My poor likkle car
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holbayhead said:
diddyman said:
holbayhead said:
Careful Jim you'll end up like your car.... half cut!
Don't you mean smashed?
should be ready for the "return of the deerhunter blat" on 11th March then ?![]()
Don't you mean 5th April?
At this rate it will not be finished by 27 February, which is VERY annoying indeed.

venom said:
I hate seeing anyone's car off the road, a pain too close to home for the minute.
Hope to see you back on the road soon!
Oh dear, Venom, what's up with yours?
blue 4.5 said:
Looks like a cracking excuse for light conversion though!
No thanks! Prefer it the proper way! Hence new front end with correct lights!

Nothing as bad as you've gone through, just a number of things that have caught up with the car getting older, and to be honest I feel cheeky complaining, but I'm sure you know what it's like to have your p&j off the road.
Fingers crossed that both of us are back out and about sooner rather than later.
Fingers crossed that both of us are back out and about sooner rather than later.
venom said:
Nothing as bad as you've gone through, just a number of things that have caught up with the car getting older, and to be honest I feel cheeky complaining, but I'm sure you know what it's like to have your p&j off the road.
Fingers crossed that both of us are back out and about sooner rather than later.
Well I just spoke to the shody bop and they reckon week starting 21 February now; 2 days for a service, (& MOT - yikes!) installing new ICE, some tweaking here and there and
just in time for spring! colinrob said:
Which insurance company are you with/where did you take it for repair? After mine was keyed I got it serviced then took it to Ewelme on a friday it was assesed on the tuesday and they started work on it immediatly
Err..... Colin, my car did not get keyed. I had an altercation with a deer. New front end, new air box, new bonnet, new radiators, new lights and various other things.
It took the insurance company 3 weeks to finally allow me to send the car to a body shop that specialises in TVRs, rather than their appreoved body shop (who didn't want to touch it anyway!), 2 weeks for them to get their behinds in gear and go and assess the car, 6 weeks to order parts (well, the front end, the rest was fairly swiftly supplied) and so here were are, 3 months down the line with the work starting on the car.
I will have been without it for a total of 4 months by the time I get it back. I think that is probably pretty standard, I am sure most who have had this sort of thing done to their cars would aggree.
diddyman said:
Well I just spoke to the shody bop and they reckon week starting 21 February now; 2 days for a service, (& MOT - yikes!) installing new ICE, some tweaking here and there andjust in time for spring!
Excellent news!
I'm not putting a timescale on the repair works for mine as I'm doing them myself. I just see it as tempting fate into something going desperately wrong otherwise. That said, I'll be ecstatic if I get the car back on the road inside a month.

venom said:
Excellent news!
I'm not putting a timescale on the repair works for mine as I'm doing them myself. I just see it as tempting fate into something going desperately wrong otherwise. That said, I'll be ecstatic if I get the car back on the road inside a month.
Good luck! I am happy to do the odd bit of tinkering here and there, but replacing the front end on a Cerbera is not one of them!

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Sorry - I trust your P&J will soon be ready for more wildlife-chasi.............er, Summer!



Good lord! Just glad you're still here to tell the tale.