Vehicle
SAIPA Aria
SAIPA's crossover, on the same SP100 platform as the Shahin saloon and the tallest thing the company has developed in-house. It carries a single engine — a two-litre naturally aspirated four with direct injection, the 4J20V, built under licence from Mitsubishi — and the direct injection is the real departure for this range, not the turbocharging the car was expected to get and did not. That changes the diagnostic picture in a specific way: a high-pressure fuel pump and its own rail, injectors that carbon at the tip rather than at a port, and intake valves with no fuel washing over them, so deposits there are a routine finding rather than a fault. Everything else follows the family: standard diagnostics over a conventional connector, coil-on-plug ignition whose units fail individually, and fuel-quality sensitivity at the pump strainer and the injectors.
Generations
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First generation 2021–present
SP100 platform, one engine: the naturally aspirated 2.0 GDI built under Mitsubishi licence, so direct-injection faults — pump, rail, intake-valve carbon — join the fault tree instead of boost ones.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- SAIPA SP100
- Engines
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- 2.0 — 4J20V · petrol · 103 kW (138 hp) · 189 Nm (139 lb-ft)
- Transmissions
- 5-speed manual · 6-speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
Service information
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