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Drop me or Lucretia need some help with an Alpha PAS pump. As in need a
spare / breaker with one
Ta

AJ
VP RBRC

 

That's Al*f*a FFS

What one is it, I can give you some numbers of people that are likely
to have one

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Catman said...

And it's P*O*S FFS

 

Possibly, but I don't know what he''s got :>

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The model makes a difference?

 

*sniff* *sniff*

Nah, too smelly

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Catman said...

A*L*F*A

As I said....P*O*S

 

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As Catman said.... Al_F_a.

Anyway, you can try the following:

Alfa Aid in Maidenhead
VeloceSport (somewhere in Lincolnshire)

There will be more, but I'm using a mobile phone connection at the
moment, so can't look them up....

However, there's lots of links to breakers here:

http://www.aroc-uk.com

BTW: What is it? I might have to come and have a sniff around it ;-)

 

I am told it is a ALFA ( got the hint) 146 T spark

AJ

 

In that case - get hold of a part number and check out Fiat breakers as
well, the 146 shares it's block with a number of Fiats - mainly Bravo,
Brava, Marea and a few others - so it's likely to use the same PAS pump.

Bravos / Bravas were a popular fleet car, so mainstream breakers should
be able to help with it, too.

 

SteveH said...

Popular with whom? Certainly not the fleet companies.

 

I think you'll find they were, I know of several people who've bought
ex-fleet examples.

It's mainly beacuse Fiat were lopping huge amounts off the price which
made them look stupidly cheap compared with, say, an Escort or Astra.

I remember looking for one a few years back - the car supermarkets were
over-run with 1 year old ex-fleet / rental examples.

 

SteveH said...

Why do you think that might be?

 

Our fleet banned all Fiats and Alfas 6 months after those models came
out, mostly due to the unprecidented reliability problems they
experienced, to this day they remain the only 2 brands on the banned
list.

 

Exactly the same reason there's also loads of year old Fords / Vauxhalls
etc. in said dealers.

 

Ginge said...

Having fitted leather trim to all manner of vehicles, for almost every
major fleet company and a fair few pikey ones too, Fiat and Alfa were
the ones we did least of.

I know of at least 5 companies who lease cars who have banned Fiat and
Alfa from their choice lists, hence my previous comments.

Lets face facts, Fiat/Alfa make shite unreliable cars that company fleet
managers avoid at all costs.

 

SteveH said...

By that reckoning there should be a considerably higher propertion of
Fords/Vauxhalls in said dealers as traditionally Ford and Vauxhall clean
up the fleet market, or they might well have sold out of alot of stock
down to Fiat stock levels. What with Ford/Vauxhall being more reliable
cars that seems more likely.

Without wanting to sound pompous or at all 'know it all', when it comes
down to arguing about the car sales market, fleet dealers and fleet
manager's preferences, you'll have to get up early to beat me. I spent
15 years dealing with that trade and learnt one important lesson.

Never buy an Italian car.

 

I *think* they were excluded from the BT company car list too, the largest
fleet in the UK. You could get a Passat V6 to a Mondeo to a CLK230
otherwise.

 

I would never, ever entertain a Fiat Van ever again.

We had one on a 3 year lease, it spent about 6 months off the road due to
various problems, dealer was shite, Fiat customer services were a bag of
wank and in the end the lease co agreed to have it back 18 months early and
supply us with the Peugeot variant, which was excellent until it got written
off.

Said lease co have told me that they now positively discourage customers
from considering Fiat Scudo vans as they are shite. I really like the style
of certain Alfas, but would be very hard pushed to actually consider a new
one, even as a fully expensed company car.

Mined ewe, a 70's GTV as a SOC would be nice.

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