Waitey
ClioSport Club Member
Alpina D3, AC Cobra
Well after the thread I posted about wanting a cheap diesel, this is the outcome...
Bit of background, I’ve always loved these. I mean just look at it. I do just over 30k a year, over the last two years over put 62k on my RangeRover so it’s now worth zero, to stop to being worth a negative number, I wanted a car to do just the normal commute (50 miles round) and when I need something nicer I’ll use the Rangie.
Buying an Alfa is always a lottery, my mate bought a cheap 147 GTa once for £6k. After £4K worth of electrical work, he sold it for £5k.
Which brings me onto this one... the last owner bought it in 2018 for £8k, since then he’s spent £4K on it, inc £1k to get it through it’s last MOT two weeks ago. After all that it still isn’t right, so I bid him in the balls for it and picked it up in the dark on Friday night.
On the 62 mile drive home, the powersteering gave up.... but it did do 50mpg! Oh and the micro switch in the key broke so I have to use the emergency key to lock it...
So all I’ve done so far is top the PAS up and redo all the connections on it and then checked if the dog fit in the boot....
All in all it’s a pretty rare TI spec wise..
2.4 Diesel (working bar a s**t cold start due to stuck swirl flaps)
Auto gearbox (working)
Electric heated seats (working)
Front and rear parking sensors (not working)
Bose HiFi (working)
Someone’s added a CarPlay headunit which is handy (working)
Climate control (air con is dead)
What it needs:
Cambelt and Swirl Flap delete - £700 (cambelt isn’t due but it has to come off the get the inlet manifold off!)
Decent front tyres - £200
Alignment - £150
Wheel refurb - £250
Air con regas - £40
Key refurb kit - £20
Other stuff I’d like:
Some paint chips sorting - £300
New badges - £80
Spacers - £80
Remap to 240bhp - £200
Overall I love it, it was cheap and is kind of a project. Who knows what tomorrow will bring!
Bit of background, I’ve always loved these. I mean just look at it. I do just over 30k a year, over the last two years over put 62k on my RangeRover so it’s now worth zero, to stop to being worth a negative number, I wanted a car to do just the normal commute (50 miles round) and when I need something nicer I’ll use the Rangie.
Buying an Alfa is always a lottery, my mate bought a cheap 147 GTa once for £6k. After £4K worth of electrical work, he sold it for £5k.
Which brings me onto this one... the last owner bought it in 2018 for £8k, since then he’s spent £4K on it, inc £1k to get it through it’s last MOT two weeks ago. After all that it still isn’t right, so I bid him in the balls for it and picked it up in the dark on Friday night.
On the 62 mile drive home, the powersteering gave up.... but it did do 50mpg! Oh and the micro switch in the key broke so I have to use the emergency key to lock it...
So all I’ve done so far is top the PAS up and redo all the connections on it and then checked if the dog fit in the boot....
All in all it’s a pretty rare TI spec wise..
2.4 Diesel (working bar a s**t cold start due to stuck swirl flaps)
Auto gearbox (working)
Electric heated seats (working)
Front and rear parking sensors (not working)
Bose HiFi (working)
Someone’s added a CarPlay headunit which is handy (working)
Climate control (air con is dead)
What it needs:
Cambelt and Swirl Flap delete - £700 (cambelt isn’t due but it has to come off the get the inlet manifold off!)
Decent front tyres - £200
Alignment - £150
Wheel refurb - £250
Air con regas - £40
Key refurb kit - £20
Other stuff I’d like:
Some paint chips sorting - £300
New badges - £80
Spacers - £80
Remap to 240bhp - £200
Overall I love it, it was cheap and is kind of a project. Who knows what tomorrow will bring!
