[bottle]

even my engine didnt come with the immobilizer.. but you can at least try to push for the leather since thats really a feature offered on the 1.6s since god knows when.. at least till they take it off the brochure

[mclaren1885]

Originally Posted by moralfibre

From what I can read in this thread, it was the dealers who made that statement. I could be wrong though.

Kiran, pardon my ignorance but unless the dealers are stealing the above mentioned parts the strategy to me comes straight out of Fiat's pockets. Also, I am tending to believe that the dealers are mentioning so because Fiat might have asked them to?

Reading Thingummy's response I think that there has been a grave mistake not only from the dealers but the production unit as well. And even marketing unit. Awaiting your report about the same. Go get them boy.

[EQUINOX]

Dear Mr Uttam,

Could yu please confirm if your 1.6 Palio came witht he key immobilizer/ Leather steering cover ? What about the rear screen defogger ?

[Thingummy]

Originally Posted by bottle

even my engine didnt come with the immobilizer.. but you can at least try to push for the leather since thats really a feature offered on the 1.6s since god knows when.. at least till they take it off the brochure

Wrote back a strongly worded mail to this Ricky person - and as expected no response yet. I'm not really interested in the leather stuff, because i got my car upholstered, and Ceralli did the steering grip and gear boot as a part of the package - I kind of like the soft rubber feel of the current gear knob, so don't really see the need to get the gear knob in leather too. However, the immobilizer is a BIG DEAL. Maybe its an ego thing - i just can't digest the fact that a feature that is standard even on the entry level 1.1 is not on offer with the 1.6.

On a different note, i am increasingly feeling that the double-crank prevention is a pain - In the 8 years of driving my earlier car, i have double cranked far fewer times than stalling the engine with wrong clutch release. Its highly irritating with the Palio when the engine cuts out in traffic, and i have to turn the ignition completely off in order to start again - not to mention that when i do this, my audio dies, and given that i am running off USB most of the time, it takes at least 5-6 seconds for reinitializing. Is double-cranking really so detrimental to the engine that fiat spent so much time and attention on getting that tech in, instead of focusing on maybe getting the engine immobilizer on the 1.6?

cheers!
raghu

[uttamc]

Originally Posted by EQUINOX

Dear Mr Uttam,

Could yu please confirm if your 1.6 Palio came witht he key immobilizer/ Leather steering cover ? What about the rear screen defogger ?

Hey Equinox,

The car came without a leather steering cover, without a leather gear knob and without an engine immobilizer.

I fought with fiat / shaman for the leather steering and gearknob and got that at my first service. It was only after the first service that i realised the immobiliser was missing, so i am fighting for it now.

The rear screen defogger was delivered. So was the 1.6 litre engine and 5 tyres

[uttamc]

Originally Posted by Thingummy

Wrote back a strongly worded mail to this Ricky person - and as expected no response yet. I'm not really interested in the leather stuff, because i got my car upholstered, and Ceralli did the steering grip and gear boot as a part of the package - I kind of like the soft rubber feel of the current gear knob, so don't really see the need to get the gear knob in leather too. However, the immobilizer is a BIG DEAL. Maybe its an ego thing - i just can't digest the fact that a feature that is standard even on the entry level 1.1 is not on offer with the 1.6.

cheers!
raghu

Hey Raghu, could you please share ricky's email address with me and whoever else you're in touch with in fiat india. I'll start sending them mails as well demanding my immobilizer. 2 is better than 1.

[thalavoy]

Ricky's mail seem to indicate that engine immobiliser may not be technically feasible for 1.6. Since 1.1 is a new(er) engine, it might be built for it.
Or is Mr. Ricky throwing some BS around?

[uttamc]

Originally Posted by thalavoy

Ricky's mail seem to indicate that engine immobiliser may not be technically feasible for 1.6. Since 1.1 is a new(er) engine, it might be built for it.
Or is Mr. Ricky throwing some BS around?

Whatever the case - don't advertise a product that doesn't exist.

So they have 2 choices as i see it

1. Fix the immobiliser

2. Don't charge me for it (or in this case, return the value of the immobiliser that you charged me for)

or secret option 3 that fiat may choose which is to do nothing about it. :P

[finneyp]

Option 4: Mr.Ricky pay from his pocket!

Sorry for my ignorance, How does the engine immoblizer work?

[bottle]

Originally Posted by Thingummy

i just can't digest the fact that a feature that is standard even on the entry level 1.1 is not on offer with the 1.6.

cheers!
raghu

well i am guessing that since the 1.1 engine is newer it comes with the immobilizer where as they are still using the same old engine for the 1.6 and dont want to waste time and effort in adding one

the double crank system has been around on the older palios too and am more or less ok with it now

anyways hope to hear some more updates from your side.

[Thingummy]

Originally Posted by finneyp

Sorry for my ignorance, How does the engine immoblizer work?

Originally Posted by bottle

well i am guessing that since the 1.1 engine is newer it comes with the immobilizer where as they are still using the same old engine for the 1.6 and dont want to waste time and effort in adding one

It shouldn't be a big deal fitting the engine immobilizer - right? I don't see what it has to do with how new the engine is. I wouldn't think that there was some engine mod that was required - after all its easy to buy an anti-theft system after market, for around 5-6K with the engine immobilizer function.

Finney, this topic has been done to death over the icat system in the SX4/ maruti thread - very quickly though, its just a chip, usually RFID, in the key, whose code should match the code programmed into the immobilizer circuit - and if the codes don't match, or the ignition key doesn't have a chip, the fuel supply is cut (is there an input from the immobilizer to the ECU?)

[bottle]

well maybe they want to save their 6k.. imo the immobilizer on the fiats required the whole ingnition assemby to be replaced in case a wrong key was used so guessing that its a bit more complex.

[finneyp]

Thanks Raghu for that crisp info on Engine immobiliser.

Well, it is certainly a good Security feature to have!

[CrAzY dRiVeR]

Originally Posted by thalavoy

Ricky's mail seem to indicate that engine immobiliser may not be technically feasible for 1.6. Since 1.1 is a new(er) engine, it might be built for it.
Or is Mr. Ricky throwing some BS around?

Come on, Maruti now has it on all their models?

Is FIAT saying that the 1.6 engine is 'pre-historic' or something? And they most probably might have it on their european cars as well.

[moralfibre]

Originally Posted by mclaren1885

Kiran, pardon my ignorance but unless the dealers are stealing the above mentioned parts the strategy to me comes straight out of Fiat's pockets. Also, I am tending to believe that the dealers are mentioning so because Fiat might have asked them to?

I agree. Its an error from every dept. Its a lapse in how Fiat operates I must say.