Ry90
New member
Morning all,
So recently my fiat 500 2012 dualogic developed juddering when setting off from a standstill. (if it was manual it would be like you hadnt quite got the biting point)
Had it in 2 garages (when I managed to find one! hardly any garage would touch the dualogic! first was a transmission place and then it ended up at a Fiat "specialist").
The garages found no codes, both test drove it and "specialist" said the same as the first garage, some inner gearbox bearing needed replacing.
first garage quoted £1000, 2nd garage quoted and did the work for £900 inc labour + VAT
So, ended up having said bearing replaced, along with new clutch kit. Was warned it would be abit jumpy from the new clutch? which it was and the first couple of days was very jumpy setting off which did eventually calm down.
Then drove and ran completely fine for about a week and a half. Now as soon as you set off it beeps and flashes a red warning light which from googling apparently means automatic gearbox failure?
Also will not go into any gears other than 1, 2 & 3.... if you try and change up manually into 4th, results beeping and message saying "gear not available"
Rang the garage that did the work (the "specialist") and they have said theyd need it back in to diagnose...but could be the actuator or hydraulic pump? Quoted on the phone anywhere from £600 - £1000
Really just looking for any advice on this as obviously don't want to let the garage do more work, only for it to not actually fix the issue!
Hope this makes sense & thank you in advance for any replies and for reading
So recently my fiat 500 2012 dualogic developed juddering when setting off from a standstill. (if it was manual it would be like you hadnt quite got the biting point)
Had it in 2 garages (when I managed to find one! hardly any garage would touch the dualogic! first was a transmission place and then it ended up at a Fiat "specialist").
The garages found no codes, both test drove it and "specialist" said the same as the first garage, some inner gearbox bearing needed replacing.
first garage quoted £1000, 2nd garage quoted and did the work for £900 inc labour + VAT
So, ended up having said bearing replaced, along with new clutch kit. Was warned it would be abit jumpy from the new clutch? which it was and the first couple of days was very jumpy setting off which did eventually calm down.
Then drove and ran completely fine for about a week and a half. Now as soon as you set off it beeps and flashes a red warning light which from googling apparently means automatic gearbox failure?
Also will not go into any gears other than 1, 2 & 3.... if you try and change up manually into 4th, results beeping and message saying "gear not available"
Rang the garage that did the work (the "specialist") and they have said theyd need it back in to diagnose...but could be the actuator or hydraulic pump? Quoted on the phone anywhere from £600 - £1000
Really just looking for any advice on this as obviously don't want to let the garage do more work, only for it to not actually fix the issue!
Hope this makes sense & thank you in advance for any replies and for reading
