Posted By: AyliCarper
New member in Hertfordshire - 11/02/2021 15:20
Hello All
Just a quick hello for a new member. I had an Electric Blue 20VNA ten or so years ago, loved it, but it didn't have an unscratched/undented/unloved panel on it. And I could never get comfortable in the seat, which I blamed on slippery leather seats.
Ten or so years later with only the good memories of it lasting, I found a very sweet Portofino Blue 20VT for sale, with fabric seats, in December 2020. The back having got a bit better (strong recommendation for Treat Your Own Back by Robin Mckenzie much better than a million painkillers/physios/accupuncturists and especially chiropractors) I couldn't resist it.
It's on 77K miles all MOTs FSH garaged pampered and recent hoses cambelt and etceteras. (Original sale ad still on Car and Classic C1292898.)
I've never had a car with such an immaculate engine bay, frightens the life out of me.
I'd bought it largely on the fact that on a test drive it wasn't playing a symphony of rattles and creaks, or at least it didn't seem to. Driving it since getting it the sunroof sounded like an irritated teacher tapping a fountain pen on a corridor window when they've seen you eating your lunch in a laboratory. It was driving me nuts. Shade open shut or in between made no difference, but the felt pads trick on here solved it. And then the gradually door lock and then close failure was solved by advice from here. Thank you!
The throttle is still doing something a bit funny, like jamming on. The return spring on the engine end was covered in what looked like set hard white grease, which mainly needed cleaning off and never having been put on in the first place. I've been driving it a bit like a 20s Rolls-Royce to compensate, and it suits that driving style alarmingly well.
You might be appalled at me driving it everywhere with the flimsiest excuse given the current weather but I've washed the salt off and, if you've never driven your car in the snow, you've never really driven it have you?
But I still can't get comfortable in the seat.
Just a quick hello for a new member. I had an Electric Blue 20VNA ten or so years ago, loved it, but it didn't have an unscratched/undented/unloved panel on it. And I could never get comfortable in the seat, which I blamed on slippery leather seats.
Ten or so years later with only the good memories of it lasting, I found a very sweet Portofino Blue 20VT for sale, with fabric seats, in December 2020. The back having got a bit better (strong recommendation for Treat Your Own Back by Robin Mckenzie much better than a million painkillers/physios/accupuncturists and especially chiropractors) I couldn't resist it.
It's on 77K miles all MOTs FSH garaged pampered and recent hoses cambelt and etceteras. (Original sale ad still on Car and Classic C1292898.)
I've never had a car with such an immaculate engine bay, frightens the life out of me.
I'd bought it largely on the fact that on a test drive it wasn't playing a symphony of rattles and creaks, or at least it didn't seem to. Driving it since getting it the sunroof sounded like an irritated teacher tapping a fountain pen on a corridor window when they've seen you eating your lunch in a laboratory. It was driving me nuts. Shade open shut or in between made no difference, but the felt pads trick on here solved it. And then the gradually door lock and then close failure was solved by advice from here. Thank you!
The throttle is still doing something a bit funny, like jamming on. The return spring on the engine end was covered in what looked like set hard white grease, which mainly needed cleaning off and never having been put on in the first place. I've been driving it a bit like a 20s Rolls-Royce to compensate, and it suits that driving style alarmingly well.
You might be appalled at me driving it everywhere with the flimsiest excuse given the current weather but I've washed the salt off and, if you've never driven your car in the snow, you've never really driven it have you?
But I still can't get comfortable in the seat.