1.2 8V 169A4
Fiat's long-serving small petrol, port-injected and belt-driven. It's slow and it's close to unbreakable, so the cambelt schedule is the only thing standing between you and a cheap car.
Overview
The 1.2 8V is the 169A4 petrol version of the Fiat 500 hatchback (312), sold 2007–2015 with 69 PS and manual_5. Low risk at level 1. Nothing over €800 is recorded against this engine beyond the cambelt, which is scheduled work. 1 failure modes are recorded against its engine, gearbox, chassis and shared components. Prices on this page are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology for how the bands are derived.
Fiat 500 hatchback (312) · photo Fiat 500 Type 312 Rosso (3) by Damian B Oh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ranked by probability × repair cost. 1 recorded in total.
Likely spend vs price −12 · all issues →
Known issues, ranked by expected cost
Faults recorded against this engine, its components and its chassis, ranked by likelihood × repair cost. Costs are indicative ranges with a stated labour basis.
Ranked by probability × repair cost, not by how loudly a failure is discussed. Inherited from the engine, gearbox, chassis and shared components, each written once.
Pre-purchase inspection
The same issue records, reordered into the sequence you can actually check them in: cold start, static, drive, paperwork.
1Static checksEngine off, ideally on a lift.
Mileage and servicing
What the odometer does and doesn't tell you here, plus the service items whose neglect causes the expensive failures above.
These do most of their work in town, so a low odometer often hides a hard life of cold starts. A higher-mileage car that commuted is usually in better mechanical shape than a garage queen that never warmed up.
| Service item | Interval | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Cambelt and tensioner A snapped belt bends valves on this engine. | 120,000 km or 5 years | €350–520 |
| Engine oil and filter Short-trip use is hard on oil and these live in towns. | 15,000 km or annually | €70–110 |
What to pay
What this engine sells for, against the median of every engine in the chassis. All figures are illustrative placeholders. See the basis chips.
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United States vs Europe
1 EUR = 1.08 USD ·US figures are the EU band converted at a stated rate. No US market differential is modelled: we hold no sourced US asking prices, and inventing one would be worse than saying so. What the comparison does show for real is availability. Most of this range was never sold in the US.
- ModelFiat 500 1.2 8V
- Chassis312
- Engine169A4
- Years2007–2015
- MarketCentral EU
- Windowrolling 12 months to 2026-07
Good buy isn't the same as cheapest. The good-buy figure assumes the known failure items are either done with receipts or verifiably not yet due. Full breakdown by facelift phase →
Buyer notes
Our judgement, kept separate from the records it's built on.
Everything above this line comes from the issue and specification records. This paragraph is our judgement on top of them. See how we reach it.
Full specification
Manufacturer figures for this engine and body, as recorded in the variant and engine data.
| Engine code | 169A4 1.2 8V FIRE |
| Configuration | I4, naturally aspirated · 1242 cc |
| Fuel / injection | petrol · port |
| Model years | 2007–2015 |
| Facelift phase | Pre-facelift only, to -1 |
| Power / torque | 69 PS · 102 Nm |
| Transmissions | 5-speed manual |
| Gearbox families | |
| Drivetrain | FWD |
| Economy (real-world) | 5–6 l/100 km mixed |
| Markets | EU |