Ok, after being a Fiero owner for 13 years, owning so many that I am ashamed to count and reading other peoples woes on the Forum, I have compiled a couple top 10 lists of common Fiero woes. Some are typical of a 20 year old car & some unique to the breed. There are so many problems, I had to break them into two categories, mechanical & cosmetic. Feel free to rearrange & add more.
Fiero Top 10 Mechanical Headaches 1 Bleeding air from the clutch hydraulics 2 Broken EGR Tube on 2.8 3 Rusted / frozen cradle bolts 4 Crushed cooling pipes 5 Fuel gage inaccurate 6 E-brake doesn't work 7 Headlight motor, lights goes down, won't go up 8 Badly done repairs from former owners (what on earth were they thinking when they did that?) 9 Worn out door hinge pins 10 Changing front spark plugs on your 2.8
I'd take the plugs off the mechanicals list. The v6 in my fiero is alot easier than the v6 in my wife's '93 luimina 3.1! The Lumina requires the alternator to be removed to reach ANY of the plugs against the firewall!
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02:37 PM
MDFierolvr Member
Posts: 2025 From: Great Mills, MD Registered: Mar 2004
try living a little farther north.. come winter, frozen shifter cable! And it does't help when you engine swap doesn't follow the old exhaust routing!.
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2000RagTop Member
Posts: 3999 From: Sussex, (Milwaukee) Wi. USA, Earth Registered: Jun 2003
I can't believe you guys haven't mentioned...... The dreaded exhaust manifold bolt that breaks off in the head. The cracked forward exhaust manifold. The constantly failing ignition module The squeeky alternator belt syndrome
As far as cosmetics hmmmm.......... Broken turn signal lens's The stretched cloth thingy were glove box would be Cracked radio fascia Cracked instument fascia. Broken ash tray doors Ripped shift boots missing arrowhead in sail panels
I'm sure i'm missing some
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MDFierolvr Member
Posts: 2025 From: Great Mills, MD Registered: Mar 2004
I can't believe you guys haven't mentioned...... The dreaded exhaust manifold bolt that breaks off in the head. The cracked forward exhaust manifold. The constantly failing ignition module The squeeky alternator belt syndrome
As far as cosmetics hmmmm.......... Broken turn signal lens's The stretched cloth thingy were glove box would be Cracked radio fascia Cracked instument fascia. Broken ash tray doors Ripped shift boots missing arrowhead in sail panels
I'm sure i'm missing some
Wow, those are all great problems! We can easily get this up to a top 20 list in no time!
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09:22 PM
BobadooFunk Member
Posts: 5436 From: Pittsburgh PA Registered: Jun 2003
i agree! the 2.8 plugs (besides my duke) were among the easist to change...altho being tall and lanky helps.....
Yeah, I was able to change them on ours as well however I have read enough horror stories of them snapping off and having to drop the engine to get an easy-out in there.
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10:02 PM
USFiero Member
Posts: 4879 From: Everywhere and Middle of Nowhere Registered: Mar 2002
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