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View Poll Results: How is your 75/ZT used?
Daily Driven 274 72.30%
Weekends only 55 14.51%
Currently off the road 15 3.96%
No longer own a 75/ZT 35 9.23%
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Old 12th October 2017, 17:52   #31
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I run both a saloon and tourer ( Kermit and the fishing truck) year round, although i try not to use kermit if they have salted the roads in winter.
I will give Lydia Kermit when the time comes where she can afford to insure him.
I think my next fishing truck will have to be a 180 tourer as i don't do fantastic mileage, usually to work and the bank side of a River or pond which are around the York area.....
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Old 12th October 2017, 17:54   #32
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I hear so many say "it owes me this and that" I could never come to terms with how this comes about.
You buy a car for £1000, keep it for two years and spend another £1000 on servicing and parts, I'm sorry but its not worth £2000, it just doesn't work that way.
Can't agree with you. I have bought some really unloved ZT/ZTTs and spent money upgrading to higher spec SE level with leather electric seats, satnav, apex alloys with £100 tyres, powerfold mirrors, aircon regassing, a second key, sunroof drains and a damn good paint treatment. Have done the usual reliability mods to prevent a breakdown out and about including replacing hoses, master and slave cylinders, gold resistor, etc etc.

I don't expect to recover all my costs if I sell any, but I do expect the going price for the mileage and spec which is about £2-£2,500 for a good one.

I can't bear to see a clean ZT going for scrap or breaking, especially monograms, because of a few unsolved electrical or mechanical problems, and at to-days prices they are affordable to buy and repair.

Currently I have 5 ZTs and 5 ZTTs. One Mark 1 of each, obviously 4 Mark 2 of each. All are 2.5kv6 except a Mark 2 1.8T ZT that I only bought because it was in Aurora. If a 2.5 high spec in Aurora comes along I would sell the 1.8T. I have one of each on the road at any one time plus my project car. The others are on sorn. This reduces to one in the winter on salted roads. I have one set of winter tyres on straights.

As yet, no sign of corrosion anywhere and that is after 13 years. None are garaged but are regularly washed with a good car shampoo and fleece mitt/two buckets and polished with spray-on carnauba wax with multifibre cloths, regularly washed in mild soap powder, immediately afterwards whilst the surface is clean. I do clay regularly as they live outside and use plenty of Dynax-50 regularly underneath and into box section drain holes using the long flexible lance.

Gradually cleaning, derusting, painting and Shutz spraying underneath after removing suspension components when a ramp in vacant at my local garage.

They are extremely aesthetically pleasing to me, particularly the ZTTs and I just enjoy looking at them as well as working on them. I am completely happy with my ZTs and can't see me having any other car. They are so smooth and comfortable on a long journey at 70mph. Annual mileage no more than 5,000 collectively even with children in Halifax and Sheffield although one probably moving to Edinburgh next year so not paying over the odds to run a thirstier than normal petrol car.

I don't want to appear to be boasting but I have to confess to owning 2 x 3.5 litre Vanden Plas Rover SD1s, the EFI being a 1983 Motor Show exhibit, and a 1978 manual Triumph Stag in Tahiti Blue with only 61,000 on the clock, but with cylinder head gasket problems. I will get these back on the road sometime.

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Old 12th October 2017, 17:54   #33
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Had my first one for only two months I'm 25 bought as my first car as they are quality machines. I've had a full service and changed a few bits and bobs on it but for 300 quid I can't go wrong and I intend to keep it for as long as I can
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Old 12th October 2017, 18:10   #34
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I'm a sunday driver when it comes to the 75. I work 3 days a week, one day I travel by train, the other 2 the wife and I go in her car. Her car was the sunday car and we had a civic as the daily car. The 75 came along out went the civic and the Honda Accord was down graded.

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Old 12th October 2017, 18:32   #35
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I'm on my 2nd 75 mind you I've owned my tourer since she was 11 months old when I part ex'd my previous V6 saloon. She's used every day and now has 178,000 miles on her clock and is still on her original injectors, alternator, starter motor , radiator ,etc. Everything that has been changed i'd call consumables such as clutch , thermostat and fuel pumps and she is used everyday for my wife to drive to work which is a 50 mile round trip and we also use her for our holiday transport whether in the UK or abroad. We driven her to France and Spain more times than I can remember and only 2 weeks ago we returned from a drive to Lake Garda in Italy. This car just eats the miles .

I don't see the relationship with this car ending anytime soon !
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Old 12th October 2017, 18:42   #36
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I now have 2 cars (zt190, zt-t180) for my sins. These are used as daily drivers and depends on what mood I am in as to what I drive or if any are having work done on them.
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Old 12th October 2017, 18:50   #37
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I have both a 75 cdti my daily, covering 700 miles a week. I have covered 28k since January this year - ITP, suspension bushes, lower suspension arm and set of tyres. Total spend excluding Insurance Tax and Fuel but included car purchase £1700. My ZT S/C V8 is my weekend fun, annual service cost only.
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Old 12th October 2017, 18:52   #38
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Not a daily drive (retired) but do about 100m/week. Had it 4yrs spent about £600 on it,in those years. Would not part with it no matter how much SWMBO complains about getting in and out. Got a real wood dash on order ,fitted a wince sat nav and when money available would like to change seats to cream instead of the black. When i am standing by front door thinking to myself "Best looking car in the street". Pure AMBIENCE.
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Old 12th October 2017, 19:11   #39
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My ZT is now occasionally used in the weeks and mainly at weekends.

Day to day I have a company car
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Old 12th October 2017, 19:13   #40
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Its my daily car - if it needs to be - but I am now semi-retired.

Had the car 2 years now, and mileage is now 55,000 ( was 29,000 when I got it ). Hopefully lots of life still left in a diesel auto.

Other than a new set of tyres and brake pads and general servicing, everything I've done has just be cosmetic and guilding the lily, However I hope to have a top hose thermostat fitted at this weekends NANO meeting.

Wish I had bought a 75 long before I eventually did.
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