Bangernomics - The art of running Alfas on a budgetBest place to start it

[zagatoes30]

Best place to start is with the price, so picked this up 2.0 Lusso, Leather 16" Alloys, only 75k miles, recent belt change, tax & Mot for £700

Should be good to do the workday stuff, getting left on stations, airports etc and when I'm done should recoup most if not all of the cost- happy days

 

[lisknik]

Nice, looks a great bargin When was the cambelt done last?

 

[zagatoes30]

Nice, looks a great bargin When was the cambelt done last?

18 mths ago or 11k miles, belts variators and water pump so should be good for the 6-12 mths I plan to run it for.

 

[lisknik]

Brilliant, fair play, i like a bargain me

 

[Smaky]

I'll just add to this that the 156 JTS which I run round in cost £250 to buy 3 years ago, after initially doing the cambelt/waterpump etc and a full service, this car has cost me £140 in repairs since, that being and upper wishbone, a drop link and a set of coil packs (which I actually just decided to do but weren't really needed), so to say the JTS is unreliable and expensive is outrageous, then the rest of the cars have totalled £300 in last 3 years, and that's 2 156 selespeeds and a 146 T-spark

 

[conaero]

Zag, £700 that is criminal....well done.

 

[Sopranofan]

I'll just add to this that the 156 JTS which I run round in cost £250 to buy 3 years ago, after initially doing the cambelt/waterpump etc and a full service, this car has cost me £140 in repairs since, that being and upper wishbone, a drop link and a set of coil packs (which I actually just decided to do but weren't really needed), so to say the JTS is unreliable and expensive is outrageous, then the rest of the cars have totalled £300 in last 3 years, and that's 2 156 selespeeds and a 146 T-spark

Credit to you And your mech skills Alex