What have you done to your car today......

[Demondad]

While she sits in the garage waiting for the Nitrons to be built, I stored a load of junk in the boot. Why waste good storage!

[fr0zent0ast]

jamieduff1981 said:

I'm expecting this summer to have cost me £2,500 or thereabouts and I haven't seen it since May.

Edited by jamieduff1981 on Wednesday 30th July 08:35

I feel your pain. I spent £3,500 at Str8Six last week and that made me want to cry. That said the car is an order of magnitude better. Hope you get yours sorted quickly and for not a lot more money!

Edited by fr0zent0ast on Wednesday 30th July 17:36

[fr0zent0ast]

morebeanz said:

I am inevitably waiting for my guages to come back from Speedy (ahem) Cables...

I used them in the past and they are anything but Speedy! Maybe we should get onto trading standards about the false advertising ?!

[morebeanz]

They are indeed well known for it, but they are also well known as being the best to refurbish their own guages now that they are part of Caerbont...

[jamieduff1981]

fr0zent0ast said:

jamieduff1981 said:

I'm expecting this summer to have cost me £2,500 or thereabouts and I haven't seen it since May.

Edited by jamieduff1981 on Wednesday 30th July 08:35

I feel your pain. I spent £3,500 at Str8Six last week and that made me want to cry. That said they car is an order of magnitude better. Hope you get yours sorted quickly and for not a lot more money!

Ouch. What did you need done?

I can't be all that disheartened afterall. I bumped in to another local Tiv owner when I popped out for lunch and offered to help him change his clutch and slave cylinder in my shed.

Glutton for punishment me it seems...

[robsco]

jamieduff1981 said:

fr0zent0ast said:

jamieduff1981 said:

I'm expecting this summer to have cost me £2,500 or thereabouts and I haven't seen it since May.

Edited by jamieduff1981 on Wednesday 30th July 08:35

I feel your pain. I spent £3,500 at Str8Six last week and that made me want to cry. That said they car is an order of magnitude better. Hope you get yours sorted quickly and for not a lot more money!

Ouch. What did you need done?

I can't be all that disheartened afterall. I bumped in to another local Tiv owner when I popped out for lunch and offered to help him change his clutch and slave cylinder in my shed.

Glutton for punishment me it seems...

Feel your pain chaps - mine has rushed me £4000 this year so far, driving 1000 miles or so in that time. Taxed her on Monday, first drive out since May, overheated after 4 miles. Suspected head gasket failure, game over for 2014. That said, it still looks, smells and sounds fantastic almost 20 years from its arrival, so I'll take this opportunity to get the car looking even better. These are the riches of the poor!

[jamieduff1981]

robsco said:

jamieduff1981 said:

fr0zent0ast said:

jamieduff1981 said:

I'm expecting this summer to have cost me £2,500 or thereabouts and I haven't seen it since May.

Edited by jamieduff1981 on Wednesday 30th July 08:35

I feel your pain. I spent £3,500 at Str8Six last week and that made me want to cry. That said they car is an order of magnitude better. Hope you get yours sorted quickly and for not a lot more money!

Ouch. What did you need done?

I can't be all that disheartened afterall. I bumped in to another local Tiv owner when I popped out for lunch and offered to help him change his clutch and slave cylinder in my shed.

Glutton for punishment me it seems...

Feel your pain chaps - mine has rushed me £4000 this year so far, driving 1000 miles or so in that time. Taxed her on Monday, first drive out since May, overheated after 4 miles. Suspected head gasket failure, game over for 2014. That said, it still looks, smells and sounds fantastic almost 20 years from its arrival, so I'll take this opportunity to get the car looking even better. These are the riches of the poor!

Oh hell. That puts mine in to perspective I suppose.

I moved house in May and already had a logistical exercise so sent the car away for its 6k service and MOT to overlap the move, along with a shopping list of niggles I'd never get round to sorting such as recommissioning the a/c system, swapping the front seats over to their correct sides, fitting new discs and pads, repainting the scabby calipers and disc centres and cleaning up the chassis and recoating where appropriate. I'm not ready to dismantle the car yet.

First of all it went for its MOT and dumped its coolant all over the floor before the test started. Fortunately that turned out to just be rusted jubilee clips so the nice man sorted that. Then the radiator was noted to be leaking slightly, so the air conditioning condensor was pressure tested and leaked like a sieve so both the radiator and condensor came out to be recored and replaced respectively. Furthermore, the electric power steering conversion relay stuck closed and flattened the new Red Top battery dead.

They went back in after a national shortage of radiator cores slowed things down. The car is driveable but the fog light has been iffy. The nice man sorted that and now the side lights have decided they don't feel like lighting up, just before its planned MOT retest yesterday afternoon. To seal the deal, one of the dampers then spewed its guts out.

After all that, we're still not sure why its not running right and is down on power. There may be a Whirlwind kit up for grabs and he's going to try his own exhaust on my car to see if I've killed another backbox.

Nothing especially expensive has gone wrong on mine in itself, but it's more a case of finding something else wrong every time it's looked at. It's a bit frustrating, that's all. I'm happy with the service - no complaints there. It just seems that the car doesn't want to be driven over summer and would prefer to wait until the perpetually damp Autumn roads where there's no grip and the engine can't be asked to work very hard.

[fr0zent0ast]

jamieduff1981 said:

Ouch. What did you need done?

I can't be all that disheartened afterall. I bumped in to another local Tiv owner when I popped out for lunch and offered to help him change his clutch and slave cylinder in my shed.

Glutton for punishment me it seems...

All new wishbones, discs, pads, caliper refurb, new fuel lines, diff seals, gearbox seal, chassis strip down and treatment, window rubbers, clutch, slave, geo, microwave, holiday to Spain, cuddly toy.........

[fr0zent0ast]

Oh and just had 2 new Toyo Proxes on the front and now it stays in a straight line at warp speed (and braking when hitting warp speed!) Yay!

P.s My wallet hurts!! Someone needs to teach me how to do all this stuff myself for next year!

[jamieduff1981]

If you lived nearby I'd be happy to.

That's a lot of stuff you can't see but can hopefully feel, plus stuff you can see. It's a little nicer when you can see where it went!

[bobbins]

Picked up mine after the clutch and slave didn't fancy waking up after three weeks sat in the garage. Another nudge to use it more...

But reading a couple of other threads on here remind me things could be far worse.

You'll get there fr0zent0ast/Jamie. Same with you Rob, the car got lucky when you decided to take it on. And cheers again for the lift

[robsco]

bobbins said:

Picked up mine after the clutch and slave didn't fancy waking up after three weeks sat in the garage. Another nudge to use it more...

But reading a couple of other threads on here remind me things could be far worse.

You'll get there fr0zent0ast/Jamie. Same with you Rob, the car got lucky when you decided to take it on. And cheers again for the lift

Pleasure mate.

[fr0zent0ast]

jamieduff1981 said:

If you lived nearby I'd be happy to.

That's a lot of stuff you can't see but can hopefully feel, plus stuff you can see. It's a little nicer when you can see where it went!

Yeah its all pretty much hidden but it feels incredible to drive now, especially with the new tires on it.

I did take a peek at the brakes and suspension when the wheels were getting new shoes today - it all look very shiny. Jason at Str8Six did an amazing job and although I probably could have done the brakes and wishbones myself I wanted a TVR specialist to do a full overhaul, especially with things like fuel lines so its all as it should be. I should be able to keep on top of most things from here, with help from this forum.

[fr0zent0ast]

bobbins said:

You'll get there fr0zent0ast/Jamie. Same with you Rob, the car got lucky when you decided to take it on. And cheers again for the lift

Think I'm pretty much there now for this year. It needs a front end respray and the aircon sorting, but that can be done over the winter when not in use. It's not a garage queen so I'm off out in the sun again after work for a blast and a meetup with a couple of other TVR owners for a beer!

Happy days.

[FUBAR]

Amateurs

£5,500 so far. I have done a heady 2000 miles this year though

[Tanguero]

FUBAR said:

Amateurs

£5,500 so far. I have done a heady 2000 miles this year though

Try paying for a 4.7 rebuild... That smarts a bit in the wallet area!!

[purpleliability]

I see your 4.7 rebuild and raise you....

So after losing a gearbox last year I decided to save up for the CTS box so that I wouldn't have issue later. I also sorted the slave at the same time too. Whilst I was "upgrading" I also refurbished the Nitrons, replaced the rear calipers, fitted new discs and pads all round and had a 12k service.

Then I replaced the manifolds for ACT items and got the rest of the exhaust at the same time.

Then the crank pulley fell off, lunching a cylinder head, a few conrods and a few pistons.

So then I thought, "I'll go for the 4.7 upgrade then" and I'm just waiting to get her back from that now. Haven't driven her properly since July last year, covered 100 miles up a motorway this year in March and that's it.

Nice cheap year for me then! Worst of all is the lack of driving, I feel like summer will be all but over by the time I get it back, run in, mapped and back on the road.

[jamieduff1981]

You have my sympathies. Does indeed sound like you'll have a powerful 4.7 litre engine just in time for the perpetual cool damp roads of autumn and winter

[N7GTX]

I don't know how you keep your cool with all this happening. I've had lots of irritating little niggly faults but nothing at all to compare with these stories. It was bad enough fitting the reconditioned steering rack at £354 so maybe best keep quiet now....

[grahamn]

Got in mine this morning, started first time. Relaxed drive into work and now waiting for this evening for an extended drive home. Life is good on the cerbera front.