SD1 Foolery - ROVER 2600 SE - now with FIXED head gasket

[Guest Breadvan72]

Barried all to fuck.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

looks good apart from the stuff the seller has done!!!

[cort16]

The vitesse front spoiler is all kinds of wrong on that. It's got the same suspension as my one had (given it's the same guy who's selling), which is actually surprisingly good.

[SamR380]

Ha! Surprisingly good until you reach a speed bump, of which there are many on my estate. I also can't get in the car park at work. Not that I'd change it.

 

If you're gonna do Barry... do it right!

 

[SamR380]

BV, is that chrome name strip on the back of yours standard? I'm learning how to be a geek at these and something about the chrome trim/plastic bumper combo is making me twitch.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Boggo.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Weekend in Cornwall

 

[jonny69]

How the fuck have I managed to miss this thread? Fit car. Fit interior. I think my penis would look slightly longer with the V8, too.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Minor sunroof faff.   When driving at high speed the roof comes slightly open at the front right, so that at the rear right it sits slightly low. It does not appear to let in water, but I think that the wind noise is increased. One of the SD1's relatively few vices in use is wind noise, so adding to this isn't a good idea. I don't mind the noise, of course, when I choose to have the sunroof open 

I can't see an obvious fix at the moment, but will do some jiggling.

[Skizzer]

Sunroofs are the work of Satan.  Scrap it.

[EssDeeWon]

Most sunroofs on these cars were sealed off with black gaffer tape by the late 80s / early 90s

[EssDeeWon]

Do it

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Acording to SD1 wonkery in Facebook, there is an adjustment screw underneath the runners that should fix this.  I will give it a try.

[cort16]

The motor is in the boot. Obviously

[Guest Breadvan72]

There is no motor. It's a manually operated sunroof.

[cort16]

A manual sunroof on an SE. Weird. Mine was an S and was fully electronix.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Manual seems to have been the spec for 1982 judging by the brochure.  A power sunroof might have been an option on yours. 

[anonymous user]

Much better to have a manual roof, it gives you that chance of getting out of the car when the central locking locks you in.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Too many cars, so going to sell the Rover, but it is above shite pricing.  I have put it on car and classic.


http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C739724

 

[Junkman]

 

Why are you using a crocodile hand puppet to arrange your Glengarry?

[SamR380]

Still looking good, bronze tints are proper classy.

[Guest Breadvan72]

This thread started off in mid 2015 with me wondering whether to buy a mid noughties Jaguar X Type Estate.  I went off that idea and, encouraged by various feckless loons on here, I bought an SD1 instead.

 

As it happened, I ended up buying a mid noughties X Type Estate last November (so far seems to be OK), and in the recent past I had rather gone off the Rover, so it had been sat on its arse for a while. Until tonight, that is, when on a random whim I took it out for a night drive on ye countrye lanes, and was reminded what a good car it is.  Hey, it even has headlights that illuminate more than a metre in front of the car (X Type take note).

 

The car has a couple of minor niggles at present.  The low coolant light keeps coming on even though there is plenty of coolant, and the low oil light also comes onfor a few seconds after starting even though the oil is up to the top of the dipstick.  The oil pressure gauge is lacking a feed at present. These are, however, small matters. The small bit of bleb that the car had near its tailgate when I bought it has not got any worse in 18 months, but a bit of grot has started on the rear passenger door. Otherwise, all good.

 

I still might try to sell the Rover in a bit, as it is to be honest a bit surplus to requirements, and I could do with a few quid.  Rofflage would involve a bit of an expensive ticket, although the chance of getting a much better than average SD1 for (say) something under £100 might appeal to some. Anyway, in the meantime I must drive the car more.  It's really quite a good thing.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

They are lovely cars. They're quite undervalued in my view.

[Junkman]

Hey, it even has headlights that illuminate more than a metre in front of the car (X Type take note).

You know, I always thought the trade off of this newfangled globaltosh dazzling the living daylights

out of my sore old eyes is that their drivers can see all the way to Norfolk at night, but having driven

some of this novel clobber recently, I also noticed that one can't see shit.

So effectively, they burn away my retina for sod all benefit.

 

Well, why am I not surprised?

[Junkman]

PS, I hooned home from Glossop tonight, the scenic route via Marple Bridge, with almost 75% of ye goode olde Sealede Beamse working.

I could see stuff I haven't even seen by daylight!

[Guest Breadvan72]

Yup, the lights on the SD1 are acetastical.  The Dolomite lights are dire, but it is from the proper olden days.  The modern Jag lights are totes shizbat.

 

PS: go to bed.

[Cleon-Fonte]

The low coolant light keeps coming on even though there is plenty of coolant, and the low oil light also comes onfor a few seconds after starting even though the oil is up to the top of the dipstick. 

 

They all do that, sir.

[Junkman]

The Dolomite lights are dire, but it is from the proper olden days.

 

I bet they have been replaced with this semi newfangled H4 bollox.

Rip them out and put back proper Sealed Beams.

[Junkman]

PS, gentlemen actually don't drive by night.

[Bren]

Do not sell. Just drive and enjoy.