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Watchdog filming 'Diesel' barchetta. |
In January 1999, BBC Watchdog took up the case of the barchetta camshaft variator problem, on behalf of Pete Richards. He'd been refused free replacement due to his car being 2 years old. Abigail Flanagan, and Libby Turner from the programme contacted both the UK owners club and Marc Kloosterman for information regarding the problem. Within a day they had concrete proof that FIAT had a variable policy on fixing this recurring fault, and that the parts were still failing. Upwards of 30 people contacted the show to register their problems.
The filming consisted of 2 Silver Diesels:- Nick Warner, and Pete Richards, and 2 Yellow cars who'd had to, or were looking at paying for this themselves.
Here are some photos of the day.
Images © 1999. The above carry an acknowledgement to the BBC Watchdog programme. Without them this wouldn't have been possible, and we'd all be forking out £400 every time this failed. Thanks again to everyone at the BBC, and DTR for getting some action on this.
© on behalf of the UK barchetta Owners Club. 2000. |