Ok, I think I have found my Cerb.......
Ok, I think I have found my Cerb.......
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Vinny73

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221 posts

258 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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... its one I have already seen, and now agreed the price. Its very nice indeed, and I will give more details when I have been and left a deposit tomorrow.

The one thing I will be wanting to do, is replace the front and rear light clusters. Yes I know I have posted on this before, and Satman kindly pointed me to the FAQs, but that was for a moulded in version, which I am not going to fork out for at this stage.

So has anyone just upgraded the light pods to the Zenon jobby? It looks like a direct replacement part? How much do they cost to replace? Can you fit yourself? What about color coding, is that a take them in get them sprayed?


ceejay

1,287 posts

283 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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Glad you found the right car Vinny. Best of luck and hopefully see you at an event soon.

Ceejay

davetherave1970

2,144 posts

275 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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You can get the "4 smaller round" head lights in two types. Halogen and Zenon. The zenon are £264 plus vat each to replace so I'd go for the halogen (only takes a stone to put a hole in one).
May get the pod kit from www.tvrbodyshop.co.uk in Bristol.

PS Good luck with the new Cerbie!!
Edited: for bad spelling

>> Edited by davetherave1970 on Friday 25th March 17:21

Vinny73

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221 posts

258 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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Lets hope it is Ceejay, and once again thanks for your time yesterday ;-)

Ok, cheers Dave, I'll take a look and have a call around.

Vinny73

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221 posts

258 months

Friday 25th March 2005
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Few more hours, is it the one......
Hope so. If it is, and I put down a deposit, Im ordering 18" spiders asap. As soon as someone is open..... ;-)

gazzab

21,627 posts

311 months

Saturday 26th March 2005
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has it already got uprated suspension? Id go for that befre wheels and lights and other cosmetics.

vinny73

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221 posts

258 months

Saturday 26th March 2005
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Don't think so Gazza, its totally standard at this stage.
The hunt is over tho, bought it. Deposit down, just need to transfer the cash basically.

Its lovely, im like a little kid at the moment, all excited.

Couple of things I have noticed tho, I spent about an hour going over the car. There is a "rattle" towards the back of the exhaust, looking under the car, it looks like there is some sort of grill about 1.5ft back from the back box, and sounds like that was just vibrating a bit, is that common? Sort of sounded like a screw bouncing about IN the exhaust, but closer inspection looks like the grill thing.

Also, one of the pully wheels was squeaking a bit, at the front of the engine. BTW, it is a 4.5.

Brakes a bit squeaky.

Also, it has been sitting for a couple of months, but fired up fine, left it running for 15-20 mins and sat solid at about 87-88c on the temp gauge, not that that was ever that accurate on my Griff.

The car is very very clean, FTVRSH. Low'ish miles, and I exactly what I was looking for.