The Giulia and Stelvio brought Alfa Romeo back to the U.S. market with sharp handling and a defect record to match. Since the 2017 relaunch, Alfa Romeo has sat at or near the bottom of major reliability surveys, and the complaint pattern behind that ranking is remarkably consistent. The full record is on our Alfa Romeo problems and recalls hub.
Owners report electrical gremlins above all: phantom warning lights, cars dropping into limp mode without warning, infotainment reboots, and sensors that fail and re-fail after replacement. The 2.0-liter turbo four has generated complaints about stalling and check-engine events, and early build quality produced a steady stream of trim, latch, and software campaigns. Individually these issues sound small; together they produce exactly the repair history — multiple visits, the same complaint, no lasting fix — that lemon law statutes are written around.
Alfa Romeo’s warranty is four years or 50,000 miles. A limp-mode event is a safety complaint, not an inconvenience: insist the symptom is recorded in your words on every repair order, and keep the paperwork even when the dealer finds no fault.
If your Alfa Romeo has been in the shop repeatedly for the same warranty problem, or has spent weeks out of service, you may have a lemon law claim. Get a free case review — it costs nothing unless we recover for you.