Tag archive for ‘alfa romeo’
I don’t need to name my car yet
The 146’s battery died yesterday morning. I managed to unlock the car with the remote but when I turned the ignition, I realized my battery was flat.
146 at johor house
Originally uploaded by jaremfan.
The weird thing was that it wasn’t giving any signals the night before, and I wondered whether my frenzied driving to and fro [...]
Living with the Alfa 146 - fuel economy results back in
GTA
Originally uploaded by Djivy.
Update: BHP petrol gave me a nice 10.45km/l after 470ish kms. And BHP is not the official distributor for licensed BP petrol per se… that’s from an ex-BP source, .
Update 2: Shell Super (the cheaper red one) is giving me tremendous results. Fuel consumption seems to remain the same, but [...]
Living with the Alfa 146 - not a K-car
Oil Reserves in Doubt
Originally uploaded by Michael P. Whelan.
I got my car serviced recently, and I’m really happy with the improvements. New timing belt, new variator, an oil change, new brake pads, and a set of camshaft upgrades. It set me back quite a lot, but this only happens every 40k kms or so (excluding [...]
On the road again
Originally uploaded by the earthling.
My alfa is back… well, it was back almost a week ago, but I was too busy to blog about it. The repair cost me over 1k, but they fixed my condenser clutch (I didn’t even know condensers had clutches) and regassed my A/C with new R13A.
I’ve been driving it for [...]
Delay - almost Alfa Romeo 146
Alfa Romeo Badge
Originally uploaded by Harun Gallery.
I couldn’t get my car today after all. I wrongly estimated the amount of time it took to find out that I needed my savings bank book in order to make a bank draft, which led to time looking for my bank book, which led to time spent learning [...]