Not Happy Christmas to me.
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Had the car down at APM on Saturday and Andy confirmed my worst fears. My Cerbera's Speed Six engine has gone wrong again and needs some TLC in Blackpool.
Had a problem with the car idleing, which we haven't managed to get to the bottom of yet. The factory had suggested that this problem may be caused by the valve seats moving out of position.
Andy did some compression tests on a few of the valves/cylinders and they were between 30-65% below normal readings. Only solution is a rebuild at the factory.
I'm gutted, its only been 11 months since the last time this happened, and the nightmare that ensued trying to get the thing fixed, very nearly put me of TVR ownership for good.
Can't even find out where I stand at the moment either because the TVR guys and girls are all on holiday. I'll have to hope that TVR will be nice and help me out. If I have to go through what I went through last time I think I'll have to hang up my TVR coat and try another marque.
Bugger !
Had a problem with the car idleing, which we haven't managed to get to the bottom of yet. The factory had suggested that this problem may be caused by the valve seats moving out of position.
Andy did some compression tests on a few of the valves/cylinders and they were between 30-65% below normal readings. Only solution is a rebuild at the factory.
I'm gutted, its only been 11 months since the last time this happened, and the nightmare that ensued trying to get the thing fixed, very nearly put me of TVR ownership for good.
Can't even find out where I stand at the moment either because the TVR guys and girls are all on holiday. I'll have to hope that TVR will be nice and help me out. If I have to go through what I went through last time I think I'll have to hang up my TVR coat and try another marque.
Bugger !
Cheers guys....needed a bit of sympathy (as strangly enough the girlfriend seems to have none for my predicament 
)
Mental note: maybe I should have taken her on that flash holiday instead of spending all that money on the car this year??
Ah well, I have to wait until the TVR lot get back to work to find out whats going to happen.... got my fingers crossed that they will be nice to me !
Happy Xmas everyone anyways !
) Mental note: maybe I should have taken her on that flash holiday instead of spending all that money on the car this year??
Ah well, I have to wait until the TVR lot get back to work to find out whats going to happen.... got my fingers crossed that they will be nice to me !
Happy Xmas everyone anyways !
Had the last rebuild done at Blackpool with 16k on the clock. 11 months later the car is up to 24k. Not sure what the problem was last time as TVR refused to give out information about what they had done to the engine...although the symptoms were similar to whats happened this time.
There are variants of the Speed Six engine now (4.0 and 3.6 litre I think). As my car is a 1999 model, they only had the 4.0 litre engine available then. I'm pretty sure that the S6 Cerberas all ship with the 4.0 litre anyway, the 3.6 litre is just for the Tamoras and Tuscans.... (I may be wrong about that!).
Unfortuantly the problems with the Speed Six engines still appear to be happening, even with the latest models.
I wish they'd sort it out !
There are variants of the Speed Six engine now (4.0 and 3.6 litre I think). As my car is a 1999 model, they only had the 4.0 litre engine available then. I'm pretty sure that the S6 Cerberas all ship with the 4.0 litre anyway, the 3.6 litre is just for the Tamoras and Tuscans.... (I may be wrong about that!).
Unfortuantly the problems with the Speed Six engines still appear to be happening, even with the latest models.
I wish they'd sort it out !
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