Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club Forum

You could compare the battery drain (ignition off) with the alternator both in circuit and unplugged, to get a pointer towards an internal short. Additionally if there was a 'hot electrics' aroma when the engine was driving the alternator, that also would suggest an internal fault such as a shorted ...

GTiJohn wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 18, 2020 8:53 am

That can happen but it's a higher-pitched squeal

Ah. The OP didn't mention whether we were considering a "woody" sound or a "tinny" sound.
Don't know which would be preferable.

I've had something akin to this. The characteristics of the sound suggested metallic resonance.
I wondered if dried-out horn slip rings might have excited the contact fingers.
As I've failed to extract my horn push, I've not yet tracked it down.

Johnny 216GSi wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:22 pm

The Wynns RTV gasket maker looks like it has good credentials:

https://www.eurocarparts.com/p/wynns-bl ... -555770660

I've been very impressed with that stuff.

O-rings are pretty much a commodity product, so it's most unlikely that Honda designed a custom part.
If you can establish the size, then any of many suppliers could supply a suitable item in a degradation-resistant material such as Viton.

Your garage do seem to need a lot of hand-holding!

I think Rimmers' part info notes are misleading. The lower arm assemblies do differentiate between ABS/non-ABS, but that is just a matter of a small tapped hole for a wiring loom clip.
The bushes EGP1854 and EFP3228 are common to both, according to my reading of the EPC, not as Rimmers' has it.

There's currently listed a 216SLi breaker at Albert Looms in Derby:
https://www.albertlooms.com/content.aspx?id=10

Its MoT history is still available, rear end rot, nothing mentioned about the front end.
A bit of a trek on the off-chance, but perhaps some nearer member could take a peek?

You'd give yourself the best chance if you have a wiring diagram for the model and year of your car, and a multimeter.

You did test the switch on its own when you had the door card off didn't you? I've had a wire break in the body-to-door loom on my R8. When I investigated, I found all the individual wire insulations very brittle. I would anticipate that a crack in the insulation would localise the flexing of the co...

Oh yes. Spent ages releasing it from a breaker 70 miles from home. Got home in the dark and rain, just carrying it into the garage when the glass let go!
OTOH, trying to remove glass from one with damaged plastics took about an hour.

A bit more digging, it's nothing local: It's not expired - Expires Thursday, 13 August 2020 at 00:59:59 British Summer Time It's that "This certificate was signed by an unknown authority." In our case that's cPanel, Inc. Who are quite well known to humans! The other site failures were for similar re...

As title. This site is getting flagged by Safari as having an expired certificate today. Another couple of sites I refer to daily have become similarly affected, but most are OK.
Anyone else seeing this? If it's a subscription problem, end of the month is tomorrow, not today!

Dorchester wrote: ↑

Wed May 20, 2020 5:59 pm

Stunned to see so many 75, 25 and TF, and comparatively so few 200, and above all & mainly so few cabriolets...

Might be that the age of the 200 family 11 years ago made them particularly susceptible to the UK government's
scrappage scheme of the period.

Read it as "early MPi" rather than "early K-Series".

Cromp85 wrote: ↑

Mon May 11, 2020 12:56 pm

It's Rover so you never know

That's the entire side though. I haven't checked with photos, but maybe, unlike the fuel filler, the radio antenna aperture did swap sides?