oak green 16v (teard drops finnaly on her)

[Wayne]

its my fualt in a way as had alot of rover turbos before returning to vags and she used to love them. also had quite a few mg zs's and zrs so she's looking at them.

Diesels are ok, petrols eat headgaskets.

[rich1977]

to be fair its only the k series engines that kill headgaskets.

the t series that is found in all the 2.0 petrol turbos are fine, there was a problem with oil seeping from the front right hand corner but that was sorted in 94 when the klinger 2 layer gasket was fitted. its a great engine and doesnt get the credit it deserves tbh

anyway im still working on her to keep me in vws as realy dont want a sodding rover with a bright orange grill and tarts red interior

[thai-wronghorse]

God I hate these motors and it seems im not the only one.




   The pensioner's favourite car crappily modified.... by its manufacturers!

The Rover BRM was limited edition based on the Rover 200, (dreadful piece of crap). Released in 98 and withdrawn in 99 it is supposed to be based on a BRM Formula 1 car. It's enough to leave Graham Hill spinning in his grave with its puke-inducing orange grille and fake aluminium trim. The red leather seats and carpet are straight out of a bondage den! The launch price of this car was £18000! You would have had to be clinically insane to pay that for a dressed-up Rover 200 that's older than Jupiter. Several price reductions hastily followed however and they are still treasured today by a few enthusiastic morons.   





Dutch Carmagazine "Autoweek" mentioned the following issue.

The German AA (ADAC) released it's 2001 statistics.

It seems that the Rover 200 performs very bad in reliability. With 45,6 stranded cars/1000 cars it is outperformed by every car in it's class.

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/23072010/36/t2/top-ten-worst-cars-0.html

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/rover/200-1995?section=bad

http://www.topgear.com/uk/jeremy-clarkson/clarkson-rover-200-01-1997

LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi3vWN7n8VA

[Bellend]

Even the Honda engines do headgaskets. 

They only seem to damage the gaskets tho, not the heads.

[rich1977]

can we now keep th topic on my current car lol

[rich1977]

went to pick the rims up from martz today 250 mile round trip and she never missed a beat and averaged a nice 36 mpg at a average speed of 72mph 

anyway heres the rims freshly refurbed by martz standard teardrop rims in white with gunmetall tears and smoothed centres well happy with the results unfortunatly got a guy viewing her monday so she might be gone

anyway as always opinions good or bad

[tech1889]

sits really nice on them wheels mate.. shame your gettin rid..

[rich1977]

well ive told her indoors I aint letting her go for less than the £1.8k so hopefully guy wont pay that and I get to keep her a bit longer to give me time to try an sort funding for a 2nd car so I can keep her

[tech1889]

Sounds like the best option especially after paying for the wheels to be done all nice..

[Wayne]

Looking good, fingers crossed you can keep it after sorting the wheels.