Stellantis and his discord engine: the 1.2 PureTech between lights and shadows

The 1.2 PureTech engine de Stellantis represents an enigma: on the one hand, it has achieved a sure business success, after adopting completely different fashions of Peugeot, Citroen and Opel; however, he generated a sequence of inconveniences associated to his driving belt. Nonetheless, the primary ones seem Updates for the hybrid model.

An article concerning the present state of the 1.2 PureTech engines was not too long ago revealed by L’Argus, a number one French journal. After the earlier issues, which they’ve it introduced Stellantis to the conclusion of a European class motion, the delicate hybrid model of the 1.2 PureTech, outfitted with a 48 V system, is now equipped with an improved timing chain as a substitute of the belt. Nonetheless, some minor points seem that differ from automobile to automobile, given the massive variety of fashions concerned. most up-to-date reminiscence.

In France alone, round 14,000 autos between 3008, 5008, 208 and 2008 (MQ3 marketing campaign launched in April 2024), in addition to greater than 2,000 C5 Air Cross (marketing campaign MP6), they need to return to the workshop. Some Opel Corsa and Grandland (KMB marketing campaign) can present the identical issues, with an extended checklist of potential interventions. In some instances, you could even want to switch the transmission, though, in line with Stellantis, this solely occurs 0.01% of the time. In 0.02% of instances, nonetheless, it reaches substitute the 48 V traction battery. The checklist continues with the substitute of the inverter in 0.6% of instances, whereas the substitute of the direct present converter is even rarer, affecting solely 0.004% of instances.

A way more widespread intervention (66%) is to ship a guard to keep away from contact between water pipe and the left entrance suspension arm. With the big selection of interventions, intervention instances fluctuate tremendously, from half-hour to greater than 9 hours of labor. As if that wasn’t sufficient, Stellantis not too long ago licensed a brand new recall of the 208 and Corsa because of a clutch downside that might be mounted with a software program reprogramming of the particular management unit. This downside is mounted in about 25 minutes and impacts (once more in France) 3,056 Peugeot 208 and 229 Opel Corsa. In the meanwhile, we now have no information associated to the Italian automobile fleet.

At present, the brand new 1.2 PureTech is in its third era (Gen3) and doesn’t appear to indicate the issues of its predecessors. Though the three-cylinder structure has remained unchanged, there are a lot of variationssuch because the timing chain as a substitute of the oil tub belt.

The variable geometry turbo has additionally been fully up to date, optimized to cut back consumption with out compromising efficiency. The unique 1.2 PureTech solely confirmed its flaws lengthy after its launch, however we hope the up to date and improved model has nothing to concern.