Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

What I should have said is that it's unlikely you'd have to re-chassis it. The vast majority we saw needed outriggers rather than the whole thing doing. The main backbone of the chassis is easy to get to and because of the easy to maintain and keep supplied with waxoyl. The outriggers on the other had are more difficult to keep clean due to the way the body mounts to the chassis. Because of this it can become a water trap and lead to excessive corrosion.
Out of the cars I was involved with with chassis work, the vast majority just had an outrigger replacement and the rest of the existing chassis tidied up.

From a financial standpoint, it may "make sense" to crash it but given there are so few cars on the market, you'd basically be doing that to walk away and buy something entirely different rather than keeping the car that you love, in the spec that you wanted. The vast majority of our customers were repeat TVR owners and in most cases, after accidents, did everything they could to get the car repaired so that they could keep them knowing that their chances of find another life for like car was fairly slim.

Good insight- thanks.

I do want a Cerbera, need to finish dicking around with my 996 first though.

It's ludicrous and not solely the issue with BMW's. I understand platform sharing and regulative restrictions very well, but it seems with every iteration, there's less and less character to cars.
Chris Bangle era was for me, the last proper BMW. Look at a Z4 and tell me it hasn't aged well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/c8lr41/leaving_a_classic_car_vintage_rally_wcgw/

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No problem. When the time comes, let me know and I'll put you in touch with my old man who has forgotten more than I'll ever know on the marque.

Thought that the problem was that TVR didn't have any driver aid electronics to save them.

I know of two that had visits to the scenery when lent to people and those people ran out of talent.

Didn't know them from before ecp but believe you, they did the same to lucas, now its just whatever they find out the back of a reject bin rebadged.

Remember watching a video of a guy in the states cutting open and comparing a half dozen oil filters, two of them were the same (but in a good wy)

Quick google will show the truth about crossland. Look at QX oils too.

I'd hardly blame the lack of driver aids on the car. Thats more to do with the driver. I personally drove 10's of thousands of miles in every modern model of TVR as well as the car from every other decade and never had an accident. My previous experience with cars to that point was all in FWD.

I blame the driver. Electronic driver aids are there to save a driver not being able to control the car.

The few later TVR I have driven were great to drive, as they were such fun. They are very different beast to a jag, nissan or aston martin with similar bhp. Were there any TVR v8 that didn't suffer from piston slap when cold?

They only produced one v8 which came in 4.2 & 4.5 variants. Due to the way they were built, they were all quite noisy on starting. Once the engine was warmed up (which was always pretty critical prior to giving them any pain) this noise would quieten. It was partly due to the pistons and partly due to valve lash which again went away when the engine was warm.

It really was a race derived unit though, with all of the Tuscan challenge cars running the engine from 1994 until the end of the series.

First cabin air filter change in my golf's life I reckon. One of my best mates helped me do the service (did 90% of it) and it went really well

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FOS must have heard the Trevor Lvrz...

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Amazing, yet possibly less so over a slightly raised drain cover.

I did a mk5 golf last year that was an original cabib filter from 2004. Took a lot of work to even get it out of the car, so full of disgusting things.
Funnily though on all the years ut had been serviced at main line dealers there was a tick and an invoice detailing cabin filter replacement...

Hah. Lord March & Google are listening to us.

Popped up on Twitter feed. Only thing gutted about missing this year is the De Tomaso reveal.

Bastards. This was from 06

Mclaren GT about to be shown off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5RuJ1k82zU

Copenhagen and back in my Polo went fine. Only it drank a lot of oil, over a litre for ~2,300 miles. Was near the rev limiter in 5th for a lot of the motorway miles which probably wasnt the best idea. Could that be why? Or is there something actually wrong with the car

near the limiter in 5th at what speed? the limiter is normally 6250rpm.

if it's been working that hard on the motorway for long periods it's not surprising it's used a bit of oil. Assuming there's no blue smoke from the exhaust or anything?

It rev limited at a hair under 100. I dont think the speedo is too accurate as it reads 5-10km/h over what my phone said I was doing. Would there be blue smoke at idle if that was the problem? I never saw any smoke out the rear view but then I wasnt looking for it

100mph in top at the limiter is probably about right for the 1.0.

Can you find this sticker in the boot under the carpet? it should have the engine and gearbox code which will verify

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Yeah I wasnt expecting much from the tiny engine. Impressed a 20 year old car managed ~40 miles to the gallon though. Do you think thatll be why it ate so much oil? I'll check for the sticker in a sec