Tuesday 17th November 2009

New Downloadable Servicing Guide For TVRs

Former TVR mag editor unveils downloadable servicing guide for Griffiths and Chimaeras

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A former editor of the TVR Car Club magazine has released a free downloadable resource for TVR Griffiths and Chimaeras.

Owners of Griffs and Chims looking for an easy-to-use guide to maintaining and improving their beloved motors need now look no further than the snappily titled 'Griffith and Chimaera Resource'.

Derek Smith, the former editor of Sprint, the TVR Car Club magazine, has created the Resource as a picture-heavy, word-light servicing guide rather than a complex and exhaustive workshop manual.

"It has started as a servicing guide" says Derek, "and hopefully will build into a resource for owning, improving, refurbishing and 'blinging' the cars. I don't intend it to be a workshop manual, more a regular feature-laden read and project follower."

To get hold of the Griffith and Chimaera Resource (it's only 5.5mb as a zip file), drop an email to [e-mail] with the subject line 'Resource'.

Whenever the resource is updated, users will get sent an email to let them know that there's something new, and updates - like the resource itself - are free of charge.

[Johnspex]

Is it just me or does this make no sense at all?

[Zippee]

Johnspex said:

Is it just me or does this make no sense at all?

Not only does it make no sense but it also bears no relation whatsoever to the article he's referred to. Freak alert!!!

[touching cloth]

Someone been on the sherry for breakfast I think... stroll on.

[V8 GRF]

Errr whats your problem chaps? You send an email to Derek on the link above and he then sends you the file as a zip

[spend]

You may have missed the "insight" they are referring to Dave? - bit like a 'loose' cannon

I reckon Derek must have supplied the sherry & billed his 'customers' for it

I must own up to a morbidly curious interest to see how this thread develops in moral "compharison" to the treatment that Thorpey was given recently..

[Johnspex]

V8 Grf
I think we were all referring to the first post that has since been removed not the article.

[fastgerman]

From what I understand, these cars are pretty easy to look after and the 4.0L HC engines offer the best power / robustness. The only problem I hear is that the fuel line runs over the exhaust manifold and melts on the Chimera - well a friends Dad's one did and caught fire. Luckily he has a fire extinguisher in the car but after the damage was rectified he made sure the fuel line was covered in a heat shielding material and relocated to a more sensible route.

There are still a lot of TVR specialists running and the engines are basically from Land Rover so don't think people should be scared of buying these cars and wondering who will fix them. Aren't the brakes Ford also? Land rover and Ford parts certainly aren't hard to get hold of.

Just to note, a friend of mine has a 1998 Chimera 4.0 HC and the only problem was the fuel pipe. He's had it from new and services it himself.

Wouldn't mind a Griffith on the BBS RS splits myself!

[Wildfire]

Don't recall ever seeing a fuel line draped over an exhaust manifold on my Griff?? The Griff and Chims are basically the same car, so I can't imagine the Chims having that feature.

[fastgerman]

Wildfire said:

Don't recall ever seeing a fuel line draped over an exhaust manifold on my Griff?? The Griff and Chims are basically the same car, so I can't imagine the Chims having that feature.

The cars are handbuilt so maybe somebody was having a lazy afternoon with his - hopefully a one off.

[scotty_d]

My chims fuel lines are no where near the exhaust manifold so not sure on that one?

[spend]

I think the chap has confused "fuel pipe burst spraying onto the exhaust manifold" and "fuel pipe on the exhaust manifold"

Typical of the kind of misinterpretations the knockers like to get their teeth into I suppose :sigh:

[G_T]

Do the servicing manuals have the words "DON'T PANIC" written in large friendly letters on the first page?

[fastgerman]

spend said:

I think the chap has confused "fuel pipe burst spraying onto the exhaust manifold" and "fuel pipe on the exhaust manifold"

Typical of the kind of misinterpretations the knockers like to get their teeth into I suppose :sigh:

I'm not knocking these cars at all, I think they're fantastic!
Been out in a Griff 500 and Tuscan recently - the problems make me go German but if I had enough room for another car, then a TVR would be high up on the agenda!

Yes, fuel did go on the exhaust manifold causing a fire - I was told that the fuel line went over the exhaust manifold. I'm just going on what I'm told. The person has had the car since new so obviously he loves it to bits still.

These cars just don't have the £££££££ of R&D to make them as reliable as other cars with similar performance but then TVR's are fractions of the price of a Porsche 911, Ferrari etc.

Anyway, I don't want to start and argument - great cars! :-)

[cloggy]

That email adress does not work, I get:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: Resource
Sent: 17/11/2009 11:25

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'[e-mail].' on 17/11/2009 11:25
The requested operation failed.

[Paul.B]

I sent an email to the link and it bounced back. I'll try again later from my home ESP. Could be our work system?


Paul.B

[Scho]

fastgerman said:

Wouldn't mind a Griffith on the BBS RS splits myself!

great minds!

The odd one's come up for sale fitted with compomotive CXN which is a similarly drool enducing design.

Edited by Scho on Tuesday 17th November 12:33

[bigdods]

cloggy said:

That email adress does not work, I get:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: Resource
Sent: 17/11/2009 11:25

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'[e-mail].' on 17/11/2009 11:25
The requested operation failed.

You need to remove the full stop after uk in the email address, it should be [e-mail]

Edited by bigdods on Tuesday 17th November 12:36

[richy759]

Just been flicking through and this is fantastic. to Derek

[Nickellarse]

cloggy said:

That email adress does not work, I get:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: Resource
Sent: 17/11/2009 11:25

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'[e-mail].' on 17/11/2009 11:25
The requested operation failed.

That email address has a full stop at the end.

[V8 GRF]

spend said:

You may have missed the "insight" they are referring to Dave? - bit like a 'loose' cannon

I must own up to a morbidly curious interest to see how this thread develops in moral "compharison" to the treatment that Thorpey was given recently..

Ah right. Yes the first post had been removed by the time I saw the thread.

As Derek is giving this away for free and has no conflicting commercial interests as far as I can tell then hopefully he won't get too many 'knockers'.