Just bought a 155!

[Emeye]

I may be mad, but I just bought this off ebay. Not seen it or spoke to the owner yet, but it's local and looks promising.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

I always wanted a 155 ever since I sat in one years ago as a kid at the NEC motorshow.


What da ya fink?

[mrmender]

Looks like a nice motor.
Let us know how you get on. Ive never been brave enough to buy a car unseen of ebay

[Emeye]

mrmender said:

Looks like a nice motor.
Let us know how you get on. Ive never been brave enough to buy a car unseen of ebay

Well I get to check it out before I pay and it's local - I'd not do it if it was any distance away!

[wrinx]

155? Horrible things....

wrinx

[Emeye]

wrinx said:

155? Horrible things....

wrinx

Why? You need to say why.

[wrinx]

They get under your skin

You might want to wander over to www.alfa155.org/forum

wrinx

Edited by wrinx on Sunday 6th February 00:14

[Kinky]

[Emeye]

wrinx said:

They get under your skin

You might want to wander over to www.alfa155.org/forum

wrinx

Edited by wrinx on Sunday 6th February 00:14

Ha. Just looked at your garage.

Picking it up Sunday afternoon. Seriously cannot wait.

[TRUENOSAM]

Nice

I was in the same position as yourself last month. Have not regretted it yet. As said you may want to look up on the site linked above. Thats where I looked for all the info before buying mine. Lots of helpful info

[wrinx]

Emeye said:

Ha. Just looked at your garage.

Thrice bitten by 155s...great cars whichever version you have.

Enjoy...

wrinx

[Emeye]

It's only the driving position that's worrying me - I have proportionally long legs. IIRC, italian cars were always criticised for the driving position suiting long arms, short legs ape style!

[wrinx]

It's less so in the 155, they'd moved away from the "long arm" position by the 90s.

Looks like you may have bought a good car there...check when the belts and tensioners where last replaced, should be every 36k/3yrs.

wrinx

[Emeye]

Any suggestions for cheap insurance? Guy I'm buying it off says he has it on a classic policy.

[wrinx]

Yes, you should be able to get a normal classic policy as they're 13+ years old now, failing that try uttering the words "future classic policy", just depends how the company operates tbh.

But Chris Knott, Adrian Flux and Footman James are usually reasonable...depending on your history etc.

wrinx

[Emeye]

Well I got it, and it's amazing.

I cannot believe how good it is for £400.

Only issues I can find is a faulty oil temp gauge and the driver side window needed a few presses to get it back up - not sure if it's just the switch.

It had a cam-belt change 5 years ago, so I'll have to see how much to get it done.

Brakes are a bit squidgy, but think it's been stood a while and they seemed to get better coming home.

Was going dark so I'll give it better look over tomorrow morning before I go to work.

At the moment I'm very happy!

Oh, and I found this thread - http://alfa155.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34260&amp... tried to join but not had the authorisation email yet.....

[Nero601]

Don't worry about oil temp gauge , they never move even in heavy traffic (mine never did , in 14 months of ownership) Oil pressure more important

check out aforalfa on 155.org re cambelts , top bloke and top work , good price too

enjoy the 155 , worst thing I ever did was to sell mine

HTH

[Kinky]

Emeye said:

Oh, and I found this thread - http://alfa155.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34260&amp... tried to join but not had the authorisation email yet.....

See here

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[waynedear]

Enjoy your car mate, i got my Green skinny a few months ago, love it..

[Emeye]

Inside the huge wodge of receipts I found a 1996 Autocar with the 1.8TS review!!! Fantastic.

Edited by Emeye on Sunday 6th February 23:15

[888dee]

sorry guys, I have a great deal of trouble keeping on top of the new user accounts, we get spammed to death...

anyway, emeye, yours has been sorted manually now