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[wuvvum]

I bought another Rover today.  Another R3, in fact.  It was pretty local by my standards - Kings Lynn.  I went over on the bus this morning (train was 24 quid, bus was 6, and they took almost exactly the same time.  Plus being on the top deck of the bus I was able to do some over-hedge chod-spotting - star spot was a tidy white GS estate). 

 

Here it is in all its splendour:

 

 

It looks as giffertastic as any other 200, but it's one of these.

 

 

Which means it has one of these.

 

 

It also has a fancy half-leather interior and a bit more wood trim than the SDI.  It has a bit of grot round the arches but isn't in bad nick overall.  It does however have a seriously noisy wheel bearing which will need looking at soon.

 

It drove back fine, and the temp gauge stayed rock steady.  Oil and coolant are both the colours they should be.  It goes like the clappers too - it's definitely quicker than the SDI.  OK, in a 5th gear roll-on at 50mph, the diesel would leave it for dead, but going for it through the gears it's noticeably faster (especially when the OMG VTEC YO kicks in at 4,000 revs), and it pissed off a couple of moderns on the A47.

 

Not sure what the long term plans are for it yet - I'll probably get a wheel bearing for it and see how it drives once that's quietened down, and it has a towbar which I'm going to nab for the diesel, but after that we'll have to see.

 

 

I also bought another Mondeo yesterday.  This was a bit more of a mission as it entailed getting a train to Poggleswade, but still relatively localish compared to some.  In theory it's the same as the other one (a 2.0 TDCi Zetec), albeit a couple of years newer.  In fact it's much better equipped - it has cruise control and a trip computer, which are both useful additions, and digital climate control which I'm less fussed about. 

 

It's done a few more miles than the other car, but it seems to have been well maintained, and it had new injectors 6K miles ago so hopefully they'll last for a while yet.  Its main problem is a parasitic electrical drain which flattens the battery overnight - I'm going to have to investigate this this week.  If I can sort it I'll swap the towbar over from the blue one and use this as my tow car / long distance transport - it has 9 months' test left on it, the blue one is now completely out of MOT.  Don't know quite what I'm going to do with the blue one - it still runs fine but the flywheel is getting noisy so not sure if it's worth spending out to MOT it before selling or whether I'd be better off bridging it.

 

Here's a picture of the new one, for what it's worth:

 

[saucedoctor]

Lovely stuff. Not too many Vi models left. Back of the net.

[TRW]

I like the understatement of the Vi compared to a BRM, should clean up quite well in Nightfire too.

 

Well bought.

[Cavcraft]

There's a real appeal to those Rovers, top bombing.

[320touring]

There's no real appeal to those Rovers, top bombing.

EFA

 

Well bought:)

[Station]

Do these have the TorSen LSD differential?

[Tartan58]

Always thought these were a bit of a boring bubble after the R8 but now I reckon in Mk1 guise they're a rather handsome well proportioned car.

Quite fancy sticking the engine from one of those in my Streetwise when* the HG goes boom.

[wuvvum]

Do these have the TorSen LSD differential?

Nope.  I think the BRM got the LSD but the VI didn't.  BRM had different gearbox ratios too.

[Noel Tidybeard]

these were suposed to be called vvc until they noticed the badge looked like it said wc lol phact