This blog is not to blame any multinational company but just to share my experiences with dealing Fiat Linea and Goodyear tyres company.
I own a Fiat Linea Emotion Petrol vehicle since May 2009. Even after so many warnings from my near & dear regarding sales & service of Fiat in India, I have purchased this car hoping to get good service after tie-up with Tata. For regular services, there is no major issues but actual thing came when this car met accident.
On fateful day of 29.6.2010, while driving my Linea on NH5 near Kavali in Andhra Pradesh, I have lost control of steering because of front tyre burst on a bridge & hit the parapet wall of bridge head on. I was driving around 80kmph on right lane & suddenly car turned to left because of loss of control due to tyre burst. Same thing has been confirmed by investigation by local police station & recorded in FIR. I have lost complete car because of this accident and Fiat given me an estimate of 10.5 lakhs for repair (actual on road price of car is 8.2 lakhs).
Now comes the actual story. I have reported the incident to Fiat Italy & Goodyear tyres to do proper investigation of this failure. They have directed local dealer of Goodyear and Fiat to look into it. To this I have received a simple reply saying there is no manufacturing defect in the tyre but no reason cited for tyre burst. Even after my repeated mails to them, I have not received any proper answer for the failure till date.
I request all Fiat owners to make sure that they should change their tyres to different make to be safe. Every Linea owner may not be lucky enough to survive like me after meeting such an accident because of faulty tyres supplied along with Fiat Linea.
See the extent of damage can happen to the car by faulty tyres. Please do not recommend any of your near & dears to purchase Fiat cars or any of the vehicles which supplies with Goodyear tyres.
For any further details on this issue, please mail me at reachvenu16@gmail.com
