Injuries

Passenger car – steering column

FIAT

Case number: 0051/08
Category: Motor vehicles
Type / Model: Passenger cars, models Grande Punto and Grande Punto VAN (Campaign 5252).
Audience: Consumer
Notifying country: 🇬🇷 Greece
Country of origin: 🇮🇹 Italy
Published: 2008-01-25

⚠️ Risk

The product poses a risk of injuries because on some vehicles the counter bore of the upper section of the steering column, at the connection to the universal joints, may not have been carried out correctly. Consequently, the steering function may be lost.

Measures

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): OtherCategory of measure(s): Voluntary corrective actions taken by the importer.Date of entry into force: Unknown

The recall concerns vehicles with left hand drive, with chassis numbers from 128680 to 157545, from 1110399 to 1138196, single chassis numbers 24265 – 117935 – 121759 –1062184 – 1498344 (produced in Melfi plant) and from 105778 to 169447, from 1078325 to 1156208, from 2000001 to 2009229 and single chassis number 98964 (produced in Mirafiori plant).