“Stellantis is becoming the Boeing of the automobile”

The criteria for compensation for owners of a Stellantis vehicle equipped with the 3-cylinder 1.2 PureTech engine do not apply to a large number of customers who have suffered problems…

In an article dedicated to the new Stellantis platform for evaluating compensation for owners of a 1.2 PureTech vehicle having suffered various breakdowns and glitches with their car, which can go as far as engine failure of the 3-cylinder – in particular due to the premature deterioration of the timing belt immersed in oil -, the daily The Parisian reports the comments of some of these thousands of dissatisfied customers, some of whom grouped together within the Facebook group entitled “PSA 1.2 PureTech problems: belt, excess oil consumption, engine out of order”

Waive appeals

And the comments of these owners, to say the least, reported and relayed in the Ile-de-France newspaper – and a certain number of whom are preparing to engage in a standoff in court with the Stellantis Group – are not kind. First, most wonder why this platform arrives so late when the problems on this 1.2 PureTech engine (and, to a lesser extent, on the PureTech 1.0) have been known for many years. Why also, “it is full of restrictive criteria” asks the facilitator of the Facebook group. As for the modus operandi of the transaction proposed by Stellantis, it remains in the throat of the lawyer whose firm is carrying out the collective case in preparation: “Stellantis agrees to take charge of the repairs according to undisclosed criteria but in return requires a waiver of all future appeals.” thus protests Maître Christophe Lèguevaques, who adds that “Stellantis is becoming the Boeing of the automobile!”

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