City Rover

Prothet_of_Doom

worried_jim wrote: »

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

Your link won't work. Replace the word !!!!! with the word shCITYROVERite but remove the name of the car.

norbsa

Biggest load of crap ever made.These cars are a re badged Indian failure.Umpteen good cars available for under a grand.What about a Ford Ka with the Enduro motor.Plenty of these around ,tons of spares,cheap to run and maintain and plenty of change out of the grand to buy petrol.

fivetide

Another vote for the Getz here actually.

Terribly spongy suspension but a friend has the 1.3 version on a 54 plate they've had since it was two years old. Currently doing a 60 mile round trip each day commuting and although it lives outside and is well abused it shows no signs of rot and hasn't needed anything but expected maintainence in that time (new exhaust was the biggest cost I think)

red_eye

fivetide wrote: »

Thing is, as you say, they were tat when they were new. An Indian car brought to the UK.

however, one of the big issues is that they were very over priced in comparison to the much better competition.

At this price, you aren't going to lose much, if anything and apart from the leaks, given the market they were built for, it is probably a mechnically sturdy little car.

The big issue will be if it doesn't share parts with other things in the old Rover range. Also tin worm might eventually become an issue.

tin worm, maybe but cars in India are run to the ground the weather is either hot or monsoon so it prob will not melt or rust much.
I have no idea about this new Tata thing but the old Tata's go on for years i have seen trucks from late 1800 still going

red_eye

norbsa wrote: »

Biggest load of crap ever made.These cars are a re badged Indian failure.Umpteen good cars available for under a grand.What about a Ford Ka with the Enduro motor.Plenty of these around ,tons of spares,cheap to run and maintain and plenty of change out of the grand to buy petrol.

and love rear end rot

atrixblue.-MFR-.

motorguy wrote: »

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.

my local scrap yard has a few city rovers, so sourcing parts even salvage fuel pumps don't seem to be an issue in my end of the world.


even ford fuel pumps can take more than a day getting them new, my previous experience in this field of employment has shown me that much, it took my dad 7 days to get hold of a fuel pump for pug 307 1.6 petrol because A their fitted with 4 different types, B its not a commonly stocked part and C incredibly expensive at £300+.


I understand some people don't like the rover brand, but there are people who do, myself included having owned many rover wedges and a 200 bubble and a 75, ive had not many issues with the rover as a vehicle. I thinks it unfair for those don't like the brand to dissuade someone who shows interest in one because of their own personal dislikes of the brand and in this case IMHO the city rover is not a bad car, I would put it on a par with the Ford mk1 KA, can be rust buckets but the engine will out last the car and for a young driver probably cheaper to insure than a KA, basic maintenance, tires, and add fuel and it will get you from A-B.

StrongWork

Utter POS.

If you want (relatively) trouble free motoring for <£1000 - go small/Japanese.