new griff owner..
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Hello,
Just thought I'd share my first few days of being the new owner of a 98 Griff 500.
On Saturday I picked up the Griff. I currently live and work in Vienna and I've been looking forward to the drive back. The Griff managed the UK stretch of the journey well, just very slowly in the torrential rain. Midday Sunday in France just out of Calais I discovered an interesting "feature" with my new car. When the fuel gauge is half way between empty and a quarter empty, it really is empty!! My second discovery is that not all the orange SOS boxes on the motorway work. In fact, out of a sample space of one, they are all faulty!!
I started getting a little stressed as I had an evening reservation for myself and car on the overnight car train from Düsseldorf to Vienna. The guy who answered the insurance recovery hotline gave me the number of the French Motorway recovery police and after a 15 min conversation with them I was able to tell them where I was and that there really is a car marquee called "TVR". 45 min later along came the rescue guy who sold me a very expensive 10 litres of fuel.
After this all was ok, I filled the trunk full of lovely Belgium beer and made the train with 30 min spare. Now the car is safely in Vienna and I'm at work
I am very impressed and a little surprised, but after two days and two nights of being left in the rain there was not one drop of water inside.
Oh, and the car is AWESOME, very fast and what a noise!! I can't wait for this non stop rain to finish so I can actually drive it properly.
Cheers
Anthony
Just thought I'd share my first few days of being the new owner of a 98 Griff 500.
On Saturday I picked up the Griff. I currently live and work in Vienna and I've been looking forward to the drive back. The Griff managed the UK stretch of the journey well, just very slowly in the torrential rain. Midday Sunday in France just out of Calais I discovered an interesting "feature" with my new car. When the fuel gauge is half way between empty and a quarter empty, it really is empty!! My second discovery is that not all the orange SOS boxes on the motorway work. In fact, out of a sample space of one, they are all faulty!!
I started getting a little stressed as I had an evening reservation for myself and car on the overnight car train from Düsseldorf to Vienna. The guy who answered the insurance recovery hotline gave me the number of the French Motorway recovery police and after a 15 min conversation with them I was able to tell them where I was and that there really is a car marquee called "TVR". 45 min later along came the rescue guy who sold me a very expensive 10 litres of fuel.
After this all was ok, I filled the trunk full of lovely Belgium beer and made the train with 30 min spare. Now the car is safely in Vienna and I'm at work
I am very impressed and a little surprised, but after two days and two nights of being left in the rain there was not one drop of water inside.Oh, and the car is AWESOME, very fast and what a noise!! I can't wait for this non stop rain to finish so I can actually drive it properly.
Cheers
Anthony
Hi Anthony,
Welcome and I hope you enjoy yourself
I used to get anout 150 miles per tank out of mine around town and around 230-270 mpt on long motorway trips. I don't think the cars have a fuel reserve, when they reach empty they are empty... Though if yours ran dry between a quter and empty you might just need the fuel float/sender checked.
G
Welcome and I hope you enjoy yourself
I used to get anout 150 miles per tank out of mine around town and around 230-270 mpt on long motorway trips. I don't think the cars have a fuel reserve, when they reach empty they are empty... Though if yours ran dry between a quter and empty you might just need the fuel float/sender checked.
G
kbear said:
When the fuel gauge is half way between empty and a quarter empty, it really is empty!!
Yep, mine too. I'd just got the car back from a decat, so after I coasted to a halt in a handy layby off the A14 I rang up the garage and gave them a stern b
king, thinking they'd failed to put something back properly. To which they replied 'Have you run out of fuel?'. 'Ah...' 
ETA: Dear me, these swear filters are getting a little precious
Edited by Simpo Two on Monday 17th March 21:30
sorry I meant dark Side.
kbear said:
thanks for all the welcomes!!
I can live with this fuel gauge feature now that I'm aware, but looking back the French Motorway with a train to catch was a foolish place to test the range of a new car
Well, its finally stopped raining here in Vienna, now its snowing
Anthony
True. Had you been in Britain the train would've been late so not such an issue. I can live with this fuel gauge feature now that I'm aware, but looking back the French Motorway with a train to catch was a foolish place to test the range of a new car
Well, its finally stopped raining here in Vienna, now its snowing
Anthony
Oh, and welcome to an exclusive little club.
2Munkys said:
Congratulations Anthony; looks nice.
You'll often hear of fuel gauge inaccuracy; mine reads 'spot on'. I'm sure there must be adjustment that can be made at the sender/float.
When I first got mine 1/4 of a tank was as good as empty. So I took the sender out and bent the float and road a tad up. You can mock up outside the tank and watch the guage on the dash as you move it to get require position. Also if your getting the problem of the needle going up and down when cornering etc when you have the sender out you can see a coil of wire that when the floats moves up and down makes a contact across....dont ask me why( ok guess it maybe wear and tear? ) but this seems to move away from making contact so gentle moving the contact back towards the wires will also make a more accurate reading.You'll often hear of fuel gauge inaccuracy; mine reads 'spot on'. I'm sure there must be adjustment that can be made at the sender/float.
BB
Ballistic Banana said:
Also if your getting the problem of the needle going up and down when cornering etc when you have the sender out you can see a coil of wire that when the floats moves up and down makes a contact across....dont ask me why( ok guess it maybe wear and tear? ) but this seems to move away from making contact so gentle moving the contact back towards the wires will also make a more accurate reading.
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