Alfa 145 welding and dashboard done. Kind of.
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- Ive been out on the Alfa 145 and sorting out the welding on the other side of the car, and have pulled the dash apart again to try and sort the broken blower and all the dead light bulbs. Fun!
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At this rate you’re going to have to change the name of the channel to “FuriousWelding”
Or furiouser and furiouser
ferrous driving
I thought this was Furious Welding.
"are you using it for good or evil". What a nice exchange. You seem like the sort of Dad who would join his children in sea kayaking down the stairs.
Something about your videos is really relaxing to watch but also motivates me to get up and work on my own projects, maybe it's because of how real and down to earth you are in them. Either way, I just wanted to say thanks, love the content 🙌💯👌
Mark Daly completely agree!
It is becoming a series about welding, but I like it a lot. Greetings from Slovenia.
Love the quirky Alfa will it/won't it work characteristics. Your patience and optimistic enthusiasm is a joy to behold, especially enjoyed the hunt for the missing piece that fell down the back of the dashboard it was wonderfully honest to show that to the world. These things make your channel one of the very best on TH-cam. Can't wait for the next installment, whatever it might be...
What I like about this channel is that you not only take on jobs that would really make a few of us cringe if we had to do but you usually, actually mostly you accomplish them, also your camera angles are spot on!
Once again we see you battling the elements and things situated in awkward places, have to admire your perseverance. Keep it up.
Full marks for saving another Alfa. I also have MIG welder issues. My SIP 130 Turbo must be over twenty years old and I had to add a metal strap to the wire feed and guide wheel unit so they stayed perpendicular to each other. Also replaced the wire liner for a PTFE type after putting up with endless binding and birdsnests at the wire spool. Liners will gum up with wire residue over time and this will affect wire feed and ultimately weld quality.
Just a thought about your AC Compressor. If the pulley for the clutch is locked up, and the bearing won't allow it to spin - you may just need to replace only the clutch/coil/pulley. Especially if you can turn the face of the compressor by hand. I've done that for a couple of cars that still had a great compressor, just the clutch had burned up since prior owner(s) didn't keep up on maintaining their AC system (letting it short cycle a lot due to low pressure).
Congrats for getting most of your fan speeds back. I know the feeling when you drop something down in the dashboard - so very annoying to have that happen....
Like others here I admire your patience and perseverance, that old Alfa is living up to every stereotype I heard about Italian cars growing up in the seventies and the eighties. I've no idea if modern Alfas have learned the lessons of history and now deliver a better package for that luxury car price tag, but a quick Google search tells me I can buy a very recent Giulia with a handful of miles on the clock for a surprisingly few number of pounds (dealership prices, not private sales, I reckon you might stand a chance if you went in with an offer £2K below the asking price). Forgive my suspicious mind but I wonder about the reason for those low price tags!
Whatever, if you want one, now is a great time to buy. COVID is clearly depressing the second hand car market, see beyond the boredom of social distancing; now is a great time to buy a Alfa! :D
Dashboard bulbs really are a pain. Thank goodness they are all LEDs now.
I know you dread it Matt, however I do enjoy your welding endeavours 😂 I salute you sir!
Absolutely love the 145, I think it's Alfa's BEST hatch. Get the right spec like yours and it looks fantastic. I've been following this for quite a while, so always keen to see updates.
I think they're one of the best looking hatchbacks ever created and I'm not a particularly big fan of hatchback cars normally. This and the 3 door Citroen ZX (in Volcane or 16v spec) are definitely the best lookers from their era.
Simon Parsons Completely agree with your comment. I loved the ZX looks, a full spec one was a lovely car. Keep safe.
Thanks Karlos, I did own a ZX 16v back in the early 2000s and it was thee one car I wish I'd kept! Wonderful looking and driving car.
they have a unique sharp look, not really like anything else with the angles and edges
Simon Parsons Very ‘Marmite’ styling... the quirky angularity doesn’t do it for me, I much preferred the 146.
All resistors great and small 😁. I bet if you could you would of hugged the postman Lol. My 2.5 24v 156 was a great car and I never had any issues with the electrics or anything really. It had tan Momo interior and Q system gearbox. I still miss it.
Enjoyed the watch as allways, I have a Welder with the same style settings, like you said makes it very difficult to weld and time consuming... little tip, I allways do is clean the weld through primer off the overlapping metal, as delays the arc off the weld and make the welding untidy, I generally use a screwdriver or hand wire brush, just on the weld join before hand, hope that helps👍
thanks, Ill give that a go
Brilliant video, I feel your frustration working outside on the driveway in the rain. Fiat are just as bad the way they put things together using parts bin stuff shoehorned into various models which complicates disassembly.
Heroic work. Total opposite of Wheeler Dealers. Outside in crap weather, crawling on the floor and fighting with rubbish tools and improvising everything.
When I saw that first resistor in your hand I said to myself "wait, how can it be the same as for the engine fan?" Haha I changed that last one on my Fiat Tipo 2 months ago. Fiat/Lancia relays are a pain! I had issues with some for the air conditioning (a brown one in the engine bay) and it's impossible to find here in Argentina, fortunately I found a second hand one and now everything is working OK. Loved your video!
neneloco23 My Fiat Tipo has the opposite problem.... speeds 1 2 3 through the resistor work fine, speed 4 direct connection doesn’ t work. Probably the selector switch or maybe that relay has gone if it’s separate ?
Every parts store Ive tried listed that as the interior blower, so annoying! Only one specialist Ive now found has the right part and its discontinued!
@@furiousdriving I have just ordered a heater resistor from eBay. I was told it would it would fit my 1994 1.7L 145 and give me four speeds. I was hoping I wouldn't have to follow the steps of your video again to get behind the dashboard.
@@brentwalsh786 After Id done it twice I was able to reach up and do it without taking the entire dash out, but its not easy!
@@furiousdriving Thank you for the advice. It's a boon being able to see you do the work in the U.K.. My 1994 Alfa Romeo 145 1.7L here in New Zealand has no rust as far as MOT has detected but the blower only on four. I will this remedy myself or have remedied by someone else in the future. A mirror controller is on its way from the U.K. with help from a Scot who uses the Alfa Romeo 145 (Powered by Invision) forum.
Great video dude.... That is probably your only gripe with the Alfa in terms of repair taking the dash out.... so many hidden screws..... 🤣😬
Hi Matt, another great video, productive days on the Alfa 145,it's coming along nicely,that resistor was a pain to do behind the glove box,we have lights on the dashboard 👍.
That heater blower resistor looks a PITA to do.
I changed the whole heater blower in my BMW E91 in around 10 mins, as there is just enough room to wriggle it out downwards from behind the glovebox, with only one small trim panel (under the glovebox) to remove.
That Alfa is another level of frustration matey !
But, it's fascinating seeing you problem solving. Trim is a nightmare in any car isn't it. I work in a Hyundai main dealership as a parts & service advisor, and have watched the technicians trying to remove every part of trim in every model of Hyundai, and I don't envy them one bit, especially as they have to remove and refit without making a single mark on any piece (otherwise we have to replace it at our cost).
On some cars the heater blower or even the heater core are easy to replace. On others it's thousands of dollars/pounds of labor.
Having the same weather here in upstate New York, so I understand your pain. But I admire your persévérance on this project.
Use some thin wire and jump from the 60mph bulb to the 0-50mph bulb. Then refit bulbs. It's a bit fiddly but I have done this before when I needed my airbag light to come on and go out for mot test on a modified car. I linked it to the abs bulb by doing the above.
Sure you would get that 0-50 bulb working by linking it to the 60bulb.
I dont have enough holders, the white ones are blanks with no contacts or bulb grips and now one of the black ones is under the floor!
It's the weekend and time to do that big job, you do the major strip down, you get out that new part out ... and it's wrong!!! worse still it's your only car and you need it for work on Monday so you have to put it all back together again.... working on car's is such fun
I walked by an open car parts store in Brooklyn yesterday.
re bulbs: ignition light may be 2w rather than 1.2w which is why there are white, black & red bulb holders- altenator charges at lower rpm with 2w tnan 1.2w. this was a fix with the early metros to stop the battery light flickering at idle!
Saw this come up last night, waited till this morning to watch with a cuppa!
Nearside was worse than the offside then but the previous bodges hid it. Things were much easier when instrument panels were illuminated by external lights on the surface of the dashboard but that would be on a 90 year old plus car. Stay safe.
I dropped a small bolt inside the dashboard of my Corolla and had to take out the whole console and dash front to find it. Guess where? Between the carpet and floor hump! You had frustration from beginning to end but remained cheerful throughout, on camera anyway :D I really hope the problems resolve. Cheers
Love Alfas came new with rust from the factory, but with style.
"This is not intelligent design, this is irritating design.." 😂👏
There are some companies with genuinely good lifetime warranties... Leatherman Tools are another one.... My old one broke (coz I abused it).... replaced by the latest model by return post... awesome!
I like Leatherman stuff too, they make some great tools
Another ace video. Cut a long story short, I have a micra k11 in lovely nick. 107000 miles with a new mot. All welding done 2 years ago so no worries about that. Last 2 mots no advisories.Selling due to disability only. You need one in your life as they are a smile a minute. 5 speed manual,1000cc 60 bhp, Engine, clutch and box are all good. 40 mpg however you drive it. seeing as you are in kent i will say £500 sovs. New Battery too.
I drove a K11 last year, it was a nice car and I quite enjoyed it, sadly as Ive barely worked for the last 6 weeks and dont know when I will be again my car buying activities are on hold until after lockdown ends
@@furiousdriving No worries ma friend... Totally understand. Keep up the great content.
Watching your video makes me think that Italian electrics are worse than French ones, and I own two 15-year-old French cars! I've just done the blower motor resistor on my 2005 Renault Grand Scênic (with a modified repair kit off eBay) and I had to take apart half the dashboard to get to it. I also had to solder in a new plug to replace the melted old one, which is a known fault on these cars.
I had a similar problem on a Renault Modus, three out of four blower speeds, replaced the resistor but it was a burnt out connector terminal
what a fabulous stunning lovely little Alfa, I do like these for some reason
They are very pretty things, They've been favourites for years
The dashboard bulbs in your Alfa should be the cap-less type, you can pull the glass globe out of the plastic holders and put a new one in...
mostly they are but the 2 white caps have no contacts in them! Ill use capped ones to replace those and hopefully that will sort the dead area
@@furiousdriving That is rather an issue with the cap-less bulb holders, sometimes when people are less than gentle or careful changing the bulbs then the little contacts can get snapped off. Sometimes, ham-fisted removal or fitting of the assembly into the back of the dashboard can also damage the printed circuit board and cause dead spots, though that's not so common due to how rarely those bulbs get changed...
Two new videos to watch in one (wet) day! Perfect timing Matt, cheers
I’ve been putting off the relatively simple job of replacing a rear brake light bulb on my XC90. After watching this I really have NO excuses!
haha, I dont know, some new cars make bulbs impossible to find
@@furiousdriving Indeed! I've done the rears on the XC once before and they're certainly more of a fiddle than the fronts. Must bite the bullet while the sun's out tomorrow!
Eh cool, I had to do the dash bulbs on my car as well. What a proper pain in the ass, at least you didn't have to take the steering wheel and entire dash apart on the Alfa. Mine also had the exact same plastic bulb holders. Haynes manual said you have to replace the entire thing, but no, I just used a rubber glove for grip and it came out eventually, then just put in a new T5 and I was golden.
Get a first gen Twingo. The girlfriend has one as a runabout. Nothing seems more then 4 screws away from replacing something. A joy to wrench on after an old 7 Series (e38).
I love your Alpha cause you do Furious. It’s the infectious attitude that you have working again. Pete. UK
But....but....level 3 fan speed is so PERFECT. Hope you get it fixed correctly.
Compliments on the awesome conclusion in a downpour.
Alfa is the only manufacturer to make a car both junk and scrap at the same time. Junk as it never works as it should, and scrap as its value in parts is more than its individual sale.
I still love em though.
Absolutely made my day ,i was feeling a bit down car failed mot /engine out i,m afraid ,new rings /valve stems etc etc great content....STAY SAFE 🏡🏡🏡🏡😀😀😀😀😀😀☕☕☕☕☕🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
oh no, you dont need that, at least it should be good once its done
@@furiousdriving im not doing it ive booked it out thank god !! Being picked up next week for full surgery...
I used to do welding and general repairs myself but now I am of a certain age and so I say sod it and let my very reasonable price garage do everything. No more getting under cars and grazing my knuckles. Just pay up and relax!
Oh yes. Thumbs up before I'd even watched......
I knew you'd video it. That broke the lockdown boredom up.
Great content.....
Keep up the good work.
Stay safe. Stay healthy.
Alan
After a long day it's good to see a new FD video, thanks!
This is why i watch Chris Fix!
The design of the dashboard is undoubtedly the most interesting of all the equivalent cars of the 1990s. Not that it means that it is necessarily easy to take apart! The 145 rival I used to have was a 1997 Mazda 323F, the dashboard is interesting enough, but not like this.
Always liked the look of the 145, especially in red. What a pain just to do the blower resistor. Wonder how much Alfa would charge for doing that?? Anyhow another cracking video, but agree with you in regards to lockdown it's getting to me with the feeling of not wanting to get up!
I dont think a main dealer would anymore!
Good job Mat keep your chin up
Matt, this video makes me realise why I sold my 3 145 QV’s. Epic cars, but junk.
I'm so sad to see so much rust on your gorgeous Alfa I really like this car it's by far my favorite In your fleet but I'm pleased it's In good hands good luck and take care
Get a battery powered screw driver, ideally a small and a larger one, will make your life much easier! Once you get used to it, you will never go back :)
This is so tight only a small 90° driver can reach it
Cor lummy Matt, that looked like a lot of fun! Just think, someone sat down and 'designed' that dashboard! What were they thinking? Well done to have got as far as you have.
That lost light bulb would drive my OCD mad.
You have the patience of a saint!
A bit of a bummer with not being totally successful but you've improved the Alfa. I've just spent the evening under my BMW E36 replacing a rear suspension bush. The video will be out in due course.
Have you considered an old British classic like the Bentley 8 or Rolls Royce Silver Shadows? They are very cheap and are a ton of fun to fix.
Im not sure 'fun' is the right word, but yes I have
What a crazy design for the fan. I had to get some leaves out of the fan on our Carina some years ago. Three screws, yes 3! Gotta love Toyota. Mind you, it would have been a pretty dull video.
Toyota and Nissan think things through so well, Ive been to a place where they take prototypes and try to do a lifetimes worth of use and work out all the snags - its where the 'curry hook' came from and means they are easy to live with!
1960's GM cars and 1980's American Horizons (and probably Talbot Horizons) were like that - the motor was right there to see and easy to remove. Two cars I happen to know.
I don't want to be unfair but it seems that most Italian engineers were off the day they taught electrics at uni. A good chunk of the important stuff on my 164 was made by Bosch, so it didn't break. Mike P.S. Don't mention Lucas - they had to make stuff down to a price rather than up to a standard (maybe the same for Alfa?). But at least Lucas electrics were logical, if crap, and so easy to figure out and fix.
I had three 164s and a 75 and loved them..but I found most of the electrical problems were very much down to Bosch. The cheap ribbon cable from the Bosch HVAC electronics to the display on the 24Valve was rubbish. As soon as it got hot it detached and you lost the display, or parts of it. Alfa wanted £1000 for a new one (with the same fault)...a bloke in the states would replace it with aero quality ribbon and fixings for $250. Bosch relays in the 75 were pants, the Bosch wiper motor failed, the Bosch electric seat motors in 164 stuck on max travel, the Bosch stepper motors in 12 Valve HVAC failed...Need I go on. Oh, and I64s did not rust badly at all. The 166 took it all downhill again.
@@timhancock6626 That's odd, I had no problems whatsoever with the Bosch stuff on my early 164 - it was the Alfa stuff that broke/wore out prematurely.
I can't relate to your lockdown lethargy, been getting absolutely everything done because I finally have time to do it! 🤣
This car is awesome. Good to know the history and back story behind it 😎👌🏼 top work!
My sisters buy a new car every 3 years and never even have to change a wheel. Makes one wonder sometimes about taking out dashboards, dismantling and welding along with the nuisance of looking for the right tools and the amount of time it all takes.
There is a middle ground, something 5 to 10 years old that just needs servicing. Of course if I only had cars with nothing to do it wouldn't be much of a channel!
@@furiousdriving Yes, it's the sense of achievement too keeping an old car that one enjoys on the road. My e30 is keeping me going with work at the moment and a great way of killing time in a lockdown.
You can use the rubber of the wiper cut it to length and put the old metal strips in it works fine
Its one of the new moulded types, I dont know if those cut well
@@furiousdriving no they don't. You have to buy a longer one which has a separate rubber. Or you can buy the rubber separate from Valeo and cut it to length. But a cheap complete wiper from a DYI store or something is often cheaper...
Lovely Jubbly, but why have TH-cam made it harder to leave comments. Great informative video again
Kwik fit are still doing air con gas recharges. All ways found them good. They refund your money if they can't re-gas.
you might want to check the current draw of your welder, and the max current for your wound up extension drum.
bad things may happen.
Its OK, checked it many years ago and its always been fine
Great job!
Matt - It would be worth heading over to Hobby Weld for a larger CO2/Argon mix bottle, when Lockdown is done - much, much better value for money than the small bottles.
These are what I grabbed the day before lockdown!
@@furiousdriving Understood. More a suggestion for further down the line. :o)
Fixing dead light bulbs in the Dash? Oh I thought I was the only one!
Its a pet hate, have to sort them out!
I had a "tailgate open" warning light on my 1990 Pontiac van that stayed on (erroneously) until it went to the junkyard in 2028. Various things broke on that car from the dark days of GM, but they certainly provided quality light bulbs. I fixed it with some black electrical tape over it. The defective switches were in the tail gate and it required removing and disassembling it to replace them. Tape was much easier.
Fyi . Next time you can get those small bulbs cheap from your local THE RANGE or from Halfrauds who are still open click and collect. Thanks for video and well done.
I drove past Halfords the other day when I went to Sainsburys, the halfords queue went around the building! Quicker to mail order!
@@furiousdrivingbut they give you an exact time to collect.
Nothing is better than watching a Brit fixing a used Alfa Romeo.
The AC compressor pulley has a clutch, you can change just the pulley which would be better than opening up the system....
As Ive never seen it run and the belt has been bypassed Ive no idea if the rest works of if that seized and broke the clutch, so Im going to ditch the whole old part
You will find the Germans are clever in retaining the Pinnacle in the dashboard in the Mercedes. No screws. Just pushes out from the rear. I also a 1980 Alfa Giulietta 2litre. . . Great drivers car, but unfortunately water dissolvable, even in our Australian climate.
Yes, Ive had the W123 dash apart and it was almost a pleasure to do!
Your welding vids always encourage me to finish the rollcage on my car, keep up the good work, p.s i have the same crap welder lol
You must be the best welder on youtube by now matt I nearly called you ian I must be getting tired
Nah, by his own admission, he is not even in the top five.
This is pretty close to where my repairs looks like :) But you seems to be cutting out most of the bad language that gets going 😆 anyway, I think its possible to test both relays, "stepped" potentiometers and the lightbulbs with a multimeter. That could possible have saved you a few hours and quids. Or its somewhere in the actual cluster/socket/cables..? Greetings from Sweden, love to see the Volvo pass the "UK vehicle test"!
Thing is its almost unheard of for this problem to be anything else apart from the resistor!
Matt, I figured it out you are a full time welder! :-))
I think Id be unemployed if I was!
This is furious parking haha
I think he meant May
Italians took their time to "hand apply" leatherette to a dashboard feature yet when it comes to build quality of the metals & protection of the bodywork it seems they can't be bothered doing an adequate job.
Or electrics. Alfas have always been beutiful cars to look at, but reliability is really poor.
Matt, great video! what field of work are you in? Automotive, construction..etc...? I love your vlogs.
Close, photography for car magazines
@@furiousdriving Really? How very exciting and what fun.
Everyone needs an Alfa Romeo on their driveway. Comes with free rust and an oil leak on the drive. 🙌
Just horsepower sweating ;)
theflyingstonemason 68 😄 Don't forget "You get to use all bits in your tool sets! And your neighbour's! And your father in law's!"
Just like a BMW or a Toyota then
I love watching your videos, Matt but every time I do I feel guilty. There's a Zafira on our drive I'm supposed to be replacing the valve stem seals on. It's been there waiting for months.
Chinese shipping sure is bad news at the moment. I have two packages that according to China Post tracking have been stuck at an airport terminal for 4 weeks with no sign of movement.
You can tell if you are really working on your car if you have dirt in your eye and you are bleeding somewhere. And working on anything under the dashboard is just painful.
its weird the delivery situation for me apart from Royal Mail being a bit all over the place with the time of day they deliver as the post people aren't sharing a van and in separate vehicles. (postman doesn't apply for my village as they're both women.) deliveries have actually been fine for me even from couriers I've had no trouble throughout the lockdown.
More welding. Love it,
I was welding up the sills on my mums 2010 Jazz the other day. Never welded thin metal before. How frustrating is it?! Blowing holes all over the place. I did it, grind it back, looks OK but took most of the day. More practice needed. Should have had 0.6mm wire too.
Plus "Mystery of the Hidden Fixings" careful J K Rowling might sue🤣🤣🤣
Hi, you are actualy unauthorized to dismantle a air bag, but hey ho life goes on ...🙈
I didn't dismantle it, just removed the unit from the car so not a problem
@@furiousdriving Dismantle, remove, for me both the same..😎 no worries love your stuff..
@@briankelvindiffey3006 not the same at all.
You have struggled manfully onward, and it has been frustrating for you and for us to watch however, I have every confidence you will succeed after all you are dealing with an Italian automobile not known for being logical and a bit haphazard in most of their products with exceptions of art and fashion and design. You do realize that when you do get to drive it you may end up smoking and steaming by the side of a motorway it after all is an Alfa and this is what Top Gear used to say but you should own an Alfa once in your life, guess what? You do!!! See you on the next one.
Despite all this Ive found Alfa's really reliable when actually driving them!
@@furiousdriving Never really believed the Top Gear nutters anyway you are definitely the man to sort out the Italians 😀
That company probably orders direct from Ali express, and sends on. Around ten days most Ali stuff, hope you unplugged that battery before removing air bag 😆
always
Put up your gazebo like the interior 0n that motor enjoyed the video too 👍
I haven't got one! Used to have a huge car tent but a storm took it over the fence, we have wicked wind here
I feel for you mate !
a lot of alan partridgey "Aha's" for one video!
Blower motor failure is common on 147's, but it's a real easy replacement. It must be very similar ?
Same part Id expect, or very simliar
There is a nice W plate 145 on facebook marketplace at the moment in yellow. needs the same welding. I was very tempted.
Nah I'm havin it
I saw that but have had enough of welding for now!
I love your "fixing stuff" videos. I would certainly have no issues with buying a car from you because I know that you do things right. With that said, I still don't, and have never, got the Alfa thing. In my opinion, they are awful cars, and they know it!. That's why they rot and degrade even when not being used. I'd be interested to see a table of the amount of time and money spent on this car charted against the mileage you've put on it.