So are Alfa's unreliable or not? (esp. 159s)

[Warnie]

My old man has a 159 2.0jtdm ti in white. Amazing car, looks stunning and to me who has owned 3 156's its a massive step up in quality. He has never owned a car before that gets so much attention. One thing though not mentioned, residuals. He paid £12250 for his from a small dealer nearly 12 months ago. It had done 32k, he's added another 6k and it looks as though he could sell it for £12k plus very easily now as they're so rare and the ti is so desirable with the 2.0 diesel engine.

Funny though as he was looking into a Citroen Picasso before I educated him. ....

[r11co]

Squishey said:

Re the wishbones: it was the upper wishbone bushes that would fail regularly (every 9 months or so) but you couldn't buy the bushes on their own so the whole upper wishbone had to be changed.

The bushes can be bought separately but no-one ever does as they do a quick ebay search and find a pair of cheap crappy unlubricated wishbones for less than the cost of the four bushes and buy those instead, and then wonder why nine months later they are shot already!

Edited by r11co on Wednesday 23 July 11:20

[phil1979]

I've had a 159 1.9 ti for a couple of years now. I love it.

Had the GT for a few years before that. And a 145 Cloverleaf for 7 years before that.

I love them! The 159 is heavy, but in a refined way. It's a big step up from the 156 platform. Have had no issues thus far that were out of the ordinary.