COLLECTED: Rover 75 (Dealer 'Launch' Spec)

[Roverageous]

Gulp...

[HMC]

Top work that man!!

[Tam]

Gulp...

Damson red?

[Snipes]

Do the launch and pre-prod. cars have anything that makes them sought after? Or is it just interesting to the MG-R "lickers"?

[Roverageous]

Damson red?

 

Indeedymouses.

[Guest Hooli]

By the sounds of it, they get all the toys.

[alcyonecorporation]

foem

[BorniteIdentity]

Gulp...

Relax...

[oldcars]

We will soon have out own 75 meets on here, growing collection now. Love reading about these early ones.

[barefoot]

SFQ, but the tourers are relatively late, are they any good or in the eyes of the cognoscenti stripped out?

[Roverageous]

I appear to own a damson red rover.

 

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[oldcars]

Winner, might have a drink this weekend and see what happens on ebay 

[Roverageous]

Winner, might have a drink this weekend and see what happens on ebay

Do it.

 

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[oldcars]

Do it.

 

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Do you have pics of the new winner waggon?

[Roverageous]

Do you have pics of the new winner waggon?

Only the ones that were on the auction. I can't collect for a couple of weeks yet when I may be able to have a day off work!

 

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[BorniteIdentity]

Checked levels for the first time this morning.  (Embarrassingly, I just didn't have time or daylight last week)

 

• Oil is good.  Only 2000 miles old but 18 months in there and it's quite oily.  I'll be getting that out at some stage soon.
• Coolant is low.  Annoying really, as I've no way of telling if it's gone down or has been low for ages.  I've bought some new OAT and will monitor.

Obviously I'm soiling myself over HGF prospects, despite it being very rare in the V6 cars.  I think it's just expense that I'm allergic to.

 

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[Roverageous]

Checked levels for the first time this morning. (Embarrassingly, I just didn't have time or daylight last week)

 

• Oil is good. Only 2000 miles old but 18 months in there and it's quite oily. I'll be getting that out at some stage soon.
• Coolant is low. Annoying really, as I've no way of telling if it's gone down or has been low for ages. I've bought some new OAT and will monitor.

Obviously I'm soiling myself over HGF prospects, despite it being very rare in the V6 cars. I think it's just expense that I'm allergic to.

 

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Wouldn't worry overly about the coolant. May well need a new thermostat though as the housing becomes brittle and cracks - hence lose water!

 

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[EssDeeWon]

It'll be fine...  Mine took quite alot of water when I bought it, and the old boy used to carry water in the boot so  did start thinking HGF, but it was fine, I had the thermostat housing done, now it requires a small top up every month or so, but only a slight weep from one of the coolant rails.

 

Have you checked the fan works?  Carried out the demist test?

[BorniteIdentity]

Excuse my layman's terms... But you mean the fan that comes on when stuck in traffic etc? Yes it kicked in the other day. From memory there's a test I'm supposed to do involving the demisters tho yes?

 

Sorry to sound thick AF. I'm actually quite bright. Honest... (!)

[EssDeeWon]

Yes, the engine cooling fan. It should have the old 3-speed unit on there unless its been upgraded to the 2-speed gold resister mod at some point.

 

What happens is the copper brushes wear down inside the unit so you lose the lower two speeds hence leaving you with just the high speed fan that kicks in after 120oC which is abit too late!

 

The demist test checks you have a lower fan speed which kicks in after around 96oC 

 

Start the car and from cold and press the demist button (with aircon off) you should see the fan operating in lower speed.

 

Also, run the car using the onboard diagnostic temp mode, ignore the actual temperature gauge on these cars, they are heavily dampered and stay in the middle in nearly all conditions  i.e. Useless! 

 

Want to know how to know the 'actual' coolant temperature??

[EssDeeWon]

Step 1.  Press and hold in the mileage trip reset button until the screen clears....(after about 10 seconds)

 

 

Step 2.  Press the button in '19' times until you get to number 19 on the screen...

 

Step 3.  You will then see it flash up ON / OFF and so on and repeated every few seconds, with 'OFF' displayed press the button in once only...

 

Step 4.  Then repeat step 2 by pressing the button 7 times until you get to '7.0'

 

You will now see your coolant temp displayed like below, where this car is at 76oc

 

[BorniteIdentity]

Thanks so much mate. I will check the coolant tempt next time I'm driving the car. Sadly the fan doesn't work on low speed, so it's going to need attention.

 

Is it DIY or best to get someone who knows the cars to do it?

[oldcars]

You got a bargain, check this one out 

 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C827843

[Roverageous]

The stuff above is really useful and IMO something all 75ers should be made aware of.

 

Number "9" is battery voltage which can be useful too!

 

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[Roverageous]

The stuff above is really useful and IMO something all 75ers should be made aware of.

 

Number "9" is battery voltage which can be useful too!

 

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Also if you want to use this without resetting the trip counter, press the button in before you turn the ignition on

 

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[Parky]

The Bini had a similar setup, quite useful finding all these features. In car Easter Eggs if you will

[Mally]

Is there a basic, simple model that I'd understand?

[EssDeeWon]

Thanks so much mate. I will check the coolant tempt next time I'm driving the car. Sadly the fan doesn't work on low speed, so it's going to need attention.

 

Is it DIY or best to get someone who knows the cars to do it?

 

Get it tested properly first, ideally by a Rover friendly garage with a T4 or some decent diagnostic kit.   It is probably worn brushes in the fan but sometimes it can be a sender unit fault that tells the fan when to come on.

 

i.e. My 75 is odd because the demist test works 'But' the fan does not kick in when it should i.e. at 100oC. Your Rover does not always need the fan so this is fine for normal driving but if I do ever hit traffic and using the on board digital temp gauge I stick the fan on if it goes past 96oc, How do I do that??  Basically by triggering the air con on 'LO' and with 'econ' off triggers the fan to spin, hey presto, temp soon comes back down again in no time.  

 

Not ideal I know, but fan replacement with all the gubbins is a front bumper off job.

 

Don't worry, I have a list of jobs to get done on mine somewhere and it looks like a new loo roll, the fan replacement is on there somewhere near the top!!

[Roverageous]

EssDeeWon,

 

Why does the fan come on at low speed when demist is selected?

 

Thanks

Ben

Is used for the air con system if your fan doesn't come on you'll end up cooking your air-conditioning compressor.

 

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[EssDeeWon]

Thanks Roverageous, and sorry Ben I missed your earlier question.

 

Roverageus explained it better than I would have done anyway