Rover 75 spare parts?

pwllbwdr

The only diesel engine in a R75 was the detuned BMW 2l. It can be uptuned fairly easily.

Some of the early ones are very highly specced- a lot of the early diesel ones have a fuel burning heater which you can add a timer to to have it warm the car up automatically for you.

I had a V6 petrol one stuffed full of equipment. Loved the car but it was a complete money pit. thermostat, inlet manifold, front springs, gearbox cables, brake pipes. Don't expect a Rover 75 to be pennies to run.

Gloomendoom

No production Rover 75 ever had a Peugeot engine. They were fitted with BMW diesels and 4 cylinder or 6 cylinder K series petrol engines. A few MG versions had Ford V8's.

pwllbwdr

as did a few Rover versions.

bigjl

I don't know the exact cubic capacities of the engines but the 218 non turbo had the 1905cc engine also fitted to the 405 and 309.

The 218 Turbo had the smaller engine, fitted to the 205, which was a 1769cc, not the 1.9.

The Rover 75 was never ever fitted with any diesel engine originating from Peugeot.

Though some of the bubble shaped 200's apparently had Peugeot gearboxes, which was silly as the earlier box, from Honda I beleive was a much better box, part from linkage issues which the Accord also had.

Don't know much about the manual 75's as the manual gearbox was the weakspot in my opinion and the car was greatly improved when they fitted the autobox, they where the minicab of choice for the corporate account work due to a very cost effective leasing scheme at the time, my mate was a fleet manager and got through hundreds of them, Lewis Day also had them as executive cars for 3 years, and after they where finished with them they where shipped off to the Medical Services part of the company where they were used for a further 2 years as PTS take home cars at the Homerton hospital. And in fact are still being used daily by another private Ambulance co, East Coast Ambulance around the Peterborough area last I heard with about 9 million miles on them a piece, they do have some issues with funny tyre wear on the back after a few hundred thousand hard miles, but they are a hardy vehicle, just make sure you dono't have an ex fleet cast off, all the Lewis Day ones where silver, they had 04, 54 and 05 plate ones, mostly saloons but they had one or two MG estates, though they were petrols.



An ex Lewis Day car, then owned by Medical Services now believed working for East Coast, mileage, moon and back, twice.

sassy_one

Make sure your prepared for lots of Head gasket problems until you fit the newer one!

pwllbwdr

... but only if you buy the 1.8 or 1.8T.

pompeyrich

sassy-one wrote: »

Make sure your prepared for lots of Head gasket problems until you fit the newer one!

Not a problem on the diesel version the op is after.

Gloomendoom

pompeyrich wrote: »

Not a problem on the diesel version the op is after.

Or the V8

Jakg

rrf494g wrote: »

if choosing a 75

remember that in the last few production years the 75 was "cheapened" to save money (back bumper quite different for example). I think some of the classic looks were taken away and I wonder if parts were more randomly sourced from whoever was least expensive. Anyway I have the earlier model, have run it from new with the 2L diesel engine from BMW, and haver been delighted with it.

What?


In 2004 it got a facelift, the front and rear bumpers were redesigned (not "cheapened").

The car did get "cheapened" from 2001 onwards due to project drive (removing loads of little things), but they were parts that you wouldn't usually notice, and this happens to all cars anyway.

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

rover mg zt 260 in monogram dark fantasy petrol though but nice colour. any ways stick with the diesels 1.9's are pug engine 2.0 are bmw

The 75 / ZT only ever came with the 2.0 BMW M47 engine - this is the same as fitted to the e46 320d, only with a different (& a lot more reliable!) turbo.

The only big issue with the 75 diesel is the clutch - expensive to replace.

bigjl wrote: »

Though I would only go for a diesel, probably the more powerful model, I think it had about 120-130 bhp, whilst the less powerful one had 116bhp or therabouts.

For £300 you can upgrade the 115 model to ~150 BHP, so it's not the end of the world.

bigjl wrote: »

Though I missed out on a MG estate at the same sale, on a 54plate as it made £2600, and it had higher miles and a stone chipped front bumper, but looked good in black with the 17" alloys, I sometimes wish I had bought it.

Probably for the best - 17" = base model 120+, which is an underpowered k-series.

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

the early 1999 cdt had a 1950cc engine wich in some cases got registered as a 1.9 some argue that they were the last of the pug engines, but yes i can and will be corrected the pug engine was 1895 cc or there abouts.

The CDT / CDTi is exactly the same engine (ignoring ECU map). It's CC has never change, and it's never been a Peugeot engine.








I have an MG ZT CDTi - it's the MG version of the Rover 75. Stupidly cheap compared to what you could get for the money, because of the "it's a Rover" image - it really is a class ahead of the Mondeo.

daviecol

Thanks to all who contributed.

On balance I am still swayed that for the price some models of this car are well worth the money if your after a luxury motor at a low purchase price and are willing to spend a bit on repairs in exchange.

I am such a person and so today have bought a 2004 (54) 75 2ltr diesel automatic classic in shadow black with lots of electric things, leather seats, alloys and all that stuff.

I could've gone to DFS and asked for a set of wheels and an engine to be fitted to their most comfortable sofa but hey, I got the next best thing.

Once again thanks to all,

A happy man