Recent content by LondonViking

Hahahaha yes indeed nothing burned.

I would still argue that anyone caring about their brand and potential damage to such would have got involved one way or the other even more so when they are solely trading that brand.

Completely disagree at least in terms of Brentford. They've done everything both on my A45 and C63 and never one single issue and they've taken my car in straight away without any questions. I've had a turbo change, rear bumper fixed and a lot of other things and never anything negative.

As they are/were operating under the EC name i would presume they would be very interested in not having their name dragged through the mud.

Very surprised hearing of all these things / stories coming out and was wondering if anyone ever contacted the US HQ? If so and they knew about it they should have sorted this out.

Amazing looking and sounding car also contemplating a test drive myself. You didn't fancy keeping the C63 ? How does the rear seats look in the Alfa just that from a pic I saw these looked a little cheap?

I agree and surprised myself to be honest but well things break just annoying and seeing the MIL / EML on is never a thrill

Should be covered under warranty I expect.

MB has confirmed thermostat needs replacing

So have the EML on now so car booked in. I have used an OBD tool and throws up a P0597 code seemingly thermostat issue not sure if anyone could give son advice on this ?

Believe that's the process for the TCU reset and not ECU which I was told in the past.

No aircon isn't no

No issue on that side of things at all.

Not sure this has been covered but strangely the radiator fan in my C63 (W204) now where the weather has turned cold (only in this cold weather) kicks in 1-2 minutes into the drive and then comes off again after 5ish minutes. Seems very good and would be good with some advice / experience on...

Can't you just buy it with that specification (assuming possible) and then flip it to your friend afterwards ?