Looks nice.

Are electrical gremlins still standard?

And past problems with rust?

Rust and electrical gremlins haven't really been a problem in Alfas since the 80's.

They still have the odd electrical problem, but no more so than anything else - VAG included. Mostly the same off the shelf Bosch components used everywhere else.

All Alfas have been galvanised since the 156 came out nearly 20 years ago, and therefore they have far less problems with rust than most BMW, Audi, VW etc.

But hey...

I'm getting one. The 3.0 V6 330bhp version. It's decided! Colin, I posted this elsewhere 24th June 2015. That maser engine sounds sublime. It's so desirable, it aches.

Rust and electrical gremlins haven't really been a problem in Alfas since the 80's.

They still have the odd electrical problem, but no more so than anything else - VAG included. Mostly the same off the shelf Bosch components used everywhere else.

All Alfas have been galvanised since the 156 came out nearly 20 years ago, and therefore they have far less problems with rust than most BMW, Audi, VW etc.

But hey...

 

Since the 156? ha! my GTV is galvo from the Factory and thats a '98 

 

145/146/155's were pretty solid, the 156's have had trouble with Rust, but we're talking at 15+ years old. 

 

But none the less electrical problems are things of the past. my GTV has two minor issues:

 

1) Heater Fan connector is loose (some gorilla damaged the locking tab, so it falls out)

2) the Wash Wiper button on the stalk sticks, so when you wash the screen it sticks on unless you stir the wiper stalk like your stiring a bowl of porridge. 

 

but at 17 years old? you cant expect anything else.

Let the myth continue, so that the great unenlightened sales reps can carry on tooling around in their 320ds thinking they're the CEO.

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Obviously this is about a smaller class of Alfa and it shares the Punto Chassis, etc etc,

but then so do the VW / BMW products have shared Platforms, VW-Audi-Skoda-Seat, or BMW-MINI, 

and often shared faults or fundamental design or component failure.

Not only snagging faults in new designs but as they face lift models they do not engineer them out,

just add some extra on occasions.

Vorsprung Durch Technik, KEINES NEIN NIE.

Edited 26 June, 201510 yr by goneoffSKi

I'm getting one. The 3.0 V6 330bhp version. It's decided! Colin, I posted this elsewhere 24th June 2015. That maser engine sounds sublime. It's so desirable, it aches.

 

I hadn't seen it sorry. I saw it flash up on twitter, I should of searched first

I don't think you could have too many threads on it!

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Since the 156? ha! my GTV is galvo from the Factory and thats a '98 

 

145/146/155's were pretty solid, the 156's have had trouble with Rust, but we're talking at 15+ years old. 

 

But none the less electrical problems are things of the past. my GTV has two minor issues:

 

1) Heater Fan connector is loose (some gorilla damaged the locking tab, so it falls out)

2) the Wash Wiper button on the stalk sticks, so when you wash the screen it sticks on unless you stir the wiper stalk like your stiring a bowl of porridge. 

 

but at 17 years old? you cant expect anything else.

 

Didn't realise the GTV was too! I stand corrected. So rust has basically been a non issue since 1995 (or '96? I forget when the GTV landed), but still the one thing people say about Alfas. Perhaps it's time we started bringing up the 'you must always be pushing around your rusty Skoda' line then, because that's just as true.

They are corroding though if you look at the paint & rust issues with Mk3 Octavias from Sealer & Paint Issues,

& Yeti rust issues as well.

Amazing that more do not rust from the Interior out with so many Skoda / VWG Models letting H20 into interiors.

Then there are the Looms under the Bonnet where Skoda think running them next to Washer Pipes is a

'Simply Clever' move.

 

http://rustingvolkswagen.co.uk

Edited 26 June, 201510 yr by goneoffSKi

Let the myth continue, so that the great unenlightened sales reps can carry on tooling around in their 320ds thinking they're the CEO.

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The issue with this though is that for Alfa to succeed they surely need to somehow get into that "sales rep" company lease market don't they? Unless they can shift most of them in new markets (for Alfa) i.e. USA / China?

As a business in the short medium term yes if course they do. As a customer wanting something less sheep mentality driven, definitely not. I was being a selfice customer!

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I was loaned a Guilietta which was a nice car to drive and to look at, but put it side by side with an Octavia and compare the interiors, and the Alfa's was shocking.

Rust and electrical gremlins haven't really been a problem in Alfas since the 80's.

They still have the odd electrical problem, but no more so than anything else - VAG included. Mostly the same off the shelf Bosch components used everywhere else.

All Alfas have been galvanised since the 156 came out nearly 20 years ago, and therefore they have far less problems with rust than most BMW, Audi, VW etc.

But hey...

Neighbour had electrical issues with their MiTo (didnt like the cold or wet) so ditched it, and the replacement Guilietta also had issues to the point it was rejected as it spent most of their ownership at the dealers.  Both were brand new 1st owners.

 

She went and got a sporty 1 series instead.

Fairly obviously there will be a diesel with the Fiat 2.0 170bhp as used in the Jeep renegade and they'll sell 100 of those for each of the cooking V6s.