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[RobT]

Been away to Dorset this weekend and racked up 450 miles in the 220, no problems at all. It really is a superb car, plenty of torque plus decent handling means I can't help hooning in the thing. Saw a fair few Rovers in and around the Poole/Bournemouth area too, which you'd expect being a giffer hotspot. At one point I was in convoy with three others!

[Lacquer Peel]

2011. I wonder if they're the summer tyres from a discarded or sold car.

[Pete-M]

Went to the Cholmondely Pageant of Power yesterday. It was great, loads of properly interesting cars there, most being used in anger.

You lot would have hated it, nothing beige with BL plugholes to be seen. 

There was a Fiat 500 with an A series engine though.

[messerschmitt owner]

You lot would have hated it, nothing beige with BL plugholes to be seen. 

 

 

I don't know - I like the tasty stuff - it's just that my budget runs to the shite end of interesting!

[Junkman]

Michael Schumacher is out of coma - and out of hospital!

[phil_lihp]

Been away to Dorset this weekend and racked up 450 miles in the 220, no problems at all. It really is a superb car, plenty of torque plus decent handling means I can't help hooning in the thing. Saw a fair few Rovers in and around the Poole/Bournemouth area too, which you'd expect being a giffer hotspot. At one point I was in convoy with three others!

 

Great to hear it's behaving itself although I expect no less, it really is one of the best long-distance drivers I've had and I did enjoy surprising people at the lights with it sometimes when they were clearly itching to get past the dawdling giffer in the Rover sat in front of them.

 

Regarding the handling, I occasionally felt it was a bit vague and floaty at speed and it's only after seeing a Wheeler Dealers episode with a Delta Integrale suffering a similar affliction a few days ago that I wondered if it might be as simple as a few bushes on the front end?  Nice easy fix if so, assuming it wasn't entirely my imagination.

[dollywobbler]

Remember that temporary bodge to the rear arches of the Sirion? Well, over five months later, I'm doing it again. Will have to get some actual metal repairs done at some point, but I thought I'd smarten it up a bit - MOT booked for next Monday. Nervous.

[Lord Sterling]

Hmmm....

 

A chance phone call to a mate back in England today might have led me to agreeing to purchase a Rover 827 Coupe. Tax, tested and has LPG all for £400.

 

I remember seeing the car a few years ago, it was cosmetically challenged but a runner at least.

 

This is gonna be interesting......

[tooSavvy]

Michael Schumacher is out of coma - and out of hospital!

 

.... and we're all waiting for further 'helmet-cam' footage of this, then 

 

TS

[anonymous user]

Went to the Cholmondely Pageant of Power yesterday.

There was a Fiat 500 with an A series engine though.

Please, please please, let it be one of those new ones

[Anglevan]

oh bugger - it appears that I have purchased a  mk3 Morris Marina !!! a lovely one owner 1.7 HL model of 1979 vintage

 

Bugger, bugger, tit dangly wanky thing !!! That's what you get for putting a stupidly low offer in and they accept !!!!

[EssDeeWon]

Hmmm....

 

A chance phone call to a mate back in England today might have led me to agreeing to purchase a Rover 827 Coupe. Tax, tested and has LPG all for £400.

 

I remember seeing the car a few years ago, it was cosmetically challenged but a runner at least.

 

This is gonna be interesting......

 

Hmmm there's a nice thought, an 827 Fastback for me though. They any good LS?

[dave21478]

Michael Schumacher is out of coma - and out of hospital!

 

I really hope he is on the road to recovery, but Im not holding my breath, sadly.

 

 

Out of hospital, but in what state? This guy sums it up pretty well....

http://formerf1doc.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/good-news/

[dollywobbler]

I remembered that we live near the sea. Went paddling and everything. Not in the 2CV, obviously. It's rusty enough.

[rml2345]

Good news;

As seen elsewhere collecting Dave 2000's 960 went very well and the weather was spot on. I also.replaced the crappy pattern indicator/sidelight with a decent original.

Bad news;

The ABS is tripping on virtually every journey. I think it's just really grubby wheel sensors but can't investigate as the twatting tyre place I used to do the part worns have rattle gunned the wheelnuts to about 8000lb/ft and I can't get them off again. MOT in a few weeks.

[Angrydicky]

This happened today, after a lot of rubbing down/filling and welding. Limeflower isolator FTW.

 

 

The Champers Beige topcoat should be going on tomorrow, as long as the weather stays decent!

[EssDeeWon]

Cant wait to pap that when its finished

[Lord Sterling]

Hmmm there's a nice thought, an 827 Fastback for me though. They any good LS?

Not bad to be honest. I really like them, but it depends on how you like your cars.

 

All 827s are front wheel drive, most of them are autos and the ride is a little harsher than a Granada Scorpio. But they do pick speed at a fair pace when needed, mpg can be seen at least into the very late 20s. The space in the Fastback is vast, not quite Volvo Estate like but it is pretty vast with the back sears down. Manuals are (allegedly) a tiny bit faster.

 

Be prepared though, they have thier lovers and thier H8TeRz.

 

They are great motorway cruisers that can still be had for little money.

[EssDeeWon]

Not bad to be honest. I really like them, but it depends on how you like your cars.

 

All 827s are front wheel drive, most of them are autos and the ride is a little harsher than a Granada Scorpio. But they do pick speed at a fair pace when needed, mpg can be seen at least into the very late 20s. The space in the Fastback is vast, not quite Volvo Estate like but it is pretty vast with the back sears down. Manuals are (allegedly) a tiny bit faster.

 

Be prepared though, they have thier lovers and thier H8TeRz.

 

They are great motorway cruisers that can still be had for little money.

 

A nice low mileage giffer spec of any 800 would be of interest, but the 827 have the Honda engines, right?

 

My dad briefly had a 1996/N 820i saloon, not sure what was wrong with it but he got rid of it pretty sharpish, it was a nice car.

[Angrydicky]

What you need* is a nice* Rover 600 (Honda engined).

[M'coli]

Charles street multi-storey car park in Sheffield has a spiral on-ramp.  Today I foundout that if you go up it fast enough in a Peugeot 205 TD with about 1/4 of a tank of diesel in it, it suffers fuel starvation before the end of the on-ramp.  Thanks to the helpful guy (in a Beemer!) who came along behind me, we managed to push it through the barriers onto the flat concourse in front of the attendants office.

Cue me popping the bonnet, jumping out, grabbing the 17mm spanner, removing my job-interview-spec shirt and tie then bleeding the injectors there and then...it's got a good battery that car!

[dave21478]

Charles street multi-storey car park in Sheffield has a spiral on-ramp.  Today I foundout that if you go up it fast enough in a Peugeot 205 TD with about 1/4 of a tank of diesel in it, it suffers fuel starvation before the end of the on-ramp.  Thanks to the helpful guy (in a Beemer!) who came along behind me, we managed to push it through the barriers onto the flat concourse in front of the attendants office.

 

Cue me popping the bonnet, jumping out, grabbing the 17mm spanner, removing my job-interview-spec shirt and tie then bleeding the injectors there and then...it's got a good battery that car!

When I were a little'un my father owned a Marina - not the kind you keep boats in.

The front suspension collapsed due to terminal rot and it ground to a halt on the spiral ramp into Dundee's Wellgate shopping centre. We seemingly blocked the entire carpark for quite a few hours while they tried to get a towtruck capable of lifting the car, yet small enough to fit through the height restriction and drive it up the "down" ramp and then reverse it down the "up" ramp to where we were stuck.

[Skizzer]

I can't believe you're asking the noble Lord Sterling what he thinks of a Rover 800.

[Lord Sterling]

A nice low mileage giffer spec of any 800 would be of interest, but the 827 have the Honda engines, right? My dad briefly had a 1996/N 820i saloon, not sure what was wrong with it but he got rid of it pretty sharpish, it was a nice car.

Yes, the V6 2.7 Rover 827s have the Honda engine, all the V6 Rover 800s had these up until 1996 when the V6 was changed for the 2.5 KV6 engine. A much smoother engine but with 3 cambelts to worry about and penchant for blowing head gaskets due to cheap gaskets and failing temp sensors.

 

 

Other Rover 800s like the 2.0 820 have the T-series NASP or turbo charged engine, there is also the 825D/SD with the 2.5 VM Diesel engine.

[dollywobbler]

Hmmm. 1994 Rover 600 on Ebay. 8 minutes left. I set a fake limit of £155 that I'd be prepared to risk on it. It's at £155.99...

[twosmoke300]

A 600 over an 800 for me everytime. 623 with the dohc Honda motor.

[dollywobbler]

This was a 620, but common sense just about won out. Plus my wife was sat next to me, making 'those' noises that no man likes to hear. The quiet murmur of disapproval. Actually, with two minutes left to run on the auction, it was a positive groan of disapproval. 

 

Common sense is good at times. I've got little cash to throw around and no idea how the Sirion will fare in the MOT next week.

[cms206]

[scouseginger]All 800s are shit.[/scouseginger]

 

SWMBO *HATES* 800s with a passion, and the whole experience was ruined by me having driven many LDV Convoys beforehand.

 

The KV6 sounds GR12 on song with no exhaust for five hours.

[trigger]

 

 

I've kinda set my heart on this Orion that i know about, I've known the owner many years as i used to work for him in the mid 90's, he's owned this grey 1988 Orion 1.6i Ghia since it was 6 months old but he's never married or had kids and he never used it so 14 years ago he put it in a barn and it's sat there since, It's only done 45000 miles and it has a full RS bodykit fitted from new, he hinted that £1000 might prise it from his hands, I laughed it off as being too expensive last year but now I'm not so sure.

I spoke to the owner of this tonight, I asked if he'd thought any more about selling it, oh no, I might need a car one day and if I sell it I won't have one (bear in mind it's been of the road since 2000), I said I'd give him £1000 for it as it was, oh no again, I wouldn't buy much of a car for that plus there's less to go wrong on the Orion.

 

He also said it's buried behind a number of dismantled tractors and quad bikes and is a mission to get out, I have got first refusal on it though, so basically it's destined to stay in the barn for another 14 years.

[Skizzer]

That's a bummer, Trig. He sounds like me only much worse.

 

Does this mean you're going to buy that Granada or whatever it was you were looking at the other day?