@@benkromphardt1916 The problem I find is people don't want to pay and we live in a throw away society these days. I buy and sell everything from electronics to vehicles and machine tools cheaply and repair them either for my own use or to sell on.
This was educated guessing. Basic trouble shooting is fueI, air, and spark and then emission controls. After standing for 7 years the petrol could have a lot of condensation in it. Not knowing anything about Alfas I'd have tried carb cleaner into the intake to see if that kept it going, then checked for spark, and air flow before considering sensors.
I once collected a 156 which had been stood for a while. Pressed the clutch pedal and it stayed down - slave cylinder had popped, so clutch job followed. MAF gave me some trouble too, but after that I ran it for 3 years trouble free.
Jan 2025. My 1998 V6 156 still runs and sounds fantastic! The clear coat has gone but the red leather interior is great. Looking forward to buzzing around in it for another 10 years.
You ask what do we think so far, well I think that two men who make their livings from working with cars should be able to manoeuvre a vehicle out of a tight spot without scraping it.
I would have thought that they would have diagnosed that car 7 year ago, and also cleaned out the garbage piled up by the side of the garage 3:22. My father always said that you can tell the quality of someone's work by the condition of their tools and their workplace.
Still miss my 156. Had there been an alfa specialist like you anywhere near I'd still have it. Love the black with gorgeous red leather, providing there's nothing nasty underneath it'll be a cracking car ❤
Worth doing up and keeping as a run around. Especially at that milage. Neil, might be worth changing the rubber clutch hose going into the CSC, as this is something that's caught me out recently with my 156 restoration.
A knob end that got the job done, I'm failing to see the downside...... (Changed before someone whinges about knob end over knob head, that I originally put)
Looks like you got a little gem there Neil. It will be interesting to see what the underneath is like ? Just also like to say thanks for all your hard work producing your films, always love watching them !
Alfer’s were noted ,to have shocking severe chassis rusting , years .ago .looked in all round excellent condition until you poked a screwdriver in the rusted underneath
Make it nice and sell it! Beautiful car! I used to drive a 156 2.4 JTD in 2000 as a company car. A Lusso version, metalic green on the outside with a matching green cloth interior. Wood rim steering wheel. Driving position was a bit cramped, but it was such a lovely car. I kept it immaculate, washed it by hand each week. Even in sub zero temperatures, panel by panel with luke warm water. Taking the motorway from Brussels to Luxembourg I will never forget how it kept pulling on a straight section of that motorway that goes uphill, 175 km/h and still pulling. Both my exes drove 147s... However as a classic/youngtimer I believe my '98 C180 is a wiser choice. But not nearly as much fun!
We used to have a 156 (2L, cloth interior, a/c, etc - an Irish model). Ran it from about 105k to 165k . Lovely car. Corrosion on the sills killed it (repairable, but with the mileage it had done not financially viable). Overall reliable, and while it had problems it started and ran, and got us home (a MAF, radiator fan temperature sensor, motor for the heater air distribution and a rear window regulator - all fairly cheap things)
Lovely example of a 156, very tastefully specced by the original owner ! Great to see it rescued from the Renault specialist and taken to the right place for resurrection ! To be fair, it took you 30 seconds to diagnose the problem, and another 30 to actually FIX it..... ;-)
Had exactly the same red leather interior on a white '99 V6 Q-auto that I ran for 5 years til I bought my GTA. Nicest interior of any car I've ever owned. I would have loved to have manual rear windows - reckon I had to pull the cards off to get the motors going both sides every year. Basically no-one ever sat in the back, so they were hardly ever used, and baking though hot Aussie summers seemed to seal them up.
Oh if this had been a month ago Neil, I'd have had it off you to replace my younger 407. I wouldn't have worried about the paintwork. I love 156s. Sort the mechanical bits and that'll run for years. Someone's going to get a gem.
I reckon you should clean it, sort the clutch and sell it on Neil! Brilliant low mileage that is! Oh, of course get underneath and check for rust of course! Best of luck whatever the decision!
Good olde Airmas device never last for ever 😂 couldve of been the terminal plug as well 😂 The fact that its a Manual In this day and age would be a big high value ... selling point lol Certainly runs well amazing
Morning Neil. Nice Sunday morning Italia Autos video and a cuppa. That drivers seat and steering wheel!gtoo nice to scrap or break. Somebody after a cheap way into the modern classic car scene should take it.
I bought a 147, decals missing off the back (plus some other stickers) worn out gear knob, and wobbly changes. I cleaned off all the stickers with alcohol, bought new livery stickers and a gear knob and bushes from ebay. The gear knob came off, but i needed a mallet to get the new one on, and the mallet fixed the changes so didn't need to touch the bushes. It was such an easy fix, and the red leather seats were beautiful. After that did the breaks and a window regulator, got rid of it with the DRL light regulations, love italian cars..
Definitely worth preserving Neil. Not many of these left now. Can’t remember when I last saw one here on Merseyside. Only ever a handful on Auto Trader
I had a silver 156 ph2 on a 56 plate, it was the 2.4 JTD 5 pot. It had the same red leather interior as this one, but had air con. It was such a Bonny car and went like the clappers 💨💨💨 This one looks like the Veloce spec with those sideskirts.
Back in 2000 I had a 2.0 TS Selespeed with the huge rear spoiler....one of the best cars I've ever had and I've been driving since 1978!! (had a 1.6 Alfasud Sprint in the early 80's also...fell apart!)
Had one of these, the 2.0 litre model. That was a nice engine, had that characteristic growl. I loved that car. Uncharacteristically, I had very little go wrong with it in the eight years I owned it
Had the 147 and the water pump failed after 30k miles coming home on the M6 one day, it had been bought from a dealer in Preston not a year b4, no warranty nothing with finance still owed. Never learned my lesson either bought a fiat bravo after this and things only got worse, Italian reliability is just awful always liked the 156 though the way it looked and theres not many about now. Hope you managed to save it.
If your clutch fails in a live situation and you absolutely have to move, turn engine off, select desired gear (first or reverse), and crank the starter. The cars I have driven go from a gear to neutral without a clutch without much fuss. Likewise from first to second etc. although some throttle help may be necessary. I have driven in rush hour traffic like this...
Lucky with this one. Alpha's are notoriously difficult to "punt" BUT. A man of your calibre will be able to turn it round. Sell it private and offer a month warranty. Should do ok. Thanks for the vid. 👍
It would have shown up on the live data I expect. The year of that car 2001, was the first year OBD2 was obligatory for emission control reasons. We usually think about the sequence of: Fuel/compression/spark & timing/air in/air out. Somewhere along that chain the fault exists !.
@ItaliaAutos also convenient, as you will need access daily. I was in my teens when these hit the road, very pretty car. Alfa always had great lookers. But reliability, not so much. Seeing this takes me back to working at the bike shop on Blarney St. in Cork. Happy days. "Jump, go ahead and jump," another classic
1.6 must be a base engine I see some came with a 2.0 litre too and a V6 Hard to beat these Alfas with the old 105 115 type engines Valves are a little noisy, do an oil change with an additive LOVE that FIAT COUPE next to the Alfa, owned one back in 2003 in Brasil GREAT CAR ! FIAT badged ALFA !
The guards on that car trailer need ripping off and recalibrating. Maybe a half guard front and rear and stretch some conveyor belt between. That way they would be dead flat, but flexible. It looks like many a foot has pushed them down just to get doors open over the years. So a design change could be in order. Or just some flat fabricated guards perhaps. A job for another day obviously. Cheers 🍻
A nice easy one that, clutch aside! (could you have bumped it on the starter to clear the door on the trailer?) I was expecting the fuel pump to be seized, impressive! Weirdly, its ULEZ status & tax band isnt coming up on totalcarcheck, its Sept 2001 reg, so it should* be ok on ULEZ (hard ULEZ cut off is 1/3/2001), but its also coming up as Euro 3 emissions, & I have seen 147 TS`s that should have been ULEZ compliant, but werent for some reason..
I have a similar vintage 2.0 Selespeed (that works!) from new, with only 80,000+Kms on it and i let mine sit for five years while working O/S. Of course the fuel and fuel pump were both knackered. The fuel turns to molasses and the pump burns out in the first couple of cranks! With the plugs all still in, the car would have scored the bores, or worn the rings, in the first few cranks. What a shame... It's got the wrong coolant in the engine (it's green and should be red) which will prematurely corrode the internals, and it's super dry, as that oil is just not getting to the cams. New fuel, all new oils, new filters and it might be savable...
I always admire these blokes who can do that computer stuff on a vehicle. Brilliant! Hell, he lost me when he put that scanner on to it. I've got a 1990 Mitsub. TP Magna wagon. I can change the tyres, oil, spark plugs, etc., but that kind of digital skill is way above my pay grade. Anyway, the TP doesn't have much in the way of that stuff...Praise God?!
Low milage car, clean it, fix the surface rust in the driver side wheel arch. Fix the clutch (it might come back after warming the car up by bumping it on the starter motor and driving it around for about 30 minutes, occasionally trying to free it up by pushing in the clutch pedal "under a mild load"). Fix the double ding on the passenger side (tell tale sign of a clod owner at some point) and send it down the road to have a 2nd life. You might even be able to bring the original MAF sensor back by drowning it in brake clean and blowing it dry with clean, compressed air.
MAF sensors are notoriously easy to go bad and very easy to test. It's a common fault on many different engines. Its a nice car..do it up and sell it ☺
Problem with stripping it is how many of them are still about that are in a condition where someone wants to do their "tired" one up. Or repair a broken one. I Think it will be better saved
the driver seat (inc bolster) on my 2010 Accord had barely any wear after 100K miles (when i bought it in 2022). might have something to do with the prev owner (from new) being a slightly built 60 ish year old lady.
I am in South Africa and I bought a Peugeot 207 that was parked for 4 years due to a faulty alternator. The fuel pump was locked up due to varnish. Does this have to do with the heat here or bad quality fuel? I found this problem of fuel turning to varnish in quite a few vehicles parked for 4-5 years.
I bought a 14,000 mile 166 for €500 in 2019 because it couldn’t be fixed by some automotive electricians nearby. The car was close to immaculate apart from a damaged wing. I brought it to an ex Alfa Romeo mechanic. He diagnosed and fixed it within 2 hours. I can’t remember exactly what it was but i think it was a corroded/broken wire of some sort. I drove it for a year and sold it for €7000. Great car. Beautiful interior and much better build quality than the 156.
That's why we always need people who understand the machinery, theory of operation, and basic troubleshooting steps!
It's not that it couldn't be fixed. It's just that no one wanted to fix it
@@benkromphardt1916 The problem I find is people don't want to pay and we live in a throw away society these days. I buy and sell everything from electronics to vehicles and machine tools cheaply and repair them either for my own use or to sell on.
Its a shame we didnt have one that could see a big blue gate before crashing into it ?
This was educated guessing. Basic trouble shooting is fueI, air, and spark and then emission controls. After standing for 7 years the petrol could have a lot of condensation in it. Not knowing anything about Alfas I'd have tried carb cleaner into the intake to see if that kept it going, then checked for spark, and air flow before considering sensors.
@@KevinUrban-u1z The owner of the vehicle wouldn't or couldn't call a mechanic.
I once collected a 156 which had been stood for a while. Pressed the clutch pedal and it stayed down - slave cylinder had popped, so clutch job followed. MAF gave me some trouble too, but after that I ran it for 3 years trouble free.
Considering it's such low mileage and seems pretty much rust free, it's deffinetly worth saving, fixing up and sell, i'm sure someone will want it
It funny there is 3 billion people in the world and literally NO ONE wants it. That's why it sat so long
Agree 100%
Definitely worth saving!
I'd take it off his hands and pay the stupid duty into Ireland if I thought the missus wouldn't kill herself driving this car.
Agreed, cheap daily for someone or a rare spec show pony with low running costs for Alfa enthusiast.
Loved the Cheshire Cat look when it ran properly after disconnecting the air flow sensor
Quick spit and polish, clutch fixed, and she's ready to roll. Great find, Neil. Ciao from the land down Under 👍🇦🇺
Thanks 👍
what was the fix for thr clutch (or maybe I missied in in the video). Just stuck release bearing etc that freed itself of, or something more?
@stephencole9289 seized thrust bearing. See episode 2 and 3
Jan 2025. My 1998 V6 156 still runs and sounds fantastic! The clear coat has gone but the red leather interior is great. Looking forward to buzzing around in it for another 10 years.
You ask what do we think so far, well I think that two men who make their livings from working with cars should be able to manoeuvre a vehicle out of a tight spot without scraping it.
totally correct.
Unless they were the Chuckle Brothers!! To you Barry! To you Paul!😂😂
I would have thought that they would have diagnosed that car 7 year ago, and also cleaned out the garbage piled up by the side of the garage 3:22. My father always said that you can tell the quality of someone's work by the condition of their tools and their workplace.
Working in a Saab dealership years ago I remembered Saab air MAF sensors used to fit these. Great video 👍
Thanks for sharing
Would be utterly crazy to scrap an example like this! Definitely give her all the love and sell her for a good price!
Episode 2 out now.
@ just finished watching it, love what you do!
That’s well worth saving, I think that the 156 is a future classic. I love the Italian flair to the styling.
That's why I love my classic VW Beetle. No engine management system, no radiator, no timing chain.
from simple times. all good.
And 90% of everything on the car can be 90% broken and the car will still go down the road. These cars are the opposite of finicky.
Connect the black jumper cable first, keep on cranking the car and attempt to start after many years. Gotta love this channel!
Still miss my 156. Had there been an alfa specialist like you anywhere near I'd still have it. Love the black with gorgeous red leather, providing there's nothing nasty underneath it'll be a cracking car ❤
Me too!!!
Worth doing up and keeping as a run around. Especially at that milage.
Neil, might be worth changing the rubber clutch hose going into the CSC, as this is something that's caught me out recently with my 156 restoration.
Fix'n sell! Those Alfa models should be driven on the roads and not to the scrapyard. Greetings from 🏁 Norway
After the MAF disconnect, that was a very smug looking smile 😁
He did look very pleased with himself, plus his head did swell quite a bit, didn't it 😂
@@1881Gordon Looked like a knob-end, TBH.
A knob end that got the job done, I'm failing to see the downside......
(Changed before someone whinges about knob end over knob head, that I originally put)
@@andysaunders3708his reaction was exactly like your old man’s! 😅
Looks like you got a little gem there Neil. It will be interesting to see what the underneath is like ? Just also like to say thanks for all your hard work producing your films, always love watching them !
Cheers more on it next week
Alfer’s were noted ,to have shocking severe chassis rusting ,
years .ago .looked in all round excellent condition
until you poked a screwdriver in the rusted underneath
What a find! Would like to add this to my collection... Let us know when and where it's going up for sale/auction. More 156 content please!
Make it nice and sell it! Beautiful car! I used to drive a 156 2.4 JTD in 2000 as a company car. A Lusso version, metalic green on the outside with a matching green cloth interior. Wood rim steering wheel. Driving position was a bit cramped, but it was such a lovely car. I kept it immaculate, washed it by hand each week. Even in sub zero temperatures, panel by panel with luke warm water. Taking the motorway from Brussels to Luxembourg I will never forget how it kept pulling on a straight section of that motorway that goes uphill, 175 km/h and still pulling. Both my exes drove 147s... However as a classic/youngtimer I believe my '98 C180 is a wiser choice. But not nearly as much fun!
Love the 156 and more so the 159
Thanks 🙏 from Australia 🇦🇺
We used to have a 156 (2L, cloth interior, a/c, etc - an Irish model). Ran it from about 105k to 165k . Lovely car. Corrosion on the sills killed it (repairable, but with the mileage it had done not financially viable). Overall reliable, and while it had problems it started and ran, and got us home (a MAF, radiator fan temperature sensor, motor for the heater air distribution and a rear window regulator - all fairly cheap things)
Lovely example of a 156, very tastefully specced by the original owner !
Great to see it rescued from the Renault specialist and taken to the right place for resurrection !
To be fair, it took you 30 seconds to diagnose the problem, and another 30 to actually FIX it..... ;-)
its a base model
@ Looks like a Lusso to me….
Now you can drive it into the junk yard and save the tow bill.
In another 30 seconds it will need to be fixed again.
All the haters, jeez! Nice to see a rather pretty car saved. Good on you!
Had exactly the same red leather interior on a white '99 V6 Q-auto that I ran for 5 years til I bought my GTA. Nicest interior of any car I've ever owned. I would have loved to have manual rear windows - reckon I had to pull the cards off to get the motors going both sides every year. Basically no-one ever sat in the back, so they were hardly ever used, and baking though hot Aussie summers seemed to seal them up.
Very cool!
Absolute bargain. Your face when it was as simple as the airflow meter 😂
Great little car and I still love how these drive.
Couldn't agree more!
Oh if this had been a month ago Neil, I'd have had it off you to replace my younger 407. I wouldn't have worried about the paintwork. I love 156s. Sort the mechanical bits and that'll run for years. Someone's going to get a gem.
Love it , i own exactly the same car , same color, tan interior all leather, 192000 kms.Going strong.
She's the twin sister to mine! Still got it from new.
Certainly a drivers car, worth keeping on the road!
I reckon you should clean it, sort the clutch and sell it on Neil! Brilliant low mileage that is! Oh, of course get underneath and check for rust of course! Best of luck whatever the decision!
Your video popped up looked interesting and fair play to you for fixing it immediately ! looking forward to seeing it finished !
Thanks for watching. Should be the final one next week.
Hello from NZ, it's Sunday evening here, save it mate!! 😊
Morning! yeah its being saved. part 2 next week
Good olde Airmas device never last for ever 😂 couldve of been the terminal plug as well 😂
The fact that its a Manual
In this day and age would be a big high value ... selling point lol Certainly runs well amazing
Very true see the next 2 episodes
Definitely worth saving and putting back on the road.
Please don't drive it anywhere near me. I don't want to die today.
@@KevinUrban-u1z Drive your Prius
Morning Neil. Nice Sunday morning Italia Autos video and a cuppa.
That drivers seat and steering wheel!gtoo nice to scrap or break. Somebody after a cheap way into the modern classic car scene should take it.
Morning! enjoy!
Looks great - unusual to see one with such low mileage. Lovely interior!!
It's hard to put miles on something that never runs...
@@KevinUrban-u1z😂😂😂
It's got to be worth keeping an old car on the road, I'm tempted with this one myself
If it is not corroded, do refurbish it. The 1.6 is light and handy.
I'm a sucker for any of your 156 and gtv stuff, thanks
I bought a 147, decals missing off the back (plus some other stickers) worn out gear knob, and wobbly changes. I cleaned off all the stickers with alcohol, bought new livery stickers and a gear knob and bushes from ebay. The gear knob came off, but i needed a mallet to get the new one on, and the mallet fixed the changes so didn't need to touch the bushes. It was such an easy fix, and the red leather seats were beautiful. After that did the breaks and a window regulator, got rid of it with the DRL light regulations, love italian cars..
We got to the point where cars allegedly can tell us what's wrong with them, amaaazing.
Definitely worth preserving Neil. Not many of these left now. Can’t remember when I last saw one here on Merseyside. Only ever a handful on Auto Trader
Pre-facelift Alfa 156. Still, in my opinion, the most beautiful saloon car that's ever been made.
Lovely cars
What about the 166?
Jermey Clarkson reviewed that model years ago. He said it was good car styling and interior is lovely
Good to know!
Best Alfa Ever had him for over 15 Years only Oil Change and timing belt changed all over the years faithful Car.
Had 3 156's. Two were 2.4jtdm's and one was a twinspark.
Gorgeous cars. 😍
Indeed. Every time I vist the repair shop I love looking at it. But can't help but think what sucker owns that car...
I had a silver 156 ph2 on a 56 plate, it was the 2.4 JTD 5 pot. It had the same red leather interior as this one, but had air con.
It was such a Bonny car and went like the clappers 💨💨💨
This one looks like the Veloce spec with those sideskirts.
Thanks for sharing
More satisfying than getting it started must have been washing it! Too nice to break, definitely.
Great guess on the bad MAF sensor! Pity about the scrape on the front wing but that happens! Subscribed!
Educated guess lol. thanks for watching. at least the bumper was already damaged.
Back in 2000 I had a 2.0 TS Selespeed with the huge rear spoiler....one of the best cars I've ever had and I've been driving since 1978!! (had a 1.6 Alfasud Sprint in the early 80's also...fell apart!)
Wow, I may well of bought it after you, Alfa garage in Leeds was were I found it 🤷♂️🤞🏽
My brother had a Sud, many Saturdays spent on rust issues......😳
Had one of these, the 2.0 litre model. That was a nice engine, had that characteristic growl. I loved that car. Uncharacteristically, I had very little go wrong with it in the eight years I owned it
Great cars
Watching videos like this makes me want to go back to occasionally tinkering with cars. 🙂
Do it. 👍😁
Had the 147 and the water pump failed after 30k miles coming home on the M6 one day, it had been bought from a dealer in Preston not a year b4, no warranty nothing with finance still owed. Never learned my lesson either bought a fiat bravo after this and things only got worse, Italian reliability is just awful always liked the 156 though the way it looked and theres not many about now. Hope you managed to save it.
If your clutch fails in a live situation and you absolutely have to move, turn engine off, select desired gear (first or reverse), and crank the starter. The cars I have driven go from a gear to neutral without a clutch without much fuss. Likewise from first to second etc. although some throttle help may be necessary. I have driven in rush hour traffic like this...
not with a seized thrust bearing on these im afraid no drive at all to gearbox from engine.
That doesn't sound like any car I've ever driven. Are you sure?
Most reliable car I ever owned 156 ts sele
Lucky with this one. Alpha's are notoriously difficult to "punt" BUT. A man of your calibre will be able to turn it round. Sell it private and offer a month warranty. Should do ok. Thanks for the vid. 👍
Thanks episodes 2 and 3 out now.
Restore. Cracking job.
I loved my 156! Same colour and interior but with the stupidly big spoiler! Early 20’s car, now in my 40’s I may need to buy her from you.
well its all finished episode 3 is out sunday.
Living in Australia I am always amazed by the state of under side of rust and decay on British cars what with your salty wet roads.
Normal to us here
I had something similar on a golf and also a blocked cat will do the same thing. Well done on the fix.
It would have shown up on the live data I expect. The year of that car 2001, was the first year OBD2 was obligatory for emission control reasons. We usually think about the sequence of: Fuel/compression/spark & timing/air in/air out. Somewhere along that chain the fault exists !.
It's very smart and always a good idea to crank an engine, that was sitting there for 7 years with an open oil fillercap. Congrats! 🙄😱
Risky but worked well.
What a shame it was left outside.
We had a 2002 147 in 2005.
It used more coolant and oil than fuel but it was a fun car to drive 👍
Loved my 156 selespeed… find a pigeon rack spoiler for it 🥰🥰🥰 and what about a subscribers raffle 🤷♂️ I ‘now I’d love it
Alfa very thoughtfully placed the OBD plug in an easy to reach location.
it is but the cover doesnt like to go back on easily lol
@ItaliaAutos also convenient, as you will need access daily.
I was in my teens when these hit the road, very pretty car. Alfa always had great lookers. But reliability, not so much. Seeing this takes me back to working at the bike shop on Blarney St. in Cork. Happy days.
"Jump, go ahead and jump," another classic
Most cars they hide em. 😂
Yes, definitely do it up, and sell it. It is worth saving, especially with that low of a mileage. Cheers!
1.6 must be a base engine
I see some came with a 2.0 litre too and a V6
Hard to beat these Alfas with the old 105 115 type engines
Valves are a little noisy, do an oil change with an additive
LOVE that FIAT COUPE next to the Alfa, owned one back in 2003 in Brasil
GREAT CAR ! FIAT badged ALFA !
looking good for 24 years old ! i love them wheels
Neil - keep it - surprised it's as nice as it is after 7 years!!! Good one 👍
I had a new 156 2.0 selespeed in Thailand and it was beautiful, Alfa Red with natural leather. Cracking cars.
Definitely a fix and sell on. It’s in better nick than any of three 156’s I’ve owned and I loved all of them!
The guards on that car trailer need ripping off and recalibrating. Maybe a half guard front and rear and stretch some conveyor belt between. That way they would be dead flat, but flexible. It looks like many a foot has pushed them down just to get doors open over the years. So a design change could be in order. Or just some flat fabricated guards perhaps. A job for another day obviously. Cheers 🍻
old trailer the drivers one should fold down but its seized. normally not an issue but wheels where flat so car was lower.
Wow a find! Looks like real gem. You know bit of a 156 nut. 😁
Great video mate keep up the good work ❤
Preserve it - looks beautiful and I would give you a good price once it’s all done - got to be a winner at that mileage
Final video tomorrow morning. If you want it me. Ta.
Do it all up! Would the oil still be okay after 7 years? Thought it would have turned to sludge
it was still like new.
I don't believe that car has been sitting there in that position for 10 years. It's also a miracle that all of the tyres are still fully inflated.
It was 7 not 10
A nice easy one that, clutch aside! (could you have bumped it on the starter to clear the door on the trailer?) I was expecting the fuel pump to be seized, impressive! Weirdly, its ULEZ status & tax band isnt coming up on totalcarcheck, its Sept 2001 reg, so it should* be ok on ULEZ (hard ULEZ cut off is 1/3/2001), but its also coming up as Euro 3 emissions, & I have seen 147 TS`s that should have been ULEZ compliant, but werent for some reason..
No clutch engagement at all. Slave was totally seized and broken. Already done the clutch change. That's for next week's video
I have a similar vintage 2.0 Selespeed (that works!) from new, with only 80,000+Kms on it and i let mine sit for five years while working O/S. Of course the fuel and fuel pump were both knackered. The fuel turns to molasses and the pump burns out in the first couple of cranks! With the plugs all still in, the car would have scored the bores, or worn the rings, in the first few cranks. What a shame...
It's got the wrong coolant in the engine (it's green and should be red) which will prematurely corrode the internals, and it's super dry, as that oil is just not getting to the cams. New fuel, all new oils, new filters and it might be savable...
Fix and sell, if the shocks are OK, even at retail with MOT and short warranty. Good find.
see episode 2 its out now. Episode 3 is out tomorrow. find out what happened.
Great car. Worth saving!
Definately get that one sorted.That mileage is a deal maker...Nice little profit,shame its not a bigger engine maybe? but good car👍
I always admire these blokes who can do that computer stuff on a vehicle. Brilliant!
Hell, he lost me when he put that scanner on to it.
I've got a 1990 Mitsub. TP Magna wagon.
I can change the tyres, oil, spark plugs, etc., but that kind of digital skill is way above my pay grade. Anyway, the TP doesn't have much in the way of that stuff...Praise God?!
cheers thanks for watching.
Low milage car, clean it, fix the surface rust in the driver side wheel arch. Fix the clutch (it might come back after warming the car up by bumping it on the starter motor and driving it around for about 30 minutes, occasionally trying to free it up by pushing in the clutch pedal "under a mild load").
Fix the double ding on the passenger side (tell tale sign of a clod owner at some point) and send it down the road to have a 2nd life. You might even be able to bring the original MAF sensor back by drowning it in brake clean and blowing it dry with clean, compressed air.
You got so lucky on this thing! I wish we got this car in the US
yeah but you got the dodge challenger.
30 seconds in. First ever video of seen from you. (Subscribed) 👌
thanks you have several hundred videos to catch up on then.
@ItaliaAutos im on with it :)
@andywakefield9826 I'd reccoment the Porsche boxster or calibra series
Clutch fixed, wash and polish and she's a beaut mate. Even with the scrapes, a tidy little car for someone.
see part 2, part 3 hopefully next weekend. painting the scrapes today.
MAF sensors are notoriously easy to go bad and very easy to test. It's a common fault on many different engines. Its a nice car..do it up and sell it ☺
See episode 2 and 3 for the finished car.
Car is like almost New. Rust coating in seals and underneath, New clutch, deep clean and its going to live many many years.
Not very often that u find a car thats been left in that most need lots of work or are beyond saving with those low miles well worth saving
A high mileage Alfa. What do you reckon? 20 k is about right
Was trying to spray clean the MAF sensor with an appropriate cleaner not worth a try? I have had good results with a CRC brand cleaner in the US.
On those once there's gone your better off changing them
Problem with stripping it is how many of them are still about that are in a condition where someone wants to do their "tired" one up. Or repair a broken one. I Think it will be better saved
Watch episode 2. Thanks for the comment. 😁👍
Occam's Razor. Jolly good show. Pip pip, hooray. Smashing bit of kit that.
Lucky find.. 👌
Oh man! That is a real barnfind!
the driver seat (inc bolster) on my 2010 Accord had barely any wear after 100K miles (when i bought it in 2022). might have something to do with the prev owner (from new) being a slightly built 60 ish year old lady.
I loved my 156 2.0 Veloce same colour as that
I am in South Africa and I bought a Peugeot 207 that was parked for 4 years due to a faulty alternator. The fuel pump was locked up due to varnish. Does this have to do with the heat here or bad quality fuel? I found this problem of fuel turning to varnish in quite a few vehicles parked for 4-5 years.
prob a mixture of both
I bought a 14,000 mile 166 for €500 in 2019 because it couldn’t be fixed by some automotive electricians nearby. The car was close to immaculate apart from a damaged wing.
I brought it to an ex Alfa Romeo mechanic. He diagnosed and fixed it within 2 hours. I can’t remember exactly what it was but i think it was a corroded/broken wire of some sort.
I drove it for a year and sold it for €7000. Great car. Beautiful interior and much better build quality than the 156.
cool
SAVE IT SAVE IT SAVE IT cost of the clutch and what you spend on it will be a classic if not already but the mileage is the keeper part of it
See episode 2and 3. Thanks for watching
I'd love to buy it but the freight costs to Australia might be too much. A GREAT BUY and good luck with it.
Fair enough!