brightoncorgi, buy the Alfa 4C.

I'm still madly in love with my 2015 4C Spider.

You will NOT regret it, and prices seem to be rising.....

 

Prices are rising pretty noticeably on the 4C. I thought this season would be it, but other projects around the house took the funds. Well one of which is painting the garage floor in anticipation of another car!

 

Totally understandable!

Good hunting!

 

Just passed 42,000, so I put 37,000 on it in the last 4 years. Crushed my ankle in November and I should have stored it but couldn't drive it, so over the winter my rotors got wasted. They were fine up until that last 2 weeks of constant snow. I drove the rust off of them half on the brakes but the fronts have a hair of shimmy braking hard from 100 so I'm just going to replace it all soon.

 

I DD my db9 volante as well.
however I've noticed if I take a couple short trips back to back to back,, the emissions warning check engjne light CEL comes on.
typically goes away after 10 or so long, harder drives but annoying.
anyone else with this problem?

Also I love the smell of leather but this is disappearing as I drive the car more. How often do those that DD freshen their leather?

 

Griots makes a cleaner conditioner that puts the new car leather back.

My problem is every single piece of the dash has shrink and popped except the airbag cover, the piece to the right, and the piece far left. It's useless to replace with the same as it'll just do it again. A few trips to the beach or the golf course when it's 90 out and there is no stopping it. What is the solution?

 

3 times a year with Griot's Leather Cleaner/Conditioner. That's what my local AML dealer uses; so why not? I daily the Rapide for about 4-5K miles year round.

 

Move to England where 90 is unheard of and there is no sunshine?

It does seem like British cars are made for English weather and not much else.

 

There was a thread about swapping those two panels out with alcantara and it looked really good. Might be worth a revisit!

 

Vcollection does trade your old one for new alcantara one

 

It's not just the upper panels, it's also the binnacle, the piece to the right of the binnacle, the center console tips, the only pieces that haven't are airbag and far left and right with vents. And what hasn't popped [for those that remember the story] was covered in overspray from sitting in the shop a couple months having a new engine installed.

 

That is the way the GT Vantage came, no leather just alcantara everywhere no?

 

I thought that same thing and recalled seeing this recently and noticing the alcantara in a DBS...

 

Depended on how it was ordered. You could specify Alcantara with leather surrounds for the seats or all leather, Alcantara or leather steering wheel. I believe the instrument binacle is Alcantara except on the Volante it is leather. Dash, doors etc. still leather.

The only ones I have seen with "Alcantara everywhere" are on the base new Vantage, leather is extra.

 

I have had mine for a month and drive it almost daily and plant to pending the weather. Weather in my area changes to winter around Thanksgiving. I will put the car up until April or so.