Too late - it has gone and been replaced with a 1.9 JTDm. TBH I am very surprised and happy with the 1.9. Sure it doesn't growl at me
but power delivery wise it is very smooth and faster than I thought.
I wanted to add some positive comments about Mangoletsi. Kevan Dingle the chap that I dealt with from the start of selling my car was helpful, informative, polite, patient, always available to talk over a concern and generally a good person to do business with. Thank you Kev and enjoy your few days off and I'll speak to you when you get back on Monday
Mangoletsi's has changed a great deal since I first bought my 147 and then a 156 from them. Looking back at that time I was relatively new at buying cars and I should have haggled more and gone elsewhere to look. However I will say the attitude back then was get the car sold and if on finance so much the better.
My experience this time was so much better. I went in looking to downsize my car and I achieved this at minimal cost to me and left feeling positive about the experience and about Mangoletsi. I was offered a great price on my car and have gone up a year to a car with less mileage and Blue&Me which I didn't have before. The 'new' car was serviced, cleaned and totally immaculate inside and out
Firstly the new showroom and facilities are great and give a great first impression - congrats to Mangos. - it looks the part. All your staff were friendly and courteous and I was always offered coffee and a place to sit. Kevan as I said was happy to chat to me about Alfa Romeo in general and about my specifics. When I mentioned I had test driven a seat Leon FR he did not go through what you might expect a 'typical' car salesman to do - i.e. slag off the car - he simply asked what I thought of the car and whether there was anything else he could do for me in trying to keep me in an Alfa. That was when I decided to test drive a 1.9 JTDm 159 as Mangos had some ex-ARUK stock arriving. I am glad I did
On hand over yesterday once again Kevan was attentive and informative and went through all the paper work and explained everything to me and my wife. I then inspected the car while he insected mine and I came back and reported that while the 'new' 159 was fine there was a scuff to one of the alloys. Kevan had a looked and without me prompting him offered to change the wheel for me. This he did
I signed off on the car and went back out to it to discover that he had had the front left changed and not the rear left - he had seen a tiny kerb mark on the front left and thought this was the wheel I meant. He hadn't seen the mark on the rear left! TBH it isn't a huge scuff but it is there. By this time all the mechanics were off home but I have been promised that if I go bcak Saturday morning I can once again have the wheel swopped from another car to replce my scuffed one.
I will be done at Mangoletsi on Saturday morning
A big thank you to Kevan and all at Mangoletsi and best wishes to you all for the future - I hope to be back in approx 3 years for another Alfa
