At this point I would like to leave out a topic which is certainly not new to many readers, the quality of the vehicle brand FIAT. Various translations of these 4 letters testify to this. However, what I had to experience with my FIAT Brava (year of construction 1998, mileage 50,000) I would not have thought possible. Although the timing belt, a certainly very important and stressed component, is specified according to maintenance specifications with a change interval of 120,000 km, it ripped ready While the workshop was still busy with the replacement of the cylinder head, I was able to read on various websites that this timing belt tear is very common according to ADAC-pan test and makes the FIAT Brava the “badest vehicle of the lower middle class”. The whole is clearly due to a design error of Fiat and the manufacturer known for years. Neither H However, the manufacturer still felt obliged to call me or the car into the workshop once. However, I found FIAT advertising time and again in the mailbox. However, it comes even better. After I had received the car as repaired and tested in a test drive back, I had to find out already on the first kilometers that the car had no power and brought it back to the workshop. Here after several weeks (!) it was determined that the car had a piston fres It is assumed that the replacement of the cylinder head was sloppy and that my workshop caused the piston eater itself. In any case, an exchange engine was due and then an invoice for EUR 4.100,-. This is 8,000,- mark old currency for the repair of a car, w This is not due to FIAT. This is understood by this manufacturer under customer loyalty. It is not surprising that even in Italy the sales break down, to be silent about the German market. For me it is clear: after many years FIAT w w If this letter is read by Leidensgenossen or a lawyer who dares to sue FIAT, I look forward to contacting you. Christiane Petzold Lüdenscheid