Bentley Turbo R

I drove one every now and then in college, for work. I remember that it had some issues with the brakes, the master cylinders. It was a rather fast tank.

 

I hope you have some sort of idea about how much money these cars cost to service. You can buy one for cheap, but keeping it on the road will cost you a fortune. You now have to remember you are looking at a car that as approching 15 years old. Any car that age is going to require some sort of service.

The engines are good..but are knowen for popping head gaskets...$$$$. The braking system on these cars are VERY complex as they are mineral oil systems. To do any kind of repair requires a speacialist that knows the system inside and out in order to keep the cost of repair to a bareable level.

The transmissions are GM internals..so it can be rebuilt by any competent trans shop.

These cars are HEAVY so the suspension sytems are also very heavy duty..the frame is an amazing peice to look at from undernieth. But with it comes the cost of suspension parts and the labor to replace them. The bushings for the raidius arms are very common to go and will cause a clunk noise in the front when truning...expensive and time consuming to repair.

The radiators use a plastic tank design which is prone to cracking. The CIS system is good but the engine electrical is not. The wiring under the hood can look like spagetti and is very difficult to trace and reapir many because of the fact that many of the wires are of the same color and don't appear to have any logic to them.

Exhaust manifold gaskets like to leak..easy to fix youself from undernieth and cheap.

And engine rebuild could easly hit 40k piston rings alone are 3k.

Just be sure if you are really looking at buying one, to find a mechanic to fix it first! You need an expert, not just a guy who does the odd one..but sombody that lives and breaths RR and Bently. This will save you money in the long run by not haveing to pay sombody to guess at problems.

I myself will no longer work on the cars.

HTH

Tom

 

LOL!! YES, YES, and YES!!

I hope I haven't dicouraged you from looking at these cars to much, but I feel that people should be awear of what they are getting in to. I would hate to see anybody wind up with a car they hate because a sales person did not tell them the straight goods on the cars.