Can't stop giggling....

[adamwakeman]

Picked up my new Chimaera yesterday from Racetech in Sonning Common - a '97 4.0 deep red and an absolute beauty! Already knocked up nearly 400 miles!!! (anybody have any techniques to fill it up with fuel quicker?!! It takes forever!)

Thanks for the guidance from you all, the 'bible' arrived a few days ago too which I'm sure will come in handy when we drive to Tuscany in the Summer!
I know everyone ends up saying the same thing when they first get one, but I cannot stop smiling or giggling like a schoolgirl! This is the most fun I've had in a car ever! Give me a wave if you see a P reg dark red Chim flying around anywhere from Milton Keynes to Cornwall.........

[perthshiregriff]

adamwakeman said:

Picked up my new Chimaera yesterday from Racetech in Sonning Common - a '97 4.0 deep red and an absolute beauty! Already knocked up nearly 400 miles!!! (anybody have any techniques to fill it up with fuel quicker?!! It takes forever!) Thanks for the guidance from you all, the 'bible' arrived a few days ago too which I'm sure will come in handy when we drive to Tuscany in the Summer! I know everyone ends up saying the same thing when they first get one, but I cannot stop smiling or giggling like a schoolgirl! This is the most fun I've had in a car ever! Give me a wave if you see a P reg dark red Chim flying around anywhere from Milton Keynes to Cornwall.........

filling ups not the problem its slowing the consumption you need to worry about. then again i dont care anyway. congrats on the car. cant wait to get my griff back next week
have fun

[adamwakeman]

yes, I noticed it's not the most conservative when it comes to fuel economy, but I can't imagine anyone has ever bought one with saving the environment in mind....

[5ltr-chim]

Congratulations...

Work with the nozzle from the side of the car i.e. at 90 degrees. You don't get the splashback then.

Mine doesn't cut off till full this way.

ENJOY !

[adamwakeman]

thanx 5lt-chim - you'd have thought I'd have sorted that by now - I've filled it up twice today!!
Let's 'ave it!!!!!!! Kent tomorrow, Surrey next weekend, Cornwall the one after that! It all suddenly seems worth while....

[V8 Archie]

I find it better if I point the nozzle down the pipe (this normally means that the handle is almost exactly pointing across to the offside of the car).

Apart from that, find a garage that has suitable pumps (the BP ones seem to cp, but my local Shell lets me fill on full squeeze ).

[adamwakeman]

thanx, I'll try that method. I think today will be my first and last drive to london for a while - sitting in traffic is no place for a TVR!

Also, on a slightly stranger note - casting my mind back to being a child, the mere thought of seeing a sports car was exciting enough - and if I saw one I was more than pleased to say the least. You can imagine my surprise when I drove past some school kids just off Acton High Road in London when they shouted "TVR"S ARE S*&T YOU"RE A WAN&%*ER"
Im not 30 yet, but still I find myself saying " huh, the youth of today...."

[Steve_T]

adamwakeman said:

(anybody have any techniques to fill it up with fuel quicker?!! It takes forever!)

Yep, the nozzle will go in properly but only at a slight angle to the vertical. Next time you fill up you'll suss it out.

Steve.

[adamwakeman]

that'll be first thing then.....!

[V8 Archie]

adamwakeman said:

imagine my surprise when I drove past some school kids just off Acton High Road in London when they shouted "TVR"S ARE S*&T YOU"RE A WAN&%*ER"

Scrotes eh? Don't you just love the way they make you feel so superior?

[adamwakeman]

one day they'll be hitching a lift in the pis*ing rain on a sliproad to the m1 and wish they'd never been so rude....
kids eh, who'd have em....

[V8 Archie]

I'd take it as a good sign that they've noticed. Most of 'em are so lazy they don't have ambitions (other than sponging off the state). An insult must have taken a lot of efort (especially if you hear it over the exhaust). Translated it means "great car mate, I'd love to have one, but I'm a brain-dead ahole who'd be lucky to hold down a job at McDonald's" .

[adamwakeman]

nice.

mine's a filet o'fish with large fries.

[over_the_hill]

In my experience with several makes of cars, other than the angle that the nozzle goes into the car, which varies a lot from car to car (with my MGF you had to hold it almost horizontally), there is quite a variation between cut-off levels due to splash back and delivery rate of the fuel (i.e. how fast it actually comes down the pipe). This varies not only from garage to garage but even from pump to pump on
the same forecourt. Just try several pumps and find a
"favourite" and make a mental note of the useless ones to avoid.

[jessica]

keep filling and grinning!

Owning a TVR is the best feeling in the world.

[mike s]

jessica said:

keep filling and grinning! Owning a TVR is the best feeling in the world.

Yep, it sure is and the amount of new friends I have aquired is beyond belief.
edited because it's Mikes Dad, not Mike

>> Edited by mike s on Friday 13th February 19:26

[hongkongfooi]

I must have been lucky then cos all i have had is very good response, kids wave, builders in maccy d's drive thru lean and listen to noise etc etc, hey ho!