Did your car behave?
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mostly OK, found i was loosing water coming down the M6 on wednesday, so a dose of radweld and a top up cured it. the high ambient temps caused a few cooling worries, mostly when stationary at the paege but the return journey passed without incident as the air temperature dropped. so will probably need to have the radiator recored at next opportunity. not bad for a 57 year old car! arrived home lunch time tuesday.
My car ran faultlessley, and the two best quotes came from a Griff driver...
Following me in the pouring rain on the Wednesday AM drive down "I have to keep well back because of the amount of spray and massive wake it causes, it's like following a fast truck"
On the drive home in the heat of Monday AM "I have to keep well back because when it kicks down I get covered in parafin"
Excuses, excuses
I reckon the big old boy done well being the very odd one out amongst all those Tivvers.
Following me in the pouring rain on the Wednesday AM drive down "I have to keep well back because of the amount of spray and massive wake it causes, it's like following a fast truck"
On the drive home in the heat of Monday AM "I have to keep well back because when it kicks down I get covered in parafin"
Excuses, excuses
I reckon the big old boy done well being the very odd one out amongst all those Tivvers.
4L P reg Chim ran sweet and true all the way there and all the way back, two up and well loaded. Hardly used any oil. Learned the lessons about jams on the way down and went home via Dreux and detoured Rouen. Sustained high speeds north of Rouen caused temps to stay in high 90's - water/methanol injection helped in 4th and 5th when pulling hard. Did Lancashire via CT and Ely in one belt at a rather high average speed, which I am not going to admit to in print. Splendid long weekend!!!
Jeff
Jeff
My TVR ran perfectly for the whole trip, from Newcastle to Lancaster to pick up my bro (fatspud), then down to Dover, Dunkirque to Le Mans and back. Didn't miss a beat for the full 1,700 miles (including navigational errors!).
Even the stickers stayed on despite the heat.
Great to see everybody on the Friday at Arnarge
Even the stickers stayed on despite the heat.
Great to see everybody on the Friday at Arnarge
Boring I know but here goes. My 96 Cerbera gave no problems at all, even enduring the delights of La Peripherique on the return journey. She's made the journey 5 times now, and the only problem a couple of years ago would not have been a problem if I'd simply bled the clutch after allowing a cool down!
The old cerbies are notoriously unreliable!
The old cerbies are notoriously unreliable!
Absolute disaster for me! The ciggie lighter came out of the door! 
Other than that I used a litre of oil wandering round Arnage on Friday and developed slightly lumpy steering in extremely high temperatures. Oh and coolant header tank level dropped by maybe 3 inches over the whole 900+ miles.
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y unreliable TVRs eh? 
Performance seemed rather poor... until I dropped off my Dad and his stuff on Monday night.
Mind you, I think the manifolds are blowing a little more than they were now.
Other than that I used a litre of oil wandering round Arnage on Friday and developed slightly lumpy steering in extremely high temperatures. Oh and coolant header tank level dropped by maybe 3 inches over the whole 900+ miles.
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y unreliable TVRs eh? Performance seemed rather poor... until I dropped off my Dad and his stuff on Monday night.
Mind you, I think the manifolds are blowing a little more than they were now.
My little old Pug behaved really well, apart from the heat making the leccy windows a bit tempremental – wouldn't go back up again when we arrived in Rouen for the overnight stay on Sunday, so had to leave it in an underground car park with anything valuable taken out, hoping it wouldn't get noticed (unlikely though, as it was on UK plates with orange viper stripes and a huge www.n138.net decal in the rear screen!) Thankfully they kicked back in after it'd cooled down for a bit.
The only other drama being the coolant level light coming on – when we pulled over to top it up I discovered I had left the cap off the tank when checking it before leaving Blighty! Duh...
>> Edited by the fury on Friday 24th June 17:11
The only other drama being the coolant level light coming on – when we pulled over to top it up I discovered I had left the cap off the tank when checking it before leaving Blighty! Duh...
>> Edited by the fury on Friday 24th June 17:11
out of the TVR lot I was with, the only porsche on the trip (was waiting for his two AMV8s 
) got a puncture on the friday morning, real shame being pretty much the first car to have problems, even with Porsche he couldn't get a tyre before this week, so ended up going home on the space saver.
the slightly more expected and annoying problem was the TVR S1 in the group kept having fuel pump issues on the way back from the track, we stopped a number of times to push the car off the road to cool down. then managed to get some help from the Yamaha dealership trying to explain you need to solder a relay to a guy that doesn't speak english - top french chaps.
class weekend, just need a car that makes it to the start line next year!
) got a puncture on the friday morning, real shame being pretty much the first car to have problems, even with Porsche he couldn't get a tyre before this week, so ended up going home on the space saver. the slightly more expected and annoying problem was the TVR S1 in the group kept having fuel pump issues on the way back from the track, we stopped a number of times to push the car off the road to cool down. then managed to get some help from the Yamaha dealership trying to explain you need to solder a relay to a guy that doesn't speak english - top french chaps.
class weekend, just need a car that makes it to the start line next year!
N17 TVR said:
Jeff, we took a similar route via Dreux & Les Andalays - brilliant drive.
sssh, don't tell everyone... we've always turned off the main road at nonchant-le-pin to avoid the worst jams but usually get back on for rouen
this time we took the les andalays route and apart from the french having an inability to signpost all but the major roads it was hassle free... fun too with lots of sights ranging from the nourry porsche garage to the chateau de gaille (sp) which was attacked by the germans!
as for the cars, on the face of it considering what our mini-convoy consisted of i think we got out ok (i mean, the temperature guages didn't budge in the rouen jams on thursday) but in reality we had quite a few probs!!!
MG Midget - speedo broke on the M25 and coasted into Dover on fumes... ran out of fuel at Le Mans but thats about it, the real star of the show is...
MG B GT - Dash lighting went on thursday/friday,
overdrive was temperamental...
we lost the brake lights on saturday night and were trying to fix them at 4am in mulsanne...
washers packed up on the way home
at one stage the car wouldn't go above 70mph for about 2 days then suddenly started working fine...
and due to a slight mis-calculation the MoT ran out on monday and we didn't get in 'til late tuesday!!!
No major problems except buying a Tuscan with no air-con in the first place 
In typical TVR fashion, all the glue holding the vinyl on the change-up light part of the pod melted in the heat and dripped into the top of the main pod. Looked like a huge puddle of snot aftewards
Also had intermittent problems with the speedo cutting out. Ah well, off to TVR Power for a service v.soon...
Apart from that, ran perfectly
In typical TVR fashion, all the glue holding the vinyl on the change-up light part of the pod melted in the heat and dripped into the top of the main pod. Looked like a huge puddle of snot aftewards
Also had intermittent problems with the speedo cutting out. Ah well, off to TVR Power for a service v.soon... Apart from that, ran perfectly
ian d said:
mostly OK, found i was loosing water coming down the M6 on wednesday, so a dose of radweld and a top up cured it. the high ambient temps caused a few cooling worries, mostly when stationary at the paege but the return journey passed without incident as the air temperature dropped. so will probably need to have the radiator recored at next opportunity. not bad for a 57 year old car! arrived home lunch time tuesday.
Nice to meet you Ian and glad you made it back OK....
///M-POWER said:
No probs, but I think I spotted you on the way home. Were you parked under a bridge on the M,way? red Aston V8
If so, our convoy shoed it passed you! M3 (silver cab with viper stripes v'noisey), 996 (blue with viper stripes), red 355, blue turbo.
You looked mighty pissed off!!!
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