Quadrifoglio woes; it's too much.
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I'm pretty sure most owners with the Akra exhaust have claimed it's not worth the cash, the same with the carbon seats. Have a read on Alfaowner or join some of the Alfa / QV Facebook groups.
Decent paint colour, painted calipers, 5 hole alloys, HK audio, perhaps carbon insert wheel and coloured stitching, and that's all you need, everything else is standard.
You'll then find it's WAY more reasonable.
Give Stuart or Olivier at Beechdale a ring, and Saber at Research Nuneaton. Both dealers are excellent, and beat every other dealer hands down cost wise ... Especially if they can get you onto the affinity scheme.
You should be aiming for roughly 17% discount at 5.9% Apr.
The best way I found to get an idea of cost was to build the spec on the configurator, use their finance calculator to get the GFMV on the terms you want, then use pcpcal.co.uk to work the rest out, taking 17% off the list price.
Should give you a rough estimate.
Edit : remember to take one month off the number of payments in the calculator, ie put 47 if you want a 48 month contract.
Decent paint colour, painted calipers, 5 hole alloys, HK audio, perhaps carbon insert wheel and coloured stitching, and that's all you need, everything else is standard.
You'll then find it's WAY more reasonable.
Give Stuart or Olivier at Beechdale a ring, and Saber at Research Nuneaton. Both dealers are excellent, and beat every other dealer hands down cost wise ... Especially if they can get you onto the affinity scheme.
You should be aiming for roughly 17% discount at 5.9% Apr.
The best way I found to get an idea of cost was to build the spec on the configurator, use their finance calculator to get the GFMV on the terms you want, then use pcpcal.co.uk to work the rest out, taking 17% off the list price.
Should give you a rough estimate.
Edit : remember to take one month off the number of payments in the calculator, ie put 47 if you want a 48 month contract.
Edited by RonnieHotdogs on Friday 5th November 22:30
RonnieHotdogs said:
I'm pretty sure most owners with the Akra exhaust have claimed it's not worth the cash, the same with the carbon seats. Have a read on Alfaowner or join some of the Alfa / QV Facebook groups.
Decent paint colour, painted calipers, 5 hole alloys, HK audio, perhaps carbon insert wheel and coloured stitching, and that's all you need, everything else is standard.
You'll then find it's WAY more reasonable.
Give Stuart or Olivier at Beechdale a ring, and Saber at Research Nuneaton. Both dealers are excellent, and beat every other dealer hands down cost wise ... Especially if they can get you onto the affinity scheme.
You should be aiming for roughly 17% discount at 5.9% Apr.
The best way I found to get an idea of cost was to build the spec on the configurator, use their finance calculator to get the GFMV on the terms you want, then use pcpcal.co.uk to work the rest out, taking 17% off the list price.
Should give you a rough estimate.
Cheers pal. That's my morning tomorrow sorted. Thanks for going to the effort on this. Decent paint colour, painted calipers, 5 hole alloys, HK audio, perhaps carbon insert wheel and coloured stitching, and that's all you need, everything else is standard.
You'll then find it's WAY more reasonable.
Give Stuart or Olivier at Beechdale a ring, and Saber at Research Nuneaton. Both dealers are excellent, and beat every other dealer hands down cost wise ... Especially if they can get you onto the affinity scheme.
You should be aiming for roughly 17% discount at 5.9% Apr.
The best way I found to get an idea of cost was to build the spec on the configurator, use their finance calculator to get the GFMV on the terms you want, then use pcpcal.co.uk to work the rest out, taking 17% off the list price.
Should give you a rough estimate.
a_dreamer said:
There are no cars available in the short term so I need to sort something on my current lease then I plan to go back to them when I know where I am at.
Ah, shame. I think the planets aligned for mine somehow! They're really quite difficult to get hold of at the moment.Well, if you want any more info or owner experiences (although I've only done 800 miles), just PM me.
RonnieHotdogs said:
Ah, shame. I think the planets aligned for mine somehow! They're really quite difficult to get hold of at the moment.
Well, if you want any more info or owner experiences (although I've only done 800 miles), just PM me.
Cheers mate. Hoping to try and sort a few things this week then may reach out to get jealous early next week Well, if you want any more info or owner experiences (although I've only done 800 miles), just PM me.
Wilson's of Epsom appear to have 2 new one in stock according to their website and one with only 2000 miles on the clock.
I'd love one but just can't justify raiding my tiny pension pot. Made do with buying a 20 year old Alfa 156 instead
Which broke down a mile after I handed over the cash and has been in two garages for 2 weeks and has cost me double what I paid for it (was a bargain price), and there is now a check engine light.
So I'm getting the Alfa experience.
Maybe I should have just shelled out for the Quad.
I'd love one but just can't justify raiding my tiny pension pot. Made do with buying a 20 year old Alfa 156 instead
Which broke down a mile after I handed over the cash and has been in two garages for 2 weeks and has cost me double what I paid for it (was a bargain price), and there is now a check engine light.
So I'm getting the Alfa experience.
Maybe I should have just shelled out for the Quad.
Edited by croyde on Thursday 11th November 08:20
croyde said:
Wilson's of Epsom appear to have 2 in stock according to their website and one with only 2000 miles on the clock.
I'd love one but just can't justify raiding my tiny pension pot. Made do with buying a 20 year old Alfa 156 instead
Which broke down a mile after I handed over the cash and has been in two garages for 2 weeks and has cost me double what I paid for it (was a bargain price), and there is now a check engine light.
So I'm getting the Alfa experience.
Maybe I should have just shelled out for the Quad.
I’m picking up a Stelvio QV tomorrow- I’m hoping my experience won’t be like yours.I'd love one but just can't justify raiding my tiny pension pot. Made do with buying a 20 year old Alfa 156 instead
Which broke down a mile after I handed over the cash and has been in two garages for 2 weeks and has cost me double what I paid for it (was a bargain price), and there is now a check engine light.
So I'm getting the Alfa experience.
Maybe I should have just shelled out for the Quad.
I did have a 4C for 13 months that didn’t put a foot wrong, so fingers crossed for the Stelvio…
croyde said:
Wilson's of Epsom appear to have 2 new one in stock according to their website and one with only 2000 miles on the clock.
I'd love one but just can't justify raiding my tiny pension pot. Made do with buying a 20 year old Alfa 156 instead
Which broke down a mile after I handed over the cash and has been in two garages for 2 weeks and has cost me double what I paid for it (was a bargain price), and there is now a check engine light.
So I'm getting the Alfa experience.
Maybe I should have just shelled out for the Quad.
If it's the blue one, they had it up a few months ago with less than 500 miles on the clock as I was offered it when I was looking for a Quad. It disappeared then popped up again - identical spec so I can't see it being a different car.I'd love one but just can't justify raiding my tiny pension pot. Made do with buying a 20 year old Alfa 156 instead
Which broke down a mile after I handed over the cash and has been in two garages for 2 weeks and has cost me double what I paid for it (was a bargain price), and there is now a check engine light.
So I'm getting the Alfa experience.
Maybe I should have just shelled out for the Quad.
Edited by croyde on Thursday 11th November 08:20
I'm going to guess someone from the dealership has been using it as their own transport for a few months.
And Epsom couldn't come within about £4k of Beechdale, spec for spec.
My current car has about £2k more spec than one of theirs, and I'm paying about £100 less per month on the same terms.
RonnieHotdogs said:
croyde said:
Wilson's of Epsom appear to have 2 new one in stock according to their website and one with only 2000 miles on the clock.
I'd love one but just can't justify raiding my tiny pension pot. Made do with buying a 20 year old Alfa 156 instead
Which broke down a mile after I handed over the cash and has been in two garages for 2 weeks and has cost me double what I paid for it (was a bargain price), and there is now a check engine light.
So I'm getting the Alfa experience.
Maybe I should have just shelled out for the Quad.
If it's the blue one, they had it up a few months ago with less than 500 miles on the clock as I was offered it when I was looking for a Quad. It disappeared then popped up again - identical spec so I can't see it being a different car.I'd love one but just can't justify raiding my tiny pension pot. Made do with buying a 20 year old Alfa 156 instead
Which broke down a mile after I handed over the cash and has been in two garages for 2 weeks and has cost me double what I paid for it (was a bargain price), and there is now a check engine light.
So I'm getting the Alfa experience.
Maybe I should have just shelled out for the Quad.
Edited by croyde on Thursday 11th November 08:20
I'm going to guess someone from the dealership has been using it as their own transport for a few months.
And Epsom couldn't come within about £4k of Beechdale, spec for spec.
My current car has about £2k more spec than one of theirs, and I'm paying about £100 less per month on the same terms.
They did let me solo test a Veloce a while back but there prices always seem on the higher side.
I test drove the Misano blue car at Wilson's back in the summer and had the most terrible experience with a dealer I've ever had (pm me for details!) Apart from anything else, it merely confirmed to me that the pre MY2020, pre facelift steering is light years better... No artificial weighting in the different modes dynamic and race and much much more feel and feedback.
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