Will do! I'm also glad that I'm not the only one who fell for the Guilia despite my own logical reservations re: quality/reliability!
Alfa Romeo is primarily the new and unknown here in America. It's been twenty years or better since they imported a car (8C excluded). Few people have ever heard the name Alfa Romeo. That's the number one question I've heard for the last two and a half years with my 4C. "Who makes Alpha Romero?" (I intentionally misspelled it as that's how they usually mispronounce it)
Being a first run new car design, it's bound to have issues. That normal and common first any first run, regardless of who built the car. We, the early adopters need to exercise patience and understanding with these new car issues. As AR resolves our issues, they add this new knowledge to their tiny, but growing database.
Given enough of the same issues, they will do two things:
1) Issue a TSB (Technical Service Bulletin) so that the many remaining Giulias can be easily fixed.
2) Add the 'fix' to the assembly line in Cassino so that all new cars avoid this issue.
I know how frustrating it can be though. I own a first run 4C and now a first run Giulia Ti.
People like you who share their experience in the forum help the rest of us as well. We tend to feel like we have the only car with problems and feel like AR is ignoring us. I can tell you that AR is not ignoring us, but it really does seem that way. They are trying to resolve all these problems, but, their lack of communication with us reinforces these negative feelings.