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  • Stellantis introduces STRA Medium

    Link to press release: Core statements: Quotation: As a platform designed for battery-electric vehicles, STRA Medium achieves an electrical range of more than 700 kilometres in the performance package, while the standard package allows for more than 500 kilometres of range (according to WLTP test procedures). With a useful energy of up to 98 kilowatt hours (kWh), STRA Medium is unsurpassed in its class in terms of embedded power, i.e. the power transferred to the wheels. An electrical architecture based on a 400 volt battery with unsurpassed energy efficiency, charging time and connectivity in this class is a charging and service ecosystem that makes every journey a pleasure. Depending on the type of use, the consumption can be less than 14 kWh per 100 kilometres – an unsurpassed energy efficiency in this class. The battery can be charged from 20% to 80% in just 27 minutes. This corresponds to 2.4 kWh per minute.

  • DS 7 2023 Parkpilot?

    Hi! It’s about the new “big” 7. I’ve been configuring and I noticed that the typical button for automatic parking – which should actually be at the selector lever – is not displayed. Can it be that the new one really doesn’t have the park pilot but the old one already? That would really make no sense for me. The price list etc is unfortunately connected to a 503 error on the DS page. Vl has an info here. Thank you!

  • Alfa + A.T.U = comedy

    Hello, for some time now, when passing through the clutch (156 1.8 TS 1998) a squeaky sound can be heard from the engine compartment (definitely NOT from the pedals), according to information from this forum I know of a few people who had the same problem that the clutch spring needs a bit of oil and is good. Since I don’t have an Alfa workshop nearby & at the moment wg Job & Evening School has no time to drive to one, I thought:”Let’s go to A.T.U, if that’s something lap I said, “My clutch spring squeaks and needs oil.” Young type a.d.Sacht: “Is there no, they certainly mean clutch rope or clutch pull!” I said, “False. My clutch spring needs oil.” He said, “Which car?” I said, “Alfa 156” He (turns his eyes) said, “I’ll get the master.” After 8 (!) min. the master comes and asks, what is the matter? I say: “My clutch squeaks as you step through, from experience I know that only the clutch spring needs a bit of oil.” Meister sacht: “Hamse thought!We once had an Alfa here, because of the noise (}hasn’t even heard it…{) remove the complete gearbox+coupling…” I say: “Yes, it’s clear, before I have the complete gearbox removed by you, I prefer to drive through the area with a squeaking clutch.” cht, or really no idea of what they are zapping and can only screw around at IIer Golf’s and Daihatsus (no insult to the drivers of such cars!)??? Greeting….

  • Registration figures Alfa-Fiat

    Approvals in November 2005 Alfa 147: 767 Alfa 156: 114 Alfa 159: 141 Alfa 166: 15 Fiat Panda: 986 Fiat Punto : 2016 Fiat Croma: 148 (source: KBA) pieces by the Lancia numbers, not to mention. What worries me about the whole numbers is that the new models are not selling so well. The only 141 pieces sold from 159 are really not good. But the car should be the “saving anchor” for Alfa. If the Zaheln are not I see better for Fiat car black. Greetings Schlenzo

  • Defects / repairs Alfa 159

    HI, wanted to ask the first 159 owners if you already have repairs or defects to register. Also things you don’t like so much you can write, if there are at all. Would be nice if you could add KM-Stand and motorization. I know 3 wishes at once. But first thank you in advance. By the way, our Alfa 146 would have almost caught it. My mother, rides at approx. speed 70 on the country road as you a deer with full force in the driver’s door l Thank God she didn’t evade (was avenue). She meant that there was a murderous blow, to our surprise there wasn’t a dent fableable, I think but he will have some scratches already. Puhh lucky. Unfortunately, the poor deer will certainly have headaches. Greetings

  • AR156 – Motor temperature only 50degrees

    Moin together, first of all a happy new one afterwards. Me or my Alfa has caught it (unfortunately) again, my engine temperature does not climb over 50-55 degrees (before that around the 70-75 degrees in normal operation and the heater does not really warm me up either. I mean to have read older posts before, but did not find them quickly. Can you help me again on the jumps. What can it be, what should be done, how expensive for example? Greetz M.

  • Freestanding heating AR 166

    Moin, moin, Bin for the first time changed from the good old Rüsselsheimer to Italy and can only swarm over my “Bella” 2.4 JTD 166 (Ed.-Cl.). Fine car. I have torn down the first 55 Tkm already in plenty of a year – without bitches but in winter it just gets sluggishly warm in the city at minus 10 degrees. Despite the factory built-in additional heating. I therefore think about having a stand-up heating at the moment, since it is already very sensitively cool in the morning ird and i have had enough of the annoying scratching and the opened windows. Please pass on with your experiences and maybe also some price hints so that i am not too much over the table – when acting. mercie ana 166

  • Damage after passing through wash road

    After a few days I drove with my new A5 into the wash road. When I drove out and wanted to suck the car, I noticed the shearing. The whole right side with scratches and streaks. At the wheel box even at one place of the paint has burst off. I then approached an employee of the wash road. …….this said that the boss would come later. Then I was e Then I went back and talked to the boss. He looked at the damage and said nothing about it. I then asked: What now? Yes, said the boss, I can’t help. I asked: How please? This boss said and now the conversation is over. He added: and if they go to the lawyer, then the employee over there can testify that the damage was already there before! …….what a cheek!!! Now I stay on the desta I have talked to some people: …..no chance. What do you say about this?

  • Follow-up damage caused by powder extinguishers

    Hello together! I am currently interested in a vehicle (VW T4 BJ2000) where the owner has fought a small cable fire with an old powder extinguisher. He once kept neatly in the engine compartment, and once in the interior on it. The damage by the glimmering cable is negligible. But what about the powder? This hangs still cheerfully everywhere and causes rust on all unprotected parts. What I can see about damage is not beautiful but not dramatized further. but: What does the stuff do in the hidden? In the conserved cavities? On chromatized / galvanized parts? And above all: What does it do in the long term with the electrics? The damage is about 3 months ago, the powder has only been wiped away, so hangs still everywhere. Clean as well as possible (does one have a tip? The stuff is stone hard…), then preserve with fluid film or similar? Or package: Finger way, the car gammelt faster than I can sweep it up? V Thanks for your help! Dangerous_Half-Knowledge. PS: In various workshops and 2 TÜVs nobody could/wanted to make an assessment. A damage report is not possible for financial reasons.

  • Folage – who has experience with it?

    Hello! Since my ordered Golf 8 GTE with full equipment is a significant value next spring, I’m considering whether it makes sense to have it foiled. Who has had experience with it – regardless of the vehicle model? • What does a foling cost? • How much does the foil protect against rockfalls and scratches? • How do you use a foiled car? Wash normally? With or without wax? No problem in the washing machine? • Can the foil be removed easily, w If you want to sell the car? • Is the original paint like new, or does it suffer from the foliation? • With my matt-painted motorcycle you can see stripes when you drive over it with your fingernail, for example. Is that also the case with the car being tortured? A lot of questions, I know, but that’s probably the questions everyone is asking themselves about a foliation. Thank you for every answer, Greeting Hans