After 15 years I took the plunge two weeks ago and purchased my first GTA....
Whilst general sound the girl needs some TLC and I need to gain knowledge, pretty quickly from fellow owners.......
Having owned a Scimitar GTE in another life I know what a great source of help and knowledge fellow users and a good club is... However having used and looked at the web site for a while I can't see any local clubs This could be that we are few and far between? The Wilts/Glouscester area seems to contain 4 or 5 owners however and there are many like me who initially haven't entered a location so there could be more!
Whats the way forward on this i.e. to set a local Alpine meet once a month or so in a pub - Do I flag this as an idea on the Meeting Forum or contact the individuals directly? Is anyone else doing this and I am looking at wrong area of the web site?
Now the can you help techy bit? I am reasonably handy with a wrench but you have all been there before?
1 First job, check all the plugs... that was a fun way to spend an hour or two!...I'll get quicker once I've bought some 8" nose pliers...however, I couldn't find any ref to a plug gap in the hand book or engine manual.. Whats the gap supposed to be, these looked c. 0.80mm...
2 I knew the rear brakes were binding when I bought her and the first dry weekend I discovered the nearside H/Brake cable was beyond hope...... I had fun discovering the brake units seem to be from the front of a BX ? Am I right? Also fun trying to push the piston back.. yes I know now how its works.... Thanks Dad who owned a BX and has a good memory!
Q: Having cut the cable end off and drillled out the locating MS sheath from the Alloy housing of the calpier (what a botch)I now need to find a replacement cable... I am beting its a Citreon BX Cable also am i right?
3 One other problem thats gone away I hope.... after leaving the car hot after say for 15 mins the damn thing spins over but won't start.... the clean up of the plugs might have helped plus the download of the manual from your site suggests foot to the floor on a hot engine and so far things are better in this department...anything else I should look at?
Well thats as far as i have got and yes windows don't go down on one side and yes the heated rear window doesn't work, on the plus side my fuel guage seems OK touch wood!........Thansk for the tip on switch illumination... 97p and I can see my elec window switch in the dark (not that it does anything when I press it!)
If you want to post this on a forum, pls do so... I guess I'll get stuck in
to doing this when I feel less like the new boy!
Motoring just got fun again...
Pls see my Emerald Green - Original Spec Colour G plated GTA Turbo.. this is the car featured in 1990 what car against a 300ZX I believe ....
Look forward to meeting up some day...
Peter Doyle
Water Eaton
Swindon
Wiltshire
Thanks Stephen for your reply to my email and posting my ramblings... and PeterG for suggestions. Clive/Stuart - I like the idea of the Highwayman, at least for a start, if we don't like it we can always move somewhere else next time around.... How about a kick off meet middle of next week? Gives us a chance to round up a few more locals?
