VX Repairing

[Zorak]

Well thats all good advice so I'm gonna buy one, now I was talking to a guy that owns a 1999 VX and we were looking his car over and I was kind of drawn to the spark plug units, I never seen them set up like that with red flat connectors on them and he said they were a Ferrari design. Is that true? and that the body is Stainless Steel?

Ferrari design spark plugs? stainless steel body?

Hope the "guy" is not a member of this board...

[curtains]

Ferrari design spark plugs? stainless steel body?

Hope the "guy" is not a member of this board...

Yea, I think he was kinda strecthing the facts a little........

[Kenny]

I want to buy a VX but I don't want to do the repairs myself .....

I hope you're not set in stone on that , you might find getting underneath and getting greasy, banged-up, shaved skin, etc... is half the fun with the VX. Comparatively it's quite an easy vehicle to work on, I think.

Cheers!

[tbigity]

i wonder if the guy trying to sell to curtains is the guy that posted that one for sale a while back that was rediculously priced and then he started lambasting all of us when we told him what we thought...talking about how rare of a vehicle it was, and all this and that blah blah blah. Trying to educate/sell the largest repository of knowledge (this forum) on the vehicle with some of the basic "neatos" of it.

Sounds like it could be the same guy to me. I'd watch out. If you (curtains) give us more info (VIN, mileage, shape) the group here could give a realistic idea of what to pay.

[curtains]

i was under the impression the VX was never intended to be a production vehicle.. i mean assembly was finished by hand if i remember correctly.. if youve ever taken it apart, definately seems probable given the relative ease to take everything apart and put it back together and what production car is hand built?, i also seem to remember reading that our cladding was pressed in a ceramic mold that was only designed to make 5k i think the fact that some VXs were sitting on lots in 02 had little to do with the stoppage of production

Thats unbelievable. hand built, if thats true I used to work on my opel manta when I was a kid I changed the radiator, water pump everything so it sounds like its not as complicated as I thought.

[curtains]

i wonder if the guy trying to sell to curtains is the guy that posted that one for sale a while back that was rediculously priced and then he started lambasting all of us when we told him what we thought...talking about how rare of a vehicle it was, and all this and that blah blah blah. Trying to educate/sell the largest repository of knowledge (this forum) on the vehicle with some of the basic "neatos" of it.

Sounds like it could be the same guy to me. I'd watch out. If you (curtains) give us more info (VIN, mileage, shape) the group here could give a realistic idea of what to pay.

Yea The VX I'm talking about is a silver one with about 77,000 miles on it and the vin# is jaccn57x4x7991458 his name is scott he couldn't sell it for 14,000 so he put it back on e-bay you can see it but there is only 10 hrs left.

[etlsport]

of course he couldnt sell it for 14k! its a 99 and had almost 80k miles on it... almost any search you do for a VX will turn up a newer vx with lower mileage or lower price.. or both

i bought mine from a dealer for under 14k and its an 01 w/ (at the time) 39k miles

[tbigity]

i gotta say...they are the best vehicles out there, no doubt about that...but some people just get it. Especially supply and demand. While they may be hot little rigs, the only people that would pay what they are technically worth (to enthusiasts) are the enthusiasts...who already have them and are prolly not in the market for another. Cheeky monkey

[vrsvx]

So SPAZZ are these coilovers hard to take off? This is my first VX and even though I have 63k on mine I wanted to know how hard it is to take off and change plugs?

[Triathlete]

Just as easy as changing any other plugs.

[nfpgasmask]

Changing the plugs isn't bad but the back right hand side one is a bugger...

Bart

So SPAZZ are these coilovers hard to take off? This is my first VX and even though I have 63k on mine I wanted to know how hard it is to take off and change plugs?

[vrsvx]

Thanks guy's...................