Alfa romeo mito!

Quite cool wee cars

Alfa romeo mito!

Quite cool wee cars

how are they on the reliability front Jase?

Still have the image of seeing a 18 month old 157 driving past me one day,

with the exhaust wired onto the back bumper to stop it falling off...

along with all the usual AR horror stories / Jokes...

how are they on the reliability front Jase?

Still have the image of seeing a 18 month old 157 driving past me one day,

with the exhaust wired onto the back bumper to stop it falling off...

along with all the usual AR horror stories / Jokes...

Not sure my mate from work bought a 59plate recently for around 7k i think!

He bought the 1.4 twinair and he loves it so far! No problems with it yet

Yet

Yet

yeah... that is the vital word isnt it...

Yet

Mate we own VAG cars!

They are about as unreliable as you could possibly get! They are infact crap to sum it into one word!

If reliability is your thing you can't bypass a honda

If i did end up getting something pretty new, with a DPF,

am i right in saying that a once a month thrash should help keep the DPF unclogged?

Sorry I've not repied back before now. A thrash as you put it would help, problem is (as far as I'm aware) that short trips add more soot to the dpf per mile and it doesn't have chance to burn it off because of the short runs, even doing a regen on her way to work (if it gets hot enough to start) will likely end up being interupted as she won't be going far enough, so it ends up being a vicious circle as the car repeatedly tries and fails to complete a regen..... So petrol all the way (as long as it isn't a le frog!)

Good luck

Mate we own VAG cars!

They are about as unreliable as you could possibly get! They are infact crap to sum it into one word!

If reliability is your thing you can't bypass a honda

Have you owned an alfa? I love them but they are absolutely unrivaled in their ability to go wrong and it's usually in the most random and expensive way.

Once they get to 4-5 years old you may as well set fire to it and be done with it, your life would be easier.

Mate we own VAG cars!

They are about as unreliable as you could possibly get! They are infact crap to sum it into one word!

If reliability is your thing you can't bypass a honda

20 year old Polo has cost me a new rad since i've had it (two years and counting) and has just gone through an MOT without a single advisory. 25 year old Golf was a daily until I picked up my Octy. Don't get me wrong the Golf has needed new linkage rubbers and a new starter motor but outside of that has also cost very little to keep going. B6 Passat has covered 35k in three trouble free years, i'm either very lucky or VAG ain't all that kak :p

20 year old Polo has cost me a new rad since i've had it (two years and counting) and has just gone through an MOT without a single advisory. 25 year old Golf was a daily until I picked up my Octy. Don't get me wrong the Golf has needed new linkage rubbers and a new starter motor but outside of that has also cost very little to keep going. B6 Passat has covered 35k in three trouble free years, i'm either very lucky or VAG ain't all that kak :p

Im with you on this... VAG in general aint bad on reliability score.

Theres a reason near every second irish farmer bought a Passat or Octy when they came along - they take abuse and keep going.

and when they do go a bit wrong, they are fairly easy to put right.

the rest of them all bought Corollas and then Avensis-es for the same reason.

Vags only got unreliable when the mk5 platform cars came out and the new engines and electrics gubbins were fitted lol. One reason I think the mk2 octys are poo lol

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Vags only got unreliable when the mk5 platform cars came out and the new engines and electrics gubbins were fitted lol. One reason I think the mk2 octys are poo lol

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Its the unfortunate design of more modern cars I think. Mass produced 'leading edge' technology appears to have a very limited shelf life. I'm generally suspicious of everything modern now as it appears to be style over substance and designed very much with a usable limit. Part of this endless growth vision that seems to drive the world these days.

Yup the 1.4 tsi engine vw have produced of late is shizer!

But even the mk4 platform

Brake pedal switches

MAF sensors

Cam lobe wear on pd engines

Turbo's

Weak flywheels

Coolant temp sensors

Thermostats

Leaky door cariers

Gearbox main bearing

Had all of the above on different VW cars

Never owned an alfa i must admit hopefully for the sake of my work colleague he has a good one

You just seem to get bad and good cars

Dual mass flywheels. Someone, somewhere has got a lot to answer for. The Vauxhalls (Astras) we have at work seem to chomp them on a regular basis and I know of a couple of Fords that went the same way.

Cars got too technological. I still get mailshots from Peugeot and recently had one for a 208 with a touch-screen dash. On reading that snippet of information it was like the devil ran an icicle down my spine!

I can understand a rogue shipment of sensors or the odd mechanical failure but lift the bonnet on modern cars and shudder at the pitfalls hiding within that packed in engine bay.

where i work our road fleet is massive, as in a cuple of hundred transits, cuple o more hundred connects and focuses.

when they were replaced by the lease company in 05 after the standard 4-5 yrs... it was horrendous.

the number of focuses that gave up on having a turbo in the diesel engine after about 1.5 - 2 yrs

and at the time ford wudnt allow fleets do a turbo replacement, so it was AN ENTIRE ENGINE REPLACEMENT job...

and that horrendous 1.6 TDCi is in shed loads of cars..

I struggle to believe this "x car is more reliable than y car" thing. At the end of the day servicing and how sympathetically you look after them will probably have a larger effect. My brothers Honda had a £1500 job done under warranty 3 weeks ago that seems to have affected all accords and (I think) civics from 2007-2009. Also affects a lot of later ones as well.

Put it this way; there is a reason you don't see loads of old alfas about and it's not that nobody bought them. They are tripe and no ammout of servicing will help electrical problems

Yeah I can agree with older cars. I've heard plenty of owners of recent Alfas, fiats etc say they have no problem.

Maybe they were justifying their purchase..

I love how one question on a thread here can branch out so quickly into a totally different topic of conversation

From "Diesel or Petrol" to "Car Reliability" in ooh 20ish posts :-)