Don't even begin to get me started on the police - sorry "revenue men" for
that is what they have become. Car stolen? Sorry sir, nothing we can do!
33 in a 30? The FULL weight of the LAW (???) falls upon you.

Respect for law and order evapoulated the minoute they embraced the camera.
Aren't they a public service?

Soon to be even more skint (despite how well everytbing is going???)_

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"Zathras" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 07:54:41 +0100, "Graeme Cosgrove"
> > wrote:
>
> <Snip>
>>Question 3 is "isn't (potentially) £800 a lot of money to spend to service
>>a
>>two and a half year old car?"
>
> It is. However, it's not unusual with Alfas and Main Dealerships. My
> third year service at 25000 miles cost this and there was nothing
> unusually big in the work that was done (just stuff like bushes and
> handbrake cable etc). Trouble is that, with a normal service being
> more than 300UKP for me, any extra work quickly adds up to a very
> large sum. Next year, it'll get the A/C regassed (add another 100UKP)
> and I'd not be surprised if there's belts, more bushes or whatever.
> I'm saving up a scary 1000UKP just to cover this possibility.
>
> Before I bought it, research had shown me that the 156 was VERY
> expensive to run. Nobody put proper figures to it but, in my case, my
> car costs 0.10UKP per mile in maintenance costs ONLY. Frankly, it's a
> dire figure (it's more than my fuel cost) and it will determine
> whether my next car is an Alfa or not. Don't get me wrong, I love the
> car but I can get a better pleasure/cost ratio elsewhere.This is
> particularly so as the chances for having a fun drive in the UK
> diminish with the quality of the roads (rapidly scraping the bottom
> off my car), the dire state of British driving and speed cameras...
>
> <snip>
>
> --
> Z
> Scotland
> Alfa Romeo 156 2.4JTD Veloce Leather
> 'Oil' be seeing you..
> (Email without 'Alfa' in subject are auto-deleted..sorry!)