Why are people Anti-Wedge ?

[JVaughan]

Just been browsing a few "specialists" websites and looking at costings etc for servicing / upgrades and parts in general.

People seem happy to list the "S" Models, and the "Classics" (Vixen / Tamar / Griff), then jump straight into the Wheeler Cars "Griff" / "Chimp" / "Cerbie" etc

Why Omit the Wedge ?

[SPS]

JVaughan said:

Just been browsing a few "specialists" websites and looking at costings etc for servicing / upgrades and parts in general.

People seem happy to list the "S" Models, and the "Classics" (Vixen / Tamar / Griff), then jump straight into the Wheeler Cars "Griff" / "Chimp" / "Cerbie" etc

Why Omit the Wedge ?

No idea - I've always lusted after a SEAC anyway.

[Hoover.]

I like the wedges that are on steriods

[rev-erend]

They probably have changed the rear pads in a SEAC and been scared for life

[KelWedge]

It's only people who dont have a Wedge who are anti wedge

[heightswitch]

Wedge owners tend to be proper TVR sorts who mend and restore their own cars, hence dealers skip them, knowing that the enthusiasts are looking after them themselves

Stop being Paranoid. Its a TVR.

[dhf]

Love them,they're TVR's.....

[anonymous-user]

Lusted after a wedge for years. Had a fabulous poster of a 390SE on my wall. Then the Griffith arrived.

[Campbell]

[quote=rev-erend]They probably have changed the rear pads in a SEAC and been scared for life [/;quote]

Love it...

[slideways]

It was the wedge that got me lusting after TVRS when i was in my teens, would still love an seac

[SPS]

KelWedge said:

It's only people who dont have a Wedge who are anti wedge

I don't have a wedge - cash or TVR!!!!!!!!!
But I luv em so I do

[kg55]

Nothing wrong with wedges i have had two race cars and are great fun for that still got one of them.I have also had 280i ragtop and 350i ragtop on the road. I intend to get another one when the time is right but its deciding which one i want next time allways fancied a 450 seac

[grahamw48]

Oooh....this is so gratifying...was almost scared to read the thread at first.

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[maston]

People who are "Anti-Wedge" are in denial....
They secretely lust after them......
"Long Live The Wedge".............

[Simon says]

I like em, considered a 3.5i in red years back.

[infinity]

Here in Blackpool aan den Rijn (The Netherlands) we have a joke when one of our wedgers screams "Wedge for life!!" That one of the others explains to innocent bystanders that it is because it is near impossible to get rid of one. ;-)

[Chilliman]

I think if the question was why are some people anti wedge then my answer would be coz looks-wise, it's a marmite car (don't kill me I like em). Some shapes are around for a while, disappear, then return in not dissimilar guise, giving the earlier similar shapes a sort of 'timeless' quality... like 'E' type - Griff or Cobra - Chimaera (now I know I'll get shot). The wedge shape/type however is firmly stuck in the eighties, along with Culture Club, Duran Duran, and Ultravox Oh, and Kim Basinger

[GadgeS3C]

The lost decade...

[Podie]

I found when I had an S, people either wanted to deal with the classics, or the modern (Wheeler era) cars - the Wedges and the S seemed to get a bad deal.

Are they particularly difficult to work on?

[V8 GRF]

I imagine that as the cars get older and their values decrease it becomes more difficult for a specialist to make money from working on the car as an owner is typically less likely to want to spend any significant money on the car.

For example spending £1k to 2k on a car worth say £4k - £5k is a significant amount of the car's value whereas the same money spent on a £15k to £20k car is much less in a phycological sense.

Also I think the cars are simpler in some aspects and a lot of Wedge owners like to do their own servicing etc which I guess is where the decent margins can be made, so all that's left are the fiddly time consuming jobs that don't make much money.

So I wouldn't say it's a hate thing more a commercial decision.