Rather impulsively I brought Dr Z (see registration plate) from the Bay of E without seeing it for £581. I know it was a stupid thing to do, but I liked the colour and it has nice seats
.The seller’s description turned out to be very accurate, Good Body work, clean interior and smokes like a damp barbeque
.I submitted the winning bid at about 9pm on a Friday evening.
I phoned Ken and Dave to let them know I had now become an MG owner in my own right; both where very happy that their efforts of persuasion over the past months had finally paid off
.Dave who some of you may know, is a very local community minded person and can regularly be found supporting many of his local public houses on a Friday evening, was in an extremely jolly frame of mind and insisted on taking me to Thetford the next morning to collect the car.
As promised Dave turned on Saturday looking a tad under the weather, after Cath & I asked if he was ok, he insisted he was fine and had probably eaten a dodgy piece of fruit on his tour of his local hostelries
. After a quick brew (Dave refused the offer of Cath’s legendary Bacon Sarnies, can’t think why) we set off in Dave’s Blue F. The trip to Thetford was very pleasant, a nice sunny day, top down and Dave’s F purring like a Tiger with a full belly. An hour and half later we arrived at Thetford. I looked over the car (don’t really know why as I didn’t have a clue what to look for), filled out the paperwork and handed over my luncheon vouchers we headed back home with Dave following behind in case of a breakdown.
I did notice a puff of smoke when I pulled away but it didn’t seem too bad. Result I thought to myself this car isn’t a sick as the seller had thought.
Well Dave and I had sorted out a place to grab a quick brew and something to eat (if Dave was well enough) on the way up, as we pulled in I did notice a bit more smoke but still didn’t think it was that bad, That was until Dave got out of his car and looked like the Fireman from the Flying Scotsman
.Let this be a lesson to all F/TF owners, don’t follow a heavily smoking ZT-T CDTi with the roof down
.After our pit stop Dave was looking a bit healthier, this may have been due to a rather greasy but tasty cheese burger or the fact he wasn’t breathing in pure diesel fumes we set off for home down some nice country lanes with a few nice long straights. As some may have read from a previous post, I don’t mind putting my foot down now and then, after all I did overtake Master Yoda in Project Shed while driving my work van
, I decided to see what this poorly MG ZT-T would do and was very pleasantly surprised. Dr Z accelerated like the proverbial S**T of a shovel and cornered like it was on rails 
. Well after getting the car home and having a few people check it out, the common diagnosis was Injector problems (what’s all that about, I have only just found out what spark plugs do).
Ken managed to find a guy in Borehamwood who has a T4, so arrangements were made to take Dr Z over.
Now bearing in mind Cath has an MGF and most of the people we have associated with in the MG world are F/TF owners, you can imagine how relived I was to find that Kenton is as passionate about ZT’s as most of us are about F/TF’s.
If anyone on here has a ZT or 75 that needs checking out, I really can’t recommend Kenton enough. He only works on ZT/75’s and has a genuine passion for these cars and just as important, takes pride in his work.
Below is a link to his profile on the 75 – ZT forum
http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/m ... hp?u=23084
Well I won’t bore you all with the details of the work Kenton carried out, I will save that for the
http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/index.php
The upshot is after 7 days in Kenton’s very capable hands I am now the proud owner of a 2003, MGZT-T CDTi, with 160,000 miles on the clock that run’s like a train, purrs like a cat and doesn’t suffer from any smoking what so ever, even on start up
Gary
