Right here is my sob story!!!!!!
I Bought my 98' S Cloverleaf on 72k miles. I personally do the oil every 3k to keep it running sweet. And the countless times I have cleaned out the butterfly valve!
When I bought the car I got them to sort out.....
• Aircon (new pipes + regass)
• New front suspension
• several dings taken out
• new cambelt/variator
• plugs and leads replaces
• oil change
• left wingmirror didnt work (electrics)
• drivers window was off the runners
• sideskirt was not on properly
• Helicoil sump
On my drive home the rear tyre blew out on some crap in the road so I had to do 50miles @ 50mph!!! (frustrating)
It then turned out the garage i bought it from had put 3 different types of oil in so my oil pump went!!
• Therefore full engine re-build!!!
Ok now run in and owned for 3 months I decided that I should let my local Alfa garage have a poke around it to make sure nothing else will go wrong......it needed.
• New Tyres
• New whishbones + bushes
• New rear brakelines
• new oxgen sensor
• temp sensor
• lambda sensor
Right getting to be alot spent now......
3 months on....
• new radiator
• service
• Exhaust (got stung by a forum member and ended up spending 4 times as much as I needed too!!!)
86k service and she passed MOT no probs except for emmissions but that normal i was told!
2 weeks ago fuel pump relay went!!!! not an expensive fix but a bit annoying to say the least!!!
Now it's fine and to be honest unless someone drivs into me ill be fine for quite sometime!
I didn't add on the few times I got it 'plugged in' and faut found @ alfa or the oil changes but there you go.
To be fair its an animal and I love it
Hamish.
This post has been edited by Hamish: 12th December 2005 12:18