Kiltox’s YouTube Shenanigans - 22/01/2025 - THIS MESSAGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY…..

[wuvvum]

That all sounds far too professional.  The driving videos I have done have been filmed using my mobile phone stuck to the windscreen with a Poundland universal mount.

[Split_Pin]

No tuning on mine, I just wafted about. I did a potatocam driving and buying video with my gold 75 about 2 years ago.

Looking forward to the updates.

[Craig the Princess]

Respect to the car for getting to 250,000 miles.

Respect to the previous owner for not getting bored of it in those 250,000 miles.

[Aston Martin]

Is there any kind of windscreen gimbal thingamajig out there?

[Isaac Hunt]

6 hours ago, Kiltox said:

Correct - MG Rover Group was the first keeper. Told by the previous (and only other) owner it was demo. Haven’t looked through the sheer mountain of history to learn any more about it yet!

Most cars that were registered to the VM were either VM Fleet Cars (Demo Or Management Car Plan ) or Daily Rental.  Of course, when it comes to a sale there is a desirability pecking order

Manufacturer Demo = Special, Prestige, Worth More

VM Fleet Management - not quite as special but rumoured to be Mrs Towers car.

VM Fleet Daily Rental - Very rare, not many advertised as such, survival rate low, leaving most to be one of the above two categories.

17 years on though, if the fekker runs well, then really jobs a goodun.

 

[eddyramrod]

On 12/30/2019 at 11:05 PM, Kiltox said:

@DodgyBastard

to drive some stuff I haven’t had before 

  Roffle cars that are worth more are OK as long as I don’t spend more than £500 on tickets.

 No age/type/etc restrictions.

(Can't see how to lose Dodgy's reference, sorry)

Ahem, to business:  Six tickets for Huggy would come to £480, so I'll throw in an extra.  Which seven numbers would you like?

[Mally]

I've been running one like yours (but not as posh) for 3 years. You may not wish to part with it at the end of the month.

The Ron box made a difference on mine, but the insurance wanted £200 extra, so it's not on now. Won't worry you though.

Not sure if that's what you have bought, but if so you need to change the MAF from Bosch to Pierburg.

Does the car have a disconcerting roll when the hand brakes on?

[Isaac Hunt]

Car looks ‘all good’.  Watch the Viking Ships Sail over your head, if that drops down it could spoil your video footage......it could be very material.

[scdan4]

I fear you may have peaked already for me. Moon mileage 75. Perfect.

What could possibly better that?

[Kiltox]

6 hours ago, Mally said:

I've been running one like yours (but not as posh) for 3 years. You may not wish to part with it at the end of the month.

The Ron box made a difference on mine, but the insurance wanted £200 extra, so it's not on now. Won't worry you though.

Not sure if that's what you have bought, but if so you need to change the MAF from Bosch to Pierburg.

Does the car have a disconcerting roll when the hand brakes on?

It is a Ronbox I’ve bought so I’ll need to look into that

Handbrake seems to work just fine - it had a fair bit of work not long ago according to the previous owner though. 
 

Shade under 162 miles covered today going to Cannock - spot on. 

[clayts450]

It's a lovely old thing (don't mention the holes) and it's mileage betrays how good a condition it is in - will be glued to the story of this one.

I reckon that passenger door will be an easy fix, sounds like one of the connecting rods has popped out. Will be a door card off job (faff) but hopefully not too much of a ballache to sort out.

[Flat4]

That is such a nice colour!

[Mally]

My handbrake works, now I've done the discs and shoes, but when you pull it on the car settles alarmingly.

I looked into it, and TADTS. Think the backplates are worn and the secure* bit isn't. Passes the MOT though.

When you have fixed the passenger door I'll know how to do mine.

[Tam]

Wouldn't really bother with Rover Ron (synergy2) box. They do give a bit improvement especially if the MAF is knacked! Strange having xenon headlights on a Club Se? Probably worth over £100 on there own applying standard bangernomics type maths. 

Noticed on the owners forum the guy was on their for over 10 years and only made 25 posts. Not a lot of problems then. Seemed to have an issue with headlights back in 2009 and not much else ?

[Kiltox]

I don’t think it does have Xenons does it? Just headlight washers for some reason (which appear to be inop)

[Jamie]

7 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

I don’t think it does have Xenons does it? Just headlight washers for some reason (which appear to be inop)

Doesn't look like it? No projector lens

[gadgetgricey]

10 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

Just headlight washers for some reason (which appear to be inop)

Long shot, but is the washer tank full. I know the Saab only allows water to windscreen if level getting low.  Does both if plenty of fluid. Hopefully the Rover might be the same. 

Have you identified the same bit on your BMW yet?

 

[Kiltox]

1 hour ago, gadgetgricey said:

Long shot, but is the washer tank full. I know the Saab only allows water to windscreen if level getting low.  Does both if plenty of fluid. Hopefully the Rover might be the same. 

Have you identified the same bit on your BMW yet?

 

Was pissing about with it in the car park at the Truckers Rest in Cannock with @clayts450 and it looks like the water dribbles out onto the ground when it’s trying to wash the headlights - guess a hose is burst or loose 

[Twisterboy]

Always loved the 75, nearly got one before I bought the S60, defo have a couple of randoms when it's time to be passed on.

 

Davy

[Tam]

The headlight washers only blast the lights on every third scoosh or something. It doesn't really look like Xenon but it deffo had them at one point. Would need a better look at lights. They might just need a shine up. Looking again it does look like the lights have been swapped for Halogen. 

[Liggle]

Good vid, have subscribed! 

[beko1987]

It looked properly tidy yesterday, with only the rear load cover showing any hint* of its miles! 

[Kiltox]

The load cover repair* is amazing. I’ll need to take some photos of it. 

On the lookout for a replacement 

[Jamie]

12 hours ago, Tam said:

The headlight washers only blast the lights on every third scoosh or something. It doesn't really look like Xenon but it deffo had them at one point. Would need a better look at lights. They might just need a shine up. Looking again it does look like the lights have been swapped for Halogen. 

Easy way to tell is if there's a height adjustment wheel on the LCM (light switch) unless that was swapped an all

[gadgetgricey]

45 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

The load cover repair* is amazing. I’ll need to take some photos of it. 

On the lookout for a replacement 

Sad I know, but think I have a decent one you can have. Let me check, but postage might be a bit though...

[Isaac Hunt]

20 hours ago, Kiltox said:

Was pissing about with it in the car park at the Truckers Rest in Cannock with @clayts450 and it looks like the water dribbles out onto the ground when it’s trying to wash the headlights - guess a hose is burst or loose 

On my daily car (not a 75 though) I found in that bad weather of Feb / Mar 17 the headlamp squirters were moving out of their home and freezing in the open position.  I could see the plastic covers ‘going west’ so I thawed them out with hot water, retracted them fully home and pulled the fuse.  

Never bothered to put the fuse back, the fekkin things are a gimmick anyway IMHO.  Try driving in ‘damp salty dirty roads’ and squirting your windscreen.  A blast of washer fluid on its own does farkhall, ‘‘tis the wipe’ that gets it clean.  So headlamp washer without the wipe just waste all the fekkin fluid IMHO

[Kiltox]

Inclined to agree - now headlight wipers are a different matter   

I’m intrigued by the notion that it maybe had xenons in the past - the previous owner didn’t strike me as the kind that would swap headlights around and, to be honest, the current halogen units look like they’ve done 250k miles....

[Tam]

As Jamie said look at the headlight adjuster on dash and if no height adjustment it would originally probably had xenon. Also should be adjuster arms on the front and rear suspension for the xenon. But chances are not replaced when new arms fitted. 

Here's a link to previous owners posts on forum. In 2009 he fixed the xenon lights. 

https://the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/search.php?searchid=17017113

 

[Kiltox]

Interesting stuff, thanks for that. I’ll have a closer look at it shortly and try to work out what’s gone on. 

[Jamie]

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