Re: winter alfas

["Wille R." <veloce@domain.elided>]

Re: winter alfas

Hi all, I am back on the digest again, been away for a month.

In my opinion Alfa have missed two points of driving an Alfa in 
the Arctic winter. In the 75 Milano, 164 and the 145/146 the door 
handles and key looks are most vulnarable to the frosen snow. The 
new 156 has excellent door handles, easy to grip and open the 
frozen door with. The rubber/plastic seals often freeze together 
with the metal of the door, making it utterly hard to open.

I also think that the wind screen flushing reservoir should be 
inside the engine bay. On the models above, it is under the front 
wing, exposed to the cold wind and not gaining any heat from the 
warm engine. The hoses are mounted outside the engine bay. I had a 
FIAT once and that car had the entire system in the engine bay. 
The heat from the engine was sufficient to make things much easier 
when I used the wipers. Yeah, I always use anti-freeze in the 
reservoir, but sometimes the thin hoses get blocked by ice anyway.

The Swedish car makers SAAB and Volvo have everything under the 
bonnet. They should know.

BTW, my -67 Duetto has the entire system close to the engine, warm 
and cosy, so IMHO "those were the days, things were better 
before".

Just my 0.02

Saluti		Wille R in Scandinavia

Alfa Romeo 1750 Spider Veloce 1967
Alfa Romeo 145 Super 1995
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