{"id":3408,"date":"2013-11-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8105\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2021-12-05T20:24:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T20:24:03","slug":"got-the-alfa-156-back-after-2-days-in-the-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/?p=3408","title":{"rendered":"Got the Alfa 156 back after 2 days in the workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">Got my <a class=\"ot-hashtag bidi_isolate\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23alfa156\/posts\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/?tag=alfa156\">#alfa156<\/a><\/a> &nbsp;back after 2 days in the workshop. 120,000 miles service and repairs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Engine oil + filter<\/li>\n<li>Tarox front brake pads<\/li>\n<li>ATF Flush<\/li>\n<li>New Radiator (drip drip drip)<\/li>\n<li>Replaced Radiator mounting (whacked by speed bump)<\/li>\n<li>RHF absorber mount (ketok-ketok-ketok)<\/li>\n<li>Water Pump (kreok-kreok-kreok)<\/li>\n<li>LH Drive shaft boot (flap-flap-flap)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in I spent about 10% of the value of the car. I&#8217;m not sure which side of the equation is more worrying &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Took Guthrie Highway back home to cheer myself up.<\/p>\n<p>Redlined a couple of times (thank you fellow itchy-fied merc driver) and engine temps didn&#8217;t even go past 90. Looks like that issue is finally solved. Last few weeks have been driving around with bottles of water in the boot to top up the radiator.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-WSXSXrd2V7w\/Uo4C59rx42I\/AAAAAAAAhPg\/pMND-wZJhng\/w1920-h1248\/2002-Alfa-Romeo-156-Sedan-Image-0https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1248\">Posting a stock photo as it looks in better condition than my car. \ud83d\ude0e<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>This post was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+shahadaabubakar\/posts\/fVaaG89pRyr\">published<\/a> publicly on <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\">Google+<\/a> at 2013-11-21 20:58:23+0800<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got my #alfa156 &nbsp;back after 2 days in the workshop. 120,000 miles service and repairs. Engine oil + filter Tarox front brake pads ATF Flush New Radiator (drip drip drip) Replaced Radiator mounting (whacked&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cars","tag-alfa156"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8153,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/8153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}