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Car Forum / Alfa Romeo Cars / March 2005For Sale (UK): Alfa 147 1.6 TS Lusso '01 '51
Alfa Romeo 147 TS Lusso 1.6 3 door, 120BHP, 2001 '51 reg, 37,800 miles, Gabbianno Blue Metallic, Classic Grey Velour. Full ALFA service history, inc. main dealer new cam belt at 36k. 4 recent new tyres. Extended warranty until Oct 05, T&T. Lusso Spec, includes dual zone climate, cruise, traction, trip computer, 6 airbags, alloys (unmarked), cd/radio 8 speakers etc etc. GENUINELY immaculate, One obsessional Alfisti owner from new, (never rev'd above 4k until warmed up, always fed on Selenia, Autoglym'd from new, you know the kind of thing!) Reason for sale: GT coupe! email me on philip_alfa147@fsmail.net for more info. Location: Midlands, UK £7300ono (GBP) Ah, its stopped my email address replace the ... in the above email with 147 (what else?) >Alfa Romeo 147 TS Lusso 1.6 3 door, <snip> >£7300ono (GBP) You'll be lucky to get that for *anything* Alfa made in 2001 let alone their smallest base model. A quick glance at eBay(!) shows even at £5700 these don't fly off to new buyers. That value is probably what mine is worth and it has less miles.. Good luck anyway!  SignatureZ Scotland Alfa Romeo 156 2.4JTD Veloce Leather 'Oil' be seeing you.. (Email without 'Alfa' in subject are auto-deleted..sorry!) > >Alfa Romeo 147 TS Lusso 1.6 3 door, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > 'Oil' be seeing you.. > (Email without 'Alfa' in subject are auto-deleted..sorry!) Oh pessimistic doom-mongers! Car has just sold for £7k (my target price) AND it's a personal import (which the buyer knew all about) (not that that should really make any difference, although the motor trade has you believe it does). Keep a car in beautiful condition and it will sell itself, it's just getting the first punter to come and look. That's the 5th very tidy car i've sold privately over the years without having to take the pain of a low trade in value. PhilipS >> >Alfa Romeo 147 TS Lusso 1.6 3 door, >> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >Oh pessimistic doom-mongers! Hardly! These are on Auto Trader at 6995UKP from Garage Forecourts and eBay is a disaster zone for these. >Car has just sold for £7k You've just done a blinder and got more than even the (usually optimistic) Parkers value!! > (my target >price) AND it's a personal import (which the buyer knew all about) (not [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >car i've sold privately over the years without having to take the pain >of a low trade in value. Whatever..but someone has paid over the odds for your car. Does this make me a *doom-monger* or does it just say something about your buyer. As I said before - you've been lucky. SignatureZ Scotland Alfa Romeo 156 2.4JTD Veloce Leather 'Oil' be seeing you.. (Email without 'Alfa' in subject are auto-deleted..sorry!) I wasn't 'aving a go!!! I suppose any car is ultimately worth what someone else is prepared to pay for it! I would say that the buyer was well informed, in that they had this specific model in mind and had looked/investigated others. Alfa 'approved used' ones at that age are generally listed at 7995 - 8995 GBP (there was one (2.0) at 10495!!!). Parkers private sale was 7.1k, what car 7.45k, So against that, 7k is a saving, when you factor in the balance of an extended warranty, a good private sale car with full provenance can be more attractive than one from an independant dealer? I was refreshed that the import issue didn't really come into play, as it was in the back of my mind from the day I bought it. Maybe they are now so common that buyers have lost wariness (and rightly so really, never caused me any problems at all). cheers <snip> >I was refreshed that the import issue didn't really come into play, as >it was in the back of my mind from the day I bought it. Maybe they are >now so common that buyers have lost wariness (and rightly so really, >never caused me any problems at all). There are a couple of potential issues regarding imports: 1/ Is the car to full 'UK specification' including badges? This can actually affect insuring the car if it's not to the exact UK spec. I suspect most importers don't even tell their insurance companies but I've seen some very different-from-UK-spec imports. Having said that, Alfa do plenty of miss-builds too and I've seen a Main Dealer car park full of cheap ones for a company order that all had something VERY weird in their builds. For example full Veloce spec exterior but full Lusso interior without the leather, dashboards from one spec and seat fabrics from another. The sort of weirdness that wasn't on the options list. 2/ Alfa UK have to refer all appropriate *warranty* issues back to the supplying countries Alfa importer (i.e. where the warranty was purchased or original liability lies). This can slow up grey area warranty work authorisation like cam belt failure outside the 3 year standard warranty etc. If you can pass on 1/ and live with 2/ then I don't think there's anything else to genuinely affect an import relative to non-import. Mine's an import and I've not had a problem as a result. It was certainly a LOT cheaper to import an Alfa in 2001 than source new in the UK!! SignatureZ Scotland Alfa Romeo 156 2.4JTD Veloce Leather 'Oil' be seeing you.. (Email without 'Alfa' in subject are auto-deleted..sorry!) > <snip> > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > actually affect insuring the car if it's not to the exact UK spec. I > suspect most importers don't even tell their insurance companies When I got my 156 Veloce in October 2000 the insurance companies didn't even recognise 'Veloce' as an option - I think they were working along the 'SP' options. In the end I think I put it down as a 'Lusso', but there wasn't any difference in the premium between the base model and the Lusso anyway, AFAIR. Halmyre <snip> >When I got my 156 Veloce in October 2000 the insurance companies didn't >even recognise 'Veloce' as an option - I think they were working along >the 'SP' options. In the end I think I put it down as a 'Lusso', but >there wasn't any difference in the premium between the base model and >the Lusso anyway, AFAIR. I've had something similar but it was for a 2.0 JTS the first working day after they were first released in this country! Insurance were going to refuse because they had no record of such a car. When pressed (strongly) they managed to find the exact car in their records - amazing! I can only assume that new entries to their insurance database appear in a different place or sort order to confuse the ordinary tele receptionist. I've had the run-around with mine too though. "Felloe - what's that then?"..er.."lowered suspension..different alloys..etc.etc". You could hear them laugh at the end of the phone to the sound of tills going "kerchink". I just find an insurance company that knows "veloce" and doesn't rip me off! My insurance went down (marginally) without asking this year..yippeee! SignatureZ Scotland Alfa Romeo 156 2.4JTD Veloce Leather 'Oil' be seeing you.. (Email without 'Alfa' in subject are auto-deleted..sorry!) > > >Alfa Romeo 147 TS Lusso 1.6 3 door, > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Oh pessimistic doom-mongers! Car has just sold for £7k Funny how many people reply 'well I just sold it for more or less my asking price' the day after they're told the asking price is too high..... SignatureSteve H 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo' http://www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - MZ ETZ300 VW Golf GL Cabrio - Alfa 75 TS - VW Passat 1.8T 20V SE - COSOC KOTL BoTAFOT #87 - BoTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC # > > >Alfa Romeo 147 TS Lusso 1.6 3 door, > > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > car i've sold privately over the years without having to take the pain > of a low trade in value. Congratulations, that's some going. I wouldn't dream of trading a car in either, they always offer an insultingly low amount, and if you do manage to squeeze some more money out of them the same amount will just be added to the minimum price they were going to let you have the new car for. SignatureI Amuse (I am Hughes.) Judge Nutmeg in #Digi 1998 156 2.0 TS Sport |
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