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[SubPar]

It's a few n road up Glenshee

I assume you meant fun.

This is also the first car I've owned in a long time that can maintain (and even exceed) 60mph going up the long climb from the southern side.

It also makes a brilliant intake noise when I give it the beans.

[SubPar]

Shit, I should also mention I survived collecting it!

The seller shares a unit with Mr Stolly nutter himself. I even saw him there, briefly. He then declared he had another Stolly to look at, and took off at a great rate of knots in his Lexus.

No guns in sight.

[Hooli]

It's a few n road up Glenshee

I assume you meant fun.

This is also the first car I've owned in a long time that can maintain (and even exceed) 60mph going up the long climb from the southern side.

It also makes a brilliant intake noise when I give it the beans.

Aye, fucking auto-incorrect

[brandersnatch]

It's a few n road up Glenshee

I assume you meant fun.

This is also the first car I've owned in a long time that can maintain (and even exceed) 60mph going up the long climb from the southern side.

It also makes a brilliant intake noise when I give it the beans.

My 156 made a fantastic noise too. Keep the oil topped up and regularly checked. It does like to use some.

[SubPar]

It's a few n road up Glenshee

I assume you meant fun.

This is also the first car I've owned in a long time that can maintain (and even exceed) 60mph going up the long climb from the southern side.

It also makes a brilliant intake noise when I give it the beans.

My 156 made a fantastic noise too. Keep the oil topped up and regularly checked. It does like to use some.

What grade of oil does sir recommend?

Admittedly I'm just being lazy, I can whack the numberplate into a parts website and find out easily enough.

It's tempting to keep a litre bottle in the boot amongst my other car stuff I always keep in a car.

[Hooli]

Pure virgin olive oil

[SubPar]

Who's up for a game of Spot the Screenwash Reservoir?

Ready?



Ta-da! Yes, that's it tucked away between the expansion bottle and the wing.

With some very careful pouring from a 1L bottle, I've got a couple of litres of screenwash in it now. My first fix* to the car, now done. Actually, the second, as I shoved the parcel shelf straight into it when I got home last night.


I popped to the shops earlier this morning and it got me thinking. Considering how zippy this thing is with the 2.0, the GTA with the V6 must be completely and utterly hat-stand mental. Even in this car, if I just idly accelerate from 30 in 3rd gear, even half throttle means 60mph is approaching (and receding again) rather quickly.

[Hooli]

Hurrah for technical fixes succeeding.

[SubPar]

I'm still trying to reset the electric windows.

Basically, they go down smoothly, but only go back up an inch at a time. The odometer is also blinking because the car is unhappy about something (probably the windows, as these Alfas do the odometer blink for just about anything, no matter how minor).

I found a method to reset them, but it doesn't appear to work. The method is;
- Windows all the way down, hold the switches down for 10 seconds or so.
- Windows all the way up (in steps if you have to) then once they're in the up position, hold the switches up for 10 seconds or so.

Doesn't make a blind bit of difference.


However, I have discovered what was rattling around in the back end like a skeleton wanking in a biscuit tin. The locking wheel bolt kit was just slung into the spare wheel well down the side of the spare wheel. I tucked it securely in my box o' stuff in the boot instead.

[Hooli]

Aye that reset process is familiar, works on most cars. You are doing one window at a time right? I seem to recall it only worked on something with all the others shut.