There's a problem called etc error. it has happened 5 times since 9500 mileage. and now car has 15900 mileage. every time it happened when i was on highway trying to accelarate. when that problem occured, i suddenly lost power and had to pull over in the middle of traffic. then i needed to shut down the engine and restarted, after this action power was back on with engine check light on, too. and car was driveable with auto start/stop and remote start unavailable. i went to dealships 3 times. first dealship can't not locate the problem and just reset computer. second dealship found one problem and replaced a part. but after a couple thousands of miles, the problem happened again. i have two videos, but they are too big to upload.
The forward collision warning system activated for no reason. as i was starting to accelerate from a traffic light on a city street it came on suddenly and rapidly decelerated the vehicle. luckily no one was behind me.
I bought my 2018 stelvio in dec 2017. i thought it was odd the car needed a software update only about three days after having it - now after researching i've learned many people have brought their new alfa romeos in for "software updates" related to all the sensors and electrical systems. my car currently has about 5k miles on it and in those miles i have experienced on about 3 or 4 occasions a warning message on my display that reads "gear selector malfunction" or "automatic transmission failure". the message also tells me for both issues not to shift out of "drive". after about 10 seconds the error went away. i thought it was a fluke because during that moment i never felt any difference or experienced anything strange. however, i was in a collision with a stationary object (a metal barrier pole in a parking lot). i put the vehicle in reverse, the vehicle indicated it was in reverse and the rear camera displayed along with the overhead picture of the vehicle with the sensor layout. i proceeded to back up by pushing the throttle and the vehicle launched forward with a huge amount of force. i struck the pole. no one was injured. no property damage other than to my vehicle. initial assessment is metal bumper replacement, radiator and cooling. but airbags never deployed. however the sensors never indicated i was near an object either while i was clearly in reverse. after research i found there have been a slew of electrical issues as alfas are drive by wire and use sensors and software to run the vehicle and people are reporting bad batteries which are causing faults. i believe my fault has to do with a bad battery with low voltage and my sensors and software are not up to date which i should be notified about. i've filed an insurance claim however i would like escalate this incident to determine the cause for myself and others and to prevent future occurrences.