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From: Lozzo on 15 Jun 2010 13:35
Horror stories?

I'm looking at blowing 3ish grand on a runaround and while I really
like the 9-3 that Bear has I don't want a petrol. Are the diesels worth
buying and what one has all the toys? I don't want one of the uglier
early model hatches, has to be a saloon, am I going in a bit cheap at
3ishK

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Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
From: platypus on 15 Jun 2010 13:43
On 15 June, 18:35, "Lozzo" <lo...(a)lozzo.org.uk> wrote:
> Horror stories?
>
> I'm looking at blowing 3ish grand on a runaround and while I really
> like the 9-3 that Bear has I don't want a petrol. Are the diesels worth
> buying and what one has all the toys? I don't want one of the uglier
> early model hatches, has to be a saloon, am I going in a bit cheap at
> 3ishK

Pah. You want a nice Alfa 156 2.4 JTD, you do. In red.

And no, I'm not selling mine.
From: SteveH on 15 Jun 2010 15:22
Lozzo <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> wrote:

> The GM
> diesels are all that bad, they've been around long enough to be sorted
> and I've had them in the past with no problems.

If it's a 1.9, then it's a Fiat / Alfa JTD lump. Which is utterly
bomb-proof until Saab and Vauxhall get their hands on it, when it
appears to give issues.

If it's the 2.2, then it's an Isuzu truck engine.
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SteveH
From: Lozzo on 15 Jun 2010 15:45
SteveH wrote:

> Lozzo <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > The GM
> > diesels are all that bad, they've been around long enough to be
> > sorted and I've had them in the past with no problems.
>
> If it's a 1.9, then it's a Fiat / Alfa JTD lump. Which is utterly
> bomb-proof until Saab and Vauxhall get their hands on it, when it
> appears to give issues.

So what do Saab or Vauxhall do to this supposedly bomb-proof 1.9 engine
to make unrelaible? I've read up on some horror stores about the 2.2,
enough of them to put me off. I'm very dubious about buying anything
with a Fiat/Alfa engine tbh.

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Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
From: Higgins on 15 Jun 2010 15:53
SteveH wrote:
> Lozzo <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> The GM
>> diesels are all that bad, they've been around long enough to be sorted
>> and I've had them in the past with no problems.
>
> If it's a 1.9, then it's a Fiat / Alfa JTD lump. Which is utterly
> bomb-proof until Saab and Vauxhall get their hands on it, when it
> appears to give issues.
>

I understand that the DMF is just as shite in FIAT[1] as it is in a GM.
The benefit of GM is that it doesn't say FIAT on the front.

[1]By any name
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