Old Car - Griff 500. New Car - 4.5 Cerb

[andysgriff]

After 12 Months of fun in a Griff 500 I'm now looking forward to some more fun in the Cerbie. Initial impressions after 1000 miles of motoring are:

1) it's bloody quick
2) it's bloody noisy
3) it's not as nervous as the Griff

Its 99 on a T reg, 29k miles from David Geralds

Slight vibration at around 85-90mph, initally asked DG's to have the wheels balanced which they did and it cured about 90% of the vibration. Any one got any ideas what the remaining vibration might be caused by???

[satman]

I had vibration myself at around 90mph and got worse as i got quicker....garage told me they'd had wheels balanced, so I was suspecting a possible propshaft prob. Decided upon a recommendation to have the wheels rechecked, so went to a tyre place that has the state of the art wheel balancing machine,cost a £5 per wheel, now drives superb...no vibration at all!...if this fails it could be tracking.Hope this helps.

[dai capp]

Andy,

Saw your Griff in at DG's on Saturday and he said you'd swapped to the Cerbie. The Griff looked very well, you obviously looked after it!

Hope the Cerbie's fine too, it's a beautiful car. Have you kept the plate...

You may have seen my Tuscan in the workshops minus its engine. Had a bit of a drama in Italy, it chucked a piston through the block!

Good luck with the Cerbie!

Cheers

DC

[andysgriff]

Hi Dave

Yes I have to say that leaving the Griff at DG's was a difficult thing to do. In the 12 months and 10,000 miles I had it it never let me down, only needed an alternator replacing. It was running very well and was actually (felt) quicker when I sold it. I did see your Tuscan in the workshop and I thought I recognised it. I assume you will be getting a new engine then? Must have made a bit of a bang when it went?

The Cerb is so far so good, I'll be giving DG's the plate back though!

Cheers mate

[K1 CERB]

I haven't looked back since chopping in my Griff for a Cerb. I recently had the geometry 'done' at Austec, and that has sorted out all the spurious rattles as well as making the car even more 'at one' with the road - would recommend everybody gets theirs looked at
K1 CERB