What have you done to your Giulietta today?
There seems to be a thread like this for every car here except the Giulietta (unless the autoguide app search is that useless!). As the title suggests...what have you done? Perhaps something that's not worth a whole new thread, a quick question or comment!
I got my Giulietta delivered this morning! Silver veloce, 140 2.0jtdm, already updated B&M to v8.0, debating a spider tuning box. Its a company car ( inherited it with 37k on it), so limited to my options.
I got my Giulietta delivered this morning! Silver veloce, 140 2.0jtdm, already updated B&M to v8.0, debating a spider tuning box. Its a company car ( inherited it with 37k on it), so limited to my options.
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It’s the roof that kills them... Plus there would be a few thousand cars killed today so the insurers tend to write them off more readily, no way to fix them all.
A few hundred cars in the Meganes car park alone all looked like mine.
This shows how hard it got smashed - the a pillar is super strong;
Bikes on the roof scare me... I've put a towbar on mine and use a platform rack . There are two types of people who carry their bike on the roof - those that have totalled a bike driving under something low, and those that will at some point in the future total a bike driving under something low
Plus I do 2000km return trips back to my home state, it sucks a lot of fuel and makes a lot of noise having it up there at 120kph for 8 hours straight!
Dépends on the car and bike involved of course. On the Megane (that photo was taken the day before it was written off in a hail storm ) my Giant Trance sticks out the side a bit, on the Alfa its no wider than the mirrors are.
This is an extreme example i saw on a MTB forum that made me laugh - a ludicrously long and slack enduro rig on a Honda Fit
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) my Giant Trance sticks out the side a bit, on the Alfa its no wider than the mirrors are. This is an extreme example i saw on a MTB forum that made me laugh - a ludicrously long and slack enduro rig on a Honda Fit
Thats not an option for me. For a start its a pain having to take a wheel off every time (modern MTB through axles are a hex key job), but mostly its really her brand new Alfa (im fixing up another Megane for myself) and I'm not putting a dusty or muddy bike in the back, or risk bashing interior bits and marking them.
Dunno, Fox or an aftermarket company might make one with a lever, older through axles used to have them.
Not an issue for me, I don't want the bike in the car anyway. If I wanted to cart around big and muddy stuff in the car, I would have bought a ute
Yeah its a machine, but its also a place you spend some amount of time and i wouldn't want my lounge room getting full of mud and crap either. It's also a substantial investment, and I like to look after my things.
Plus its just easier and simply to drop the rack on the towbar then it is faffing about putting seats down, taking out the parcel shelf and laying down blankets, then packing it all up again afterwards etc etc... Even without pulling the bike apart.
First pic looks way better
Leave it alone.Our new 2018 build Alfa Red G is a different colour to the 2016 build one we just had written off - same paint code, same colour. But new one is a brighter red. The touch up pen i got a while doesn't match it, but it did the old one.
Long story short, if the painters mix it from the code rather than actually matching it to the car i think the factory has enough variation in its paint from batch to batch that you're not guaranteed a good match!!
What qualifies as a scorcher in the UK?
This was taken in early January after a couple of weeks of 35+ degrees and was the first week of our city being locked in smoke... We had plenty of days over 40 degrees.2 weeks after this photo it was written off in a hailstorm!!
I think I'd have prioritised the dollars on some proper tyres - the chinese cheapies on there now must get a bit "interesting" in the wet! A set of PS4 will do way more for your enjoyment and safety than aesthetic tweaks
Lockdown has indeed been productive! This is my Megane lockdown project - transferring all the mechanics and interior from my mint Meg that was totalled by hail to a car i got for $150 with a good body but trashed interior and worn out mechanicals. Something to do to pass the time
Smoother would be nice - the 1-2 and 2-3 shifts are always a bit ****, especially when cold. Lot of money to correct something Fiat Power train Technologies should have gotten right to start with though
note that there is just one wire for both tail and brake lights - need to be sure the relay boxcar decode the different signals.
Noticed it is getting very very dirty... It lives outside and its been a wet and cold winter so its getting manky. and given i still have broken ribs and collarbone, it wont be getting any love anytime soon... Oh well, wont hurt it - will be an all day detailing job come spring when I am able to do it!!
Had to wash it in the freezing cold... Winter is being particularly unpleasant at the moment!! But was cut off by a cement truck that then proceeded to spray the front of our brand new G with cement laden water!! Managed to get home and get it off before it set, so escaped paint damage. Phew...
im putting that on the screen these days to keep the frost off and not have to scrape off the ice if i have to go out first thing...
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