The Joyful Journey with My Alfa Romeo 156

I decided to repaint the bonnet. Every time I looked at the bonnet, I felt bad for such a beauty and for the person behind the wheel, which is me.

The previous paint condition: https://alfa156.club/?p=74

Bad news to my wallet

Over the phone, I got a quote of EURO 15o for repainting the bonnet from a car painting specialist that was recommended by a 156 owner having his car served there not long ago. Booked a time and drove down to the workshop for final quote, the guy greeted me is nice but not the piece of news. After he inspected the paint condition with a staff who should be the technician doing the actual work, I guess, he told me that the paint condition is too bad to merely overlaying a new layer of paint, therefore, he suggested removing the existing paint entirely before repainting the bonnet and that costed 1oo Euro more😵.

Replacing light bulbs inside the Alfa 156 air conditioning control unit

By 156 Addict

On April 2, 2021

In 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.

About My Alfa Romeo 156

By 156 Addict

On March 12, 2021

In External appearance, Interior

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

The Log of maintenance, modification and ownership

Repainting the bonnet and front fenders

Bad news to my wallet

Replacing light bulbs inside the Alfa 156 air conditioning control unit

About My Alfa Romeo 156

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