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, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

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)