Fiat 500 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 2,232 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)786 (35.2%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 2012–2019.
• Electrical system274 (12.3%)
• Engine222 (9.9%)
• Air bags (restraint system)104 (4.7%)
• Fuel system88 (3.9%)
• Steering76 (3.4%)

Other / uncategorized: 176 classifications (7.9%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (1,612 records, model years 2012–2018) are most frequently classified under: powertrain (transmission & drivetrain), electrical system and engine.
• Manufacturer communications (1,436 records, model years 2012–2019) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, equipment & accessories and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 1,182reports included a mileage
• 55,721average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2012 537 records for 2012 537
2. 2013 306 records for 2013 306
3. 2014 276 records for 2014 276
4. 2015 267 records for 2015 267
5. 2016 187 records for 2016 187
6. 2017 118 records for 2017 118
7. 2018 100 records for 2018 100
8. 2019 88 records for 2019 88

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 96mention a crash
• 32mention a fire
• 76mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 33
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 1,436
• Investigations NHTSA 12
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 29
• Owner complaints NHTSA 1,612

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0513 in 8 records · 2018–2019
• P2299 in 8 records · 2015–2017
• P0339 in 4 records · 2018–2019
• P0141 in 3 records · 2015–2015
• P0606 in 3 records · 2016–2016
• P0299 in 1 record · 2019–2019

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.