Tamora suspension

[rfisher]

Car is in for a service at the moment.

Apparently it is sitting on the bump stops (thought it was a bit hard around town) and came out of the factory like that.

Will cost me optimax vouchers to have this fault corrected.

What would you do?

Anyone else had this and what did you do?

[bjwoods]

Are you the first owner - Much easier to take it up with the dealer directly..

Coulkd be considered a dangerous fault, which I'm sure they would prefer to sort out foc, rather than argue 'publically' in the showroom.

I would have thought though that any reputable dealer would just sort it out, if, as described, it came out of the factory like that. The PDI SHOULD have caught it.. Not the first, from other postings, i seem to recall.

B

[rfisher]

Second owner, bought privately.

First owner bought from the dealer.

Will probably have to argue with TVR directly after I've had it fixed.

Strangely enough the car didn't handle too badly but then I haven't tried cornering at 90 on a bumpy tight bend.

[tail slide]

Found before from factory that the bump stops are unusually soft & long-travel on Tam/T350, so will still work ok if sits quite close to them when static. Should be a simple job of winding up the ride height on the spring seats - not difficult unless the seats are now hard to move.

[rfisher]

Are the spring seats adjustable?

Garage are talking about welding seats onto the car.

Are you familiar with Tamora suspension?

[sagaris22]

i have a set of tamora shocks here from my tamora?

welcome to them if cover postage?

rodger

[rfisher]

Thanks Rodger - very kind of you.

Shocks are OK apparently but the car body is low on the chassis.

I'm not sure if the seats are adjustable - I presume not as the garage are planning to weld higher seats onto the base of the shocks to raise it.

Sounds like cr@p design or manufacture to me but I still love my Tam.

[GreenV8S]

Welding, onto the outside of an assembled damper? That doesn't sound particularly clever to me. Why not just fit a spacer under the spring?

[the gazman]

GreenV8S said:

Welding, onto the outside of an assembled damper? That doesn't sound particularly clever to me. Why not just fit a spacer under the spring?

Or a longer spring, 12" instead of 11 1/2"

[trackcar]

or move the spring seat circlip to one of the other grooves on the damper body (if it hasn't got them just machine them in, 10 quid for two dampers at my local engineering shop), or buy a pair of adjustable spring platforms a-la tuscan, i keep those in stock.

[rfisher]

trackcar said:

or buy a pair of adjustable spring platforms a-la tuscan, i keep those in stock.

Jools,

I think that's the sort of thing that they are planning. Do these need welding in place?

Still like to know if this is a common problem.

[trackcar]

no, they sit on the existing circlip.

[the gazman]

Are we talking fronts or rears here, I don't think you state which.
Tuscan ones will fit on the front but not the back because they are longer on the Tammy and have 10" springs, on my ones anyway.

[tail slide]

rfisher said:

Are the spring seats adjustable? Garage are talking about welding seats onto the car. Are you familiar with Tamora suspension?

Sorry, was told Tam suspension virtually same as my T350 (& Ginetta) which does have adjustable seats - I stand corrected

[the gazman]

tail slide said:

rfisher said: Are the spring seats adjustable? Garage are talking about welding seats onto the car. Are you familiar with Tamora suspension? Sorry, was told Tam suspension virtually same as my T350 (& Ginetta) which does have adjustable seats - I stand corrected

It is but later T350's and some Tams have adjustable spring seats, early ones like the 52 plate I measured at Austec didn't.

[rfisher]

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[the gazman]

rfisher said:

Chaps - we're talking all 4 corners. Car is June 04.

Well if you haven't got adjustable spring seats and don't want to mess about with spacers or welding, either put a 25mm bigger spring on the car or consider upgrading the shocks and springs because it will handle better.
I keep up to 12" springs on the shelf, all rates.

[sagaris22]

i fitted nitrons to my tamora and hence why original ones still here

notrons made massive differance to car have to say

rodger