Continental Spotteds

[bigtone]

Just back from 10 days in France and Switzerland, and delighted to say had a few spotteds along the way:

Yellow Griff on A26 heading towards Calais - 17th August about 11am

Blue Chimaera on A26 heading towards Calais from Reims - 17th August about 12/1pm

Blue Griff on A6 heading towards Bern/Interlaken from Basel in the traffic jam - 25th August about 1pm

Gold LHD Chimaera on trailer towed by Merc heading towards Bern/Basel on A6 - 25th August about 1pm

The last two were spotted within five minutes of each other - not what you expect to see out there!

Anyone here?

Tony
www.tvr-3000m.co.uk

[marco]

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Yellow Griff on A26 heading towards Calais - 17th August about 11am

Yay!

My first time ever being "spotted" and its abroad!
I was returning from 2,750 miles in two weeks around France and Italy. Hope your holiday went as well as mine.

Cheers


Marco

[bigtone]

Excellent! I wish I was travelling in such style - an old LDV minibus full of kids - 25-30mph up the hills, what fun..

I take it reliablity reigned for you then!

All the best,

Tony

[marco]

Well . . .

It *did* right up until the alarm siren decided to swap modes in a service station near Orléans. It went off when unlocked and when locked it waited quietly for 2 minutes. And then went off.

Much amusement for the French bah!

Anyway, 2.5 Hours spannering + 3 calls to Heath at the factory + 4 calls to Richard at Peninsula gave this sequence of events:

1. Pull alarm fuses - fixed?
NO

2. Disconnect battery - fixed?
NO

3. Drop steering column and remove dashboard to unplug alarm box - fixed?
NO

4. Chop siren off and to prevent the backup battery sounding it for 6.5 hours throw it in the river - fixed?
YES!


Thanks Heath & Richard
All I need to do know if reconnect all the ventilation hoses that are lying in the boot of the car, by a new siren and I'm good to go!



Marco

[simpo one]

'It *did* right up until the alarm siren decided to swap modes in a service station near Orléans. It went off when unlocked and when locked it waited quietly for 2 minutes. And then went off.'

Mine did that in a Homebase carpark - some kid must have upset it, as when I got back to it the red light was doing a funny sequence. As I drove away it was still flashing, then soon after it went off as I was driving along - hazards and alarm! Pulled up a side road, got out, pointed the zapper at it and it stopped. Got back in, put doofer in slot and then it was fine. I think the key is to lock the car, then use the doofer to reset it. Anyway, it worked for me.

[marco]

We tried every conceivable sequence of key, fob and immobiliser but no result.

The experts on the phone deduced an electrical fault in the siren (quite common the guy from Meta said - siren now updated to fix problem) that was feeding live current back into the control box.


Marco

[kevinday]

In any case this cannot be put down to the TVR being unreliable as it was the alarm system not the car

[Graham and Rosie]

And the alarm system was specified, selected (from many manufacturers out there) and installed by.......

Graham

[marco]

quote:
And the alarm system was specified, selected (from many manufacturers out there) and installed by.......

Graham

Picky picky picky . . .

;-)

[andy-ch]

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Gold LHD Chimaera on trailer towed by Merc heading towards Bern/Basel on A6 - 25th August about 1pm

That could well have been the Swiss main dealer bringing a stranded car back to the dealership...he does drive a Merc...

to add to the continental spotteds, I saw a red Chimaera near Marbella in Spain this weekend...

[robkola]

Mine went belly up a few months back! To "carry on" yo uhave to disconnect the siren first and then the indicators from the box behind the dashboard! Meta - not great!