City Rover

oldagetraveller

http://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/SubCategory--CityRover--m-1609

atrixblue.-MFR-.

EdGasket wrote: »

It's a bargain!
Do those models still have the K-series head gasket problem?

NO its not fitted to city rover.


all rover did to them was put a new grille on it with their own badge instead of tata's and a steering wheel and boot badge.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

motorguy wrote: »

+1

Not worth the hassle. Plus parts availability could be a problem.

I'd have a clio 1.2, Fiat Punto or Fiesta over that, even if it was older.

I wouldn't say parts were problem. there's scrap yards that have a few of them.


discs pads service bits easy to get in motor factors and ones that motor factors cant get hold of you can get from rimmer brothers.

penrhyn

What a hunk of junk..............................no no no!

City Rover is automatic, it's systematic, it's hydromatic
Why it's greased lightnin'!

forgotmyname

I wouldnt pay that.. £300 or £400 worth a gamble but its not a cheap car to run.

£200 a year tax for a little 1.4? Less than 30mpg around town?

Seller is a DODGY dealer, Yet listed as a private seller.

Hoof_Hearted

Thanks. Wasn't contemplating that particular one. Just picked as an example.

motorguy

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

I wouldn't say parts were problem. there's scrap yards that have a few of them.


discs pads service bits easy to get in motor factors and ones that motor factors cant get hold of you can get from rimmer brothers.

I would imagine consumables are easy got - if not cheap because of limited volumes, but body panels, ECUs, fuel pumps, that sort of thing.

Its not even the limited availability, its the time it could take. You need a fuel pump for a fiesta because your car has stopped, you could have it sourced and fitted the same day. Need one for a ShittyRover and you could spend days trying to source one and then have to get it shipped from a scrap yard in aberdeen.

Plus most that have been scrapped have been weighed in, rather than taken to a breakers (most of which wont want it as they'd rather break more popular stuff.

Prothet_of_Doom

My aunt, a woman, who clearly has no motoring soul, bought one new, to replace a perfectly good rover 100, 10 years ago.
She bought that to replace a perfectly good rover metro, which she bought to replace a perfectly good austin metro.

She (with my uncle's help) managed to achieve 35k in it, and according to him, getting someone to fix simple problems, like an airbag warning light that wouldn't go off, (I'd have paid someone to identify the problem via an OBD2 code reader, or even purchased the relevant scanner), and having no main dealers was a big issue.
So they traded it in for another toaster like car, which has a long warranty and cost £8K. They got £300 PX.

My cousin, who has a motoring soul, said "It's like driving a sewing machine, that you've plugged into a dead socket"

Personally as a runabout, with a full MOT and no warning lights, and all the service stamps, I'd take a risk at £500, but £250 more ?

It's a classic bangernomics problem. That £250 brings so many better cars into the equation.

There's probably a sub forum of an MG or Rover owners forum, where they list which parts are interchangable from other brands, and servicing and repair how to's.

It'll be frequented by very strange people.

On the bright side you'd get honoury membership of www dot autos hCiittye dot com (If you remove the City from the word it upsets the swear filter) a website devoted to running unloved cars as daily drivers.

gilbert_and_sullivan

These heaps were falling apart as we delivered them unregistered, absolute rubbish.

Even the delivery documents described the vehicle as a Tata...which the dealers didn't like to hear spoken aloud in the showroom...presumably they thought the Union Flag on the bootlid was misleading enough to sell it.

worried_jim

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

My aunt, a woman, who clearly has no motoring soul, bought one new, to replace a perfectly good rover 100, 10 years ago.
She bought that to replace a perfectly good rover metro, which she bought to replace a perfectly good austin metro.

She (with my uncle's help) managed to achieve 35k in it, and according to him, getting someone to fix simple problems, like an airbag warning light that wouldn't go off, (I'd have paid someone to identify the problem via an OBD2 code reader, or even purchased the relevant scanner), and having no main dealers was a big issue.
So they traded it in for another toaster like car, which has a long warranty and cost £8K. They got £300 PX.

My cousin, who has a motoring soul, said "It's like driving a sewing machine, that you've plugged into a dead socket"

Personally as a runabout, with a full MOT and no warning lights, and all the service stamps, I'd take a risk at £500, but £250 more ?

It's a classic bangernomics problem. That £250 brings so many better cars into the equation.

There's probably a sub forum of an MG or Rover owners forum, where they list which parts are interchangable from other brands, and servicing and repair how to's.

It'll be frequented by very strange people.

On the bright side you'd get honoury membership of www dot autos hCiittye dot com (If you remove the City from the word it upsets the swear filter) a website devoted to running unloved cars as daily drivers.

http://http://auto!!!!!.com/ Brilliant site!