Rover 75 1.8t - Much love??

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Fucks sake, it looks mint

[tooSavvy]

Fucks sake, it looks mint

 

IIRC many Rover 400 [square ones] were skipped after a bump because the 'chip box thinggie' was right at the front, got mullered, and cost more than the balance of cars value.. ??

 

TS

[Zantimisfit]

Fucks sake, it looks mint

 I would have had that just to put in my garden so I could sit in it. What a shame.

 

...and in answer to the question posed above, no, I've never had a 75. But I would really like one. Trouble is even the really rough ones are 1) not that common anymore and 2) nearly 2000 quid here and I cant put that into something that is probably going to stop working shortly after. A good one will still go for 3/4000 or more. On the plus side most of the ones I see look well looked after...

 

Like this one I saw this morning and I thought was the same colour as the one on this thread

 

[EssDeeWon]

^^ Nice, that is an early one.

[barefoot]

There is something wrong with our society when a car isn't worth saving for the sake of a £400 HGF job.

It's less rhan two months payments on a new 'white goods' anything.

 

I iz upset n sad innit?

[Isaac Hunt]

If I didn't have too many cars, I'd have that for what the scrappy would give you.

 

Must be someone on here with 'a bit of time on their side' ennit

[NorthernMonkey]

There is something wrong with our society when a car isn't worth saving for the sake of a £400 HGF job.

It's less rhan two months payments on a new 'white goods' anything.

 

I iz upset n sad innit?

 

Believe me, I fought this ones corner as far as I could as I could but at the end of the day, it's a head gasket, then all the necessary MOT work not to mention discs and pads all round.

For a not particularly rare car that no-one would want to give more than £500 for in good order, then it's impossible to justify.

Still bloody annoys me, though....

[NorthernMonkey]

If it's served one purpose, though, it's opened my eyes to 75s in general. I'll be keeping an eye out for a well specced CDTi auto, preferably a tourer, although admittedly the saloons are a well proportioned design.

[trigger]

My mate has a 03 plate MG ZT 2.5 V6, i got to drive it properly last weekend and by god they are good. In fairness his has a full Powerflow exhaust system which makes it sound fantastic, it burbles on the overrun which helps to win you over, it didn't feel overly quick until you got over 3500 rpm and then it lifted it skirt up a bit.

 

Having now driven one i can really see the appeal in them, needs to be a grey one for me though. I think the same engine in the 75 was slightly detuned though?

[Guest Hooli]

Having had a couple of rides in a mate's MG ZT260, the normal ones just don't appeal the same.

[Rowver]

I've had a few 75s. The best combo is definately a diesel auto. I've got a Y reg tourer diesel auto atm. Also got a 2003 1.8t tourer that's not getting any use unfortunately but it's pretty mint really. It sounds like an odd combination for a big car with a lazy manner but it really does work quite well. Mines even more unusual as it's an auto, oh and it's got an LPG coversion too!

[Rowver]

My Y reg diesel auto

[CortinaDave]

i have a ZT 190 V6 and its bloody fantastic, especially given it cost me 400 quid with a years ticket.

 

It does a 200 mile round trip twice a week and never misses a beat, and sounds lovely.

 

You'll have to prise it out of my cold dead hands.

[SiC]

Fucks sake, it looks mint

So when is the collection for you to save this?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

There is something wrong with our society when a car isn't worth saving for the sake of a £400 HGF job.

 

 

 

 

Austerity innit.

 

Such a wasteful society, but you know how it'll end if the job's not done 145% perfectly.

[Mally]

If it's served one purpose, though, it's opened my eyes to 75s in general. I'll be keeping an eye out for a well specced CDTi auto, preferably a tourer, although admittedly the saloons are a well proportioned design.

 

I wanted a diesel tourer auto. thought that might iron all the faults out in one.

But when the next best thing turned up I bought it because..... I can do a clutch if I have to.....and wishbones......and thermostat mod....and only got 1 key,,,,

Its never ending.

[Isaac Hunt]

There is something wrong with our society when a car isn't worth saving for the sake of a £400 HGF job.

I iz upset n sad innit?

 

£400 quid, bloody hell, the last K Series HG I did cost me about £45 quid. Give you the cambelt, tensioner and water pump had been done not long before. HG, Inlet Man Gasket, re-use the stretch bolts in true shitter fashion. 35,000 on that job and still going strong. Get ya spanners out.

 

 

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[Mally]

If I needed another I'd consider this.    http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=2453642#post2453642

 

 

 

No, I'd have bought it by now.

[Felly Magic]

I honestly don't know why there is blubbing on here about a car that is not financially worth repairing, because even in full working order it is worth very little. It could be an ideal donor car to keep others on the road, think about it from that perspective, especially as now spares are starting to get thinner on the ground

[NorthernMonkey]

If I needed another I'd consider this. http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=2453642#post2453642

 

 

 

 

No, I'd have bought it by now.

Bloody hell. Just confirms the realistic value of mine, unfortunately.

I know I was supposed to be looking at diesel tourers but, just but...

[Mally]

20 mpg is the only but I can think of.

It is high mileage for a petrol, they generally spontaneously combust before then.

But its a lot of motor if it keeps going, and probably worth repairing if it breaks.

[Mally]

I've just realised who the car belongs to, from this parish and not had it very long. It features in another thread.

Anyway it's sold already. I'm not surprised!

[BorniteIdentity]

Aye that's my car. I'm trying to replace it with something equally as lovely so don't worry.

 

I've never had to suffer 20mpg. Always getting 32 mixed in a brim to brim and 37 on a run.

 

I do like the turbos too though.

[oldcars]

If its not gone yet whip off the mudflaps there hard to get now and go for a bit on ebay.

[Joey spud]

I was down my local scrappy the other day and they had just got in a really clean V reg one in that washed out light blue colour.

All the side windows were smashed where chains had been used to lift it onto blocks so they could drain its fluids.

 

I asked them what was wrong with it and they said as far as they know nothing at all it was being used daily untill the owner lost they keys for it and scrapped it.

[AMC Rebel]

The ZT-T that donated its engine for mine was being scrapped due to needing a clutch and flywheel.  I saw the car when I collected the engine - the underside was less rusty than mine and it was in nice condition all round.  Sad, but it's an ill wind....

[barefoot]

I honestly don't know why there is blubbing on here about a car that is not financially worth repairing,

 

 

I'm not blubbing about the car, it's the 'not financially worth repairing' bit.

I was trying to draw attention to the fact that here in the UK, even if it was spot on it would be worthless, despite the fact that it could cheerfully continue to function as a car for another twenty years. But I am encouraged to 'buy' a new car every three years for £179 a month. Our economy is only kept moving by endless spending.

It is madness.

We  are clearly building too many cars, look at the DDR before the wall came down, waiting lists for new Trabbies, or you could could buy a used one for more money - another kind of madness.

 

There must be a better, middle ground?

[AMC Rebel]

Wasn't it the DDR that managed to make incandescent lightbulbs that lasted indefinitely because raw materials were so hard to come by?

 

As Barefoot says, there are so many mad things about how economics is working at present - like the fact that it's cheaper to ship almost every manufactured thing from China than to make it here, and it's cheaper for me to fly to Dublin than get the train to London (even using the cheapest advance off peak fares) - but at the same time we're all supposed to concerned about our emissions and climate change.

They even shut a plant doing shellfish processing in Scotland and now they are flown to Thailand and back - but no-one seems to think that's insane.

 

BTW - I don't really get the "financially not worth repairing" thing a lot of the time - I had this argument with my stepdad about his Signum - what the car would be worth vs cost of repairs is only really relevant if you are planning on selling soon after the repairs, otherwise it can be worth spending the cash on a known quantity.

 

I am doing just that with my Mondeo and the ZT-T (albeit slowly).  I will spend more than the Mondy is worth to get it back on the road with an MOT.

[barefoot]

A bit more...

 

Who buys these cars at the end of the lease?

 

A three year old car, that's been maintained & serviced by the book and is unscratched with just 8,000 miles per year on it.

How much do they cost?

Are they given away for peanuts?

Or sold at a premium?

Whatever, surely by buying one of these you're taking on all the mental, financial depreciation that until recently, the first owner was expected to bear. 

And at 6 years old?

Must be worth sodding pennies?

[Felly Magic]

How can you not get the 'more money than it's worth to fix' line? When it works out cheaper to buy a replacement in better condition, you simply do that, it makes precisely zero sense spending a fortune on a car that is basically scrap, especially as cars are becoming more complex, things like dual mass flywheels are bloody expensive to fix, and just aren't worth the hassle, because something else is bound to go wrong down the line, and before you know it, you have spent a small fortune keeping 'cheap' car on the road. As soon as cars start to become trouble, they get James Brown'd no use getting sentimental to what is all intents and purposes an appliance. The Mondongo will get sacked off if it has big bills looming, that is a certainty, because it is far less aggro to replace

 

When you see cars like this Over, that has a fair few issues, particularly HGF, what else will be wrong with it when you really start to dig? That is when it becomes a liability