Alfa 159 1.9 sport

[Corey6]

Hi guys, just after some general advice about alfas. Looking at buying a 159 1.9 sport on 78k with full service history and its cambelt and waterpump changed 4k ago. It all seems pretty good to me, im just curious about alfa ownership and if theres anything to worry about.. apart from the m32 gearbox haha.

Cheers!

[jumare]

Corey6 said:

Hi guys, just after some general advice about alfas. Looking at buying a 159 1.9 sport on 78k with full service history and its cambelt and waterpump changed 4k ago. It all seems pretty good to me, im just curious about alfa ownership and if theres anything to worry about.. apart from the m32 gearbox haha.

Cheers!

The M32 gearbox (mine went at about 90K)...

Front sub-frame and driveshaft wobble, that's the latest thing to go on mine :-(

Apart from that it's a great car.

[carinaman]

Probably lots of info. on AlfaOwner website.

[OGR4M]

Im presumably missing something, didn’t know there was a ‘sport’

Either way, I had a diseasel sportwagon for about 3 years, ran it from 94k to 149k, I had my fair share of issues - mainly the intake manifold swirl flaps finding their into the turbo, a dinky piece of metal that cost me £1700...

Apart from that, usual 159 issues like wishbones were a consumable on mine - but other than that it was golden. I had to take shares in Philips in order to permanently supply me with side light and head light bulbs but I thought it was a top motor while I had it

[Corey6]

OGR4M said:

Im presumably missing something, didn’t know there was a ‘sport’

Either way, I had a diseasel sportwagon for about 3 years, ran it from 94k to 149k, I had my fair share of issues - mainly the intake manifold swirl flaps finding their into the turbo, a dinky piece of metal that cost me £1700...

Apart from that, usual 159 issues like wishbones were a consumable on mine - but other than that it was golden. I had to take shares in Philips in order to permanently supply me with side light and head light bulbs but I thought it was a top motor while I had it

I think its the turismo sport? Bigger alloys and thats probably it haha. Did you blank the swirl flaps in the end? I didnt think they had them, i thought it was just a BMW thing. How were the bills? I used to have an 03 audi b6 which was good but got written off and the parts werent too expensive on that when i was maintaining it.

[Corey6]

jumare said:

Corey6 said:

Hi guys, just after some general advice about alfas. Looking at buying a 159 1.9 sport on 78k with full service history and its cambelt and waterpump changed 4k ago. It all seems pretty good to me, im just curious about alfa ownership and if theres anything to worry about.. apart from the m32 gearbox haha.

Cheers!

The M32 gearbox (mine went at about 90K)...

Front sub-frame and driveshaft wobble, that's the latest thing to go on mine :-(

Apart from that it's a great car.

I think they share the same driveshaft as the fiat punto gen 2? My mate had a major problem with his punto driveshafts going at about 80k on his m t-jet but im not sure if they share the same drive shafts.