mjheathcote
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A couple of plus points are usually low mileage and minimal rot as they do not salt the roads.I don't know the company. There is another well known one that bring in a lot of Japanese Alfas, just check Fleabay. I would just buy a genuine UK car, there are plenty out there. I had one as a courtesy car years back, was a reasonably nice thing.
Always a few GTA at local specalist AutoLusso - and mostly manual gearbox.A couple of plus points are usually low mileage and minimal rot as they do not salt the roads.
147 GTA Selespeeds seems to be the popular choice at the minute with a particularly nice example on eBay. I nearly imported a 156 GTA Sportwagon but I was told Selespeed parts are now getting difficult to source.
Good point about the mileage and rot. A good friend of mine has been bringing Japanese cars ((over 200) in for the past 3 years or so and on most the undersides are like new. If I was spending £5-10k on this sort of car (especially Alfa) I would only buy from Japan unless something used in the UK for the past 10-25 years was exceptional. You can see here what he has today and also what has sold - quite a few Alfas! www.valleycarsandclassics.com/about-us/A couple of plus points are usually low mileage and minimal rot as they do not salt the roads.
147 GTA Selespeeds seems to be the popular choice at the minute with a particularly nice example on eBay. I nearly imported a 156 GTA Sportwagon but I was told Selespeed parts are now getting difficult to source.
Well that's the point.Good point about the mileage and rot. A good friend of mine has been bringing Japanese cars ((over 200) in for the past 3 years or so and on most the undersides are like new. If I was spending £5-10k on this sort of car (especially Alfa) I would only buy from Japan unless something used in the UK for the past 10-25 years was exceptional. You can see here what he has today and also what has sold - quite a few Alfas! www.valleycarsandclassics.com/about-us/
Just looked through that site.. that 2011 passatt tells the uk roads and salt story quite well. I have never had a Japanese import car but back a few years i had friends that went that way on Supra's and Subaru's.. as lons as immediately undercoated all was well.Good point about the mileage and rot. A good friend of mine has been bringing Japanese cars ((over 200) in for the past 3 years or so and on most the undersides are like new. If I was spending £5-10k on this sort of car (especially Alfa) I would only buy from Japan unless something used in the UK for the past 10-25 years was exceptional. You can see here what he has today and also what has sold - quite a few Alfas! www.valleycarsandclassics.com/about-us/
ditto- main beam all of the time. Driving back from Benidorm to UK only flicked them back to dipped beam handful of times.Had a 166, massive boot compared to the QP5 which is odd, since the QP5 is a much bigger car. Terrible headlights, the worst ever, 9 time out of 10 I was convinced they weren't even switched on.