2000 Tuscan 4.0L 10k miles from new £35k

[NeilPot]

Hi, for those in the know, what’s a view on this car?

2000 Tuscan 4.0L and sub 10k miles. Would you trust the engine being an early build / not documented in the advert if it’s been rebuilt.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202312144...

[ColdoRS]

I recently sold my non-rebuilt Mk1 Tuscan, 32k miles and she was going strong, nothing to suggest a rebuilt would be required BUT, I always kept a £6k or so slush fund aside, just incase.

Punchy price in my opinion but then again, find another with sub 10k miles. Just tell yourself you'll be in it for 40k+, should it go wrong.

[MikeE]

This is a very early car (possibly from the first batch of dealer demo's) as it has the early solid brake disks, square radio surround with door buttons integrated into the window winders by your knees (not a very safe idea, ask me how I know!) and doesn't have the third roof catch that was an emergency recall on the early cars.

If you wanted to buy an early Tuscan and keep it as a fine original example this would be perfect, once you'd junked the spiders and changed back to the original wheels

[Basil Brush]

I wouldn't buy an early car to use, especially one with so few miles. There is a reason the suspension, brakes etc etc were changed on the later cars.

[robsco]

MikeE said:

This is a very early car (possibly from the first batch of dealer demo's) as it has the early solid brake disks, square radio surround with door buttons integrated into the window winders by your knees (not a very safe idea, ask me how I know!) and doesn't have the third roof catch that was an emergency recall on the early cars.

If you wanted to buy an early Tuscan and keep it as a fine original example this would be perfect, once you'd junked the spiders and changed back to the original wheels

Very early car indeed! It also has the mirror adjust switch at the front of the door card, which means any water leaks will kill the switch pack. TVR “solved” this issue by simply moving the mirror adjust switch to the middle of the door card.

At £35k, it needs to be a car in totally immaculate condition, presented to a collector standard or certainly close. From a brief look at the images, I see the dash pod coming away, clear signs of water ingress on the door cards, a split in the driver’s door card, rusty steering wheel bolts… it hardly fills you with confidence.

[43scotty]

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[Basil Brush]

robsco said:

At £35k, it needs to be a car in totally immaculate condition, presented to a collector standard or certainly close. From a brief look at the images, I see the dash pod coming away, clear signs of water ingress on the door cards, a split in the driver’s door card, rusty steering wheel bolts… it hardly fills you with confidence.

I like that they zoomed in on the rusty steering wheel screws, just in case you missed them on the other shots. As you say, if they don't think swapping a couple of pounds worth of allen screws on the car would be worthwhile then it does make you wonder.

[Snaaakeey]

15-20k

Way too many unknowns.

My rule of thumb would be 2002 onwards.

[TR4man]

The driver’s seat bolster has had a bit of a hammering bearing in mind it has done less that 10,000 miles.

If you bought it, would you use it? If so then you are reducing it’s uniqueness and if you did want to drive it, I’d think it would need a good checking over.

[softtop]

I maybe wrong but if it's got the AP on the front callipers then maybe the uprights were not done as a recall as I found out, new callipers with 'TVR' logo replaced the AP ones I had.

[Basil Brush]

softtop said:

I maybe wrong but if it's got the AP on the front callipers then maybe the uprights were not done as a recall as I found out, new callipers with 'TVR' logo replaced the AP ones I had.

It's got the early CP5200 calipers that have both AP and TVR on them and wouldn't/shouldn't have been affected by the upright replacement.