Thanks Andy, they really need to sort this out. The paint on my 156 is amazing, its 10 years old but still really good. On the flip side I have had 2 GTV's from new and both were terrible, the paint seems to swirls up really bad.
The wifes Punto is fine, it think it maybe down to which factory the cars are made.....remember the Alfa Sud, build by out of work farmers in the south (SUD) of the country which is really poor.
Ill find out where the 159 and GT are made, I know the last GTV's were build by Pininfarina.