Strangely enough the motor behaved itself all the way home from Germany, but something obviously not right so I arranged to take Bertie into our local garage. They seemed to think they knew what it was, worked on it and pronounced it "fixed". Yeh, right - well it was a bit better but still not right but we'd planned a run out to Lincoln so agreed to give it a chance.
However it definitely wasn't fixed so they tried a chemical cleanup of the inlet and exhaust system, which made the van seem smoother and quiter but had still not fixed the misfiring. So, I bite the bullet and arranged to take it into the Fiat dealer who assured me he knew exactly what was wrong and would sort it.
They had the van for 10 days but, true to their word, it was fixed - a known fault that had been the subject of warranty repairs when the van was new, but of course not to ours. So it cost! But replacement of the throttle body, refit a slightly leaking exhaust and "fix" what the local garage had done turned Bertie into a new van - the change was remarkable. So we took ourselves off to Blackpool for a couple of days to prove it.
And everything is now okay (except of course £900 poorer).
