Next car to go, my Alfa 166. It's been a pleasure owning this and it's not missed a beat in the last 10,000 miles. It's a 3.0 V6 Sportronic with 17" rims (Dunlop SP sport tyres) in Volcano Nero, which is a very, very dark metallic burgundy, almost black. It's a Momo interior in black leather and has lots of goodies such as HID headlights, sunroof, 10 speaker stereo with DSP (Digital Sound Processor), sat nav and heated seats.
The good bits... Everything works apart from anything mentioned below. The sat nav works but is obviously a little out of date now, although I believe you can get an update off of one of the Alfa forums. No biggy though as it's good enough to get you around. The stereo is really good and the car goes like the clappers (had over 150mph on the autobahn). It even handles surprisingly well for a big car and sounds glorious when you boot it.
I have replaced the heater matrix which is a common failure point on these cars so no need to worry about that one. I also fitted a new upper engine stabalizer.
The bad bits... the paint on the bumpers is scuffed in places and the A/C isn't playing. I had it tested and re-gassed. There were no leaks but I think it might be over pressurized as the garage told me they'd "put a bit extra in". If I can I'll plug in the diagnostics and see if I can shed any light on it before it goes. The CD autochanger in the boot tends to skip when you hit bumps but this is more so with CDr's in it than with original discs. I had to clean the lens on the Sat Nav CD reader when I got the car so I suspect the autochanger probably needs it as well (it's mounted right below the sat nav). One headlight has a small chip in the glass but I can supply a replacement if you want it (that'd be a little bit extra though). It doesn't affect operation or MOT though.
It's got MOT until 27th November and tax until the end of July. It's got about 92,000 miles on it so it pretty low mileage for one of these. I'm only looking for £495 so utterly bargainacious ;D
Mo pics...
On the 'ring...
Scuffs on the front bumper...
The good bits... Everything works apart from anything mentioned below. The sat nav works but is obviously a little out of date now, although I believe you can get an update off of one of the Alfa forums. No biggy though as it's good enough to get you around. The stereo is really good and the car goes like the clappers (had over 150mph on the autobahn). It even handles surprisingly well for a big car and sounds glorious when you boot it.
I have replaced the heater matrix which is a common failure point on these cars so no need to worry about that one. I also fitted a new upper engine stabalizer.
The bad bits... the paint on the bumpers is scuffed in places and the A/C isn't playing. I had it tested and re-gassed. There were no leaks but I think it might be over pressurized as the garage told me they'd "put a bit extra in". If I can I'll plug in the diagnostics and see if I can shed any light on it before it goes. The CD autochanger in the boot tends to skip when you hit bumps but this is more so with CDr's in it than with original discs. I had to clean the lens on the Sat Nav CD reader when I got the car so I suspect the autochanger probably needs it as well (it's mounted right below the sat nav). One headlight has a small chip in the glass but I can supply a replacement if you want it (that'd be a little bit extra though). It doesn't affect operation or MOT though.
It's got MOT until 27th November and tax until the end of July. It's got about 92,000 miles on it so it pretty low mileage for one of these. I'm only looking for £495 so utterly bargainacious ;D
Mo pics...
On the 'ring...
Scuffs on the front bumper...