Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club Forum

2 sub-zero morning but not as must frost as previously and no repeat of the problems so far

There are still quite a few around although many have donated their interiors to other R8s.

Thank you for your excellent guidance :clapping The battery seems fine and the passenger door is working with the CDL so my first suspicions are it's the mechanical side and I've be out with the WD40 and the chain lube. When using the key to lock/unlock, something I haven't done for a very long time...

The recent freeze has caused my coupe's driver's door lock to freeze on a couple of occasions and I'm trying to work out if it's an easy fix or something starting to wear out. On the first cold morning the CDL unlocked only the passenger door and I had to raise the internal button on the driver's do...

Nigel B wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 31, 2018 10:46 pm

Happy new year to one and all, and to a successful 30th Anniversary year for the R8

Thank you Nigel, it's going to be a busy and fun year!

Buying a cabriolet in the Winter - brave, clever or both!

Hope to see you out and about during 2019

2019 is a good year to get back into your lovely R8

Finally got time to read the Autocar article. Clear that the myth of it being based on R8 comes from an incomplete reading of it. Although it says it was initially based on an R8 floorpan the article also states this was later changed to a new one, with associated rear suspension change. I do find ...

...and those on the International Space Station too !

A couple of engine stands a would come in handy. Could anyone lend us one of two please?

1234dist wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:33 pm

Gonna need more tiles

Part tiles for display, part clear for working

Area: 114sqm That's enormous! :o That's twice as large as we had last year :clapping That's 5 or 6 cars, depending on how much working space we allow ourselves. We have one offer of an R8 416 for a 'mild makeover' - what other offers do you have? Remember no painting, welding etc and if it's major ...

Great to have you back

Great to see the testing is going well

Having ordered one of the new mugs, it has arrived safely and was extremely well wrapped, now I have to decide whether to put it to good use and have a coffee ☕ or leave it on display 😎 You should have bought 2 and kept one for display use only. Just like R8s themselves :-) Glad you're happy with t...