MESSAGE OF THANKS TO ALL PH'S...
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Just a small message of thanks to all the unsung Ph's on here, its been a boyhood dream to own a TVR for many many years & at the ripe old age of 36 i have managed to aquire in my eyes one of the most beautiful cars on the planet. I have been reading all the advice on purchasing a MK1 Tuscan from you guys for the past 4 months. It's taken a lot of will power not to go out there and buy the first brightest shinest Tuscan i first looked at !!
and got a heapload of potential trouble with it!
Taking all the advice and information i have gathered over the past months, i have the pleasure of picking up an immaculate, 21K , engine rebuilt, new clutch, full TVR SH...etc. you get the picture ! Tuscan later today. So all in all, many thanks for the advice and support to us newby's that are in the infant and very vunerable stage of buying a TVR for the first time.
P.S. Trouble is its hammering it outside !! S?*%ing myself on the thought of wet weather driving first time out...any advice .. See you soon i hope
Cheers
Gary M.
and got a heapload of potential trouble with it!
Taking all the advice and information i have gathered over the past months, i have the pleasure of picking up an immaculate, 21K , engine rebuilt, new clutch, full TVR SH...etc. you get the picture ! Tuscan later today. So all in all, many thanks for the advice and support to us newby's that are in the infant and very vunerable stage of buying a TVR for the first time.
P.S. Trouble is its hammering it outside !! S?*%ing myself on the thought of wet weather driving first time out...any advice .. See you soon i hope
Cheers
Gary M.
orangeone said:
Just a small message of thanks to all the unsung Ph's on here, its been a boyhood dream to own a TVR for many many years & at the ripe old age of 36 i have managed to aquire in my eyes one of the most beautiful cars on the planet. I have been reading all the advice on purchasing a MK1 Tuscan from you guys for the past 4 months. It's taken a lot of will power not to go out there and buy the first brightest shinest Tuscan i first looked at !!
and got a heapload of potential trouble with it!
Taking all the advice and information i have gathered over the past months, i have the pleasure of picking up an immaculate, 21K , engine rebuilt, new clutch, full TVR SH...etc. you get the picture ! Tuscan later today. So all in all, many thanks for the advice and support to us newby's that are in the infant and very vunerable stage of buying a TVR for the first time.
P.S. Trouble is its hammering it outside !! S?*%ing myself on the thought of wet weather driving first time out...any advice .. See you soon i hope
Cheers
Gary M.
Be carefull on you first trip, you have in my mind brought one of the best car tvr have ever made, good luck and enjoy
It was lashing down with rain when i picked mine up so know how you feel. At least the salt will have gone. Best of luck with your new p&j. dave.Excellent call Gary and great news. It was almost exactly a year ago since I got mine, and that first drive was a nerve wracking one. Not sure if you have had the car put through its 18k/24k service, but some early-ownership experiences I had, and which may assist were;
- handling; if the car feels overly "twitchy" or tramlines badly, then may be worth the investment for geometry to be checked out. This could lead to you purchasing Nitrons - more expense
- idling revs; I had quite a few issues with mine initially with v low revs/almost stalling, which was fixed through work on the throttle bodies.
- seals on the car; I found early on that mine needed replacement as rain soon found its way into the boot and drivers door seals. Replacement was app £120.
- internal fans; I think on several cars (may be all?), the drivers direct fans only ever pump out cold air, and the windscreen ones hot or cold. A classic TVR quirk.
- water temp/oil pressure sensors; a classic issue which befalls many of us with Sp6 engines. Water temp issue can lead to fans not kicking in and overheating.
- frost indicator; winter is now hopfully leaving us, but enjoy the constant beep from the pod when days fluctuate between 2-3c. Whenever the temp bridges these two figures, the pod emits a little beep which can get very annoying!!
Good to hear on clutch and engine rebuild, both of which I had to suffer early on in ownership. All the very best this weekend with the new purchase.
- handling; if the car feels overly "twitchy" or tramlines badly, then may be worth the investment for geometry to be checked out. This could lead to you purchasing Nitrons - more expense
- idling revs; I had quite a few issues with mine initially with v low revs/almost stalling, which was fixed through work on the throttle bodies.
- seals on the car; I found early on that mine needed replacement as rain soon found its way into the boot and drivers door seals. Replacement was app £120.
- internal fans; I think on several cars (may be all?), the drivers direct fans only ever pump out cold air, and the windscreen ones hot or cold. A classic TVR quirk.
- water temp/oil pressure sensors; a classic issue which befalls many of us with Sp6 engines. Water temp issue can lead to fans not kicking in and overheating.
- frost indicator; winter is now hopfully leaving us, but enjoy the constant beep from the pod when days fluctuate between 2-3c. Whenever the temp bridges these two figures, the pod emits a little beep which can get very annoying!!
Good to hear on clutch and engine rebuild, both of which I had to suffer early on in ownership. All the very best this weekend with the new purchase.
Thanks for all your words of encouragement, the good news is i made it back safely. Now i can appreciate why these cars have to be treated with the greatest of respect. Got there early am this morning absolutely lashing down and thick fog. The guy i bought the car off could see i was a little nervous about driving in these conditions for the first time. It was an absolute pleasure to buy off another TVR enthusiast who spent over an hour with me going through the cars finer points and advise me he felt the same when he picked up the vehicle some 18 months ago.
After 60 mins of extremely cautious driving and being passed by numerous mini busses and coaches on a very wet M6 motorway i made it back safe and sound. Once again thanks for your unsung advise and hope to have many enjoyable days in my new TVR.
One quick query... After the two hour journey home i parked the car up and restarted the vehicle an hour later for the obligitory run round the block with the other half after she came home from work there was a smell of petrol in the cockpit and the digital readout upon starting registered (EFI Fuel Fault) Five minute journey up the road and then restarted the vehicle an hour later and fuel smell had disapated and the EFI code did not come up on the dash.... Any ideas
Cheers
See you soon
Gary M
After 60 mins of extremely cautious driving and being passed by numerous mini busses and coaches on a very wet M6 motorway i made it back safe and sound. Once again thanks for your unsung advise and hope to have many enjoyable days in my new TVR.
One quick query... After the two hour journey home i parked the car up and restarted the vehicle an hour later for the obligitory run round the block with the other half after she came home from work there was a smell of petrol in the cockpit and the digital readout upon starting registered (EFI Fuel Fault) Five minute journey up the road and then restarted the vehicle an hour later and fuel smell had disapated and the EFI code did not come up on the dash.... Any ideas
Cheers
See you soon
Gary M
Many congrats on buying into this experience, and this is not just a marketing word. The car is an experience- always intense, always an occasion. You will not ever regret it as long as you are mad but in a sensible way!
Re. the EFI fault thing...
The sensor array in the Tuscan is always throwing up minor gripes- if it shows up once or twice then disappears, you are looking at a fussy sensore, not a fualt per se.
Re. the smell or petrol--
The TVR is a very undiluted car. You are close to the road, close to the noises, the bumps, the speed, everything. Therefore you will smell, hear and feel things that are normally concealed in other cars behind swathes of plastic, padding prosuction precision etc.
Give the car a good run of about 1000 miles then take a list of whatever persistent faults to your nearest independent or main dealer (both are as good as each other in general, indies being cheaper and more personal on the whole).
Also take alongf a bag of cash, or your wife as a deposit...
You are now a hero nutter. Many welcomes to you our new brother in foolishness.
Oz
Re. the EFI fault thing...
The sensor array in the Tuscan is always throwing up minor gripes- if it shows up once or twice then disappears, you are looking at a fussy sensore, not a fualt per se.
Re. the smell or petrol--
The TVR is a very undiluted car. You are close to the road, close to the noises, the bumps, the speed, everything. Therefore you will smell, hear and feel things that are normally concealed in other cars behind swathes of plastic, padding prosuction precision etc.
Give the car a good run of about 1000 miles then take a list of whatever persistent faults to your nearest independent or main dealer (both are as good as each other in general, indies being cheaper and more personal on the whole).
Also take alongf a bag of cash, or your wife as a deposit...
You are now a hero nutter. Many welcomes to you our new brother in foolishness.
Oz
Gary,
As others have said, it is a mad world once you get bitten by the Tuscan bug "hero nutter" does it for me. My wife and I have had some serious financial problems over the last few years, but we have both agreed that the car stays and our retirement home is now on the market.
We will be quite happy to live in a wigwam and be able to live our dream in the wheels that is parked outside for the time being. Once our limbs get stiffer and all the rest of it, thats when the car will have to go and we will clad our wigwam in timber for the long winters ahead.
be safe and enjoy the time ahead.
Best regards,
James Sim.
As others have said, it is a mad world once you get bitten by the Tuscan bug "hero nutter" does it for me. My wife and I have had some serious financial problems over the last few years, but we have both agreed that the car stays and our retirement home is now on the market.
We will be quite happy to live in a wigwam and be able to live our dream in the wheels that is parked outside for the time being. Once our limbs get stiffer and all the rest of it, thats when the car will have to go and we will clad our wigwam in timber for the long winters ahead.
be safe and enjoy the time ahead.
Best regards,
James Sim.
James- you are going the right thing. Life is too short, to think “what if” and “I wish I had”
The wife and I were both made redundant 2 years ago (different jobs). Felt the world was caving in on us, although good pay out.
Decision- get a new job quick and pay a wade off the mortgage with redundancy?
Or
Not Work for 9 months enjoy the Olympics, Euro football and all that and then bugger off to south Africa & Namibia travelling, as we both knew we would never get the chance again once back in work and in the Rat Race again.
Did the latter then topped it off on my return by getting that TVR. Broke now, but what the hell, you only live once. My wife agreed all the way, I suppose that's why I married her.
The wife and I were both made redundant 2 years ago (different jobs). Felt the world was caving in on us, although good pay out.
Decision- get a new job quick and pay a wade off the mortgage with redundancy?
Or
Not Work for 9 months enjoy the Olympics, Euro football and all that and then bugger off to south Africa & Namibia travelling, as we both knew we would never get the chance again once back in work and in the Rat Race again.
Did the latter then topped it off on my return by getting that TVR. Broke now, but what the hell, you only live once. My wife agreed all the way, I suppose that's why I married her.
[quote=unrepentant][quote=jamessim]
James. I'd marry you.
Unrepentant,
You can get up off your knees now "I accept"
However the wedding will be off if you watch Celebrity stars in their eyes and suchlike, presently I get banished from the comfort of my own lounge when these programmes are on as I whine too much.
Regards,
James Sim.
>> Edited by jamessim on Sunday 26th March 13:14
James. I'd marry you.
Unrepentant,
You can get up off your knees now "I accept"
However the wedding will be off if you watch Celebrity stars in their eyes and suchlike, presently I get banished from the comfort of my own lounge when these programmes are on as I whine too much.
Regards,
James Sim.
>> Edited by jamessim on Sunday 26th March 13:14
Thanks for all your words of wisdom...i must say its one of the friendliest forums ive ever been on. As for some of your advice on the potential servicing costs and breakdowns... don't worry guys ivetaken your advice to heart.. currently:
ive told the Mrs !
1. electricty and gas on in the house when Im there.. and brought her a scarf and hat.... and salads only !
2. SKY subsription TV... limited to Football,Rugby and Motorsports !!saving Loads on c$*p soaps! and UKliving tv!
3. told her to Sell her car..go-ped inbound !
4. Only one holiday abroad this year... me Cancun...her...Cannock !
Told you ive got it sussed !!
By the way im in the Cannock, Burntwood, Lichfield area of staffs, any more of you guys local to me??
P.S its a beautiful metallic burnt orange..pic inbound on my profil shortly
Hope to see u guys soon, whats the next event thats worth a visit?
Cheers
Gary M
ive told the Mrs !
1. electricty and gas on in the house when Im there.. and brought her a scarf and hat.... and salads only !
2. SKY subsription TV... limited to Football,Rugby and Motorsports !!saving Loads on c$*p soaps! and UKliving tv!
3. told her to Sell her car..go-ped inbound !
4. Only one holiday abroad this year... me Cancun...her...Cannock !
Told you ive got it sussed !!
By the way im in the Cannock, Burntwood, Lichfield area of staffs, any more of you guys local to me??
P.S its a beautiful metallic burnt orange..pic inbound on my profil shortly
Hope to see u guys soon, whats the next event thats worth a visit?
Cheers
Gary M
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