TVR Moment

[tvr5000]

After my mate being in the fold for a few weeks now he's finally experience a TVR moment.
Pulls into a garage, all eyes turn to see whats making that fantastic noise. 6ft 2 bloke gets out, which is a feet on its own, fills up, pays, then gets back in. Pulls the door too and it bounces back open again. Trys again a few more times, same thing. People watching and shaking their heads. So does the proper poser thing and puts his arm out the window to hold the door shut and sets off home looking like a plum Anyway, on the way back he runs over a TVR mechanic, ie a pothole!!! The bump sorts the door out and everythings rosey again. Its amazing how many niggles a good bump can sort out!!

[MADMAX2]

I took a girlfriend out parked up to go to cinema same thing happened passenger door wouldnt shut she said we shouldnt miss the start! anywayyyyyyyyyy we did! i figured it out to slighty put a little pressure on the top of door and it would shut!.... the end of it .... nooooo i got my mini tool kit out and adjusted it there and then while she was still waiting patiently and patiently and patiently ........ i never did see her again!!!!!!!!!!!! her loss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[V8 Animal]

MADMAX2 said:

I took a girlfriend out parked up to go to cinema same thing happened passenger door wouldnt shut she said we shouldnt miss the start! anywayyyyyyyyyy we did! i figured it out to slighty put a little pressure on the top of door and it would shut!.... the end of it .... nooooo i got my mini tool kit out and adjusted it there and then while she was still waiting patiently and patiently and patiently ........ i never did see her again!!!!!!!!!!!! her loss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My car did the same thing on the same door and i did the same thing to shut it but it took me a while to find out how to shut meanwhile it was bucketing it down we both got soaked and it happened at london thunder and if you were there you know how wet it was.
And it's never happened again lol and wlfey still with me even though she uttered crap car!

[WokingWedger]

In my experience (limited I admit) the doors not staying shut is often caused by the cable release mechanism being out of adjustment. Quite often all that is needed is to centralise the interior opening knob. If adjusted properly it will do this itself.

[Red V8]

WokingWedger said:

In my experience (limited I admit) the doors not staying shut is often caused by the cable release mechanism being out of adjustment. Quite often all that is needed is to centralise the interior opening knob. If adjusted properly it will do this itself.

I Concur... had this happen to me on a few occasions... more often than not when my 10 year old opens the door, I put it down to his heavy handed use of the inner door release, he can get it to happen 5 times out of 10... which is odd, when I can't get it to happen at all. Easily rectified by moving the release the other way and back again... Probably a sticky cable or something, but I found it easier to simply ban him from travelling in the TVR.

[900T-R]

'Zactly - with mine, once in a while the knob (oooh err) won't centralise itself and the door bounces back when you try to shut it. As long as it's one in a hundred times rather than one in ten, I don't mind...