Alfa Romeo 147 2.0 Twin Spark - Unseen-ish
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Vittorio - You need the red adapter lead to connect to the airbag, the full set can be found on ebay/amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LQ0ZBVK/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LQ0ZBVK/
This is going perfectly..
An overly complex plan has been formulated to retrieve the second Alfa.
I've juggled my schedule to engineer a work visit to London next week which means the train ticket down can be expensed.
I will get the keys and access to the car on Tuesday night so I can check it over and decide whether to buy myself temporary car insurance or a train ticket home and pretend I never saw the car.
I've found a garage local to the seller via good garage guide and they are taking courier delivery of a single new shock on Tuesday via fleabay for them to fit on Wednesday when I drop off the car.
I shall then disappear off to work and collect it mid afternoon, pay them for their troubles and run the 200+ mile gauntlet home in yet another bought unseen Alfa.
If anyone tells me off for buying one shock it's ok, I'm ignoring you...it's a get me home fix and cheaper than a transporter.
I am still working the most important aspect of the plan, namely shielding my crimes from the missus
An overly complex plan has been formulated to retrieve the second Alfa.
I've juggled my schedule to engineer a work visit to London next week which means the train ticket down can be expensed.
I will get the keys and access to the car on Tuesday night so I can check it over and decide whether to buy myself temporary car insurance or a train ticket home and pretend I never saw the car.
I've found a garage local to the seller via good garage guide and they are taking courier delivery of a single new shock on Tuesday via fleabay for them to fit on Wednesday when I drop off the car.
I shall then disappear off to work and collect it mid afternoon, pay them for their troubles and run the 200+ mile gauntlet home in yet another bought unseen Alfa.
If anyone tells me off for buying one shock it's ok, I'm ignoring you...it's a get me home fix and cheaper than a transporter.
I am still working the most important aspect of the plan, namely shielding my crimes from the missus
stewjohnst said:
Vittorio - You need the red adapter lead to connect to the airbag, the full set can be found on ebay/amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LQ0ZBVK/
Those basically just map the ODBII pins to different ones i guess?https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LQ0ZBVK/
Ill see if i can find them, would be nice to get rid of the red light on the dash
Also, proper job on the plan for the second alfa!
I really feel your pain. I went to buy a cheap Fiesta in full National Trust spec and came home with this for £950 with a perilous three months ticket.
Its the face lift 147 Jtdm model. It has since romped its mot with a jiggle of the brake switch wire. I replaced the obligatory rattling drop link for about fifteen quid and have now covered five thousand trouble free miles. You mentioned a dodgy gear change. This is a really really simple fix which takes about 30 mins. You just need to replace two plastic top hat bushes (about four quid from fleabay for genuine). Have a look on you tube for the walk through proper man job with immediate results.
Ive also just spent £4.99 on new badges for mine
PS If the air filter is as big a bas#ard to change on the petrols as it is on the diesels. I would change yours now. Mine looked like it had been there since new.
Its the face lift 147 Jtdm model. It has since romped its mot with a jiggle of the brake switch wire. I replaced the obligatory rattling drop link for about fifteen quid and have now covered five thousand trouble free miles. You mentioned a dodgy gear change. This is a really really simple fix which takes about 30 mins. You just need to replace two plastic top hat bushes (about four quid from fleabay for genuine). Have a look on you tube for the walk through proper man job with immediate results.
Ive also just spent £4.99 on new badges for mine
PS If the air filter is as big a bas#ard to change on the petrols as it is on the diesels. I would change yours now. Mine looked like it had been there since new.
Edited by smileymikey on Saturday 4th November 19:11
smileymikey said:
PS If the air filter is as big a bas#ard to change on the petrols as it is on the diesels. I would change yours now. Mine looked like it had been there since new.
I cant speak for the 2.0, but on the 1.6 petrol its a five minute job, you'll end up scratching your hands and cursing, but its not a big deal. I managed it the first time with the car sitting on the road, approaching it all from above.Edited by smileymikey on Saturday 4th November 19:11
Yet more evidence of some kind of witchcraft is involved or that the Alfa is really a sentient being disguised as a lump of metal...
I'm off to pick up the 'new' one today and in the five minutes I popped out in the 'old' one for a tip run, it decided to pop out a number plate light bulb - Nothing major, just enough to let me know that 'it' knows I'm up to something.
The more observant Alfa geeks will observe there's no odometer showing in that photo, that's because the body computer is still flapping about the boot latch and flashing away. Hopefully one of the jobs I'll get parts for today.
On to the new one...
My battered Alfa collection kit has been assembled,
I have a train after work at 16:00. What better way to pick up an eBay car than in the dark 200+ miles from home.
I also have bottle of 10W40, as no doubt it will need some on inspection, cunningly disguised as a bottle of truckers tizer
ETA for the pickup is about 8ish, naturally there will be news to follow
I'm off to pick up the 'new' one today and in the five minutes I popped out in the 'old' one for a tip run, it decided to pop out a number plate light bulb - Nothing major, just enough to let me know that 'it' knows I'm up to something.
The more observant Alfa geeks will observe there's no odometer showing in that photo, that's because the body computer is still flapping about the boot latch and flashing away. Hopefully one of the jobs I'll get parts for today.
On to the new one...
My battered Alfa collection kit has been assembled,
I have a train after work at 16:00. What better way to pick up an eBay car than in the dark 200+ miles from home.
I also have bottle of 10W40, as no doubt it will need some on inspection, cunningly disguised as a bottle of truckers tizer
ETA for the pickup is about 8ish, naturally there will be news to follow
exgtt said:
Haa! They definitely know, out of every car I've owned, the Alfas were genuinely psychic and vindictive.
Our 147 (low miles, FSH) ate it's water pump as it was idling on the drive. I'd just shaken hands with the guy who had bought it and was driving it back to some southern outland.
Well I'm here and in the dark and rain it looks ok.
It was being sold by a lovely Italian lady who bought an alfa because she was Italian and despite the rap sheet of previous mot's it has had money spent on it.
I have an almost full service history, two keys and it had a timing belt done less than 20,000 miles ago (but that was in 2011 -
). It has had new discs and pads in Feb and has one rear shock replaced already.
The leather is in great nick bar one nip in it and as suspected by those in the know, the rear shock has rusted out on the cup.
The garage I posted the shock to is a local Indy and was the nearest decent one (according to the internet) I could find and I'm sure the tyre will take a 1 mile trip without exploding if I take it steady. Pretty sure the tyre will be fine if I'm honest once the new shock is on.
I do think she's put a used shock on the other side as it's showing rust already, either that or she commutes through/works in a salt mine so I'll even up the pair when I get it back to Leeds tomorrow.
I've left it parked overnight as I'm off to the pub with a mate now and hungry.
Basically, apart from the miles and shock everything is better than in the other one...daylight may change that so more tomorrow.
Oh, and this one needs a bulb too
It was being sold by a lovely Italian lady who bought an alfa because she was Italian and despite the rap sheet of previous mot's it has had money spent on it.
I have an almost full service history, two keys and it had a timing belt done less than 20,000 miles ago (but that was in 2011 -
). It has had new discs and pads in Feb and has one rear shock replaced already.The leather is in great nick bar one nip in it and as suspected by those in the know, the rear shock has rusted out on the cup.
The garage I posted the shock to is a local Indy and was the nearest decent one (according to the internet) I could find and I'm sure the tyre will take a 1 mile trip without exploding if I take it steady. Pretty sure the tyre will be fine if I'm honest once the new shock is on.
I do think she's put a used shock on the other side as it's showing rust already, either that or she commutes through/works in a salt mine so I'll even up the pair when I get it back to Leeds tomorrow.
I've left it parked overnight as I'm off to the pub with a mate now and hungry.
Basically, apart from the miles and shock everything is better than in the other one...daylight may change that so more tomorrow.
Oh, and this one needs a bulb too
davebem said:
Let us know how you get on with the multi-coloured adapters. I have the same cable, but I can only connect to the engine ecu, with the correct adapters (as per the multiecuscan site) I still cant connect to the abs or airbags.
The green one did let me connect o the clocks and other bits on mine.I'll try them all out and let you know.
I'm just debating over whether I drive it home without investigating the warning light (ignorance is bliss) or open Pandora's box down here and spend 200 miles driving in squeaky bum mode knowing what is supposed fall off any second...
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