Re: alfa-digest V9 #731

["Brett Frymire" <brett.frymire@xxxxxxxx>]

My turn also to jump in.  I had a BMW 535I and the experience was less than
pleasant.  The 535I was an expensive car when it came out, and hence, is
expensive to maintain.  I bought the car in 2000 and drove it for 3 years.
I spent over 3k in maintenance, and put 10k miles on it.  Ouch.  It, also,
stranded me twice  My milano never did that, and was easy to fix, and much
cheaper to maintain.  Otherwise, the car was fun, fast and a pleasure to
drive.  Lots of torque.

-- brett

>
> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:26:00 -0500
> From: "Jason Hagen" <hagen_jason1@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: 164 alternatives
>
> Alright, I am finally going to enter this thread...
>
> I am completely astonished to hear someone suggest going from a '94 LS to
a
> lesser 164 12-valve.  Where's the logic there?!  A little savings on a
> timing belt change?  Come on, the rest of the car would be older, and
> inferior (no offense), including electical, HVAC (R12), stepper, etc.
>
> My solution to putting high miles on my Alfas: have another cheap car you
> don't mind putting miles on.  For me, this has been an old BMW 7 series.
> E32 chassis (1988-1994).  This car is reliable, cheap to obtain ($3K to
> $5K), and will take the miles like a champ. Or take the 5-series for that
> matter at about the same vintage and prices...
>
> Keep the Alfas, but buy sensible back-ups.  But don't downgrade Alfas...
>
> - - Jason Hagen
> '73 Spider
> '95 164Q
> '88 BMW 735i
> '98 Land Rover Discovery (not a sensible back-up, but the wife needs
> something to drive!)
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