PeterMcC > wrote:

> > Thanks again for your help, you have all been very helpful.
>
> Have you never owned an Alfa before? If not, that's another powerful
> argument to put on the 166's side. And, quite genuinely, though I don't do
> the miles I used to, my current 166 is one of the cheapest cars to maintain
> that I can remember. In the last 24,000 miles my only outside-of-servicing
> expenditure was on a replacement water pump.

Erm, doesn't that mean replacing the cambelts etc, though? - it's hardly
a trivial item, IME.
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