Little bit boring.

[Roverageous]

One of my little pleasures in life is the small glimmer of excitement when entrusting a journey to my shitey steed. The journey to my boring job, on boring roads, with a boring speed limit is made just that little more interesting when I'm wondering if the car will even unlock, start and drive without dumping its oil over the road and the suspension collapsing on its bump stops. In that vein I had a Rover 45 K(ettle) which fulfilled these almost contractual obligations with aplomb - however I'm more than a little disappointed with my current daily shite.

 

I have just moved from Hull to Aylesbury and decided to take on a 280,000 mile Rover 75 diesel as a stop gap car to keep me entertained. The problem is that after paying £50 to save it from the bridge, and a further £45 to get a years MOT on it (no advisories) it has cost me nothing other than fuel - and even then it's averaging 47mpg. When I go to start it on a morning, I'm now wondering whether the timed fuel fired parking heater has got it all toasty inside for me, or whether I need to fill up with fuel today - i usually don't. Last weekend I even decided to check the oil, hoping there would be something for me to fix, but alas all levels were as they were 2000 miles ago. 

 

Last night it took me 7 hours to drive back home to Hull mostly at sub 40 miles an hour because OMGSNOW - but the heater kept me warm, the cup holder held my coffee, the radio kept me entertained, and when we got home I'm sure I heard it whisper "Oh, is that it?" when I walked into the house - after the 'follow me home' lights had seen me to the door, obviously.

 

What is life.

[Lord Sterling]

It's a Rover, therefore it's only a matter of time. They eventually will go wrong, the diesels though just take a little longer.

 

I had this with my KV6 Sterling, I spent a bit of money on it getting passed the MOT and generally tidying it up, after that it never went wrong, it was comfortable, fast, fairly economical, all the electrics always worked (apart from one seat) and replaced a window switcher. Imparked it up into my storage happy knowing that it's fairly safe and out of the elements.

 

Maybe your 75 is thanking you from saving it from the scrappy and therefore behaving in a way it should?

[Split_Pin]

I'd call that a bit if a result. Reward it with an oil change and a wash, you'll feel better about it all!

[Junkman]

Oh yes, an oil change would raise the chance for something to get severely borked a thousandfold.

Refer to oil change thread.

 

You could also change the coolant, or do something similarly detrimental to a car's health.

 

Note: Always mess with a running system!

[bigstraight6]

It sounds like this car is deserving of an oil/filter change, and give the opportunity of taking a spanner to it!

[RobT]

My 75 was similarly boring on the trip back to London from Bournemouth yesterday. There were a couple of times when it seemed hesistant under load on the M3, but apart from that I had trouble staying awake it's so refined.

[RoadworkUK]

Yup: '97 KV6 825Si manual,

 

250 mile round trip on Christmas Eve to High Wycombe and back....

 

Zero dramas. Oh, CD's in slot no. 5 on the changer seem to skip more than others. That's all.

 

Good car.

[HH-R]

Buy my Panda, that will more than fulfil your "will I make it to work today" and "which electrical item can I cross off the features list this week?" quota.

[doobietoo]

Yep same problem here.....My Renner (electrical nightmare) Safrane did 260 miles to Oxford and back ... never missed a beat, everything worked including heated seats and i got 33mpg out of the inline 5  for the whole trip at a cruise controlled 70ish  Had the same problem for the last year... it just doesn't go wrong.... So i bought this ...

 

 

Just so i would have something to play with....

[I_am_Diesel]

My Dad had one and the only thing that ever went wrong was the electric fuel pump on the bulkhead went a bit intermittent. I ordered him one off the Internet but by the time it arrived the old pump had sorted itself out. Does a smashed front fog light because he hit a Muntjack count?

[Roverageous]

Well thanks* to this thread I gave the car a good looking over yesterday, and now he/she/it is ready to tackle the new year in slightly less shitey form than before.

 

I have:

1. Cleaned and hoovered the interior
2. Topped up the washer bottle
3. Swapped a couple of reserve wheels on to it, because I found the front tyre walls looked decidedly dodgy (I wouldn't actually have driven on them the other day if I had noticed - lesson learned)
4. Changed the oil and filter
5. Changed the rather clear looking coolant for a 50% OAT mix
6. Devised a makeshift exhaust strap to stop the back box clonking around

Sorted. In a couple of hours I will be heading back down south in it, and I'm blaming you lot if it explodes in flames.

[purplebargeken]

Prod the plenum drain 'cos sometimes they don't. 

[Roverageous]

So. On the way to work this morning... BANG.

 

Exhaust has fallen off.

 

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[Twiggy]

Excellent !