Kenneth_Mc_Testes' ROVER 45 V6 JATCO JUS KICKED IN Y0

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Exciting times!!!! Just booked a train ticket to go and pick this up!!!

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-ROVER-45-2LT-V6-CLUB-24V-AUTO-VERY-RARE-CAR-LOVELY-SPEC-AIR-ALLOYS-/281903280036

 

Train ticket from Derby to Reading: £70

5 individual tickets for each leg of the same journey on the same flipping train: £36.

 

I can't wait to see what a 2.0 KV6 is like, must be supa silky smooth, I am well excited even if CAR magazine voted this one of their 4 biggest lemons of the year in 2001 due to its badly-matched engine and box combo. What do they know?

[Kiltox]

Advert says it's a nice thing at least twice, sold

[vulgalour]

wow, didn't know those came with a KV6 in them.

[Bren]

Looks nice.

 

Get underneath and check the front footwells - they seem to suffer a bit on these.

[andrew e]

On your journey marvel* at this feat of Victorian engineering, 5 minutes before you reach Reading.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Railway_Bridge

[Lord Sterling]

Sweet purchase there McBollox. Shame it doesn't have leather for that ultra luxurious junior-Rover 75 feel, but I guess that's down to, personal taste.

 

I've seen and heard a few 2.0 V6 75s passing by me, they honestly sound glorious and I'm wondering if these sounds similar?

[Noel Tidybeard]

wow, didn't know those came with a KV6 in them.

oh do keep up, that man

[Junkman]

I imagine it's all about long legged relaxed cruising, instead of firecracking forward thrustisation, or let's say that's what I hope these are like.

Having them on my radar myself, I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's first hand report - if it makes the trip without grenaderising.

[KruJoe]

Shame about the cracked bumper, but the rest looks flipping mint for £295+P+P.

 

Does anyone have a scan of that shitty 'Car' review, or a link?

(Google shows naff all.)

[Guest Lord Sward]

We should starve CAR the oxygen of publicity over that review.

[sloth]

my old man had an x reg 25 is brand new. a lad at the dealer had a late 200 with a 2.5 kv6 conversion. apparently it was a bit spicy. 

 

 

oh and i drove an mg zs one of these last year. very nice car. 

[Guest Lord Sward]

Incidentally, I've got 2 brand new ABS reluctor rings in stock for 45/ZS.  And 70 boxed gift pen sets created for prospective 45 test drivers, from back in the day.

[sloth]

how much for a gift pen laird swaird?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've got a pair of Rover 25/45 pens! Predictably neither of them work though.

[Cavcraft]

I can't wait to see what the KV6 is like, too.

 

 

When do you collect?

[r.welfare]

Wow! A sale with "carsofnoreservereading" that seems to have completed!

 

It's a fair trek from the station (2 or 3 miles) so I can give you a lift if you want.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Wow thanks L_Werfare!!!! I was going to get a taxi but wouldnt object to a lift of course due to being a mega skinflint. Train gets in at 7.10 (tomorrow evening). Is that much of a bind for you?

[twosmoke300]

I imagine it's all about long legged relaxed cruising, instead of firecracking forward thrustisation, or let's say that's what I hope these are like.

Having them on my radar myself, I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's first hand report - if it makes the trip without grenaderising.

 

Negative ghostrider .

The KV6 2.0 manual I drove was stupidly low geared . It wouldnt be able to get out of its own way otherwise

[dollywobbler]

Double the Capers fun today then. May our journeys go well! I think you probably win though.

[dave21478]

It will be interesting to see how you get on at that place. A couple of threads on another forum I read a while back suggested they were a bunch of cunts, but I suspect they were written by people expecting main dealer style facilities including designer coffee.

[UltraWomble]

And 70 boxed gift pen sets created for prospective 45 test drivers, from back in the day.

Parker Jotters? Sell me one if they are?

 

Lush purchase there Msr. Bo11.

[Skizzer]

Pretty car.  I think that'll bring an outrageous amount of pleasure for £295.

 

I very much liked the 2.0 KV6 in my old 75.  The acceleration wasn't rapid, but that just meant you could enjoy the lovely woofly noise for longer before you got up to speed.  There was more power lurking somewhere up the rev band, but it felt undignified to go up there looking for it.

 

 

By 2001, CAR was all about lap times and schoolboy humour.  I'm not surprised they didn't like it.  With gearboxes, as with life, the trick is to find the joy within it, not dogmatically to impose your own demands:  Phil Llewellin understood this and would have written a different (and entirely better) story.

[Alexg]

Parker Jotters? Sell me one if they are?

 

 

The early ones probably were, but by 2005 they'll be like the ones you get in Argos

[Alexg]

Good luck with it Bollox, should be a winner as the guys only had 31 negs in the past year...

 

tbf he's turned over some motors though in that time.

[oldcars]

Nice. As i have ocd i would need to get the pdr chap out for the small ding in the top of the wing.

[bramz7]

Hey, nice buy there! Interesting to see that the dealer is located a couple of miles from where I live! Some odd feedback on their ebay account, one of the negatives was for an A3 which apparently had a failed MOT, yet has a clean sheet of passes on the MOT site?! 

To be fair, I think they probably get people expecting a mint car who get all funny with niggles. 

 

Hope the collection all goes smoothly.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

With gearboxes, as with life, the trick is to find the joy within it, not dogmatically to impose your own demands: Phil Llewellin understood this and would have written a different (and entirely better) story.

So true!!!! I enjoy cooperating with the 'box in my 760, getting all shirty with it gains you NOWT.

[phil_lihp]

You've done good once again, I didn't know there even was a 2.0 KV6, will be interesting to see how it compares to the 2.0 T-Series - it probably doesn't spray quite so much oil around the engine bay.

[r.welfare]

Wow thanks L_Werfare!!!! I was going to get a taxi but wouldnt object to a lift of course due to being a mega skinflint. Train gets in at 7.10 (tomorrow evening). Is that much of a bind for you?

Blimey, will they still be open? I can swing a late one at work but need to clear it with Mrs W, will let you know by PM

[Pillock]

The terms and conditions from that place seem proper shirty at first glance, but when you read into it they are pretty fair. Bid on a car, rock up, test drive it all day, if you don't like it walk away.

They probably know their cars aren't as good as they look in pictures, they even go as far to say you'll need to spend £400 on rectification - on a £295 car, whut?