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Can u do a ticky or sumi'n with uz guyz just slapi'n each uva

Car vertical are terrible. It cost twice as much as the rac report I did on the same car and told me less info. The previous damage photos is a scam. Don't use car vertical unless you have money to throw away

Hey, when are you coming to Cairngorms?

OK why don't ya make it 1500 each via both cars are needing sorting so no one gets hurt or DEAD

Doesn't make for good content if it's actually a good car I guess

they mugged the bloke off too tbh

@@connormatthews522 Definitely a dick move.

yep! The Brera is such a mistake

Yep definitely should have got the 156. Still a shitter that would have been a laugh

And the 159?

​@@eurasianlynxsame years as the brera, no busso

No according to the Alfa guy, the 156 had basically a Ferrari engine!

Was about to say thay 🤷 thats the opel engine

Isn’t a Holden an Aussie Ford?

Yeah bit of a w⚓️ move

easy, W220

by far nowhere near, high spec in w220 will be expensiev since its amg@@YegoYTP

@@anubaral you can get plenty of high spec W220's for dirt cheap, it doesnt have to be an AMG the S500's came with loads of equipment and Alex on CarThrottle bought one for like 1200 quid

you can also get plenty of cars at about the same price in high specs aswell@@YegoYTP

@@anubaral Name one car under 1k with more equipment than an S Class

Most unreliable engine on the planet. They did good for the challenge.

Also Busso which is in 156 isn't unreliable. It is one of if not even the best V6 ever. Clarkson said it. Jts which is in Brera is not great

@@DamirS97yeah the main complaint is usually just how much fuel it guzzles compared to its power output

@@Archman155 I don't understand why anyone would moan about the Busso's fuel consumption (unless they are more attuned to 1.0L economoboxes). I've had 3 Busso 156s - and my current daily driver is a 2002 156 3.2L GTA with 260,000km on it - and I average about 10L/100km, doing 300km a week in peak hour stop start traffic. Worth every cent for the sound and fury... In comparison, my '81 Alfetta GTV 2.0L averages closer to 15L/100km (but it does have twin 45mm Webers...) Meanwhile, my wife's "sensible" 2019 Subaru Forester (2.5L boxer, non-turbo) doesn't do much better than 8-9L/100km.

Helpful as that may be, somehow I don't think that will be their biggest concern...

@@luobomu9747 Yeah, but if you keep the switch down for 20 seconds it fixes rust holes in the floor pan.

@@andywright1634 i love the alfa romeo nanotech

Correct. And If doesn’t fix the problem you need to disassemble the switch and clean the contacts before trying the reset trick again. Ask me how I know...!

Yeah, it was definitely there in the bay 🤣

the car is for sure not worth 1k considering the state of it, as rory said, 400 pounds would have been a fair deal

it past its last MOT back in 2019 , been off the road since 2020

​@anubaral if it was fully stripped for parts ur looking 1.5k to 2k in value

@@anubaral he’s a breaker. It’s worth over that to him after he breaks it. But after labour prices tax and postage that’s probably what he could settle on for min value.

​@@CuriousGamer022When you're fully stripping it for parts how much would the cost of labor be compared to these 1.5-2k?

absolutely, the 2.5 might have less power, but keep the belt in good nick and itll run forever, i wouldnt trust a 3.2 JTS to do half the mileage

Have to change the bushes every week too on my 159 🥴

​@@Verhagenvictorsince they're after an unreliable car that doesn't sound so good!

I genuinely didn't have to replace any bulb in my 156 for 70k km 😬

there was a saab twin turbo version of the motor as well . i think 2.8 litre ?, all versions inc di and port injection turbo and capacities up to 3.6 were dual overhead 4v and assembled at the aus GM adelaide engine facility. capacity for well over 100k motors pa (and the encourage hard manufacturing , the government had incentives for developement and production in aus as well as very generous but reasonable subisidies applied to offset transportation cost and risk on alll manufacturing exports to mitigate the high cost of getting said goods to markets overseas due to the extreme distance and difficulties in the iscolation of the continrent to the markets in which goods - ie the motors were to be sold and used, by about 2012 due to "free trade rules " a disdgruntled manufactruring competitor nation brought a case to the WTO who "ruled" somehow that this sort of assistance to industry was not just a means they a sovergn nation used to level up local production to encourage efficiency and self reliancebut deemed it to be anti comptitive and akin to dumping product onto world markets leviec a fine and stipulated that the Aus govt cease such industry assistance or endure trade sanctions. this , excessive tradfe barrier being that of massive transport logistic costs that had to be borne out by every manufaturere in order to get there otherwise compititive product to the marketsd in which they werre sold i- beleive playered a big role in the fall and totasl collapse of the entire automotive design production assembly engineerring in australia, where ford GM toyota made using high local content and many suppliers for upto 1/3 of the vehicles sold annually in a over 1 millions per vehicle paAUS market plus parts and upto the same amount of vehicles and parts sold into other markets worldwide as well ) ( interestingly, this apparent protection and dumping that had been foiled and stopped by the ruling in th WTO literally did not spur on competition . did not encourage other playetrs to see an opportunity to entert a market and produce the motors that alfa n open n sabb and othes were requiring . so once it became cost prhibitive because of shipping cost competition pressures - for these motors that holden made and sold on to othe GM subsiduaries overseas , the subsiduaries like alfa n opel andf saab were taking from holden, thery simply could no longer afford to pay the price requiredf to get them to there facties and . was one of the factors that at about this time all of those manufacturers were forced to cease selling thos models and there was no viable alternastiv GM supplier , this all otheose companies left the market in its erntirety, and this WTO ruling that was framed around stoppin anti competitiver behavior and helping market players , simply obliterating the capability of a very large portionb of te automotiver sector to provide a major component of the product and this destroy in totality the ability of those companies to sdell into the market. arguably with the likely hasten the demise of many of those said brands aroun that time . id suggest the only winners were othe brand with whom im sure u cxan work out that were now in a position to gain more sales in a market segment that was left comp[letely by a very big competitor. thos many hundred or more thousand annual sales vehicles going to other brands , not because they intrisically had better product , or cheaper but simply because ther fair competitors were made unable to operate, and we all know what happens to prices when therte is less competition or worse still a few large playerrs gain controll of the majority of the market - well just take a lok at teh disproportionate rise in proces the averagfe4 ocnsumer mow pays for said prduct produced by a very concentrate minority of players . sorry for the rant - lol (all versions of trhis V6 however were actually designed in the US by chev / cadallac engineers and made in various plants around the globe, each manufacturer selecting the featurs and performance and parts they requie for there vehicles) i beleive those made in AUS were exported to the relevent chassis recipients. the locally produced commodore version only ever got the 3.6 litre non turbo ( as the top line commodores received imported chev built Gen 3 and 4 na and Sc up to 7.0 litre verions for various Hipo varients of commodores so there was never a call or need for more than 3.6l Di na v6 motors, so locally only two distinct trims for standastd and high power variants availible in all of the body styles including, sedan, limosine , wagon utility. dual cab utility (?)

Idk Opel guys kinda seem to like swapping them into older Astras and they seem to like boost. Ofc the alfa community would dislike them it's an Opel engine 😂

Of course the only shit thing would be german

An absolute pile.

In North America the HFV6 with premature timing chain wear problems is only the 2008-2009 model years and typically only seen in vehicles with extended oil change intervals. Otherwise a decent engine when maintained. Not sure about this 2006 Australian variant.

@@DruidB19 I own a 2006 Brera of which I had to replace the timing chains plus tensioners (that's where the weak point is) at around 77k miles and the engine is running like a dream to about 125k miles as of today. Reserve some budget for accessories though and regular maintenance, like oil changes as you said. I absolutely adore my V6 Alfa!

I did not knew that, but I also don`t know much about Alfa`s, thank you for sharing!

It's a 3.2 GM Australia motor. Alpha Romeo did upgrade it with Direct injection, a higher compression ratio and vvti. Not that bad of an engine to be honest.

And then didn't.

Based on the podcast he isn't new to that, he's owned about 30 before turning 30

Did this go in the Vectra? The 3.2 GSi was way out of production before the Brera was launched. Wikipedia suggests this 3.2 went in the Antara.

@@adammcallister2260You are right, its definitely a related engine though, albeit the 2.8 not the 3.2

​@@adammcallister2260The Vectra C had a 3.2 and that was around the same period I nearly bought a 55 plate with that engine but came to my senses when I told myself it's a Vectra. 😅

@@interceptor-ss8kb I think that's the older one, the 'General Motors 54° V6 engine' instead of the 'GM High Feature engine' (thanks Wikipedia)

Correct, its a GM Engine and therefore not a iconic as the Busso 👍🏻

All the colours, but mainly oily black is my guess

With a good amount of blue grey unburned petrol smoke following it.

@@JohnClark-ew8dhgolden brown, some people call it rust but they’re wrong

It's like something you look forward to but turns out to be a massive anticlimax.

I would take a 1750TBi Brera over the crappy GM 3.2 any day of the week and twice on Sunday. There’s a reason why 3.2 Breras can be found for 5k while the 1750 Breras are 15k and up. A sorted 1750 Brera TI in Europe is over 20k

heh same - I went on an enthusiastic drive in my 2.0 TS after an argument with my wife then returned home all sheepish with smoke pouring out of the bonnet and an oil light flickering on - oops.

I had a Brera 3.2 for a couple of years, one of the slowest, thirstiest cars I've ever owned, £500 a year just for the road tax, and an awful GM V6, but what a beautiful looking machine!

Did you do any manteinence?

Saves me saying it 👍

@@hamishyoung494 apparently i wasn’t first one. 😂 Lots of angry Busso lovers.

Those problems are common with many car brands, not just alfa. I've fixed tons of faulty alarm, window regulators and leaks on many cars over the years. Nothing lasts forever.

looks to be a Japanese Import at as well with about 55k miles.

@@9wowablethere a Japanese importer based in that yard so might be owned or imported by them.

@@AK.2425 possibly, 3 years between import and crash so very possible if it were a personal import, but unlikely if it were imported to be sold on here. (Unless it was bought back by them, obvs.)

It also has locally issued plate from Reading and the yard is rented out by for car storage by loads of people so it is possible it was imported by them and to someone who uses the yard aswell.

Part of that yard is a scrapyard but not all of it. Also used by multiple car dealerships and individuals. I know where it is.

2 years is not enough time span to actually know if a car is reliable or not, 10 yes but 2 for sure it never is

I had some great adventures in my 2004 Laguna estate.

You prefer a Laguna? Where do you live? France 🇫🇷?

2004 laguna 2.0 diesel will run forever, too bad it's a shit car@@StephenButlerOne

@@anubaral mine was a 1.9d and yes the engine was solid. Car was a good family car, it took us to France Spain and italy a fair few times. Also at the time it was better looking car than the mondeo, vectra, 3 series boxes that was about. One thing that car did have, is the most comfy seats of any car I've had since. The half leather seats was really good. And the fact you could fit a full double blow up mattress in the back with the rear seats down was it a great adventure wagon.

He mentioned it in a podcast a few weeks back.

@@AK.2425 did he? I obviously wasn't listening closely enough 😅

@@4039byrne yeah I believe it like 3 weeks ago now