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★★★☆☆

“For a 1.2 reasonable power, just been driving v-astra...”

written by singeing on 01/10/2010

For a 1.2 reasonable power, just been driving v-astra 1.6 and the stilo has more torque.

Good fuel 45-50 on a longer run (average speed 45-50)this is what your average speed is, taking all the stops and starts.

Never had any trouble starting or running. It does show up temporary fault warnings due to dampness,(usually when parked at odd angles) unless thay stay on you just ignore them.

Good seats good comfort. They are cheap to buy compared to some equivelents but continue to depreciate. This 3 door model has a low roof line and lacks rear space and the boot is smaller than average, trying to get enough money to fit a tow bar to carry my bikes on a bike carrier!

Some reports suggest problems with tyres wearing out early, we had one the drivers front but since the tracking was re-set this does not appear to be re-occuring. Try colway remoulds if you cant afford new tyres they are better than steel radials any way.

This was my dads car before me, he bought it new and the same faults and benefits were there. He had it serviced by Fiat, i have been usuing a local garage, apart from being unable to re-set service lights the car is running well.

I believe if you do not service the car at all you will get all sorts of faults. Very few reviews state if there car has been getting serviced properly.

My dad had 5 Fiats before this and no faults or reliabilty issues except for the first Tipo a 1.4 petrol witch suffered from very wet weather problems this appeared to be cured when a electric module was replaced. His other Tipo diesel- two petrol Puntos, a petrol Bravo had zero probs.

Obviously due to the high volume cars like this you will get some poor examples, the problems seems to be either the main dealer or importer not cutting there losses on these lemon cars, and people get a rotten deal, they go on webs like this,tell all their friends, then a car gets a bad reputation,possibly not deserved.

Al



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