thought I would warn others. You can heed it or not but I wish I'd never seen a fliuppin Fiat. it is just dire customer sevice

Sounds like the dealer is the problem.
What is wrong with the engine and what does "the brakes don't feel right" mean?
(Thought it was general knowledge that most cars do not come with a spare wheel anymore though).

bod1467

What if .. What if .. What if .. ?

Whilst annoying to the person in question, they are entirely irrelevant to the situation - they didn't form part of the sales contract. What DOES matter is what was said, what was agreed, and do the two things match?

AlSelley

Why would anyone in their right mind buy a Fiat. I mean the name says it all:rotfl: