My Alfa GTV in trouble already (exhaust manifold?)

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Well i bought my GTV 2.0 TS (1998 P2) a few weeks back and until now i was completely over the moon with it .....

Drove it to the leisure centre today and all was totally perfect, i come back 90 minutes later and start it up and its making an awful booming noise coming from lower down on the drivers/nearside engine area .... Almost sounds like the exhaust has been removed like on a chav/boy racer type car.... although worse than that.

Luckily it was only 1.5 miles home so i drove it really carefully back and an now starting to worry! ..... Any ideas what this could be? (Please god, i hope the word 'cambelt' doesnt get mentioned) ........ Exhaust manifold problems? Something worse?

Any help would be fantastic on this, before i get raped at an alfa garage of course for any repairs.

I have an MP3/WAV file of the noise if anyone wants it?
 
The sound is coming from the DRIVERS side ...... Sounds very loud like a tractor, almost a rasping/wet sound if i rev the engine.

There were some bumps in the carpark at the leisure centre, but only very small ones and i dont think i took any of them at speed.
 
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I think i can rest a little easier now - Hopefully it might be something as simple as that. Only thing im surprised about is how all was well until i started it back up ..... I would have thought knocking something would have caused the problem to kick off as soon as it happened.
 
Cheers guys for the quick help - Ill have another listen tonight and see about getting it looked at over the weekend.
 
I did reverse park actually .... although i really cant remember at all if there might have been anything in the way.

A few people on some alfa forums have started using scary words like variators, cam belt covers, cam belts (a dirty word for alfa owners) and other extremely worrying diagnoses .......... so i hope to god that its something as simple as mentioned above! Getting the car to a specialist will be hard enough!
 
Luckily im parked 20 meters from a Garage who just checked it out ....

(drum roll)

CENTRE MOUNTING BROKEN .. :( Apparently its split and corroded and welding apparently isnt worth trying (Who am i to argue)

So i need a new downpipe and various parts to get it back up and running. 250 quid to fix in total.

Im relieved in a way, since at the back of my mind i was worried it was going to be something catastrophic - but its 250 quid i dont get to spend on something else. Its a shame only 2 weeks after buying it, its already making trips to a garage.

Ahh well - still a brilliant car :)
 
BIGWEB said:
I did this to my GTV racing on the beach :rolleyes: exactly the same thing and I got mine fixed for £110 so take it somewhere else. I had to drive round for 2 days with it and it sounded like a NASCAR or somethin! If you take a look at where it is you will see that its easy to do once corroded. a full stainless system is only about £300 for them so check www.gtvv6.com for it.
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Ive learned my lesson on this one - i was told over the phone it wasnt worth welding, but yeah considering a performance exhaust isnt much more than that for a full system.... its a complete rip off. At the time though (before the answers here about the real cost), i just said 'yeah go ahead and fix it'.

This being my first car ive bought (given them previously), its a steep learning curve - but the garage who have fixed it this time around wont be seeing me again.
 
D4VE said:
A performance exahust might not be much more, but a replacement Alfa exhaust may well be.
I seem to remember them being a hell of a lot when I was browsing through a catalogue.
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Good point - this aint cheap ford spares we are talking about.

A downpipe might very well cost 140 pounds eh .... although whether or not it was necessary is the question eh ;)
 
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