1999 Fiat Punto 60SX from UK and Ireland - Comments

The heater never worked. It always blew out cold air. Eventually traced to debris in the heater matrix.

The clutch cable snapped twice within 750 miles and 3 weeks of ownership. Fixed under warranty.

Often refused to start on cold or damp mornings. This was later rectified by a new ECU.

Within a space of 3 years and 31000 miles, the life of each head gasket was roughly about 10,000 miles.

I have now got rid of the car due to yet another head gasket failure. I was told the head was too warped to survive any more.

Plus, it was due for an MOT which I expected it to fail.

Overall, it wasn't a bad car when it was running correctly, plagued with rattles and squeaks though.

I have a Fiat-Punto 1.2sx year 1999. I bought it in august of 2001 and have had nothing but trouble from it. I have had it fixed so many times I have lost count. I am not an expert on cars so I can't go into great detail. I had the e.c.u. computer replaced the back lights are constantly failing and have to be replaced. The electric windows are always failing and the fan is not working resulting in the car over heating. I don't think I would ever buy a punto again. I have so much trouble with this one and theres only 40,000 miles on it. could you send me any info? I would appreciate it greatly. Thank You. I will enclose my e-mail address. Paul.Carroll@daff.irlgov.ie.

I recently bought a Fiat Punto 55sx, 1998 P reg 67,000 miles on clock and it was running well!!! Until shortly after I come back from holiday everything started to go wrong, It won't start most days eventually after 7 attempts it works and its constantly overheating, Can anyone give me any advice of this problem Thank you

Please write to me on the e-mail address Below

Andrew@rileyl275rl.freeserve.co.uk.

I bought my 1998 Punto SX60 on November 5th 2008, it had 88,000 miles on the clock and worked fine.

There was a fuel problem a week into owning it where I ran out of fuel and it wouldn't start again, I just took it to the garage and they said they had cleared an air pressure problem in the fuel lines, ever since I've had no troubles with it.. great car!!