Any advice or knowledge of this Car

[Dominic22]

Hi All

I hope to be joining you soon. I have a ZT 190 and am in negotiation to buy this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...#ht_524wt_1139

I have seen it and the seller seems a nice guy and the car seems fine, not many bells and whistles but in good shape. He has not had it very long and the owner before bought it and sold within weeks but that is because he wanted the private reg on there V8 BUX.

If this car is known to any of you that would be great, as of course I realise I am buying someone else's issues as with any used car. I was not sure if it was on your register the club hold

I am in the Midlands Near Ashby De La Zouch. Purchase price will be near the auction end price Approx £3700, which seems a good price (but opinions welcome). I am not overly mechanically minded so pointers would be helpful.

I

Kind regards

Dominic

[colintf]

Good luck, its been up for sale a lot recently!

[Tim]

Got no info to suggest its been involved in anything. Came off the production line 4th December 2003 and is a standard spec 260. Greeners is also selling his silver v8 if you are looking for choice.

[Dominic22]

Thanks for that.

Have done a check and can see there has been 3 owners, first registered 27/05/2004. With the last 2 being short, one bought for change of reg and the current so One owner upto 13/01/2011, so. Seems fullish service history, what is interesting is that when you run a check they automatically value it, this came up as £2395, which is obviously to cheap but if it did get in an accident would be interesting what the insurance valuation is. Might also look at Greeners, but this is nearer and possible a bit cheaper at close to £3500.

[lowey260]

Its definitely been talked about on here before I just cant find it, althought this could be the thread but not entirely sure??

https://www.two-sixties.co.uk/mgoc26...p-ZT260-anyone

I remember the registration and several appearances on Ebay. Really need the vin number to confirm.

[colintf]

Hi All

I hope to be joining you soon. I have a ZT 190 and am in negotiation to buy this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...#ht_524wt_1139

I have seen it and the seller seems a nice guy and the car seems fine, not many bells and whistles but in good shape. He has not had it very long and the owner before bought it and sold within weeks but that is because he wanted the private reg on there V8 BUX.

If this car is known to any of you that would be great, as of course I realise I am buying someone else's issues as with any used car. I was not sure if it was on your register the club hold

I am in the Midlands Near Ashby De La Zouch. Purchase price will be near the auction end price Approx £3700, which seems a good price (but opinions welcome). I am not overly mechanically minded so pointers would be helpful.

I

Kind regards

Dominic

I believe this to be #151

[MichaelG]

It looks good and without sunroof, electric rear windows and some other items it should be 100kg lighter. You also won't have the sunroof drain problems and you won't need to keep turning the traction control off.

Amongst the usual list of things to check, I would add (from personal experience) to check if it has ever had a full four wheel alignment, if not then the 4 cam bolts are likely seized solid and it takes a lot of work to remove, press out and replace.

On the one hand it seems it may be cheap due to the recent rapid owner changes, and you could take advantage of this. On the other hand the fact the current owner is a mechanic and selling so quick would concern me a little bit, but that is not saying there isn't a genuine reason.

If you do buy there is loads of information on all the common fixes within the forum, most of them cheap.

[Coasting]

I would be checking in addition, rear brakes, shocks, fan motor, aircon compressor etc, as these seem to be on their last legs at 60k mileage if not already attended too and these items could add up to a £2k bill

[Dominic22]

Thanks Guys. I think possibly I might need to take someone with me who knows more about these than me. I imagine it is easy to get a little misty eyed about them without looking at the practicalities. Will put some feelers out for some V8 guys around the area.

The current owner works for the ambulance service in the fleet department, so servicing and fixing them and also fire engines I think when they come in. Lovely guy and from first impressions very genuine.

[MichaelG]

Check handbrake works as the pictures have the car in-gear. Although this can be an easy fix by simply following rave instructions (MG Rover workshop manual) for the adjusters. There are even people in the forum who have come up with a design for a mod.

Don't forget those x-powers are worth a few £££££.