Whats the clunking noise?

hubert_cumberdale

I will use the bolded text as ammo for future rover posts as proof

kingelvis wrote: »

we had a rover where bits were always falling to bits, breaking and shearing off.

i managed to fix the maf sensor, the electric windows when they fell in the door, the heater resistor, the reversing sensor, the clock, the turbo pipes........oh how i miss it.

i do know how to fix cars as my family ran on a break fix system with cortinas, stradas and cavaliers lol

Inactive

:rotfl: Rover, don't you just love them..

Keith

Wishbone bushs or antiroll bar bush.

KingElvis wrote: »

Yes, fair enough, but most normal people have to pay to have them fitted and seing as the op doesn't even know what one is, I would imagine they fall in that group

How much labour do you think it takes to change a track rod end? :eek:

KingElvis

Inactive wrote: »

:rotfl: Rover, don't you just love them..

It was a decent car when it worked, 2.0 Turbo D which could move it along nicely.

The problem with mine was the sheer quantity of things that went wrong. I was sorry to see her traded but it got to the point where I was fixing it weekly by buying bits on Fleabay.

I bought it for 800 and it lasted me 6 months and then I got 600 trade in which means it pretty much paid for itself. If it had to go to the garage with each thing that went wrong it would've cost thousands.

bosseyed

Had a similar problem on my old Mondeo, turned out to be the exhaust working its way loose on the mountings, so every time you hit a speed bump or a pothole, or even just a bit of road vibration it would clunk and bang - sounded horrific.

Kwikfit, for all their faults, tightened it up for me for free.

hubert_cumberdale

was it quikfit that left it loose

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KingElvis wrote: »

It was a decent car when it worked, 2.0 Turbo D which could move it along nicely.

The problem with mine was the sheer quantity of things that went wrong. I was sorry to see her traded but it got to the point where I was fixing it weekly by buying bits on Fleabay.

I bought it for 800 and it lasted me 6 months and then I got 600 trade in which means it pretty much paid for itself. If it had to go to the garage with each thing that went wrong it would've cost thousands.

It was a Rover, it was a heap of junk..:D

hubert_cumberdale

did rover make the diesel engine them selves it may have not been that bad if it was someone elses engine

KingElvis

hubert_cumberdale wrote: »

did rover make the diesel engine them selves it may have not been that bad if it was someone elses engine

Yes, it was an L series engine which have a very good repuation for mpg, power and reliability.

The engine was good, the car feel apart around it.

It did give 55mpg though but at the end was leaking diesel from number 3 injector so was doing about 20mpg.