Alfa 159 TDI ?

[Broken Cambelt]

I recently posted a thread about modifiying my fiesta with an enginge swap and uprated suspension , this would cost a few grand to change all of the parts that i would need to make it work ( brakes, suspension, gearbox ect),

however today i found an almost new alfa romeo 159 2.4 l TDI for sale at under five grand (a little more than my modification buget, but not unaffordable) stats said 50 + MPG, and 0-60 in eight seconds,

what is the general opinion on this car?, and what is its tuning potential in the future? i love the style of alphas but am a little worried about the stories of unreliability, is it as bad as all that? and the main question ,buy this, or modify mine?

any feedback would be greatly aprecciated

 

[obi_waynne]

If it's looked after you shouldn't have a problem with it. There is not a lot of potential as Alfa squeeze out the max they can from the engines. It has a lovely chassis though and I'm sure that with a remap you can see another 20-40% power!

 

[Broken Cambelt]

sounds like a good deal, a good handling chassis does matter more to me than flat out speed anyway, the ad said full history, so ill look into that before i commit to buying, 40% more power from a remap sounds amazing, though ive never owned a diesel before, so id probably leave that to a tuning company.

thanks for correcting the spelling of the thread title BTW.