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Low Mileage not necessarily a good thing.

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Post by Crista » Wed May 09, 2018 6:17 pm

Next job on my recently purchased 2.0i..... wheels off and brakes strip. This is the offside front disc inner face at 4 years old and 15k miles. The braking felt absolutely fine but this corrosion is never gonna wear in. Surprised it wasn’t an MOT advisory as it’s a loss of about 25/30 % braking surface. Obviously putting new discs and pads back on - all round.
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Post by Nictrix » Wed May 09, 2018 6:41 pm

The 8 year old 50,000 miles ones I was trying to give away look in better condition than those
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Post by RustyZ4 » Wed May 09, 2018 6:52 pm

A good friend of mine services TVR`s, and he always says that low mileage cars give him more work than the regularly used ones, as like he says cars are designed to be driven, when they sit doing nothing, they corrode, gaskets dry out etc
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Post by Maniac » Wed May 09, 2018 8:14 pm

RustyZ4 wrote: Wed May 09, 2018 6:52 pm A good friend of mine services TVR`s, and he always says that low mileage cars give him more work than the regularly used ones, as like he says cars are designed to be driven, when they sit doing nothing, they corrode, gaskets dry out etc
The main reason low mileage cars are rarely the gift they appear to be is due to the type of use. Many short trips, town driving etc is just no good for mechanicals.

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Post by JimsZ » Wed May 09, 2018 8:19 pm

lived by the coast by any chance...?
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Post by Mr Tidy » Wed May 09, 2018 8:20 pm

Yes, any car needs to be used regularly.

I know everybody reckons TVRs are unreliable, but it's probably because most are 2nd cars. Some years ago I knew of someone who had a Chimaera that he used as a daily and he had no problems with it!
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Post by Crista » Wed May 09, 2018 8:35 pm

Yes right by the coast. To be honest I exepected a few bits like this as the car has spent a long time just stood on the first owners drive so the discs are always gonna suffer. Everything that matters is fine, so it’s just a few consumable bits to change and then use it like it was meant to be used.

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Post by JimsZ » Wed May 09, 2018 9:07 pm

Ditto, I bought a coastal car once a few years back... suffered corrosion similar to this and more beside to the underside with more corrosion on ARB`s, shock mounts, brake lines etc. still purchased it as with a bit of TLC it was easily tidied up so a good deal and all parts were easily changeable. :thumbsup:
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Post by Crista » Thu May 10, 2018 9:59 am

There - that’s better - £50 a corner to look like it should ain’t so bad.
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Post by StephenM » Thu May 17, 2018 6:56 pm

Very good - what does £50 a corner actually buy please - your picture looks great and a real credit to you
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Post by Crista » Fri May 18, 2018 6:22 am

It was £216 ( so £54 a corner really ) from Eurocarparts over bank holiday weekend for new discs and pads all round plus front and rear wear sensors. The shield behind the disc was easy to clean and repaint with the discs removed and the same with the callipers - clean and repaint. Paint used was Halfords heat resistant calliper silver - sprayed in a cup and then brushed on. The wear sensors I didn’t actually fit as there was very little wear on the pads - they were just worn unevenly by the corrosion on the discs. That meant I didn’t have to mess around resetting the brake service indicators until I learn a bit more about the car and how to do it. The indicators were still at 35000 front and 20000 rear anyway which at my mileage will take forever. I also took the opportunity to clean up and rust roof (with ACF 50) every fitting that had any corrosion on it and repainted the shock absorbers with Hammerite Satin Black. The brackets that hold the ABS and Wear Sensor cables on the inner bulkhead were completely rusted so I removed those, scaled and repainted also in the satin black. All of the under wing plastic shield securing fittings I removed and greased. It now looks like 15k miles should look like. I’m now working my way around the rear suspension and sub frame underneath as there are lots of area where corrosion has set in prematurely ( IMO ). I’m removing what I can eg thrust plate ( I think that’s what it’s called ) to scale and repaint. I’m rust proofing anything I can’t remove at the moment. There are a lot of delicate fittings under there eg ride height sensors that would give trouble in the future if not sorted now and all this work makes things much easier to remove in the future as and when necessary. It is my intention, either this winter or next, to drop the rear sub frame and suspension entirely to clean and repaint everything as it should have been in the first. Is all of this necessary? - probably not but I just love faffing around in my man cave.

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Post by ihadablackdog » Fri May 18, 2018 6:19 pm

Have your wheels been refurbed?
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Post by Crista » Fri May 18, 2018 7:25 pm

No they are original and have been lightly kerbed in a few places which I’ve touched up and then polished the s**t out of them. Intention is to get them refurbished when I buy my “all season tires” so that the fitting is free and I’ll probably get the TPMS valves changed at the same time as all the labour is covered by the refurbish which is £55 a wheel - well worth it.

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Post by ihadablackdog » Fri May 18, 2018 8:13 pm

They do look very clean though.

I bought some carchem "revolt" (fallout remover) this week and am going to give my wheels a good soaking, hopefully get rid of the black bits!

Also getting new pads and discs all round......the selling dealer (back in March) lied to me about the car having all new pads/discs all round...basically they got busted, and have paid my local dealer to do the job! £598 retail!!!!!
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Post by Crista » Fri May 18, 2018 8:25 pm

Still a good result though ihadablackdog. When I bought my car I thought the brakes were good but now I’ve done all the discs and pads, I’ve realised how good they weren’t.

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