Poll: Which colour? - Poll please!

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Right,

I don't want to know about if you hate my car, if you think it looks like a tonka toy, if you think it's crap, or dislike it in anyway shape or form.

But the car is going to be resprayed at some point in the next 6 months because it needs it.

Currently it's Trophy Blue and I love it - when clean in the sun it just glows. It turns lots of heads, and is a very rewarding colour to clean. Plus the half leather seats match and look smart

These are the best pictures I have, I haven't taken any other decent ones since it's been jigged and straightened

But occasionally I see an Xpower Grey one, and think it looks subtle and gorgous. Specially with tinted windows, green calipers and blackmagic rear lights

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So people what do we think? If I went XPG I'd swap the seats for some black leather ones or grey alacantara ones, the cost would be very little as I'd get a fair whack for my seats due to their condition.

Also don't worry about costs, the resprays going to cost me the paint cost, that's it. No labour!

Thoughts please

 

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What colour seats do you have now?

The grey is nicer imo

I have half leather blue interior, I will find a pic.

Crap pic, but here you go.

 

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Black

Also get rid of the orange indicator lenses, they look crap

The mk1 has to be the only car which looks rubbish in black!

But the mk2 however...

I don't mind the orange lenses, it helps seperate it from its dirty Rover cousin

 

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White?

*runs*

There is a mk1 that's been wrapped in white and it looks lovely

 

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The problem with changing colour is it's likely to cost a lot more to do properly. What about under the bonnet etc?

Not when a family member is a sprayer and you've fixed his computers for free for years and is offering to do it any colour you like for free providing I pay for the paint

Why does a car that old need a respray?

The front end is covered in stone chips and a very big scratch on the front bumper, and overall its covered in swirl marks where previous owners have not washed it or looked after it properly.

 

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I'd still be wary of respraying a different colour. Stone chips and scratches are relatively easy to sort out and the swirl marks might be able to be polished out?

If I was doing it myself I would be wary. But someone whos been in the business a good few years, it'll be fine

The stone chips and scratch are too deep and need paint work, plus the bonnet and bumpers are from a different zed, so in certain lights the car looks like bloody patch work

 

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Thanks for the poll

 

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And you dont want to go paying to strip the thing back to a shell.
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Got a fully loaded workhshop here so that isn't an issue!

 

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That green actually looks pretty cool

 

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If you can strip it bare then do it.

But also if you go that far then give it a heart transplant too

Transplant with what?

 

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Just found another pic I had forgotten about. This is since its been jigged!

 

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That actually doesn't look too bad. Not keen on the spoiler but I quite like the venty bits on the front wings.

That spoiler I have. The vents on the side are because its a mk2

 

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Just keep it the same colour. Ridiculous amount of effort to go to doing anything but, frankly.

The amount of turd polishing thats gone on in the last year is ridiculous, surely buying a good one in the first place would have been far more prudent? You just seem to sink time and money into it for no real return. Every month something else major is replaced/bodged/whatever.

Bung it on Autotrader and buy a minter with the money you get. Stop sinking cash into this one.

What was the actual point in that post?

 

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My favorite looking MG is Dreadnought's ZT520 .

Aye, that thing is mental

 

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The point is in the last sentance is an abundantly clear. Give up with this car, palm it off on somebody else and buy yourself a nice mint MG ZS instead.

But theres nothing wrong with it.

I don't 'sink' any cash into it. Infact the last big spend out was £50 for an MOT - wow, money pit eh.

It's a car that will never ever be finished, I'll always be tinkering, fiddling, playing with it. Right now the main stuff has stopped because of money and a slight employment issue

The car runs very well indeed, it keeps me smiling, there is no need to get rid of it

 

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Ok let's see...

It was completley bent, you've had to have it rejigged

half the suspension was so damaged it wouldnt even run on a rolling road

the panel gaps were beyond hilarious

Was due to an accident it was in 3 weeks after buying it.

bits fell off every time you touched them at the last meet

The splitter was due to clipping a kerb and breaking 2 of the bolts holding it on. The door handle has been broken for ages, its a common weakspot on this car.

you've had the entire front off to replace something in the engine (Infact didnt you have the entire engine out at one point)

Me and Dad took the engine out to do the cambelts, clutch and gearbox (turns out the gearbox didn't need changing but hey ho). The cambelts were in desperate need of doing and I wasn't going to give someone £500-£700 to do it

and now the paintwork is so shabby you are contemplating a complete stripdown to sort it out!!

The paintwork when I bought it was fine, but I've done 23k in just over a year of owning the car, so it's got lots of stone chips, and a massive scratch from where the car slide when it was mega icey and the car scuffed a wall (which sucks). But it's always had the swirls etc.

Just buy a decent example in the first place and none of this hassle is neccesary! I'm amazed it passed the MOT

The car was a decent example when I bought it, a rough year of ownership has taken its toll

As far as reliability the car has been pretty solid since I've bought it, the main problem I had was the inlet plenum + vis valves, but I knew about this being a likely issue when I bought it. Nothing has ever 'broken' due to bodging brummies

 

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A whole 23k miles and you've turned a car with good paintwork into one thats shabby enough to justify a respray? If you are that 'rough' with it why bother, you'll have wrecked it again in another year!

Gives me something to do next year

 

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The above + paint job = Trigger's Broom TBH.

Na, I haven't got a medal for it yet