ARE MODERN ALFA ROMEOS RELIABLE? MYTH DEBUNKED

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[merlinh]

Why oh why do people buy an Alfa, spend all that money on aftermarket bits, look after it and then spoil the whole brilliant package by putting cheap and nasty Chinese tyres on it? What's the matter with these people?

Thanks for the honest appraisal Neil. Sick of the old myths that just keep going on without any foundation.

[martinclapton]

A well looked after example. As ANY second hand car it comes down to how the car is looked after.

[EyesWideOpen]

Great video for me, considering precisely this purchase.

Been driving only Italian cars for 30 years, I get good values preowned

Very helpful thank you

There is nothing sadder than cosmetically changing a car to something it is very much not.

[bluegblueg]

My Giulia Veloce TI is 4 years old and has 50k miles. It’s perfectly reliable. It has a couple of stone chips but the interior still looks new

[chrisbwhittle]

I have just sold my 2015 Giulietta to a friend. It broke down on the A303 with only 235 miles on the clock. The mass airflow cable had not been tied into the loom and was sitting on the manifold and eventually shorted out. After that, in the time I owned the car it never let me down and went through 7 MOTs without any work being required. The only part that caused a problem was the ratchet on the oil filler cap which I replace for under £15 as a precaution

[anakondase]

My 04 156 2.5 SW recently went past 180000km, or 112k miles of you prefer, and I've never had any real issues with it. Getting rear-ended is not the cars fault, or mine for that matter, and now that it's fixed it's perfect again. I've changed the suspension of course, but that's normal wear and tear and now I need to change the exhaust. Not bad that the original one lasted 20 years.

Only issue I have is the airbag contacts in the rear. The last year or so I've had to take them apart and put the back together a few times to get the warning to go off. Other than that the car runs absolutely perfect. No rust either, the little there's been I've taken care of when I've seen it. Not bad for a 20 yo car.

[atkalleveen]

I still need to get one, but my Giulietta is holding up quite well :)

[alfalife]

Just sold my 19 plate Veloce, absolutely loved it. Had it for over 2 years, only issue was air con was backing up and spilling into the footwells on acceleration and roundabouts, wasn't a blocked aircon exit pipe either. Turned out to be a pipe behind the dash that needed replacing. Luckily was under extended warranty. Would I own another one? 100%.

[djpunisha]

I drove 156 1.9 diesel 16v, 159 TBi Ti Sportwagon, now I Drive a JEEP Compass 2.0 Diesel AWD in Limited trim. All great cars

[vlajster]

I have a 2017 diesel and it seems I'm gonna be enjoying it for a loooong long time!

[djlosmi]

Couple of more years of depreciation and will consider owning one!
Seems like a solid upgrade from my trusty GT Diesel 😊

[Neil-wx]

No complaints about my 01 156 t spark that has 40k on the clock and it's a daily driver .just passed the MOT no advisories. My Alfa before this one a 98 gtv with 158 k on the clock was very good to . Passed many modern German cars broken down at the side of the road

[autoazure]

Great to see you are back! Going to enjoy this one methinks!

[mati]

2020 Stelvio 280hp(US-LA), 37250miles no issues. Once I had a bit of miss fire, but after restart it is all OK. I haven't seen the radio screen on.

[lookupparagliding]

I've owned a 2017 petrol Giulia 'super' for 18 months now. For the last 12 months I've had the dashboard lights on for 90% of the time (and not resetable with steeringwheelmethod). How it got through the MOT back in March with the ABS light on I'll never know. I've gone around the houses several times on the forums since last Autumn, I put in a larger capacity battery, cleaned all earth and battery contacts (inc. battery fuse unit), removed hvac vent under scuttle and found the rubber seal was damaged in factory, added makeshift shield to go over the hvac vent to stop water falling into it. I've had heater controls set to 'M' constantly, cleaned the 2 earth bolt contacts under the scuttle drain 'bucket', stripped fabric sheathing on the wiring around the airfilter box (rubbing) and also the wiring for the boot door. Had moisture absorber tubs in passenger footwell for the B.C.M. (even though there were no signs of water around there). FINALLY, 3 weeks ago I found water in the boot which was running up to the wiring harness behind rear seats. Upon removing the boot seal rubber around the latch mechanism, water was pouring out of the seal. Coupled with parking at home on a driveway that points 'nose down', it's all added up to taking 20 years off my life. In the last 3 weeks, I now park the other way around, I dried the boot out and I also have a rolled up handtowel running left to right under boot lip which I check periodically for dampness. It's not been damp since so I think I've altered something for the better when I removed and refitted the rubber boot seal. The car has only had a handful of dashboard lights and associated beeping occur since and they've reset themselves within a few seconds without having to employ the steering wheel reset method. So all that work and it was the bloody boot rubber! I've got sunlight at the end of my Alfa tunnel now :) Well, for the time being.

[jeremyaustin]

French neighbour has a twinair MiTo. That is incredible. Speed. Handling and economy.
Done 200k km too

[static_alfa_]

Love the video ❤️ keep up the good work 🙃

[proooooost]

A proper car evaluation video, valuable info for an alfisti like me doing maintenance myself, thanks!

Btw Neil, you know of there was more than one factory producing the GT for europe?

[johnhounslea]

The car came with brand new l zeals but ive just bought a really nice set of genuine quad wheels with p zeros ! To be fair the l zeals are not bad but too many people have commented on why cheap tyres on a lovely car like that so they have to go ! The quad alloys a great upgrade to the ti, just getting it lowered 25 mm with a set of eibach springs to complement the wheels, the ti wheels will be on ebay shortly 🙂