Fiat stilo - Fiat stilo immobiliser

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Sun 16 Jun 2013 12:31
Fiat stilo - Fiat stilo immobiliser - agate27
Last January I brought a second hand car from a private garage for 2200, the car came with 3000 miles warranty. However, within the first week my car was already back in the garage! My car wouldn't start and the immobiliser symbol kept coming up. After about a week the garage said they had fixed it however, within another week it was back in the garage again with the same problem. It took the garage 3 months to figure out the problem, in which they had to send my ecu unit to fiat and get a replacement (so they said)!

From June last year the car has worked fine and evidently my warranty has run out. However, yesterday the same problem that occurred! The stupid immobiliser sign is back and I can't start my car. I can't believe that it has happened again.

The garage gave me no paperwork last year regarding putting in a new ecu unit. Where do I stand with regard to the work they done? Surely the car which I have only had for just over a year was not fit for purpose when they sold it to me?
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Sun 16 Jun 2013 16:27
Fiat stilo - Fiat stilo immobiliser - Armitage Shanks {p}

What is a "private" garage? Are you saying that you had no use of the car during the three months that it took then to figure the problem? They do not need to send an ECU to Fiat to get a replacement. This info from HJ may clear things up for you

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/faq/consumer-rights/

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Sun 16 Jun 2013 17:01
Fiat stilo - Fiat stilo immobiliser - Armitage Shanks {p}

Further problem with timing! You bought it last January which, to me, is 6 months ago and you talk about "Last June" which is 12 months ago

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Sun 16 Jun 2013 22:04
Fiat stilo - Fiat stilo immobiliser - Avant

Seriously, if I were you I'd get an independent garage to disconnect the immobiliser. The risk of having a Fiat Stilo stolen (there's a pun in there somewhere....) has got to be very low.

I don't think it would need to be re-connected to get through the MoT, would it? I'm sure someone can enlighten us on that.

Edited by Avant on 16/06/2013 at 22:05

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Tue 18 Jun 2013 10:43
Fiat stilo - Fiat stilo immobiliser - TeeCee

>> I don't think it would need to be re-connected to get through the MoT, would it?

Can't see why, there's been a lot of chat about what's now required for an MOT, but I've yet to see "must have an immobiliser" mentioned anywhere.

The snag is it's almost certainly a modification that would have to be declared to an insurer, as it directly affects the risk and would probably have a rather nasty effect on premiums (regardless of how innately undesirable to thieves the car may be).

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