Alpine A110 owners
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Having only done a handful of miles on the odd trip out in the Alpine since November, I had to go to Lancashire yesterday from my home in Scotland and with some hint of blue skies thought I'd take the A110. 7 hours on the motorway and 400 miles and I was reminded what a brilliant thing it is. An easily achieved range of 450 miles, probably 500 at a stretch. The standard bucket seats are superb comfortable and I got back without a hint of discomfort. It's refined at a 70mph (...ish) cruise and the ride is superb over the sometimes broken surfaces of the M74/M6. Mine is on 17's that probably help with that. It's certainly better than a previous M-sport 3 series that used to beat up the road with its hard ride and 19 inch wheels.
It's obviously not c-class quiet and neither should it be but at a steady cruise its hushed enough to not be irritating at all.
It's the subtleness and delicacy of the thing that really stands out though. Even on a very boring long motorway slog it's enjoyable to drive.
If I had a criticism, it's that the DAB got a bit patchy over the hills, but the Focal sound system is really well balanced for sound quality in my view.
At the services, I had a tap on the window and some guy asked to take a picture as he'd read about them but never seen one on the road. Same at the destination in Lancashire, several people asking "what is it". You forget just how uncommon they are but the comments were very complementary.
Coming back over the hills in the borders with the afternoon sun shining and the road fairly free flowing I had to conclude that yesterday at least, life was good!
It's obviously not c-class quiet and neither should it be but at a steady cruise its hushed enough to not be irritating at all.
It's the subtleness and delicacy of the thing that really stands out though. Even on a very boring long motorway slog it's enjoyable to drive.
If I had a criticism, it's that the DAB got a bit patchy over the hills, but the Focal sound system is really well balanced for sound quality in my view.
At the services, I had a tap on the window and some guy asked to take a picture as he'd read about them but never seen one on the road. Same at the destination in Lancashire, several people asking "what is it". You forget just how uncommon they are but the comments were very complementary.
Coming back over the hills in the borders with the afternoon sun shining and the road fairly free flowing I had to conclude that yesterday at least, life was good!
biggles330d said:
Having only done a handful of miles on the odd trip out in the Alpine since November, I had to go to Lancashire yesterday from my home in Scotland and with some hint of blue skies thought I'd take the A110. 7 hours on the motorway and 400 miles and I was reminded what a brilliant thing it is. An easily achieved range of 450 miles, probably 500 at a stretch. The standard bucket seats are superb comfortable and I got back without a hint of discomfort. It's refined at a 70mph (...ish) cruise and the ride is superb over the sometimes broken surfaces of the M74/M6. Mine is on 17's that probably help with that. It's certainly better than a previous M-sport 3 series that used to beat up the road with its hard ride and 19 inch wheels.
It's obviously not c-class quiet and neither should it be but at a steady cruise its hushed enough to not be irritating at all.
It's the subtleness and delicacy of the thing that really stands out though. Even on a very boring long motorway slog it's enjoyable to drive.
If I had a criticism, it's that the DAB got a bit patchy over the hills, but the Focal sound system is really well balanced for sound quality in my view.
At the services, I had a tap on the window and some guy asked to take a picture as he'd read about them but never seen one on the road. Same at the destination in Lancashire, several people asking "what is it". You forget just how uncommon they are but the comments were very complementary.
Coming back over the hills in the borders with the afternoon sun shining and the road fairly free flowing I had to conclude that yesterday at least, life was good!
Yep agreed.It's obviously not c-class quiet and neither should it be but at a steady cruise its hushed enough to not be irritating at all.
It's the subtleness and delicacy of the thing that really stands out though. Even on a very boring long motorway slog it's enjoyable to drive.
If I had a criticism, it's that the DAB got a bit patchy over the hills, but the Focal sound system is really well balanced for sound quality in my view.
At the services, I had a tap on the window and some guy asked to take a picture as he'd read about them but never seen one on the road. Same at the destination in Lancashire, several people asking "what is it". You forget just how uncommon they are but the comments were very complementary.
Coming back over the hills in the borders with the afternoon sun shining and the road fairly free flowing I had to conclude that yesterday at least, life was good!
We were listening to the Behind The Glass podcast on our way home from the Swiss Alps this weekend and he said the Lamborghini Aventador is a really bad car, but now it's out of production it will become more of a classic car, and when that happens the car stops being compared against the competition and gets assessed as a car in it's own right which makes it more love-able to people.
I think the A110 will go this way as well. Right now it still gets put up against the Cayman etc which means people tend to stay safe and go for the Cayman due to the Alpine's drawbacks. But once it's been out of production for a few years people won't be comparing it to alternatives but look at what it offers in it's own right.
Well after 9 months I finally had a message today to say that my car has started to be repaired and that it is scheduled for completion and ready for collection on the 20th March (not holding my breath though!!). This date coincidentally happens to be it’s 3rd anniversary so I will have to arrange MOT, service and extended warranty pronto.
In total it will have been 9.5 months from the date of the accident, 8 of which were waiting for Alpine to supply the relevant parts
Got my fingers crossed as I can’t wait to get back in it and
In total it will have been 9.5 months from the date of the accident, 8 of which were waiting for Alpine to supply the relevant parts
Got my fingers crossed as I can’t wait to get back in it and
s111dpc said:
In total it will have been 9.5 months from the date of the accident, 8 of which were waiting for Alpine to supply the relevant parts
Did you ever get an answer as to why it took 8 months to supply parts when there is zero shortage of the exact same parts to build new cars on the production line?Olivera said:
s111dpc said:
In total it will have been 9.5 months from the date of the accident, 8 of which were waiting for Alpine to supply the relevant parts
Did you ever get an answer as to why it took 8 months to supply parts when there is zero shortage of the exact same parts to build new cars on the production line?
ThisInJapanese said:
leglessAlex said:
That’s in Andy’s place, right? Fanatical Car Care!
He does incredible work!
Yep. Found him via this thread when I was looking for examples of abyss blue cars.He does incredible work!
leglessAlex said:
Great to see! As I'm sure you've already figured out, you absolutely won't be disappointed, fanatical really is the right word for the work he does
It looks amazing! Good value too. If anybody is around the South London / Surrey region they should go see him: https://www.instagram.com/fanaticalcarcare/Juffled said:
astage said:
After 13-months of successfully playing music from micro-USB sticks via the console's USB-2 ports, mine has decided it can't detect anything plugged into either USB port. The only temporary fix I've found is by repeatedly turning off/on the whole infotainment system half-a-dozen times, but today even 'if' it found a stick, it then displayed 'nothing connected' a few seconds later. Damn annoying since the radio is rubbish - both in terms of reception and content.
It isn't the sticks I'm using, tested six different ones now.
probably linked/similar to this: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...It isn't the sticks I'm using, tested six different ones now.
However, looking at the USB file system on some of the sticks I'd used there appears to be corruption, possibly related to how the Alpine telemetrics insists upon writing data out to any connected storage device whenever you even scroll into certain telemetrics screens - it does this automatically, you don't have to start stopwatch/lap-timer or other functions. The dates and times of those telemetrics' logs match when the problems first started and when I'd noticed it happening.
I'm currently preparing new media to run some tests.
Thanks Mark and thanks Alex for the kind comments 
It was an absolute pleasure to work on your car Mark and lovely to work on Abyss Blue again.
I've not frequented this forum much since I had to let my A110 go, too painful!
I've been busy getting myself setup to give Fanatical Car Car a go full time, so if any other A110 owners need any detailing, please do get in touch!
It was an absolute pleasure to work on your car Mark and lovely to work on Abyss Blue again.
I've not frequented this forum much since I had to let my A110 go, too painful!
I've been busy getting myself setup to give Fanatical Car Car a go full time, so if any other A110 owners need any detailing, please do get in touch!
Aviva dies not appear to insist on this. You can elect for your preferred repairer but not their terms if you do.
https://www.aviva.co.uk/faq/answer/motor/3005/
https://www.aviva.co.uk/faq/answer/motor/3005/
From NFU Mutual site...............I have used them for two cars, inc Alpine, for several years (touch wood, no incidents so far).
"The Approved Repairer will send us the repair bill which we will pay and we will finalise your claim. Whilst we would encourage all our members to use our Approved Repairer service, you are of course free to choose your own repairer if you wish."
https://www.nfumutual.co.uk/insurance/motor-insura...
"The Approved Repairer will send us the repair bill which we will pay and we will finalise your claim. Whilst we would encourage all our members to use our Approved Repairer service, you are of course free to choose your own repairer if you wish."
https://www.nfumutual.co.uk/insurance/motor-insura...
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