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.