Total Mileage Keeps Resetting to ZERO

Undercoverguy

Having great craic with this car!

Okay a few weeks ago i left the stereo on in my car for a good 12 hours straight....... Add a Subwofter to that and ya got one seriously dead battery.
Anyway after several failed jumps from an AA Van they took out there big truck thing and jumped me. Started in one go and i was away, took about 3 days for the battery to fully charge again.

However a few days later the REV Counter Blew and was quickly followed by the Power Steering Failed, i nreckon this had something to do with the jumps as this is knowen to happen after the battery goes dead.

Anyway the garage replaced the sensor in the steering and ordered my a whole set of clocks. A few days later they were fitted.

A few days later i noticed my TOTAL MILLAGE had been cleared. So i have a 01 Punto with less than 500 miles on the clock!! I also noticed that when i reset the trip counter the TOTAL MILLAGE also resets itself. No just to clarify i'm NOT reading this wrong or getting mixed up it is actually the total millage of the car and not just the trip counter i'm looking at.

I told the garage and they've tole me that due to a fault in the wiring the millage cant be fixed. Surely this is illegal no?

Every now and then the millage resets itself without me doing anything which means it's impossible for me to track the millage of the car.

Is he garage legally bound to fix this?

mike65

If the garage bodged the installation then they have to fix it.

Mike.

Do-more

That problem must be very maddening!

johncm

having worked in a fiat garage for a few years i know that the clocks can be changed forward (not back) by their examiner computer. this is possible so if you buy a new clock they can put the corect miles on the clock. btw what garage was it?

Car Mad

lol thats funney.at least u can sell it low milage

Car Mad

lol thats funney.at least u can sell it low milage

mloc123

Do-more wrote:

That problem must be very maddening!

lol

oleras

Undercoverguy wrote:

Having great craic with this car!

Okay a few weeks ago i left the stereo on in my car for a good 12 hours straight....... Add a Subwofter to that and ya got one seriously dead battery.
Anyway after several failed jumps from an AA Van they took out there big truck thing and jumped me. Started in one go and i was away, took about 3 days for the battery to fully charge again.

However a few days later the REV Counter Blew and was quickly followed by the Power Steering Failed, i nreckon this had something to do with the jumps as this is knowen to happen after the battery goes dead.

Anyway the garage replaced the sensor in the steering and ordered my a whole set of clocks. A few days later they were fitted.

A few days later i noticed my TOTAL MILLAGE had been cleared. So i have a 01 Punto with less than 500 miles on the clock!! I also noticed that when i reset the trip counter the TOTAL MILLAGE also resets itself. No just to clarify i'm NOT reading this wrong or getting mixed up it is actually the total millage of the car and not just the trip counter i'm looking at.

I told the garage and they've tole me that due to a fault in the wiring the millage cant be fixed. Surely this is illegal no?

Every now and then the millage resets itself without me doing anything which means it's impossible for me to track the millage of the car.

Is he garage legally bound to fix this?

Why should they ? Is the car under warrenty ?

Undercoverguy

Yup, anothger 6 months on it i think, might be taking legal action to get it extended another 6months.

bazz26

Bloody hell, from reading your previous posts you have had some amount of problems with that car. I would not have the time or patience to put up with that kind of hassel. I would have gotten rid of that lemon ages ago or lit a match to it.

crosstownk

Fiats :rolleyes:

Sounds like you've got serious electrical problems. I'd have the alternator checked in case the voltage regulator is fcuked and its pumping out a high voltage that is causing other components to go crazy.

cantdecide

Car Mad wrote:

lol thats funney.at least u can sell it low milage

carmad, you have a severe case of lysdexia

johncm

oleras wrote:

Why should they ? Is the car under warrenty ?

all fiat parts come with a one year warranty