Got seriously bored of the s**te old Primula, and went out today to buy another Alfa.... back to being a 2 Alfa household now :-)
Still, it's a nice car, and an easy job to do.
Dear god thats ugly ;)
Nice Tipo mate... Well done. Wiper motor today....
Oh not it's not....
Oooh, you really know how to hurt an Alfa owner ;-)
I suspect that, although the wiper motor is easily accessible, this won't be cheap.
Narrow bodied 155, hope it was cheap :-P
but it looks tidy enough. Congratulations.
Cheap enough..... not auction cheap, but lots less than an Alfa specialist would want......
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An italian car with an electrical problem.........
Whatever next.
Well, it's not an electrical problem as such. One of the wipers wasn't properly attached to the arm. This I knew, but didn't have the tools available to sort it. Didn't think it would be a problem, until the heavens opened on the M4 on the way home.... forgot about the wiper arm, and turned on the wipers. One arm rode over the loose one, jamming them together, and burning out the motor before blowing the fuse. Bugger.
So it's not really the cars fault, more mine for not hammering the offside wiper back onto its splines before operating.
Hice car but from the photos it looks like the back half, drivers door and front end are 3 different colours? Could just be the light but it's especially noticable on the photo from the front, do you know if it's had some accident damage?
Not ideal lighting conditions, but the driver's door is a slightly mismatched shade.
There's no accident damage to the chassis (checked the suspension turretts etc) - so my guess is that the driver's doorskin has been replaced at some point.
It's 11 years old, and was bought for under book price, so I don't really care :-)
The front also looks much newer than the back, as long as there's no chassis damage it's only cosmetic if the price was right :-)
No, that's just the light. The front is peppered with chips and there are plenty of scrapes.
There's a book price that goes into single digits ?
ROFL :)
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Glasses used to show a Poor condition Skoda Estelle as £5. Don't know if Glasses still lists the Estelle though.
Quality :)
I got rid of my 2.0 TS Lusso, 1992(K) (in red) a couple of years ago after three years, 50000 miles (112k total) sterling service. Very reliable, incredibly strong engine and only one major electrical problem (the climate control panel). Had a huge appetite for brake disks/pads though, Pads every
8000 miles, disks every 16000. Although that could have had something to do with living in roundabout city and my driving style.I really do miss it, broke my heart when I saw it in Luton last year after someone has stuck some crappy tape on the front headlights to make it look like twin lamps. Some people have no taste.
Syncro (now Alfa free)
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Yep. i think they stopped listing poor when it dropped to £2 and gave only a trade price of a £5.
You really could pick up a full service history car from 1 owner for free or a pint back in them days, because dealers wouldn't even take them in trade to get a sale. people just wanted rid of them.
Of course now VW have taken over, the cars aren't any more reliable than they were, just a little more mainstream looking, and if it is "VW quailty" it can't be bad. So older people forget the gags, some youngsters have never seen an Estelle or Rapid, but when they do they actually think "Cool". So the prices are rising to the mid hundreds for good low mileage used one, and over a grand for a mimimal mileage full tax and ticket one nomatter whether it is a 1 litre, 1.2, 1.3 model and from poverty spec to adequate. Doesn't matter.
Mate of mine drove all the way to manchester from the south coast to pick up an MOT failure estelle that he had arranged to buy for £800. The car had been garaged for 10 years, had done 800 miles since new and hadn't even had it's first dealer service done. It was owned by an old bloke and when he died sat in the garage when his kids took over the house. they eventually decided to sell it. It failed the MOT on all 4 tyres. They had flat spots because they had gone straight from standing to the MOT. If it had been driven arround a while with proper pressure they would have probably past. he drove it home all the way back to the south coast without it missing a beat, on a just a new fill with coolant (safety precaution) a fill with few, and a check of the tyre pressure. It looks like new but the paint is just a little flat. Shame is, he didn't have access to a trailer, so it gone over the 1k miles.
bout what my MK1 is worth give or take 50p
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