Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club Forum

You need to talk to Dist & Jonny 216gsi or try doing a search but it's not very good.

Noisy tappets? Clean air filter & spark plugs?

If you've sorted the ig'n, I would consider blocked injectors; a good slug of fuel injector cleaner at regular intervals, fill up at the ESSO/B.P/SHELL pumps and drive it.

Just 5 on the road......

1900 Sunday lunch 13th Jan!

For real or playing the market, I can answer my own question there, new bidder zero feedback so probably a twunt.

Seller will remove that I expect so 1850.

Emissions testing certainly for petrol engined cars of our vintage have not changed. What may have changed is the fitment of cheap pattern components by owners! I've just noticed that oxygen sensors for D16 Twin Cams are no longer available, what are Rimmers playing at?

What are they like in a crosswind on an exposed stretch of motorway?

I owned a very similar shaped little Mazda and it was lethal in crosswinds, couldn't do more than 50MPH without getting blown into the next lane. It taught me just how aerodynamic the simple '3 box shape' is.

Keep quite about that!

:welcome These are tough old cars! things to watch, which you're possibly aware of! are the window waist rail/seal and the hood frame links that snap I believe. I would invest in a decent hood cover at least, once the water finds a way in after a while, it quickly gets worse. I had a MGF that I park...

Happy New Year John!

86k isn't low miles in my book I have to ask, as this piqued my curiosity. What would you consider "low mileage" on a 28yr old car? It's done an average of 3,000 miles P.A, when 10-12k P.A. is usually considered "average" mileage. You would certainly not say a 3 year old car with 9,000 miles on it,...

He's flogged the centre caps, there is no headlining [windscreen leak?], no drivers door lock/central locking and 86k isn't low miles in my book.

He at least tells you what's wrong with it to be fair though; I wouldn't buy another without inspecting the subframe first.

Welcome back!

Night Fire Red
Needs a head gasket [ possibly] but still a bargain if you can diy! 55,000 miles, looks very straight.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-214-SL ... rk:22:pf:0

Better than wasting money on an overpriced cappuccino machine!

According to the Honda Engine Overhaul Manual, the only difference to the twin cam cylinder heads is between cat & non cat engines. The difference lies in the design of the camshafts [different valve timing] so you want either an early head that's pre-cat or the later head. The two engines had a dif...