The boot floor in my 156 fell about an inch from where it should be. I always doubt that the tool set in the boot might not be the original one with the wrong height. It resulted in the falling of the boot floor.
Category: Interior
It is common to finding additional issues after the ownership transfer of used cars, I’d say it is a matter of how many. On top of those known cosmetic issues on my 156, two newly found issues were particularly annoying. One of them is the broken light bulbs inside the air conditioning control unit.
Replacing light bulbs should be a simple task but replacing those on Alfa 156 air conditioning control unit turned out to be a more complicated task with risks of breaking more components. In short, the whole centre console panel had to come off to get access to the control unit, that means CD players, gear boot, ash tray and others had to be off.
Manufactured in 2000, my Alfa Romeo 156 was made for the market of the United Kingdom. Instead of being imported into the UK, a parallel importer brought it to Hong Kong in 2001. The car is a 2.0 Twin Spark model equipped with a 5-speed manual gearbox, luckily it is not the “well-known” Selespeed box; the trim level is Sport Pack II*.
At the time when I was looking for an Alfa, I’d considered 3 model choices, they were 164, 75 and 156. And I had 2 criteria in mind:
- It must have a manual gearbox, absolutely NO Selespeed or automatic box
- A Busso V6 was preferred
