Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club Forum

Mr Teddy Bear wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 18, 2018 8:25 pm

Prices are certainly firmer in Germany than over here!

How ironic is that?

In other news, since replacing the door seal and fitting the new interior wind noise is reduced, except for the new top seal/trim on the windscreen which seems to cause quite a bit more wind noise than the old knackered one. Did your screen guy fit one of those standard rounded header strips which ...

Often wondered if I could make some oval pieces the same size as the oval cut-outs in the mudguards, but with tapered sides on fairly thick material - 2-3mm or more. These might then push in to the holes and not "pull through." With a hole in the centre of each one to take new screws, this might be...

220 GSi turbo wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:51 pm

You don't need to own one of 'our' cars to be welcome here

... but it does give you something to talk about!

Starting from where you are, maybe conversion to Bosch ABS would provide greater longevity?
This doesn't share the characteristic failure of complex components that are a feature of the Honda ALB system.

I'm happy that the hoses are correct for the car. I also have a K8 carb-fitted car, owned from new, unfortunately also not presently road-legal, that has a rather different layout, which isn't too far removed from the SPi arrangement. Both the carb and SPi have a warming circuit for the inlet manifo...

Do let us know how the bush press works out for you. Been thinking about getting one myself, as the last bush replacement job I did was torrid!

I don't think the new thermostat was Rover-bagged, but it did come from Rimmer's. I'm pretty sure I boil tested it and the original one and found them pretty similar. I can no longer hear any bubbles rattling in accessible hoses, having chased what was there along to the top of the radiator, where t...

I’ve got myself in a state of paranoia about the head gasket in a 214 R8 (K16 MPi) I rescued on a ‘spares or repair’ basis, advertised with HG issues a couple of years ago. I stripped all the hoses and radiator and cleaned and flushed them all individually, and added new water pump, thermostat timin...

1234dist wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:50 am

They just couldn't get more similar to the rover model could they

They did manage to with the Diesel variant!

Didn't make reserve above. Now up via the Photoshoppers of Peterborough at £2.3k: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283108967018

That photo's familiar to me from several months ago. May have been Gumtree, I've forgotten what the asking price was originally.

There's talk elsewhere on the web that OAT eats copper. If it's true, that might mean a R8 radiator (depending on any replacements), but definitely a R8 heater matrix would be at peril.

GTiJohn wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 11, 2018 5:17 pm

This one is already over £200 so it looks as if it's not the project car for us....

Are we likely to find a sub-£200 one these days that doesn't need several hundred's worth of rot repair?

(Comment probably inspired by what I spent my day tinkering with!)

Perilous!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263834972005