vvr1978

I had a similar problem with my 2012 Lancia Ypsilon. Headlights would go off by themselves sporadically. The problem was fixed by replacing the headlights stalk control (it had faulty contacts).

Hello! Thank you very much for your post. I guess I have the same or at least a very similar trouble with my car. Mine is a 2012 Lancia Ypsilon (the same car's version for Ukrainian market). I had no problems with the car until recently. First it started to have trouble switching from neutral to rear (mostly immediately after startup). The biggest trouble however was that it failed to switch down when I was driving it in Romania - I was going downhill and started to break gradually. Normally it switches down from 5th to 4th and on, but this time it stuck on the 5th gear, and when I switched off the engine, it would not switch into gear. After some time (about 1 hour) and repeated attempts it stated to function normally. This repeated 3 times during a week's trip. From your description, it seems very likely that my problem is also in that dirty cylinder. Do you happen to have a photo of the part you cleaned, or maybe you can point its location on the whole assembly? I've found an e-bay item selling this unit, with some pictures of it: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-Dualogic-semi-Auto-Gearbox-Actuator-Grande-Punto-Panda-Idea-500-selspeed-/291906435484?rmvSB=true&clk_rvr_id=1170928834218&nma=true&si=f4P9N43uXT%252BWH9PfEIZWpYEiPs0%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Maybe you can identify the problem part on these pictures? Thank you in advance for a reply! Regards, Valerii Riazanov