Mechanically all is well. In the 22-odd years it has been in my company (or close by, as I sold it once and bought it back a few years later) it has received the following attention, in roughly this order:
- Regular servicing - well all cars need that!
- New tyres (not that it really needed 'em)
- Repaired rust from battery overspill in boot (yes, battery in boot - famously non-working aircon fiited under bonnet, takes up space)
- Electronic ignition (from a newer GTV)
- Lots of new seals, here there and everywhere, to fix oil leaks
- New plugs (Alfas have an appetite for Golden Lodge 2HL plugs)
- At least 3 replacement doughnuts, the type that keep the long, long and fast-spinning driveshaft happy
- New brake master cylinder (failed on the road, I had to do a "gear-controlled" deceleration)
- New clutch master cylinder (failed after a New Year's Eve party - the perfect time to practice clutchless gearchanges!)
- New clutch plates (new ones creaked for a while, that's normal and went away)
- New wheel bearings (front)
- New brake pads all 'round (hardly earth-shaking, I know)
- Reconditioned gearbox (a few worn out bits, it wouldn't hold onto gears under power)
- Reconditioned petrol tank (blocked breather pipe caused the problem)
- 'New' block to replace a cracked block (whilst I didn't own it, luckily)
- Aircon fixed, in a manner of speaking
- New shocks (Bilstein), not that the new ones had failed, of course
- Some pre-owned interior bits and pieces from a GTV6
- Some front suspension bits from a 105
- More new tyres
- New distributor brush and cap (I had bought it back by now so of course it stopped running)
- More new plugs (probably should just include that with 'regular servicing') to give it that 'running on four cyclinders' feeling.
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