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car of your choice review by christine5-6-2005
Overall rating: 0/10 Good points: The car is a good looker, smart and snazzy. Bad points: The car on initial start up in neutral tries to lurch forward. The car judders when starting, driving and reversing and seems to hop, skip and jump instead of gliding along the ground and vibrates terribly. Squeaks come from the rear of the car.The rev counter pulsates drastically whilst in neutral. Main review: The judder was caused by faulty clutches, which dates back to 2002, and to date Fiat have not been able to rectify this problem. We are on our 3rd clutch in a couple of months. Fiat cured the pulsating rev counter(so far). The squeaking is caused by the handbrake cable grating over the rear axle. After finding out about other peoples recurrent problems we found ourselves waiting for problems to appear- and they did. The car has a major design fault which cant be cured. We are disappointed and will never buy a Fiat again, and feel that the dealer is just riding out the warranty period. However, we will not be prepared to pay £800 for clutches which still dont cure the problems so am getting rid of the car.
Reliability: 0/10 Practicality: 1/10 Performance: 0/10 Value for money: 2/10
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