********Motors Chat - Round 8 ********

That looks to be a nice wagon you got there man! Anymore details on it? 1.8 isn't it? That interior is very nice and also rare!

Just sold my radio, easy €50. Getting a voucher from a bodyshop for fixing their PC too, it's been a good week :cool:

dorgasm wrote: »

Any more broken PCs there? I need a few scratches repaired :P

Haha, that's my plan anyway, get the rust and last ding sorted

166man wrote: »

That looks to be a nice wagon you got there man! Anymore details on it? 1.8 isn't it? That interior is very nice and also rare!

Cheers man. By far the nicest car I've had anyway. Ye it's a 1.8. wanted a 2 litre ideally but wasn't too pushed either way on that or the 1.8. Interior is sweet alright, so comfy. That had it sold along with the engine and box being perfect, apart from needing the big service and a bad oil leak from the rocker cover sorted. My mate works for a lad who served his time working on alfa and fiats. He still drives a fairly mint 2001 2.0 156. Handy enough that he has the special tools I can just get him to throw an eye on it as I'm doing the belts and any other tricky jobs. Only 10 minutes from home too.

Interior as it is. Haven't got a chance to clean it even. Studying and doing exams at the moment... so on here alot :pac:.





The leather is in good nick, the back is perfect. The only worn bit is the drivers seat.



Need to get proper mats and a steering wheel.



It has a bad side body work wise. The drivers door needs to be replaced, worse than it looks in this pic. Makes an awful creak too when you open it. Good otherwise so not urgent.



Want to sort these two little spots too. They're on the same side. Only rust on the car really. Do alot of surfing so the galvo body is the right job with all the salt spray it'll be dealing with.




All the other arches are good but for some reason this one has a that bad spot in the pic and a few small spots along the top of the arch. A Side skirt need a self tapper . Wheels are in good nick, just flaking here in there. Your man said he's getting a sand blasting cab though for his next workshop purchase .



Looks like something use to be in that threaded hole on top of the front shock tower. Same on the other side. Any ideas .



Details! Not sure! I know/think it has a sportspack, with the skirts seats and carbon surround in the and stuff. It has two cool little gove boxes in the boot too. Not sure if they're standard or not.

Had my first look at an alfa forum last night. It was saying the sw's came with the sports pack minus the bilstein shocks/lowering spring setup. It doesn't feel to me like a sports spring/shock setup when you drive it anyway. It's mad, I was actually looking for a price on a bilstein shock and lowering spring setup to solve that problem when I found that info by pure coincidence! Slight fear of ruining it's comfort though.

Came with winter tyres. Scary yolks. The backs were lethal. Michelins but 10 years old and a 60 profile, Got 2 new potenze adrenilins for the back the other day. Only 90 quid each so happy out. He only had 3 so I'll do the fronts next weeks when the 4th arrives in. Will make some difference. There's decent avon winters on the front which I'll keep for the winter. They must be over heating or something. Perfect in the wet but 20 minutes of driving on a dry backroad makes them twitchy on the brakes into a sharp corner.

Didn't know they had a 140 and a 144hp 1.8. 2001> is 140 for euro 3 emissions. Mines early 2002 so I could have either. Presuming its the 144hp as it's a pre facelift .

That's a great write up!

I am getting worried I dont remember how to drive manual anymore, I have now been driving Automatic now for longer than I did manual. Better make sure the new car is manual.

The Smart Roadster is out as an option for a 2nd car as they are still about 2k over priced and from visiting the owners forums they are plagued with issues. I still want a really small car under 1L but want to avoid getting a Micra(which might happen)

I have found some rough Honda Beats and suzuki cappuccinos, not many more options and unfortunately the the MX5 engine is too big.

im assuming a standard 15 saloon door will fit? Would you then paint the door or paint the whole side? could be quite costly

Bpmull wrote: »

It's was my third time to visit a petrol station in 6 days today as I don't want to put loads of diesel in this only to discover my own car is ready. Still it gets annoying I much prefer filling it once a best thing to do y got into doing it is brim the car and when it starts to drop back to below half a tank fill it again or once a week which ever comes first. Obviously if you were doing huge mileage every week this probably wouldn't work as you'd want to let it drop back more.

Have started filling the tank all the time now at a cheap esso or the maxol at home. Gets me to cork and back with a drop left to keep me going until the next trip. Used to never do it because it would just be used up far quicker. Was going to say im older and wiser but this is still true :v

A work colleague is changing his car, anyone recommend cars like golf etc, looking from 08-10, he's a young guy but no boy racer.

Bpmull wrote: »

Is the chaser old enough to go on a vintage policy if you have a second car is that the way your trying to work it ? I assume you still pay normal cc tax though.

yeah, it would still be over 1000 euro a year to tax but a classic policy would allow me to Drive the Chaser less and add mods which the normal insurance does not allow. (oil pressure gauge, a real exhaust, bigger turbo)

The idea is I could buy a Micra for 900 euro tomorrow, 199 tax a year, 300 euro to insure. Put the Chaser on a classic policy for 450 and the times I drive the Chaser my wife can drive the Micra. I may be way off and it could actually cost me money. But I am worried it will be next to impossible to insure the Chaser when it reaches 20 years old.