Alfa 166 Petrol tank problems
 

I have a yr 2000 Alfa 166 which after filling 2 weeks ago with a full tank
of petrol started to leak and got worse and worse over the next few days.
I took it into the agents here in New Zealand and they said it had split,
and have order me another from Italy at a cost of NZ$1500 + labour.
There was a recall of yr 2004 Alfa 166 and Renault cars last year.

Has anyone else with an Alfa experienced the same problem.

Peter

I had no problems and I never heard of this kind of problem in Holland.Then
again I don't do my maintenance at an official Alfadealer so maybe I missed
the recall.
Arjan

It's on their website. Search using google, I found it that way.

But it's not to do with cracking, only seals were leaking so they replaced
the tank.

Since then I have found out by the company that plastic welded it that it
looks like a stone caused the damage. Which really mans the car should have
a metal guard protecting it from stones off the front wheels.

"yoyo" > wrote in message
ll.nl...
>I had no problems and I never heard of this kind of problem in Holland.Then
> again I don't do my maintenance at an official Alfadealer so maybe I
> missed
> the recall.
> Arjan
>
>

Just to let you know I got the petrol tank repaired and the repairer said it
had been damaged by a stone. I have had a new tank flown in from Italy and
it is now installed and all is well. The reason for the new tank was my
insurance company wouldn't insure the vehicle with a repaired tank.
So I got them to pay for the new one.

"PJB" > wrote in message
...
> It's on their website. Search using google, I found it that way.
>
> But it's not to do with cracking, only seals were leaking so they replaced
> the tank.
>
> Since then I have found out by the company that plastic welded it that it
> looks like a stone caused the damage. Which really mans the car should
> have a metal guard protecting it from stones off the front wheels.
>
> "yoyo" > wrote in message
> ll.nl...
>>I had no problems and I never heard of this kind of problem in
>>Holland.Then
>> again I don't do my maintenance at an official Alfadealer so maybe I
>> missed
>> the recall.
>> Arjan
>>
>>
>
>

PJB wrote:

> Just to let you know I got the petrol tank repaired and the repairer said
> it
> had been damaged by a stone. I have had a new tank flown in from Italy
> and it is now installed and all is well. The reason for the new tank was
> my insurance company wouldn't insure the vehicle with a repaired tank.
> So I got them to pay for the new one.

More fool them, then really.....

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