Sold Rover the moon! Now with added for-sale-ness £250 - Essex

[pandamonium]

Purchased my new ride yesterday, very pleased with it.




Genuine 59,000 miles, 416SI and in immaculate condition!

It's not a K series, so it's really not shite at all

[stillOrange]

400s are definitely on my want list.

 

Great buy!

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

A pretty old thing. It looks to be in excellent condition.

[flat4alfa]

Hurrah for 400s from the R8 clan!

 

I have two

 

  One petrol, with 2 litres

 

  One diesel, with a turbo

[Ghosty]

Auto or manual? Looks great in white, nice trimz too. Mine's only on 58k but is crap cosmetically.

[Lacquer Peel]

Honda D16s never* have cooling woes. 

[Ghosty]

Honda D16s never* have cooling woes.

No, never*.

[stuboy]

nicer than my mondeo

[Guest Lord Sward]

Those 416s are GR8.

[pandamonium]

It's a manual, and don't worry - I will be keeping an eye on the cooling system etc.

 

It is in really good condition, only a few 'Giffer scrapes', which I'll deal with.

 

It is rather quick compared with the usual cars I go for! 

[Guest Lord Sward]

I once took one from Bordeaux to Newcastle 3-up, in one hit using the Hover Craft to cross the channel. At one point mpg dropped to 16mpg as it covered a stretch of toll road at just over 100mph for 45 mins - they're very short geared, but better than twin cam versions.  Otherwise mpg was fair. The later catalyst equipped cars lost power and torque, but reliability was still excellent as the cat was properly engineered to different compression ratios.

 

Ignition amplifiers fail on these, but otherwise they're faultless. 

 

I could talk all day about D-series engined Rover R8s.

[pandamonium]

Please do, I want to know everything.

 

Are the clutches hard to do? Mine judders a bit.

[Ghosty]

Hmm, haven't heard (or experienced) much positive about manual D series, found them to be a bit dull and uninspiring, sucks all the fun out of the car. You make it sound similar to the auto though which is interesting.

Gearing is indeed short - they're a hoot around town but slightly noisy on the motorway as you'll be doing 3k+ rpm.

Itll go forever and be a great car though - just give it a standard level of maintenance. With yours being manual you don't even have to worry about regular ATF changes!

[Guest Lord Sward]

With yours being manual you don't even have to worry about regular ATF changes!

 

 

You really should be changing the manual gearbox oil though; the bearings grumble if you don't.  Changing the oil is dead easy and it only needs 10w/40 semi synthetic.

[flat4alfa]

This thread is useless without interior pictures.

 

I want to see that sexy shelf with the wood above it

[flat4alfa]

Couldn't wait.

 

Found out the ad

 

 

I'm off for a lie down

[pandamonium]

[pandamonium]

Anyone who thinks this car isn't fun, hasn't been driving it properly. I thought it was sedate and smooth until I learnt the joy of mashing my foot to the floor, and letting the engine hit its sweet spot around 4500rpm.

 

I don't do it a lot, as I'm old and sensible*, but I do dispute that the car isn't fun.

[pandamonium]

Here's how it looks now.

Not everyone's taste, but hey, I like it.

[Lacquer Peel]

What price ride quality?

[stillOrange]

I love the look!

[Heidel_Kakao]

Not bad, I like the new wheels. Have you cut the springs or lowered it properly?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I like that. Nice and clean as well - white really suits it. I wasn't totally sold on these previously, but I've changed my mind with this one!

[dougiefourspeed]

Looking very smart.


 

[fordperv]

That looks great, i do like a lowered saloon

[Dirk Diggler]

That looks really good; I hate white cars but white sits well with that

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Looks good apart from the obvious suspension problems

[Uncle Jimmy]

Looks good apart from the obvious suspension problems

Yeah, needs to drop a further 22mm to look right.

[pandamonium]

Looks good apart from the obvious suspension problems

Suspension is fine thank you.

[flat4alfa]

How is your spine a month or so on?  It does look low

 

Personally I quite like the high in mine.  But I am getting old.