Hi all. Good to be back in an Alfa after 4 years away ( in an aweful heap of a citroen DS3). My previous experience with a beautiful new 159 2.4 SW company car left me wanting more. Sadly life changes and, as much as I would like to try and justify it, I can't afford to run anything like that on my own now. So I located an 06 plated 147 lusso facelift with huge mileage but a stacked history. It's a lovely thing and i'm very happy with it but... you can't half feel the mileage in it.
So far I've done the gear linkage bushes under the bonnet so I can at least find the gears now :lol:, fitted a Bose system (it so needs Bose) and had both front lower wishbones and all 4 shocks changed (ouch!) It's getting better but it still feels loose and floppy compared to the 159. The upper wishbones were really shiney and obviously recent so I left them in place. I've also changed from the original 15" snowflakes to a set of 16" teledials as they look more 'alfa' and fill the arches better
Any suggestions what else I should do? or are the 147's just less 'together' than the newer 159? The funny thing is both cars were registered new within 3 months of each other so they can't be that different surely?
So far I've done the gear linkage bushes under the bonnet so I can at least find the gears now :lol:, fitted a Bose system (it so needs Bose) and had both front lower wishbones and all 4 shocks changed (ouch!) It's getting better but it still feels loose and floppy compared to the 159. The upper wishbones were really shiney and obviously recent so I left them in place. I've also changed from the original 15" snowflakes to a set of 16" teledials as they look more 'alfa' and fill the arches better
Any suggestions what else I should do? or are the 147's just less 'together' than the newer 159? The funny thing is both cars were registered new within 3 months of each other so they can't be that different surely?