Bangernomics? Dam Yeah !!

Snaggle · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:38

Well having spent nearly 15 years in the field with company cars i finnaly took an office job about 16 mile commute a day .

I had been using the bike/getting lifts but it was getting old quickly so finally decided to do summit about it . I was going to get another xsara VTS (mk2 this time) but was finding it hard to find a non chaved one or no history so started looking at 3.0 and 3.2 Omegas . Same issue here ... could not find a decent elite with decent history .

So i started looking at more interesting stuff .. I had looked at what i bought before but they were abit pricey but when i checked last week i found they were now in my price range ( i only wanted to spend a few k due to moving house/divorce/new job etc)

so after a lot of research and a few test drives i bought this !!

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2000 Alfa Romeo 166 2.5 24v Sport Tronic

120k miles a lot of history .. recent full top end rebuild
5 good branded tyres
Pretty much imaculate inside and out

Rough specs are

full leather (momo)
cruise
climate
10 speaker dsp hifi
sport tronic gearbox (not selespeed)
obc
heated electric seats
electric heated mirrors
auto dim mirror

and lots of other toys

Has a few smally niggly issues but they will be corrected when i get time but nothing show stopping .

Hope you all like

Persil

iaind · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:42

Oh hell yes.

How much?

Snaggle · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:45

Just for fun have a guess

iaind · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:50

A grand?

sigma · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:51

£1200?

Fr0dders · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:53

cant be much more than 2k ?

Kenai · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:54

Seeing as you said bangernomics - £500?

DM · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:54

Excellent that looks lovely.

Snaggle · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:54

£900 with 9 months ticket and 4 months tax

iaind · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:55

That is awesome. It's not going to be cheap to keep going.... But look at it!

Fr0dders · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:55

Fan dabby dozy

Its going to fall apart in a ball of flames before you get it to work however. Its an alfa, so thats right isnt i ?

DM · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:55

Persil said:
£900 with 9 months ticket and 4 months tax

Amazing what a lot of car for a grand.

Snaggle · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:56

And nice ninja edit Sigma

sigma · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:57

Hardly a ninja edit, I added a reason for editing.

Why are these are so cheap? Reliability?

Snaggle · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:59

MrLOL said:
Fan dabby dozy

Its going to fall apart in a ball of flames before you get it to work however. Its an alfa, so thats right isnt i ?

lol maybe

they deff make em better than they used to but the electrics can be a little suspect at times .

Always been a big Alfa nut and my dad has had a few and is still restoring an old one . Used to be a regular a the Alfa days etc .

Tbh if there treated well and you do some preventive maintenance there pretty reliable

Fr0dders · 3 Oct 2010 at 00:00

its done 120,000 miles already so it cant be that bad

Snaggle · 3 Oct 2010 at 00:00

sigma said:
Hardly a ninja edit, I added a reason for editing.

Why are these are so cheap? Reliability?

Not many about .. bad rep from the past .. not very green.. can be expensive to fix

d_brennen · 3 Oct 2010 at 00:01

Chives · 3 Oct 2010 at 00:02

Wow! very tidy for the money. Great buy.

sigma · 3 Oct 2010 at 00:02

That dash doesn't really show any signs of fairly high mileage. Doubt the interior snobs will agree but it looks like it's a nice place to sit inside to me.