Elise driver looking at buying a GS

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Janus

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thank you very much for your quick replies!
I overlooked that one probably because it is located in Sicily... hefty price though, a good 10k€ more than what I have seen elsewhere...
(I asked their export price)

Who knows how many bianco Fuji MCVs where produced, I read somewhere on a french car homepage 20 units?
 
hodroyd

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Bianco Fuji MCV's are rare, MCV's are rare in fact, a good sorted GS with remap, sports exhaust etc is almost as good as an MCV and can offer you around 450 bhp, very quick and excellent road holding. Clutch at 58% is getting ready for a change, but saying that it depends how you drive and in what road conditions, if it's long distance runs it will last, lot's of traffic it won't. Mine is almost always in sport and I drive it fast, when I get to 55/60% I am ready to change the clutch, but that's just me..!!
 
jluis

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Good god, are those winter tyres?
You drive that precious Italian car in snow+salt covered roads?!
 
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Andy + VMSRTI thank you!!

@hodroyd: you are right, while typing yesterday I thought the same, I can find 15k€ cheaper than the Sicily car, but they are all black or silver, not that I don't like those colours but when I spend my hard earned money I want the colour I wish...
A blue GS would be my second choice, but I must say I like those alcantara dashboards :)

It was the same when I was looking for my Alfa Bertone, I could have bought a 2000GTV for a lot less, but I wanted a red 1750gtv, and thank god I found one. (There are only 7 like mine in Luxembourg and almost 30 2000gtvs...)

jluis said:
Good god, are those winter tyres?
You drive that precious Italian car in snow+salt covered roads?!
Click to expand...

These were the (period looking) summer tyres which came with the car. Now I drive on semi-slicks. I don't even drive it in the wet... during winter she is stored in a permabag
 
Andyk

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There were two whites bianco and a non metallic...That is the non metallic......That looks lovely with the blue alcantara matching the blue carbon on the outside.
 
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gentlemen, I might have news in a few days, even if the price is too high, (and the seller knows it) we must keep the fingers crossed...

meanwhile I tried to search the archives, but I can`t find... (I`m in a hurry) the car has 40 something on the odometer, and I told the salesman that it needs a big service at 50k kms, and I remember that I read somewhere that this service can be
expensive, what is the going rate for this service, what does the service include? Does it automatically include a clutch change? (I think I search with the wrong words)

many thanks

(one more sleepless night)
 
StuartW

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Hello & hopefully congratulations in a few days.

Someone with more GS knowledge than me should be along shortly but no regular service, however major, will include a clutch change - they will be changed as and when necessary.

Good luck and we hope for news soon
 
safrane

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It will all be down to what has been done before.
An annual which is just fluids and filters is from £500-700 +VAT at a decent garage. The other service add things on like gearbox oils and filter, spark plugs, fuel cannister, aux drive belts. However if these were done out of sinc they may not require it. I had my GS major serviced at Emblem last summer for about £1300.

clutch is down to wear % or slipping gears...FYI I get aprox 1000 miles per 1% from the three I have owned but the GS has not changed in 8k???
 
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