Three hundred thousand miles so far
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Zeb74 said:
This is amazing!
This is as impressive as a million miles in a Volvo
And just by curiosity, have you done a lot of work on the engine? I know some owners with factory engines who are very happy and some with rebuilt ones having troubles.
For it's first 12 years (2004-16) this was my only car, so if I needed to drive I needed to drive the TVR. If anything has ever needed replacing or fixing it always has been done. The big question is always about the engine. Well, it got to about 160,000 miles before anything major needed doing at which point Power sorted out the top end and converted it to a 4.3l. At the time they offered a new block too but I declined as I want to keep the original if possible. However a few years later I had a persistent coolant loss. This took 18 months to trace. It was the tiniest hole in the block that would only 'appear' when the engine was really hot. Not just 'trackday session hot' but 'a few constant hours driving hot'. However pressure testing cannot be done with a super hot engine so tracking this down was nigh on impossible so a replacement block was fitted at about 240,000 miles, again by Power. This is as impressive as a million miles in a Volvo
And just by curiosity, have you done a lot of work on the engine? I know some owners with factory engines who are very happy and some with rebuilt ones having troubles.
Obviously 300,000 miles slightly alters your perception of what is or isn't a consumable. I think we are on clutch number 7. No idea how many tyres I have got through, definitely plenty of engine mounts but I am impressesed how many parts are still working ....... I don't think too many people expect any car to cover this many miles let alone a sports car. Especailly a TVR, if conventional wisdom is to be believed. The front has been resprayed a few times, stonechips are inevitable, particularly if there are a few trackdays a year thrown in.
So apart from the engine work and the Nitrons the car is pretty close to standard as it left the factory. I spec'ed it with the factory and bought it from The TVR Centre in Barnet. When this closed I followed the guys (Martin, Graeme and Skippy) from there to Hertford, Ware and now Bishops Stortford at Hilton and Moss. Between them the guys have serviced the car 50 times! I believe that Graeme's first PDI when he started was on this car so he has a long history with it and he probably knows the quirks of the car as well as I do. Every now and again I get the guys at Top Cats to sort out the geometry set up and between their work, Powers work and the regular work from Skippy and Graeme the car is going better than ever, as any one at Cadwell last week can attest (I hope). The one 'upgrade' missing is slightly better brakes. Sometime ago I had some better discs from CL but sadly I believe they are no longer available, if any one knows otherwise please let me know....
Snaaakeey said:
Wow!
Also that flip paint must have been a bugger to match with a front end respray. I want mine done but I keep getting warned off with "they will never get a good match".
Not sure who warned you. I was told by one 'painter' that though the paint was expensive matching wasn't a big problem, after all it's alsorts of different colours already........Also that flip paint must have been a bugger to match with a front end respray. I want mine done but I keep getting warned off with "they will never get a good match".
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