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Fiat 500X 2016technical service bulletin

Bulletin 08-085-15 REV A · NHTSA communication 10160040 · issued Dec 12, 2015

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2016
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Flash: Instrument Panel Cluster (IPC) Enhancement This bulletin involves reprogramming the Instrument Panel Cluster (IPC) with the latest available software. The customer may notice that the IPC brightness level may not adjust correctly to correspond with the outside light levels. The following enhancements are included in the software update: ? With this software update there is a new message added to the IPC. The message appears when the lever is in ?P? position and the brake pedal is pressed. ? Enhancement was made to properly calculate and display when the next service maintenance is neede

Vehicles covered

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.