Wheeler Dealers TVR S2 on Quest at 7pm

Wheeler Dealers TVR S2 on Quest at 7pm

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phillpot

17,148 posts

185 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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think mine has the "ice detector"..... car does a 180 degree pirouette, and the seat suddenly feels strangely warm biggrin

glenrobbo

35,455 posts

152 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Mike, you need sticky tyres, not a sticky seat. wink

v8s4me

7,247 posts

221 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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I had heated seats. No of course they didn't work laugh

Deeman

1,609 posts

184 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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phillpot said:
think mine has the "ice detector"..... car does a 180 degree pirouette, and the seat suddenly feels strangely warm biggrin
laughlaughlaugh

Oldred_V8S

3,716 posts

240 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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Watched it again last night, though I was starting to get a bit peed off with all the constant jibes about poor reliability. I hardly see that a leaking radiator and a rusted servo amounts to poor reliability. The items Ed sorted would be considered as consumables on any other car they had worked on, but the impression they gave was that poor reliability was the root cause.

Kitchski

6,516 posts

233 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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Oldred_V8S said:
Watched it again last night, though I was starting to get a bit peed off with all the constant jibes about poor reliability. I hardly see that a leaking radiator and a rusted servo amounts to poor reliability. The items Ed sorted would be considered as consumables on any other car they had worked on, but the impression they gave was that poor reliability was the root cause.
Whoa! Are you licenced to use common sense in public Paul? I thought you had to earn a badge first or something hehe

Oldred_V8S

3,716 posts

240 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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Kitchski said:
Oldred_V8S said:
Watched it again last night, though I was starting to get a bit peed off with all the constant jibes about poor reliability. I hardly see that a leaking radiator and a rusted servo amounts to poor reliability. The items Ed sorted would be considered as consumables on any other car they had worked on, but the impression they gave was that poor reliability was the root cause.
Whoa! Are you licenced to use common sense in public Paul? I thought you had to earn a badge first or something hehe
Sorry Rich, I have been practicing common sense and felt I was ready to try it out in a public forum.

Kitchski

6,516 posts

233 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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Oldred_V8S said:
Kitchski said:
Oldred_V8S said:
Watched it again last night, though I was starting to get a bit peed off with all the constant jibes about poor reliability. I hardly see that a leaking radiator and a rusted servo amounts to poor reliability. The items Ed sorted would be considered as consumables on any other car they had worked on, but the impression they gave was that poor reliability was the root cause.
Whoa! Are you licenced to use common sense in public Paul? I thought you had to earn a badge first or something hehe
Sorry Rich, I have been practicing common sense and felt I was ready to try it out in a public forum.
Careful, you could have somebodies eye out!

Alan Whitaker

2,054 posts

184 months

Thursday 17th March 2016
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Hi All.
Did you see when he was testing the front suspension and ball joints? You could see they had already changed the discs and callipers, you would have thought they would have done that the same time, why put the wheel back on only to take it off again.
Must have been a good car to start with as all they did is what you would expect from any car that year, electrics only a couple of things, not bad for a old TVR.

Alan

glenrobbo

35,455 posts

152 months

Friday 18th March 2016
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The new discs were supposedly supplied as spares with the car, so were not included in the spend. They probably put the wheels back in to free up the ramp between filming takes, so that Paul could continue using his garage to earn a crust.

But where is that S2 now???

arhTVR

226 posts

127 months

Saturday 19th March 2016
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Just in case anybody doesn't do the streaming thing, I have these episodes on DVD if you want to borrow a copy smile It also has the Cerbera body off episode as well yikes
But we still don't know where the car is!
Tony

TVRees

1,080 posts

114 months

Saturday 19th March 2016
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I checked on the DVLA and the reg. number G918 KDA could not be found frown

chris watton

22,477 posts

262 months

Saturday 19th March 2016
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TVRees said:
I checked on the DVLA and the reg. number G918 KDA could not be found frown
It may be on a private plate.

Roy C

4,187 posts

286 months

Saturday 19th March 2016
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TVRees said:
I checked on the DVLA and the reg. number G918 KDA could not be found frown
It's on SORN.

You need to know the exact "Vehicle make" text to search the DVLA Vehicle enquiry.

G918 KDA Vehicle details
Vehicle make: T V R 2.9 S
Date of first registration: 01 August 1989
Year of manufacture: 1989
Cylinder capacity (cc): 2933cc
Vehicle status: SORN in place
Vehicle colour: BLUE

ianwayne

6,330 posts

270 months

Saturday 19th March 2016
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It had no MoT from Dec 2012 until June 2014.

Then it was passed with advisories:

Nearside Front suspension has slight play in a upper suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
Offside Front suspension has slight play in a upper suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)

Passed MoT in May 2015 with advisory of an oil leak. Expires 04/06/2016.