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Mate had same version as a company car, saw him more often than not in a courtesy car. I wont list all the faults takes up too much space.

Just remembered his brother had an Alfa 164 3.0V6 moved along well and kept going even though the dashboard looked like Blackpool illuminations, never knew a car could have so many warning lights

to be honest, make your own decision, I like alfas, although I have never owned one... remember the top gear with the 146 cloverleaf (may not have been the 146, but the focus size one) with the classic (best) V6 giving about 250 bhp in a fwd hatch... they tested it against much better competition (renault sport megane, focus RS ect) and all three said the alfa was worst, and all hree said the alfa was the one they would choose

after watching that video makes you want too buy an Alfa V6 just to look at the engine

They make a noise too die for at full chat

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And, yes I joined that forum a little while ago

Get in touch with Pud237 (real name Dan) on the Alfaowner forum - he works doing parts for Autolusso. He' has a late model (facelift like yours) Turismo 1.9 diesel - possibly still for sale and pretty cheap even though its done about 120k IIRC. He knows these cars pretty well and gan give model-specific advice.

The Ti is much nicer than the turismo!

I'm trying to find it to buy it before you

They do say your not a true petrolhead until you have owned a alfa romeo! i like the look of the later alfas,they are great drivers cars,nice interiors,i would consider one,the relability is no worse than other modern cars,a friend works for audi & they are always replacing engines & gearboxes on cars less than 3 yr old.We have loads of problems with the vauxhalls & fords at work. i would rather drive something thats fun with the odd problem than a boring euro box that nevers goes wrong!

I've not owned an Alfa yet, but one of my mates has had 2 (company cars). He got rid of the first (late model 156) after 3 years with just over 90K on the clock and it only ever went to the dealer for routine servicing, however, the second one (159) was a nightmare and was forever at the dealers before he persuaded his fleet manager to swap it for something else as he'd had enough of it. Not sure how representative this is of Alfa but it's put him off getting another one even though he loved them both

Meridien Milano have put my old 2005 147GTA on their forecourt.

Good luck to them!

In fairness a GTA is a bit different, they are rare beasts. If it was an 2005 normal 147 we wouldn't bother retailing it.

I have an Alfa 164 1993/4 L reg

You get a lot of Oooohs some for the right and some for the wrong reasons!!!

It does have some electrical gremlins, and it does need some work doing on it

Saying that it handles well, is solid and I havent broken anything on it yet.

The diesel will be a FIAT unit saying that Vauxhall use Fiat sourced diesels so no probs on that front.

Cars have their stigmas attached to them, Skodas did at one point.

in 2004 fiat contracted out the electrics on all new built cars to bosch and since then the reliability issues are meant to be way less, although being a 2005 car not sure if it will be a post bosch built electrics system!

High oil consumption, fooky electrics, failing air con, faulty steering rack , over fuelling and plod magnet - should make any Fabia owner feel right at home.

Nick

My mate had two.

A 156 1.8 he kept for about 4 years from new and a Brera 2.4 derv.

He never had any serious problems with any of them. He only got rid of the Brera because he had a second kid and it was awkward to get them in the back.

However.... I remember looking in the Alfa showroom with my old man when he was getting a choice of company car. Every car in the showroom had faults labelled on the windows and most had the guts of the dashboard spilling out into the foot wells. Even then I thought, "If that's the showroom cars what are the rest like?".

Put me off.

Pretty but for other peoples money.