Based on excellent reviews, I encouraged my young daughter to buy a 2006 Fiat Panda and up to now she has been very pleased with it. It has now done just 19,000 miles. A problem has now occurred with the EPAS light being intermittently displayed and a lot of noise coming, apparently, from the steering. My initial enquiries indicate that to remedy the fault will cost something between £600 and £1200, which seems extortionate given the value of the car. My local Fiat dealer has said that despite the low mileage such problems often occur. Given the mileage I would have thought that such a major item as the steering should last longer and that at the very least Fiat should replace the parts?