I've been asked to change light bulbs and windscreen wipers, too.
I bet there are even a few of the manlier women that could change a windscreen wiper by themselves. For a man it's just embarrassing.
( Kroney, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:41, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

* I dont change my headlight bulbs *
But to be fair they are a bit if an arse to get to and the garage does it for free.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:42, Reply)

I took one of them high level brake light jobbies apart a while back to replace a few burn outs.
That was a fucking pig of a job.
( Kroney, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:44, Reply)

I dunno. I had a 2002 Renault Laguna for a while, years back
I'd have paid you any fucking money to change the cunting headlight bulbs on that. They seemed to necessitate removal of the timing belt and the aircon system first.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:45, Reply)

My mate had a Renault and a gearbox problem necessitated the removal of most of the engine.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:47, Reply)

It cost more than a grand to change the timing belt on the fucking thing.
Mind you, they are incredibly good in crashes, which is lucky, as my girlfriend at the time span it off the A1M at something over 80 and put it down a 20 ft embankment backwards into a tree and walked out without a scratch.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:49, Reply)

Rule of life: never buy a french car.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:52, Reply)

They're lovely and comfortable
but inexplicably losing all your lights on a country lane isn't fun, as happened to a mate's Peugeot recently.
( Kroney, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:53, Reply)

Meh, that's schoolboy stuff compared to Alfa electrics.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:56, Reply)

Never tried it. Fancied a 156 for a while but I got put off
by them charging a kidney per clutch.
( Kroney, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:58, Reply)

Ahem
Don't get it serviced at an alfa garage, standard fiat parts will fit.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 17:02, Reply)

^ This

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 17:03, Reply)

or italian deodorant

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:54, Reply)

dont they say they are "not user servicable" on those ones.

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 27 Jan 2014, 16:53, Reply)