CAR CHAT
If I give my ex the Volvo I may get an Alfa Romeo 159 sportswagen. Is Alfa's reliability as dodgy as is claimed?
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:34, 7 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Yes. I looked. The write ups on them were "looks good, breaks down"

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:35, Reply)

Shame. Nice car.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:36, Reply)

They're not going to break down every other minute though, are they.

( Kroney, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:37, Reply)

Yes.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:37, Reply)

Not sure what to get instead.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:38, Reply)

Just get the Alfa.
As yet there haven't been many reliability issues. Just a bunch of "ooh, it's an Alfa, probably going to break!" shit.
( Kroney, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:40, Reply)

Or I might get an old 635 CSi.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:41, Reply)

Lovely cars.
Seriously heavy on fuel.
( Kroney, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:45, Reply)

I don't do a lot of mileage. Plus classic car insurance.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:46, Reply)

If you don't do a lot of mileage, you don't really need to be worrying about reliability.

( Kroney, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:52, Reply)

I do when I'm driving my daughter.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:56, Reply)

OK, well it sounds like you're trying to talk yourself out of anything interesting
so I'd suggest a diesel 3 series. Bullet-proof, powerful, good on fuel.
( Kroney, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:58, Reply)

If you don't do the mileage
don't bother with the diesel. You'll pay several grand more for, say, a 335D than for a 335 petrol. You'll take decades to save that back in fuel unless you're doing 5 figure mileages a year.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 13:17, Reply)

No

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:35, Reply)

Yes

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:35, Reply)

Don't know

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:36, Reply)

Why are you giving her the car?
You want to give her a kick up the jacksy, that's what you want to do.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:37, Reply)

She needs a car for Micro.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:38, Reply)

surely Micro is too young to drive.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:38, Reply)

Shut up Wilf.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:39, Reply)

So why isn't she buying one?

( Kroney, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:41, Reply)

Part of the divorce settlement innit.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:42, Reply)

Ah.

( Kroney, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:45, Reply)

because she can still sponge one off Battered.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:43, Reply)

Beautiful cars, built by bent spastics.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:41, Reply)

I've had three and none of them have broken down.
I may, however, simply be lucky.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:44, Reply)

Any electrical problems?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:47, Reply)

Not as such.
Well, the 166 I had once or twice had all the dials instantly go off the scale for a few miles or so, which I assume is a computer fault - but otherwise, they were fine.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:54, Reply)