I'm thinking about buying a tvr s3

[scorpio]

I don't know alot about cars, but have fallen in love with the idea of getting a tvr s3 and dying to get one. I was just hoping if anyone could give a little advice on the good and bad points of the car. What things can go wrong with it, reliability, etc..

[ketvrin]

take a look in the General S Information link in here...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

then go buy one...

Welcome! now that you found your way here, theres no way out

K

[drivingfroggy]

Find one with a good chassis and go for it. You won't regret it, even when things seem bad, they're good.

[Longers]

Welcome to the forum

Where in the country are you? There's bound to be a helpful S owner nearby

Don't just limit yourself to looking for an S3 - the S2's have the same engine / performance etc and will give you more potential cars to look at.

Cheers,
Longers

[Chris71]

Longers said:

Don't just limit yourself to looking for an S3 - the S2's have the same engine / performance etc and will give you more potential cars to look at.

I ended up with an S3 (and I do slightly prefer the 2.9) but the next closest car I saw was a mechanically superb S1 which drove better than any of the other S3s I saw and in some respects better than the one I eventually bought. Also, the earlier cars do seem to be disproportionately cheaper for what is a very similar design.

Other than that it's worth repeating the comment about getting a good chassis. Make sure you look at and drive plenty as they vary hugely and not always to the current owner's description!

Other than that: Get one. For day-to-day costs they're pretty cheap to run, the performance is more than addequate, the handling is superb when correctly set up and the noise is truly spectacular.

[mep12345]

check the links above in the sticky section for the owners websites and advice on what to look for or avoid. In particular Colin's (aka Pies) site www.tvrsseries.com , and of course I have to advertise my own www.gbsportscar.com

But overall - chassis chassis and if I forgot to mention chassis - see my "little house of horrors" page for what you can find and I thought I'd done a good check, it was just well disguised.

Mark

[Wiz]

If your not in a hurry get yourself to the S club meet in June, mentioned on the forum. Plenty of cars to look at and people to talk to about them.

[Barkychoc]

....and by chassis we also include the trailing arms - thats the big steel suspension arm at the back.
Not the end of the world but quite expensive to replace unless you can do a lot of the work yourself.

[lou4010]

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