It's the kind of solutions that make us mad, but at the end of the day make us like the Italian models even more. It makes sense? Only for those who really like cars.
In the past, anyone did maintenance on their car – if it was an Italian car, maybe even too often… Today it's not like that. He tries to change a light bulb in some recent models and then he comes to talk to me (I have a Mégane II and I know what I'm talking about).RELATED: The pleasure of cars is in the small rituals
In this championship of the «complication automobile» the Italian brands tend to beat the other brands with the «points» – less and less, but they continue to win. But to show that, for both good and bad, tradition is still what it used to be, refueling the Alfa Romeo 4C's windscreen wipers is a real headache. A very simple task in the overwhelming majority of cars, but a real puzzle in this Italian supercar «on the scale» of 1/2.
The procedures are varied and we doubt that anyone can do it without resorting to the instruction manual. It takes time, patience and even a series of tools. No wonder there is a video explaining the entire procedure:
It is complicated? IT'S. Still, it's a problem any of us would like to have. Leaving work, getting in the car and exclaiming something like: “Hey, hell, my Alfa Romeo 4C is out of window-cleaner fluid, I really have to fill this up today! I'll call Sara Sampaio to say I'll be late”.