Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club Forum

In short, yes.

Pretty much all the warning signs.

Explosion is pressuring of the coolant system.
Mayo oil n water mixing obvious.
Cold engine, air lock, see above.

I’ve used Shiply 10-11 times now with only one car having an issue which had come from Switzerland for full resto and some how they managed to nearly rip the front bumper off.

Ball park is usually £1 per mile but depending on the jobs the courier has, sometimes it’s cheaper.

Based on our conversations, you did the right thing.

Shame it's not coming here to play with though, i'll have space soon.

I would have said cat and lambda but as these are already completed I would consider a part top end rebuild. My reason for that is your car is (at a guess) around 20 years old and has probably never had it done. So all the o-rings will be old and hard, the inlet gasket will probably be fit for nothi...

Leak in your recirc/dump valve.
If electronic boost controller might also be an issue.

Now the hard part, finding the replacement.

Or join the club and be a paid member and you’ll get access to the current, new and back catalogue of the club magazine which has pics from previous events and when the next ones are.

Is it drivable?

Steering rack on its way out

As a paid member you get the club magazine that has all the days of everything planned, some of the dates get mentioned on here if they are large.

sjdcov wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 20, 2019 8:06 pm

Hello all,

As for picking possibly the most well known car we have as a first step into classic and rover ownership and having had the pleasure of both working on it and driving it, you will definitely have a worthy contender for some time.

Now I know why you wanted all the work done.

Just replace the cts first, it’s not uncommon to have to replace them every year thanks to carp Chinese sensors.

Don’t buy cheapies from eBay get the Land Rover version.

Now I never do these normally as I rarely find an exceptional product, more it does what it says on the tin so whatever. I've recently bought a 5cy diesel Mercedes and anyone familiar with 5cy engines know they have a strange soundtrack while on idle, so much so I was thinking one of the injectors w...