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Alfa Romeo Owners Club MiTo Register Newsletter February 2019 Issue 11 MiTo Service Race MiTo K&N Air Filters MiTo Alarm Schedule Build Progress Full Guide Update Our 200,000 mile, 20 Progress update for Choosing and fitting Remove the beeps year service guide to our Alfa Championship K&N air filters for better when you lock and maintain your MiTo MiTo race car for the filtration, performance unlock your car with for the next decade 2019 season and longevity your remote 2019 Events Show off your MiTo at an event this year Alfa Championship (23/24 Mar) Spring Alfa Day Brands Hatch Circuit, Longfield, West Kingsdown, Longfield DA3 8NG National Motor Museum, Beaulieu SO42 7ZN The kick-off race event of the Alfa Romeo Championship is on the The Alfa Romeo Owners Club’s first big event of the year, Spring Alfa 23 weekend of 23/24 March at Brands Hatch. Find us in the paddocks Day will be returning to the impressive National Motor Museum at 14 and meet the team and see the MiTo. Beaulieu in Hampshire. MARCH APRIL Auto Italia Italian Car Day South West Alfa Day Brooklands Museum, Weybridge KT13 0QN Mapperton House & Gardens, Mapperton, Beaminster DT8 3NR One of the UK’s biggest and best Italian car gatherings. See and hear The Alfa Romeo Owners Club’s South West gathering, this year at the 4 Italian cars being demonstrated on the circuit, at the adjacent Mer- fabulous Mapperton House and Gardens in the heart of Dorset, 19 MAY cedes-Benz World and the demanding Test Hill. between Dorchester and Yeovil. MAY Scottish Italian Car Day Cotswold Alfa Day Hopetoun House, South Queensferry, Edinburgh EH30 9SL Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Compton Verney CV35 9HZ The Alfa Romeo Owners Club’s Scottish Section return again with the The Alfa Romeo Owners Club’s Cotswold Section again host the 26 Scottish Italian Car Day at the wonderful Hopetoun House, a 17th Cotswold Alfa Day, this year at Compon Verney Art Gallery and Park, 16 MAY Century stately home and grounds. a stunning 120 acres of parkland and lake. JUNE National Alfa Day MiTo Curborough Track Day Bicester Heritage, A4421, Launton, Bicester OX26 5HA Netherstowe Lane, Lichfield WS13 8EJ The Alfa Romeo Owners Club’s biggest event is this year at Bicester Independence Day: Curborough Resurgence will be the 2019 gather- 30 Heritage, a campus dedicated to historic motoring and housing the ing of the MiTo Register at Curborough Sprint Course, partially re- 4 UK’s best preserved WW2 RAF bomber station. living our 10th Anniversary event with MiTo trackday fun. JUNE JULY Festival Italia NEC Classic Car Show Brands Hatch Circuit, West Kingsdown, Longfield DA3 8NG T NEC, Birmingham B40 1NT Festival Italia returns to Brands Hatch with a wealth of Italian cars on The Alfa Romeo Owners Club return with a stand at the UK’s premier 18 and off the track, including races and demonstrations and of course classic car show at the NEC, filling the equivalent of over 18 football 8 AUGUST the Alfa Championship racing. pitches with classic cars, the Discover Stage and autojumble. NOV The Alfa Romeo Owners Club UK is the only official owners club for Alfa Romeo in the UK, providing six fantastic magazines a year, our own parts service, an enormous list of discounts to members and of course the biggest and best Alfa Romeo and Italian car events in the UK. Join us now at AROC-UK.COM and enjoy full membership from today! 02 Welcome Issue 11 February 2019 New Look Newsletter The Alfa Romeo Owners Club UK MiTo Register mitoregister.com MiTo Registrar David Faithful [email protected] Visit mitoregister.com for owners’ manuals, useful guides including servic- ing and basic maintenance, guides for servicing routines, oil and batteries for your MiTo along with our newsletters and photo galleries updated regularly. To find your nearest Alfa Romeo spe- cialist or dealer for servicing or repair, visit alfamap.co.uk a dedicated service from the Alfa Romeo Owners Club UK. Alfa Romeo Owners Club UK aroc-uk.com In the last Newsletter, I warned This edition also includes details Established in 1964, the Alfa you that this February edition for silencing the traditional ‘Alfa Romeo Owners Club UK is the would be considerably smaller. I beeps’ when you lock and unlock only official owners club for owners and lovers of Alfa Romeo. based that on the fact that there your MiTo, a how-to guide to are no exciting events to report on change your cabin/pollen filter Benefits of membership of the Alfa over Christmas and the previous (with thanks to Tony Gould for Romeo Owners Club include 6 bi- edition contained a big article on a sharing his pictures), a breakdown monthly magazines and a variety of full cambelt service. of the different K&N air filters for discount schemes including Alfa Romeo As it turns out, this edition is the MiTo as well as useful infor- dealers, Pirelli tyre cashback, AROC’s actually quite chunky, to the extent mation on MiTo OEM mats. own Parts Service and discounts at Halfords, Shop4Parts, Partsworld, Al- that I actually had to cut a few arti- Less useful but hopefully still of fashop, Bluespark, National Tyres and cles that weren’t quite finished. interest are a few articles on the Autocare, Maxton Design, The Wheel You may have also spotted that I Royal Portbury Docks (where your Specialist, Chipex and many others. used some of the Christmas down- MiTo first landed in the UK) and an time to review and refresh the look update on our racecar build for the Club Manager Nick Wright of our Newsletter. Not that the 2019 Alfa Championship which gets [email protected] previous layout was too horrific on closer every day! Copyright © 2019 Alfa Romeo Owners the eye, but we had that format for But I really want to thank the Club UK / MiTo Register. All rights re- a few years (and ten newsletters) team at Alfashop who have provid- served. This publication or any part so I thought it justified a small ed a unique 10% discount offer for thereof may not be reproduced. change. MiTo owners, valid until the end of But this newsletter is not March, so even if you’re not a Please note that neither AROC Ltd, its wanting for exciting content. Well, member of the Alfa Romeo Owners directors, committee or any Club offic- exciting to a MiTo fan anway. Club, you can still benefit from 10% ers accept responsibility for, verify or I finally completed our 200,000 off everything for your MiTo in the endorse information, opinions, advice mile, 20-year service schedule for online shop at Alfashop.co.uk. or advertisements published without prejudice, contained in this newsletter. the MiTo which will hopefully be useful as a single source of guid- ance as our MiTos grow older and our mileage increases. 03 Photographic Memories 2018 | Spring Alfa Day | Duxford 04 Photographic Memories 2018 | Spring Alfa Day | Duxford 05 MiTo Accessories in Japan After-market style, but OEM I recently came across a Mi- there is a rather inventive roof To Accessories brochure for the aerial which can be folded to Japanese market. Nothing spe- different angles, along with tai- cial about that - all markets lored car covers for outdoor and have pretty much the same indoor use. MOPAR Accessories options One of my favourite offerings ranging from different light are the tiny screw covers for the surround and mirror colours, number plate fixings with an Alfa spoilers and stickers along with Romeo logo, though 6,480 Japa- luggage netting and roof racks nese Yen (roughly £45) for a for those of you who do moun- pack, I’m not sure even I would tain biking or skiing. invest in them. But probably But for some reason I’d nev- would. er seen the Japanese version We often see posts on our before, despite the MiTo being social media for innovative meth- hugely popular in Japan and ods of installing Xenon headlights sharing our right-hand drive to our MiTos that are equipped format. And it was quite an eye with halogen lights. Well in Ja- -opener! pan, you could order a 6600K Firstly, all the standard op- conversion kit complete with tions that we know and love controllers and a bespoke har- are there: front spoiler and side ness to perfectly fit the MiTo for skirts, rear spoilers and diffus- a little over 97,000 Yen (£685). er. The wheels are the same as Not only that, you could order most of Europe, though there is LED foglights for 48,600 Yen an interesting little twist of be- (£340). ing able to order wheels com- Once inside the car, the op- plete with Pirelli tyres, all bal- tions are even more wide and anced as a set. And mirror co- varied, and have a real after- vers are available in chrome, market feel to them. Though the satin or titanium just like over prices are not quite what you here, but with the addition of might expect for after-market! matt black - never available The “Console Leather Kit” here as far as I can remember. shown on the next page includes Sticking with the outside, red-stitched leather gear and handbrake gaitors and a red gearknob available for 30,240 Yen (£213 in today’s money). There are also some rather nice leather covers for the interior door pulls (quite common as after-market accessories in Eu- rope) available with grey or red stitching at about £90 a pair.