Alfa Romeo 164 buying guide: what to check
What goes wrong on a used Alfa Romeo 164, year by year: known faults from UK buying guides and what to check before you buy one.
Pick the year
Most years have their own guide. The year is when the car was first registered (it’s on the logbook, or check the reg below).
What usually goes wrong with an Alfa Romeo 164?
We haven’t found widely reported faults for the Alfa Romeo 164 in the UK buying guides we use yet. That doesn’t mean it has none, so check the car carefully.
Looking at an Alfa Romeo 164?
Check the actual car: its own MOT history and what to ask the seller. Free, no sign-up.
Where this comes from: MOT figures are the DVSA’s anonymised results for every MOT test done in Great Britain during 2023–2025, grouped by the year each car was first registered. How many are on the road is from the Department for Transport’s vehicle licensing statistics. Known faults are from UK buying guides, in our own words, with links. How we score