Tried to change from CD1 to CD5 on Saturday night and all I got was CD error or CD pause meassages along with eject buttons flashing from red to green, get in car on Sunday and display says CD2 track1 0.00, tried disconnecting and reconnecting Cd player to clear fault but no better, took top off (its out of warranty for what that was worth anyway!!!!!!) and manually ejected discs 1 to 4, no 5 jammed in and slight burnt smell.....oh joy!!!!!
Ran up local car radio company, yes they can get it fixed for £90 + vat but said try Fiat as they might have repair/exchange service......Guess what?...of course they don't offer such a service....they're Bl##dy useless Fiat aren't they! so down to Car radio it is, No wonder no one buys Fiats, the dealers are useless rip off merchants and Customer Care (or lack of it are crap too) as stated in various other posts.
Just to put icing on cake, n/s/r tyre scrubbing off again! Last Bl##dy Fiat i'll ever buy and i've had four...previous ones were rot boxes from the 80's spose they've got something right...I hope
PS even local worthless dealer has changed to Renault

So you won't buy another Fiat because you've had an issue with the CD player? Do you not think that owners of other makes of cars have similar problems? Try and keep things in perspective instead of spitting the dummy...

:bang: Not spitting dummy just because of CD player, but last straw in long history of problems, mostly electrical, but also rear tyre wear problems due to incorrect manufacture of rear axle, Fiat dealers drama out of every problem - five 70 mile round trips to get interior light fixed just one example!!!!!
Dealers not interested and foriegn call centre no help either!

P.S I have worked in motor trade over 25 years and if companies I worked for had Fiat's attitude they would have no customers.....

Foreign call centres?? i know Scotland's a bit far away, but....

Scotland!!!! never got anybody with a scottish accent when I rang, assumed it was India like everything else.....Certainly never spoke to anyone Scottish, could have understood them!

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Scotland!!!! never got anybody with a scottish accent when I rang, assumed it was India like everything else.....Certainly never spoke to anyone Scottish, could have understood them!

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I work in a call centre, and as a manager, I get the pleasure of having all sorts of racist comments thrown my way. Sorry to say, there are a lot of people legally allowed to work in the UK that don't speak in the best of English Accents... I work with a lot of Asian/Indian/Irish /Brummies... they all struggle with the English language.. but they do struggle. And what a lot of them find is that most of the understanding, is on the customer's side, but more often stil that the customer hears an accent and is not willing to listen to anything else...
And I also have the pleasure of first hand experience of that, when speaking to scottish people, they hear my lovely English accent, and suddenly I'm speaking a different language.

and all the people I've spoken to at FIAT have been English/Scottish/Irish, and have been perfectly easy to understand, and when asked they have all said they are in the UK... so, no worries for me...

Wot ever...................

Sid said:

Fiat dealers drama out of every problem - five 70 mile round trips to get interior light fixed just one example!!!!!
Dealers not interested and foriegn call centre no help either!

P.S I have worked in motor trade over 25 years and if companies I worked for had Fiat's attitude they would have no customers.....

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So you have had a bad experience of ONE dealership - they aren't all as bad as that, some of them even show interest, as can be proved

Also, pick any make of car; then we can go and look at their forums, and see all the problems they have - it isn't just FIAT. I have known worse experiences at my local Ford/Renault/Peugeot/M.Benz garages.....

Granted, I have had my fair share of problems, but I am still smiling