Rosso pearl anyone?

[kerniki]

Has anyone got a picy of their Tiv on here in Rosso pearl, as i'm traveling to Devon tommorow to look at a 5.0 Chimp in that very colour and wanted some idea.

Cheers, Nik

[sybaseian]

quote:Has anyone got a picy of their Tiv on here in Rosso pearl, as i'm traveling to Devon tommorow to look at a 5.0 Chimp in that very colour and wanted some idea.

Cheers, Nik

Just a point, but the early Rosso pearl tends to fade quiet badly compared to other colours and is a pain to colour match if you need a respray - TVR have since brought out Rosso2 which was designed to stop the fading. Don't ask me why it fades as I have no idea. If you want to check for fading open the doors and look at the inside, that should tell you if there is any fading.

Ian - Blue Chimaera 500

[kerniki]

Good advise, thanks, I'll check it out, mind you a lighter shade I would'nt mind, colour matching is a good point though! cheers.

[MikeyT]

Go to the classis on here and look for the Rosso Cerbera on the second advert page in the Cerbie section.

I saw a 5.0 Chimaera at a local garage last year R reg, and it had quite bad fading on the rear panel below the no plate and also on the bootid.

There are 'similar' colours I think that don't suffer from this problem.

[macca]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stephen.mcaneaney/ or my profile

PS

I've just uploaded a picture of the boot lid after it was resprayed to show how different the colour looks in different light. The whole car was resprayed a year ago and has not faded (not yet, anyway)

>> Edited by macca on Friday 3rd May 23:18

[mickrw]

Nik

My Chim is a Rosso pearl, '98 vintage with no fading. Had some work done on the front which Webbs needed to colur match. However they did point out that this is the most difficult colour to match as it is known to fade. Have a look at the Chim photos on the Yahoo TVR group.

Buy it!

Mick

[lateconvert]

Fernhurst's told me that Rosso2 fades as well so they haven't cracked the problem. I was keen on the colour when buying but advice put me off. Ended up with Viper GTS pearl - very happy with it.

[kerniki]

Thanks for all yer input guys, whent and had a look, drove and consequently bought it this morning, can't wait to pick it up next week, the power difference and smoothness between the 4.0 and 5.0 is quite amazing!

ps cheers for the pics Macca! looks nice, hope you caught the guy trying to nick it!

>> Edited by kerniki on Saturday 4th May 14:36

[sybaseian]

quote:
Thanks for all yer input guys, whent and had a look, drove and consequently bought it this morning, can't wait to pick it up next week, the power difference and smoothness between the 4.0 and 5.0 is quite amazing!

ps cheers for the pics Macca! looks nice, hope you caught the guy trying to nick it!

>> Edited by kerniki on Saturday 4th May 14:36

Hope you kept your old 17" wheels are swapping them over - very tasty.

[kerniki]

Oh yeh, the wheels, AP brakes, Nitron shocks and all the alloy bits, I had to leave my car there for the transplant poor old girl, bank holiday too, and I bet it rains next weekend when I pick it up