Rover 45 V6 - Timing belt MUTHA F*****

[Anglevan]

All credit to you mrb. And i know what you mean on keeping an old shitter going. I tried to move my old Lancer on a few months back. It was destined for the scrap yard. Oh no cant have that and ive been pi $$ing about welding some worthless shite back together again. I picked up my 45 v6 the week (yes i know l should update here) i paid £400 for it same colour as yours with 59k on the clock. Think ill play cambelt roulette after seeing that. But no, more likely ill get it done..... banger economics, my arrssee ...

[cort16]

You’ve done it now and you now have the to knowledge to never tackle another one.

[The Moog]

Cracking job. Definitely know the pain of it almost beating you but then the sweet sweet success of victory

[Isaac Hunt]

Impressive determination, as always.  Whatever you do, never work our your own labour rate for this kind of stuff, from a financial point of view you'd be better off queuing up with the 14 year olds to get a paper round.

Agree, if working on the spanners is not your living earning trade and you are undertaking the task in your own time it ent a useful calculation.

 

Question is what else would you have done with that time had you forked out to pay for it which ent a useful calculation as you probably wouldn't.

 

You might have gone wandering around the shops and spent money on something you wanted but didn't need.

 

You might have spent the time relaxing in the garden with a beer. In order for the Beer to null the pain of parting with some £400 you would need a few cans all of which needs adding to the £400. Having consumed several beers, you might even find you've just purchased another chodder of the bay for £400 thus making your total outlay £800 + other oncost.

 

For better to get stuck in yourself.

 

I'd roffle it at £10 a ticket if your hand hasn't been snapped off. Feck me where else can you get a 400 KV6 with recent known history, new cambelt and some MOTee for £375. I'd have it myself but too many cars.

[Skut]

Lying on a beach reading this is very relaxing. I dont think as an excercise it takes much justification. You clearly enjoy a mechanical challenge with the fringe benefit you get a working transportation device. It doesnt really matter if a loss is made. You dont have to justify yourself to the Amstrad bloke afterwards.

[Guest Hooli]

What better reason to do such a job than the praise and adulation from strangers on the internet?

[barrett]

By flogging this for £375 after doing that job you should basically become recognised as a charitable organisation and claim a load of tax relief. I'd probably award you an MBE too, for 'continuing services to vehicle preservation'. Next time Mrs.Nads pipes up just ask her to refer to you as 'Reggie Knackers, MBE' otherwise you won't dignify her with a response*

 

*possibly not actually advisable for future cohabitation harmony etc

[sierraman]

Its worth £150 not to spend the weekend wandering around a retail park or drinking Carling in some shit chain pub.

[Rave]

I know the economics of this don't stack up.

 

I was only ribbing you matey, I'm as filled with admiration as everyone else!

 

I've also made the decision that from now on I'm not going to let any worthy cars get crushed on my watch if all they need is a few quid in parts and 10-20 hours of swearing and skinned knuckles. As long as they already belong to me that is, I'm not sure I'm yet ready to attempt to do the clutch on Sierraman's Mondeo on the street outside my house .

[twosmoke300]

Its worth £150 not to spend the weekend wandering around a retail park or drinking Carling in some shit chain pub.

Never a more true sentence has ever been written

 

Terrible grammar I know

[Angrydicky]

I can't call myself an enthusiast if I let this car get binned on my watch so I felt there was a 'moral' angle to doing em as well as the economic one! (Plus now they're done I feel like a champ for doing em).

That's exactly the reason I spent a weekend grovelling around under a worthless Rover 600 flaring and fitting new brake pipes, then bleeding the brakes to get an MoT pass. I knew it was certain to end up in the scrapyard without an MoT, and I've never scrapped a car and don't intend to start now. Hopefully hairymel will continue to keep it alive for the foreseeable, at least.

[sierraman]

I was only ribbing you matey, I'm as filled with admiration as everyone else!

 

I've also made the decision that from now on I'm not going to let any worthy cars get crushed on my watch if all they need is a few quid in parts and 10-20 hours of swearing and skinned knuckles. As long as they already belong to me that is, I'm not sure I'm yet ready to attempt to do the clutch on Sierraman's Mondeo on the street outside my house .

I don't think anybody in their right mind wants to do that.

[RoadworkUK]

Anyway to me the car seemed basically worthless, scrap money only, unless I did the belts. I can't call myself an enthusiast if I let this car get binned on my watch.

 

This is the correct attitude. Late '90s Rovers have such little intrinsic worth that virtually any issue, no matter how small, makes it profoundly unlikely to find a home among normal folk.

 

Mine passed its MOT on Friday and I splashed out on an air-con regas, for a hint of that 'like-new' experience. Alas, with both remote fobs SNAFUd and a petulant immobiliser that requires me to do the 3-4-2-7 door lock safecracking fandango on every third start-up, any 4-sale ad above scrap money is still likely to be met with deafening silence

[Anglevan]

Having had a think mrb. Can I express serious interest in the 45 please.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'm afraid there is a bit of a queue forming for this! I've gotta tell you all that Wobbler got in first (PMs already exchanged) but if owt develops at his end or mine I'll let you know!!!

[Anglevan]

Thats fine, just let me know...

[dollywobbler]

Yup. Could not resist. I've had the hots for this since Mr B grabbed it. I can state that knowing me, it isn't going to be a forever car, so don't fret too much.

[purplebargeken]

Not entirely sure the majority of us on here are familiar with the concept of a 'forever car'.

[Anglevan]

Good luck with it dw. Ive always fancied a trip to wales so ill keep my eye out ...

[clayts450]

Yup. Could not resist. I've had the hots for this since Mr B grabbed it. I can state that knowing me, it isn't going to be a forever car, so don't fret too much.

 

Switches to gloating at Ian as has Connie spec.

 

But anticipates gloat back as Ian's chariot has had belts done, etc....

 

Good buying sir

[stephen01]

Glad this has gone to a good home, always next time

[Isaac Hunt]

Boll is providing a Stirling service to this here community

 

He buys a car, little known history, a few faults. Fixes the faults and plays cambelt lottery whist proving to this community that the car is a 'good un'

 

Then prior to sale he removes the risk of the next owner having to play the same lottery.

[CortinaDave]

My v6 ZT has 95k and allegedly belts done at 60k. i know full well the job is a stink fest and so I'll be taking mr "it was done, honest" at his word.

 

The story goes they were lifed for 150k anyway but specced to 100k for safety.

 

Theyre at the sort of money now where if it goes pop ill just buy another one

[wrenchvolt]

Put my mechanical dramas into context. That lot took a ton of guts to keep going. Inspirational stuff Mr_bo11ox.

[barrett]

tbh if I was buying this off you I'd feel bad handing over less than £450, and anyone who does is a real cheapskate. He says, from his ivory tower.

[fatharris]

Top effort Boll, you have earned however many beers you smash in tonight.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Cheers all!!! I'm no 'shite mother Theresa' though, I sold my fwd Pony to a banger racer the other day and felt precisely zero guilt. The choke tubes in the carb had turned to mush due to being made out of monkey metal, so it needed a new carb. Never gonna find one of those so i thoguht about what other carb could be used/adapted to fit. After thinking about this for like 60 secs I remembered I had 1000 other more important things to do than fart about with this nonsense, so chucked it on facebook and within 24 hours it was away on the back of a transit while I slurped a cold bottle of my favourite Tsingtao lager. Aaaahhhhhhh.

[trigger]

Well done and the 45 Bol! You persevered where most men would have bailed, like a real trooper. That rear bed on the transit is quite interesting too, not seen one like that before.

[barrett]

Alright, I've just stripped you of your MBE but otherwise I stand by my comments

[vaughant]

Thing is playing roulette is fine if you get sick pay/paid holidays etc and break down on the side of the M4. But when you've got an important appointment or its pissing down/snowing and the belt fails at 80 mph in the outside lane of the motorway or worse still somewhere where you get no mobile signal in the middle of nowhere, you think, why didn't I just change that? The whole inconvenience factor can be a total pain, I've got three Mots up this month, ones just passed but the other two need some work meaning a few days/weeks of hassle and a lack of proper sleep until it's all sorted, having at least one decent running motor at all times is essential these days.

Well played.