RE: GTV-6 stuff...

[Ian Lomax <sfalfisto@domain.elided>]

i also bought my 164LS this way, just after the
previous owner replaced all the valves, new head
gasket, tensioner etc.  he also added new tires, and a
used tranny.  again, i felt like he had done all the
hard work and 15k miles later when i sold it, nothing
major had gone wrong.

do your research first, not afterwards.

ian lomax

--- Brian Shorey <bshorey@domain.elided> wrote:
> <snip>
> > No matter how well taken care, any time a GTV-6
> changes ownership, it
> will 
> > require at least $2,000 of additional work within
> the first year or
> so!  When 
> > it comes time to sell, you will get way less than
> what you have in it,
> and the 
> > next victim will sink even more money into it!
> <snip>
> 
> Not mine.
> 
> I bought my GTV6 remotely (I'm in Mass, the car was
> in Florida), from
> the second owner.  I got comfortable enough with the
> guy that I sent him
> a check for the full purchase price, so he could
> send me the title.
> 
> He bought the car with 27k miles on it, and then
> proceeded to face every
> Alfa v6 30k issue, one by one.  One head gasket,
> then the other, then
> the timing belt broke, then the tensioner started to
> leak, then the
> water pump...
> 
> He got *some* good advice from the local Alfa
> club/dealers, in that they
> told him about updated head gaskets, etc, but
> perhaps not the most
> valuable piece of advice he could have gotten - take
> it all apart and do
> it all at once.
> 
> So, by the time he offered the car up for sale, only
> 4k miles later,
> he'd had each head off a couple of times, and taken
> apart the front of
> the motor quite a few times.  He was totally fed up
> with Alfas, as far
> as he was concerned they were complete pieces of
> crap.
> 
> I felt obliged to tell him that he'd basically just
> fixed everything
> that was going to break for the next 30k miles, and
> that at 60k all he
> really needed to do was take apart the front of the
> motor once to do the
> water pump, tensioner, and timing belt, but he
> wouldn't listen.
> 
> I got a completely rust free car for a good price,
> then drove it for 30k
> trouble free miles before doing the 60k service. 
> It's been another 10k
> - 12k since then, and still the car has been
> completely trouble free.
> 
> Sure, I probably got the one single exception to
> your "every GTV6 will
> need $2k worth of work done to it" rule, but I
> thought I'd point out
> that it is possible to find one that doesn't need a
> pile of work right
> off the bat.
> 
> bs
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