What have I done???? Only bought an Alfa!

[se6b]

I appear to have added another notoriously unreliable car to the stable! (or more accurately: inflicted one on my girlfriend) You see, she asked me to help her look around for a Nissan Almera or something equally mundane but utterly dependable.....and I'm not quite sure how this happened but after visiting a few garages she somehow walked away with an Alfa Romeo GTV 2.0 T-Spark!?!

1999 silver with black leather
10,250 Euro
37,000 miles
1 previous owner

pics to follow next week...

[YarisSi]

Of your girlfriend ;-)

[pdV6]

Look after it and it'll be just fine!
I take it that its recently had belts etc done?

[se6b]

Yes its just had the belts done at 36K. It does kinda make me wonder why you'd pay for the major service and then sell it a thousand miles later....?

My girlfriend was supposed to be collecting it tonight but the garage sent it in for a full service at an Alfa dealer and hadn't had time to valet it since its return this afternoon. So...no money has changed hands yet...I have to admit although I would snap it up myself in a flash and live with the consequences I'm starting to get second thoughts on her behalf

[lanciachris]

You think you bought an unreliable alfa? you should see mine



www.pistonheads.com/members/showcar.asp?carId=20790

[se6b]

Good news and potentially bad news.

She picked the car up last night. Loves it. Thats the good news.

Now for the bad news....unfortunately I couldn't be there with her to pick it up and now we have the situation that I dreaded....no service history and no proof the cambelt was ever changed and no way of verifying the mileage. Aaaaaarrrgh! I told her so many times "The one thing you have to do when you go to collect it is MAKE SURE YOU GET THE SERVICE HISTORY. Check it out. Verify the mileage against the dates and stamps. If possible ring the previous owner and get his story on it. If any part of it doesn't tally WALK AWAY!". Unfortunately she fell for that old classic "We don't have the service history here, the previous owner didn't bring it in with him, you'll have to chase him up for it. Just sign here."


GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! My blood is absolutely boiling...to the extent that I've just booked a flight over to publicly tear the salesman to shreds on Saturday morning!!! He assured us it came with a full service history and that the cambelt had just been done. Also that it was in at an Alfa dealer having a full service on Monday (no receipts for this either!!!).


I may be in prison for a while......

[silverback mike]

lanciachris said:

You think you bought an unreliable alfa? you should see mine www.pistonheads.com/members/showcar.asp?carId=20790

God that is lovely Chris..Never had one, always wanted one. I have had several 33's which I loved.

There was one like yours only in red on ebay - only reason I haven't bought it - it's in edinburgh, I'm in sodding bristol and it doesn't have an MOT.
oh, nowhere to put it either.

[blindsteviemac]

Alfa Sprint? I had a silver one back in 85, great car, I used to hunt down BMWs and show them how to go round corners, have fun! Rust was the only downside - and it was used by bank-robbers a week after I p/xed it!

Steve.

>> Edited by blindsteviemac on Sunday 3rd April 11:40

[toyracer]

se6b said:

Good news and potentially bad news. She picked the car up last night. Loves it. Thats the good news. Now for the bad news....unfortunately I couldn't be there with her to pick it up and now we have the situation that I dreaded....no service history and no proof the cambelt was ever changed and no way of verifying the mileage. Aaaaaarrrgh! I told her so many times "The one thing you have to do when you go to collect it is MAKE SURE YOU GET THE SERVICE HISTORY. Check it out. Verify the mileage against the dates and stamps. If possible ring the previous owner and get his story on it. If any part of it doesn't tally WALK AWAY!". Unfortunately she fell for that old classic "We don't have the service history here, the previous owner didn't bring it in with him, you'll have to chase him up for it. Just sign here." GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! My blood is absolutely boiling...to the extent that I've just booked a flight over to publicly tear the salesman to shreds on Saturday morning!!! He assured us it came with a full service history and that the cambelt had just been done. Also that it was in at an Alfa dealer having a full service on Monday (no receipts for this either!!!). I may be in prison for a while......

Are we to assume by the lack of replies from se6b that he's now languishing in chokey? Anybody see any news reports of car dealers being bludgeoned to death over the last week?

[Alfaguy]

Well while we wait for the reply we can talk a bit more about sprints. here is mine - its a 1981 1.5 Veloce. A really nice car to drive. I have always had a thing about sprints too and back in 1981 this was my dream car - but I could not afford one then.

Its only got 53,000 miles on the clock.

I like that black sprint too - the later ones looked just as cool as the early ones - pity I was never able to find a good used one when I was shopping for one.



>> Edited by Alfaguy on Saturday 13th May 02:38