Very early Tuscan door release!!
Discussion
I had a nice grey 2001 Tuscan for 5 years, however lost the love for it after a horrific service by pretend snake tvr garage. Fortunately woody at TVR101 rescued the day and put the engine right, however I don’t have it now, and have recently bought a W reg Tuscan to replace it.
Question is, where are the door release buttons on the inside? It has a rectangular style radio surround without buttons each side. I low loaded the car as it had been stored for years, but now I’m looking through it I can only think that the door releases are the emergency releases under the dash. Is that right?
Question is, where are the door release buttons on the inside? It has a rectangular style radio surround without buttons each side. I low loaded the car as it had been stored for years, but now I’m looking through it I can only think that the door releases are the emergency releases under the dash. Is that right?
I had the 8th customer Tuscan produced which I took delivery of on 1st March 2000 (so earlier than your car).
As said the door release was the window winders and there were no buttons next to the radio. If your winders can be pushed in then that’s the door openers and the buttons next to the radio are a later addition.
Do you have ge front roof catch? My car had that fitted as a recal in summer 2000.
As said the door release was the window winders and there were no buttons next to the radio. If your winders can be pushed in then that’s the door openers and the buttons next to the radio are a later addition.
Do you have ge front roof catch? My car had that fitted as a recal in summer 2000.
MikeE said:
I had the 8th customer Tuscan produced which I took delivery of on 1st March 2000 (so earlier than your car).
As said the door release was the window winders and there were no buttons next to the radio. If your winders can be pushed in then that’s the door openers and the buttons next to the radio are a later addition.
Do you have ge front roof catch? My car had that fitted as a recal in summer 2000.
Yes, my window switches can be pushed in, so the buttons in the radio pod must have been retrofitted then? Every days a school day.As said the door release was the window winders and there were no buttons next to the radio. If your winders can be pushed in then that’s the door openers and the buttons next to the radio are a later addition.
Do you have ge front roof catch? My car had that fitted as a recal in summer 2000.
My car does have a front roof latch.
TR4man said:
MikeE said:
I had the 8th customer Tuscan produced which I took delivery of on 1st March 2000 (so earlier than your car).
As said the door release was the window winders and there were no buttons next to the radio. If your winders can be pushed in then that’s the door openers and the buttons next to the radio are a later addition.
Do you have the front roof catch? My car had that fitted as a recal in summer 2000.
Yes, my window switches can be pushed in, so the buttons in the radio pod must have been retrofitted then? Every days a school day.As said the door release was the window winders and there were no buttons next to the radio. If your winders can be pushed in then that’s the door openers and the buttons next to the radio are a later addition.
Do you have the front roof catch? My car had that fitted as a recal in summer 2000.
My car does have a front roof latch.
Speed 3 said:
TR4man said:
MikeE said:
I had the 8th customer Tuscan produced which I took delivery of on 1st March 2000 (so earlier than your car).
As said the door release was the window winders and there were no buttons next to the radio. If your winders can be pushed in then that’s the door openers and the buttons next to the radio are a later addition.
Do you have the front roof catch? My car had that fitted as a recal in summer 2000.
Yes, my window switches can be pushed in, so the buttons in the radio pod must have been retrofitted then? Every days a school day.As said the door release was the window winders and there were no buttons next to the radio. If your winders can be pushed in then that’s the door openers and the buttons next to the radio are a later addition.
Do you have the front roof catch? My car had that fitted as a recal in summer 2000.
My car does have a front roof latch.
And yes they were supposed to be disabled once you were moving but they must have forgotten that on my car.
There were a few incidence of the targa panel coming off at speed, including a journalist I think, so there was a TVR recall. I went to see my dealer and he showed me a plastic bag with a small tube of glue which constituted the recall, they were instructed to reglue the windscreen surround seal.
Clearly that wasn't the cause of the problem as a couple of months later I got another recall to get the front targa catch retrofitted which seemed to solve the problem.
spitfire4v8 said:
There really shouldn't be any cars running the original press-window-button door opening, they should have been updated by the dealers to the radio-side position. It was a factory bulletin. Some cars appear to have never been changed though.
Think my new one fell through the net on that one.TheCNCman said:
Think my new one fell through the net on that one.
Keep it as is it's an early feature that'll enhance the value in years to come. Did your car come with Spiders or are they a later addition? Your car probably had non-drilled discs tooI'm rebuilding the first Griffith press car at the moment and trying to keep (or revert back to) as much originality as possible. Someones replaced the black hazard light button with a later red one which I will revert back to original
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