The Fiat Punto is arguably Fiat's most popular car in the last 20 years, these days there are many thousands of cars on the road and as with all cars needing maintenance and repair, we originally started in May 2012 with a video on how to reset the airbag warning light on the MK2 Model Puntos due to the large number of owners struggling with this common fault, this allowed an easy answer to the question. The response to this video was huge and it currently receives over 3000 hits a month, we followed up with a couple of other videos as an when we did repairs on our own cars and soon realised that people were really benefiting from our videos allowing them to save time and money doing their own repairs.
Two years on this channel gets some 35,000 hits a month and is viewed in 124 countries.
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i'm still happy with my original radio. I use a cable which i connected at the back of the radio and still can talk throu bluetooth. still happy here. what i don't understand is :i changed the break pedal switch but the error in the dashboard is still there. no mechanic seems to know. any good ideas? thank you
Have you set the plunger on the brake pedal correctly ?
@@PuntoHowto break switch was change twice by 2 different mechanics. One of them fiat specialist. Can you please advice me where to go,what to do?
@@hasisul without knowing what the actual problem is I’m unlikely to be able to help, the switch for the brake lights is adjustable so if not installed correctly it won’t work properly
Mine flashed in my Alfa G and I swapped it was £60 back in 2019 so probably gold dust now. Advanced usb options to get to play music is the most stupid menu system 😂
I really appreciate your efforts! Thanks man!
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you are great mate!thanks!
Thank you for watching and even more for leaving me a message 🙌
Hi - Liked and Subscribed :) Own and drive a 2003 Punto 2b 1.3 Multijet. Just replaced front CV boot but cant find any info on the torque setting for the wheel bearing hub nut. Any ideas how many Nm it is ?
Sorry it took me a while to get back to you, I have 240Nm or 177ft-lb for the drive shaft nut
I have the same problem on a Lancia Ypsilon, can you help me?
Replied to your DM 🤓
Mi perde olio dopo aver fatto il cambio
Did you get the seal to seat correctly ? Also needs doing up to the correct tightness, sometimes if the cap of the filter is damaged you have to buy a new cap
Merci pour cette vidéo.
Great video Andy I will be watching all of them again while trying to doing my punto cab up had work paying off hopefully I can do the same I’m not a mechanic by any means so will do what I can then get help can’t wait to see finished car
I’m not a mechanic either, these cars are very simple and easy to work on the main issue you’ll probably have is stuck bolts that shear off. Thanks for watching 👀
I m going to install usb charging ports for backseats, and this video will be usfull for removing armrest :D
That’s cool let me know how you get on
Gloves man! Uv light isn't good for you 🤔👍🇮🇪
That’s my Dad who at this point has been a welder for around 50 years so I think at this point he’s probably ok 👍
@PuntoHowto people use,sunbeds, they don't all get C but it's not recommended, same with welding. I'm not someone who usually follows all safety procedures but this is so easy to do what's recommended. You can't say uv light is good for you...
Gloves. Good tip, thanks, never actually thought about it. Only tend to wear them when a spark lands on them.
Did you do it on a warm or cold engine?
I’d suggest a cold engine, really you are looking to see if there is a difference between cylinders but if you do it on a warm engine then you have to contend with hot spark plugs and hot engine and risk burning yourself
@@PuntoHowto okay cool … so I’m curious whenever you have bent valves or slightly bent valves, that cylinder won’t be able to hold compression right?? I drive a mk7 gti and I know that the loud bang I heard under my hood was me jumping time.. I replaced the timing chain then later saw this video and did a compression test all cylinders were pretty much the same between 147-149 .. but the car runs like crap the car idles at 600 but after a drive it starts idling at 900 rpm so I’m just lost
@@nequanlucas2162 yes if you have bent valves then you’ll not have compression in those cylinders. That engine would be direct injection? It’s quite a lot more complex than the engine in this video I can’t really suggest what you can do to fix the problems you are having?
How cringe are you....scripted bollocks 😅
Hey why don’t you mind ur business and report some real crime
I'm guessing you drive like an utter bellend as well then !!
Lol written like a BMW driver 🔔🔚
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Is this a MK2 Punto , great work
This is a mk1, they are surprisingly very similar despite there being a big difference in the cars
@@PuntoHowto oh ok ,,, thanks for the heads up, great work btw
Don't bother with the boot gas struts - new ones don't last long enough to make it worthwhile buying them.
That’s worth knowing especially at the price they charge for replacements, I wonder if I could fit a spring somewhere to give the extra oooph to hold the boot up
@@PuntoHowto I lift the boot up then place a piece of hose pipe or similar, about 2 inches long split down the middle lengthwise around the strut middle.
Hi I have the same one I’m hoping to get back on the road any advice on anything would be welcomed
@@yelba100 these are pretty simple cars but keep watching an I will try and cover most jobs on the car.
Didn't see the circlip when i did the cv joint on my cinquecento, so whacked it with my biggest hammer and it didn't go well 🙄 Came off in pieces.....
Well it came off, one way or another
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Hi, brilliant channel 😊 I've still got my year 2000 Fiat Punto, bit of an old friend really now. For anyone reading..where would I find a good wiring diagram for my car please? Not Autodata, no good these days sadly. Thank you very much for any help. Ps I already have the Haynes, not enough detail, its body computer wiring I could do with. Thank you.
“You’ll need some spring compressors” ah you lost me.
Really cheap to buy some as little as £10
Had to use these once when my springs need replacing. It was sketching me out when compressing the new spring as I realized how much energy was being stored. It doesn't take much, just one of them slipping, to seriously injure or end yourself.
Nah, I'm changing the whole thing. Lol
It's just not worth a single penny that you save swapping those out, and you're literally only saving pennies at that point Personally the only time I will ever use coil compressors is for the old style springs and shocks and even then they're not super tight and only as a backup incase anything goes wrong
I was at a brand new shop doing some suspension work on a Tacoma. Had my apprentice do one of the struts on the wall mount. Weve used this thing several times already with no incident, but this time he mounted it fine, but the lips on the bottom that hold the spring snapped off, the spring on the strut essentially exploded in to the ground and tore the entire mount off the wall. Thankfully, the dude wasn't hurt, but damn that was the loudest and scariest thing I've ever seen. We let him take the rest of the day and the next one off for a 4 day weekend.
I saw that happen to our wall mount in school, and I've refused to do that job since If the customer really wants to save that little bit of money they can come disassemble the struts themselves lol
You prove the point well that these things are not to be messed with and you can’t be complacent
I have them, they definitely feel sketchy as fook. I remember back in the day you couldn’t even buy stuff like that, it was trade only, motorfactors wouldn't sell tools like that. Don't know why, suppose the garages wanted their cut of the work. That's Ireland for you 🙄
Thankfully these days you can get pretty much any tools you want even budget versions of specialist tools, I remember my mk1 Mondeo needed a “special” spanner to remove the steering rack which consisted of a normal spanner bent in a certain way as to go round a corner you’d not normally get a spanner into, Ford wouldn’t sell you one so you just take any old spanner and bend it yourself to fit
And lacquer over the silver?
Yup
You for got to say unplug the charger then"disconnect the battery"
Fairly common sense…. Makes refitting the battery really hard if it’s still plugged in, inside the house 🏠
Hello, how to reset the service light please, thank you
You will need to do that in software, you’ll need a program like MES (Multi ECU Scan) to do it. I should have included this but the service tokens on my car had expired so I no longer got service light warnings (also I didn’t do enough miles between oil changes anyway)
This is looking so good!
Really give it up no help.
Nope going to keep posting… I hope this doesn’t annoy you too much 😜
Fiat Punto are a joke
I know what you mean such terrible cars… I should start a Honda channel and post videos about Hondas to all my Honda bros…. Actually I think I’m happy sticking to European cars
@@PuntoHowtoYou can do whatever you want , the quality of Fiat cars wont get better. When you’re home in a location like me ( north sweden - snow - cold ) its a useless car with only issue.
The irony in that is fiat sell more cars in Sweden than Honda 😗
Is there a other way to remove the lights without the plastic tool that comes with the car? My car does not have it
Yep just a normal socket I think it’s 17mm will do the job 👍
It's always best to soak the new filter in oil first, before putting it in the housing. This ensures that oil will be at the main parts of the engine when starting after an oil change. If the oil pump has to pump oil into the filter housing first, before getting to the main parts, then there's a chance the main and small end bearings could be running dry, which over time will make the engine knock. This then would not be a good scenario.
Let’s think about this logically… in order for the oil that you have soaked into the filter to be pushed around the engine, it needs something to push the oil out of the filter, as the oil pump is not an air pump and air in the system will be easily displaced the oil in the filter is reliant on oil pressure, so it’s not going to move that oil that you have soaked the filter in, until the oil pressure is up and moving around the system. Also, if you say the oil pressure takes a second or two, to build up and the car does that once a year for its annual oil change then it is only maybe 10-20 seconds over 10 years that the car is without oil, as there is always oil left on parts from the previous running, it is simply not worth my time or hassle messing about soaking filters in oil, getting oil everywhere and making even more of a mess just for the sake of 10 seconds in 10 years (when I won’t own the car anywhere near as long as that)
My Punto does not look as good as this!
I won’t lie there is a huge amount of work involved to get it to this state
will you be doing a long video on this?
Yep, it’s just taking time to do as I want some conclusion to the video which means a finished suspension set up, I also need to get new discs and pads for the brakes and new shocks which I’ve ordered.
@@PuntoHowto something to look forward to!
It’s nearly done, so much video footage to try to condense down but it is coming very soon
thank you so much. this was quick and clear tutorial. appreciate it
Any time, so glad I could help
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My air conditioning is turning on and off every so often. Is it because a leak or clutch slipping?
The compressor will cycle on and off all the time but this will get worse the lower the pressure of the gas it’s unlikely to an issue with the clutch or it woundn’t work at all