Farewell to my Giulia ❤️
Farewell to my 2019 Giulia - 28k to 81k miles
It is honestly with a heavy heart that I have to say I’ve sold my Giulia.
I bought my 2019 Giulia with about 28,000 miles on the clock, and when I handed over the keys, she had just over 81,000 miles. That’s more than 50,000 miles of ownership, and despite everything you hear online about Alfa Romeo reliability, my experience was overwhelmingly positive.
For anyone wondering what actually went wrong during that time, the list is surprisingly short.
I had a coolant leak from the known bleeder screw issue. At one point I also had what looked like a Christmas tree on my dashboard, but that ended up simply being the car telling me it needed a new battery. The car would also occasionally go into limp mode, which I eventually traced back to a faulty hood-close sensor. I fixed that myself, and it really wasn’t a big deal.
And yes, because it’s an Alfa, there were occasionally some little electrical gremlins — a light flickering here and there, random minor quirks — but they were rare and never anything that seriously affected my ownership experience.
That’s basically it.
After taking a 2019 2.0T Giulia from 28k to 81k miles, I walked away genuinely convinced that the 2.0T Giulia is a much more reliable car than its reputation would have people believe. Mine certainly was.
Ultimately, I didn’t sell it because I stopped loving it or because it became unreliable. I was simply ready to move into a six-cylinder turbocharged car, and because of the climate where I live, AWD was something I really wanted. As everyone here knows, unfortunately Alfa never gave us an AWD Quadrifoglio.
So I ended up moving into a six-cylinder, all-wheel-drive car that is absolutely lightning quick.
But that really isn’t the point of this post.
The point is to say thank you to this car and to this community.
My Giulia got me through a lot. There’s something genuinely special about these cars that is difficult to explain to somebody who has never owned one. The steering, the way the chassis moves, the personality, the design, and just the feeling you get looking back at it after parking — Alfa did something special with the Giulia.
I’m genuinely saddened that I won’t be driving an Alfa anymore. My ownership experience was nothing short of amazing, and I’ll always have a soft spot for this brand and for the Giulia in particular.
And to everyone in this community who answered questions, shared advice, helped troubleshoot the occasional Alfa weirdness, or just shared the same obsession with these cars .thank you.
Maybe one day I’ll find my way back into an Alfa.
Until then, farewell to the car that gave me 53,000 miles of memories and almost no real problems. 🇮🇹❤️