Three generations of my family worked at Rover, from the 1940s (making tank engines) through to the 1990s. They made some truly great cars, Rover P4, Land Rover, P5, P6, Range Rover, all with bulletproof reliability. Irony of Ironies, they got done over by Jaguar, the P7, P8, P9 and Project Gladys got canned. We got the SD1. After that, I owned two 600s (620Si, and 623GSi) which I loved, and I had Rover 75 (again, a brilliant car). I have a Rover P6 V8, and I am like you, if I became a multi-billionaire, I would rebuilt Rover. With that 25, I'm appalled at the lack of rust protection.
I think why this era of car is looking good and ageing well is because most new cars (due to NCap etc) look the same whereas cars from this era looked unique.
As a Middle Aged man I remember and loathed the crossover period of the noughties yet now I think they were ahead of their time. That river doesn’t look out of place on modern roads. It feels like almost every car out there is a crossover in all but name.
I had a Rover 200 series long ago. Basically the same car, but with an older interior. Bought it for 500 euro's, and it lasted me 4 years before the engine quit on me at 260000km. Man I miss that car and that interior! Really nice to see another Rover on Tasty Classics!
10 years ago my father proudly presented a Rover 25 streetwise to me on my 17th birthday after winning it in an online raffle for 7 quid. I wasn't impressed at first but after realising it had half leather seats and a spritely 110hp i was very pleased with it. It was confiscated a week later after my dad caught me and a friend bunking off college and practicing handbrake turns at the bottom of the street one afternoon. My blood ran cold when i saw his car slowly peek around the corner while i was mid burnout in my new streetwise. Never saw that car again and when i passed my driving test i was given a Cadbury purple 1.0 Yaris :) thanks dad
I bought my first motor vehicle, a 1971 Yamaha 125, with my own money (I sold all my radio control equipment) and against the wishes of my hypocritical father who lived elsewhere.
I had a Y reg Rover 25 and was the newer shape. Absolutely loved it. Very nippy 1.4 and had the best alloy wheels I’ve ever had in a car - not the same as yours. The throttle body is plastic which can deform if it gets hot. A popular upgrade was to install the MG metal one - simple bolt in replacement.
Early K series were much more reliable. The problems started when they increased the bore for the 1.6 and 1.8. At they same time they were starting to value engineer things and moved from steel head dowels to plastic ones. I had one of the first 1.8 VVC's and it went back for head issues with 3 weeks of delivery.
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Those plastic dowels along with the single layer elastomer gasket were the bain of the K.
This. I had a very early (G-reg) 214SLi with single-point fuel injection. I had zero head gasket issues, even after leaving it standing on my driveway for several years due to front subframe rust, then getting it running again. It was a weird spec too, electric mirrors and central locking but manual windows and unassisted steering. I went as far as buying the bits to fix it up, but I ended up part-exing it with a scrap dealer for a 1987 Audi Coupé GT off the back of his tow truck.
Yeah a Mechanic Explained the Plastic Dowel Pins to me...a costly mistake in the long run...for the sake of saving probably £2 per engine from new...lol...
@rapitupthatsarap6681 Wish I cud understand what y'all mean .........😢 I kinda get ya .........plastic inside a engine don't sound good to me Hope u see this as I'm shadow banned
I have a lot of love for Rover. I have many happy childhood memories in the back seat of a good old Rover. My grandparents used to have a 800 series… K reg is think it was in metallic green. I can remember going with them to collect it from the dealership. I must have only been 5. Keep up the good work Ben. Love watching your videos
Ahh, Ben. So many what ifs and why's with Rover. We just threw them in the bin cause it just wasn't worth saving them. When you look at one now, they did a good job in trying to keep that poor old 200 fresh. Lots of part's for someone tho and I so love the wheels. Great channel mate, thanks. 😊
Love the Rover 25. First one my mum had was written off by a deer. lets just say the deer won that one. The second one was the 2L Diesel. That thing was bullet proof. She attempted to drive through a flood under a railway bridge and hydrolocked the engine. Four hours later and myself and my stepdad had managed to drain as much water as we could, fire it up and drive me home in it all in one evening. It also had one bolt holding an idler pulley on, the other two had sheared off somehow.
I bought quite a few of the earlier Rovers, usually 214's, SI, GSI etc, always bought them at salvage auctions with light panel damage, repaired them, MOT'd them and flogged them on, I loved them, rotted less than Escorts and Orions and were a nice small car, never had a problem, the only one I had an issue with was a Honda engined 416 Gti, it had that much STP in the oil it was a struggle to get the dipstick out... Still, the 3 tins of STP cured the knock and the new owner seemed happy. 🙂
We've gotta say (oddly) this is one of our favourite episodes/cars you've done. Shame it needs so much work - hope someone snaps it up and does the work it needs 🤞
I had a 1.8 Freelander Commercial back in 2002. The head gasket blew at 63000 miles and I remember the recovery guy saying it had done well to get to that mileage. I changed the vehicle at 132000 miles and suspected that the head gasket was on its way out again. The plus point about that vehicle was that it went back to the lease company with the original rear tyres still on it with 4mm of tread still on them.
And the reason why the horn is on a separate switch is because the relay in the pektron bcm has stopped working...but new relays can be obtained and re soldered in
My sister in law bought an R reg diesel 220 this shape brand new. She kept it for nearly a decade. I bought it off her for what the dealer had offered in px. 700 quid. I ran it for two trouble free years and sold it to my mate at work for 500. Two years ownership for 200 quid. Cheapest car i ever owned.
I owned 2 Rover 200's at the same time and I had no issues with the head gaskets. both were 1997 cars with a 1.4 & 1.6 K-series engine. I must have been lucky.
I worked at Rover specialist a decade ago and yes we did lots of them but it's not as common as it's portrayed we frequently had cars with over 200k miles with orginal headgaskets.
fun fact the reason it only has four seats is to lower its insurance group to help appeal to the younger generation because it didn’t have five seats insurance companies treated it as a lower band and therefore younger people could afford to ensure it more than five seater. But due to the low insurance and high ground clearance people across the country who lived in the countryside preferred these to drive a standard car mainly people didn’t wanna drive a high off-road but wanted something a little bit higher off the ground that didn’t ground out so much on these small country lanes
I would love to see a history of MG Rover from you Ben! I own and drive an MG ZT 260, one of the last models they ever produced. I absolutely love it, even though there are much better cars in the class I could have had for the same money. But I've always wanted my MG. Ever since old JC reviewed it back in 2004, when I saw it for the first time. They're fun cars! Thirsty, but I like a drink too, but fun! 😅 Keep up the great work Ben! 😊👍
Im sure you heard it all before but ........remove stat from back of engine ..... skim ,head ,Mg 6 head gasket,who have had no problems so far ..... mls ,freelander oil rail ,remote freelander thermostat ,mg alloy radiator, bomb proof ......
In 1999 fiat launched the Palio Weekend Adventure in brazil following this "offroad" idea. The adventure kit included a steel bullbar in the front that sat in the perfect height of pedestrian knees lol
When turning the key in door lock it needs to be done slowly when putting in the access code...if red light still on it hasn't gone in...but they were a bit hit and miss lol
Haha, I was two when this car was produced. My dad had a 45 impression for a long while it was far more characterful than the soulless Audi he has now. Sadly I think the 45 is now deceased the last M.O.T mileage for it was 112,570 which I suppose isn't too bad.
I'm such a rover fanboy and yes my mates do laugh at me 😂 had a few old rovers the one thing I will say is the vauxhall Corsa d also blows head gaskets for fun but people won't admit it because it's vauxhall not rover 🤷♀️
The only positive to the Jaguar 'thing' was that a comment I made about it 'Jaguar, you sell cars, not socks in different colours' got 300 likes. The first car I ever loved was a 1967 Jag like the one in Withnail that was in a house we moved into that was stuck in the back garden. The smell of the leather and walnut was intoxicating and beautiful.
100 quid 1 owner and I think your right it has aged well and the 4 seats I like for some reason lol keep it please do something with it please I k ow this was going to be brilliant when you lock your self out of the rover lol tha sill cam scared the life out of me lol Put it on The shelf for the future That rust was scary I kinda don't blame you lol
I really liked the look of the streetwise when it came out, i just like the sof troader look. I always wanted a matra rancho, now ive got a sandero stepway, there's a bit of a pattern there 😂😂😂
The horn was probably put on a separate switch because the relay has failed inside the BCM. The BCM is located in roughly the area the smoked came from.
I remember these coming out and thinking they were just the most rubbish looking thing ever, really sad! However, they have aged very well like you say. Wouldn't look out of place today at all. These sort of episodes are great fun.
The problem with the K series is it was a very misunderstood engine, The head gasket technology was F1 technology and was a sandwich style all alloy construction with a steel polymer gasket which when cold was effectively loose until the Alloy block and head warmed up and expanded creating a tight seal which required getting the engine up to temperature and not going above 3000rpm in the warm up phase which nobody did they just jumped in them in the morning dash then jumped on the motorway to work which of course eventually caused blow by on the head gasket and blew it. I worked for a Rover-Jaguar-Land Rover Specialist for 12 years and worked on them all of the time.
That’s not a problem other engine manufacturers have. It was an error. After a century of engine manufacturing, it’s incomprehensible to me, a mechanically minded 64 year old.
I remember the Audi A6 Allroad. My local VW-Audi dealer went out to show off it's off-road capabilities and got it stuck. Any guesses what rescued it? Yep, a Volvo V70 XC 😂
If the immobilizer is the same as the 2006 Defender we have they're a right bastard when the key fob battery dies. They forget their programming if you don't change the battery in time but at least pressing the lock button on the last fob used usually reprograms it after a few goes. If the indicators stop flashing when locking/unlocking the fob battery is about to die.
K Series also in Caterham’s and the Lotus Elise also as an N Series which were fitted in the last Chinese built TF’s had it all the HG sorted with further development. The Streetwise was a first Urban town runaround which was copied by many manufacturers with VW CrossPolo/Polo Dune, Fiat Panda 4x4, Citroen C3 XCR, Suzuki Ignis 4Grip. The later Rovers were changed from Lucas to Pectron electronics, good luck with that 😂.
The Streetwise was ahead of its time, as Rover often were. Predicted the SUV craze of the current day! Sadly it inspired the gastly Nissan Juke which started all this.
I've had 15 rovers in my time and only 2 of them had head issues. And one of them had the t series engine. Considering how cheap you could get them bk in the day spending a few bob on a new gasket and a day replacing it wasn't that off putting for me tbh.
All these years on earth, I didn't even notice the viking ship logo at a glance I thought it was a string harp the musical instrument but viking could be a cool return name for the Rover brand
I may be wrong, but it was when they walked away from the Honda partnership that it started to slide. Parents had a Rover 600i which I thought was a good motor
What's crazy to me is that this doesn't seem that old a car, and it says a lot about Rover as to the state it is in. I had a mk1 Seat Leon on an '04 reg which I bought a year old and sold in 2007. I checked the MoT history on line recently and found it is still on the road gong strong at around 130k miles. The '05 reg Leon cupra R that I replaced it with and sold in 2011 is also still on the road at a similar mileage and has passed its MoT every year since I sold it with no advisories!!
The horn was moved because the airbag clock spring failed, killing the horn from working from the centre steering wheel. And those cars were a pain in the arse to start without a working remote.
And the reason it kept locking itself was because of the fault door lock barrel I seem to remember. I was a lot younger when I worked on them tho so could be wrong!
I think that they look mucn better than the standard car. But you're right about the K Series being a kettle - I had a mate who ran a garage when these engines came out and he ended up putting a sign up on his garage door that saib No K Series Engines Allowed in This Garage. That was because to change the head gasket the whole engine had to be taken apart. The only other downside is that plastic add on panels breed rust like rabbits breed rabbits - I'll wait and see at 20 minutes in if f you have a randy rabbit!
Maybe that smokey bit was a fusable link to the heater core., i say this at like 30 minutes in so i know you will find the problem and i here by look like a total idiot.. :p
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Three generations of my family worked at Rover, from the 1940s (making tank engines) through to the 1990s. They made some truly great cars, Rover P4, Land Rover, P5, P6, Range Rover, all with bulletproof reliability. Irony of Ironies, they got done over by Jaguar, the P7, P8, P9 and Project Gladys got canned. We got the SD1. After that, I owned two 600s (620Si, and 623GSi) which I loved, and I had Rover 75 (again, a brilliant car). I have a Rover P6 V8, and I am like you, if I became a multi-billionaire, I would rebuilt Rover. With that 25, I'm appalled at the lack of rust protection.
This is one for Furious Driving!. He loves doing the head gaskets on Rovers for fun and a bit of welding would be a bonus!!.
I agree totally with your Jaguar comment. I love my Jags but now they seem to have nailed their own coffin shut
At least Grace Jones turned up with Jaguar's photo shoot though.
She at least was cool
It's all part of the desecration of British culture, history and identity.......the Great Replacement.
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The “start ya bastard 9000” had me spitting out my tea. Comedy gold.
Used to be able to buy tins of start ya bustard starting fluid 👍😂
Pls subscribe. I wanna to see Ben for as long as possible. Don't you? Greetings from Berlin, Germany 🎉
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I think why this era of car is looking good and ageing well is because most new cars (due to NCap etc) look the same whereas cars from this era looked unique.
As a Middle Aged man I remember and loathed the crossover period of the noughties yet now I think they were ahead of their time. That river doesn’t look out of place on modern roads. It feels like almost every car out there is a crossover in all but name.
I had a Rover 200 series long ago. Basically the same car, but with an older interior. Bought it for 500 euro's, and it lasted me 4 years before the engine quit on me at 260000km. Man I miss that car and that interior! Really nice to see another Rover on Tasty Classics!
I had a 216 , flipped it quick time , at the time ,
But it was a very good sound car ........ran true by next owner no drama
And saying that my uncle had a 214 ...........years before it was a very good motor i remember it
Gotta love Friday evenings, especially when its dark, cold and wet outside.
Warm and ready for this
10 years ago my father proudly presented a Rover 25 streetwise to me on my 17th birthday after winning it in an online raffle for 7 quid. I wasn't impressed at first but after realising it had half leather seats and a spritely 110hp i was very pleased with it. It was confiscated a week later after my dad caught me and a friend bunking off college and practicing handbrake turns at the bottom of the street one afternoon. My blood ran cold when i saw his car slowly peek around the corner while i was mid burnout in my new streetwise.
Never saw that car again and when i passed my driving test i was given a Cadbury purple 1.0 Yaris :) thanks dad
I bought my first motor vehicle, a 1971 Yamaha 125, with my own money (I sold all my radio control equipment) and against the wishes of my hypocritical father who lived elsewhere.
@@GT380man Same here. I had the YAS1 - 125cc from 1971. Twin cylinder, twin carb - bit of a rocket
I had a Y reg Rover 25 and was the newer shape. Absolutely loved it. Very nippy 1.4 and had the best alloy wheels I’ve ever had in a car - not the same as yours.
The throttle body is plastic which can deform if it gets hot. A popular upgrade was to install the MG metal one - simple bolt in replacement.
Early K series were much more reliable. The problems started when they increased the bore for the 1.6 and 1.8. At they same time they were starting to value engineer things and moved from steel head dowels to plastic ones. I had one of the first 1.8 VVC's and it went back for head issues with 3 weeks of delivery.
Those plastic dowels along with the single layer elastomer gasket were the bain of the K.
This. I had a very early (G-reg) 214SLi with single-point fuel injection. I had zero head gasket issues, even after leaving it standing on my driveway for several years due to front subframe rust, then getting it running again. It was a weird spec too, electric mirrors and central locking but manual windows and unassisted steering.
I went as far as buying the bits to fix it up, but I ended up part-exing it with a scrap dealer for a 1987 Audi Coupé GT off the back of his tow truck.
Yeah a Mechanic Explained the Plastic Dowel Pins to me...a costly mistake in the long run...for the sake of saving probably £2 per engine from new...lol...
@rapitupthatsarap6681
Wish I cud understand what y'all mean .........😢
I kinda get ya .........plastic inside a engine don't sound good to me
Hope u see this as I'm shadow banned
Please get a new number 3 for your unit, that 8 cut in half sends my ocd off the charts! 😂😂😂
I second this request, my migraines make numbers appear like this, not good.
My Grandparents were a huge fan of Rovers they had a 416 SLI N Reg and the fan belt used to squek when you started it up
I have a lot of love for Rover. I have many happy childhood memories in the back seat of a good old Rover. My grandparents used to have a 800 series… K reg is think it was in metallic green. I can remember going with them to collect it from the dealership. I must have only been 5. Keep up the good work Ben. Love watching your videos
Ahh, Ben. So many what ifs and why's with Rover. We just threw them in the bin cause it just wasn't worth saving them. When you look at one now, they did a good job in trying to keep that poor old 200 fresh. Lots of part's for someone tho and I so love the wheels. Great channel mate, thanks. 😊
The start you bastard 9000 😂😂😂😂
It's a prayer to the scrapyard God's not to take another soul
dacia did the same trick of raising the ride height, and sticking plastic on the wheel arches, called it the stepway and did very well
Love the Rover 25. First one my mum had was written off by a deer. lets just say the deer won that one. The second one was the 2L Diesel. That thing was bullet proof. She attempted to drive through a flood under a railway bridge and hydrolocked the engine. Four hours later and myself and my stepdad had managed to drain as much water as we could, fire it up and drive me home in it all in one evening. It also had one bolt holding an idler pulley on, the other two had sheared off somehow.
I bought quite a few of the earlier Rovers, usually 214's, SI, GSI etc, always bought them at salvage auctions with light panel damage, repaired them, MOT'd them and flogged them on, I loved them, rotted less than Escorts and Orions and were a nice small car, never had a problem, the only one I had an issue with was a Honda engined 416 Gti, it had that much STP in the oil it was a struggle to get the dipstick out... Still, the 3 tins of STP cured the knock and the new owner seemed happy. 🙂
MG Rover marketed these as the urban onroader, still have all the Streetwise brochures at home.
Yup the Jaguar train has left the station and is headed for the Brookwood cemetery. RIP Jaguar
RIP Jaguar. 😢
And Boots
I think you are a very brave Santa welder in a flammable Santa outfit 🤣🤣
and no goggles. 😵💫
Great looking old Rover. We never saw these in Australia. Thanks for all your videos. Have a good week. Marc from Australia 🇦🇺
My old man had loads of Rovers, my favourite was his 216 Vanden Plas EFI, such a nice car! Would love to see you revive a SD1 Vitesse TP, what a car 😮
We've gotta say (oddly) this is one of our favourite episodes/cars you've done. Shame it needs so much work - hope someone snaps it up and does the work it needs 🤞
I bought an indirect diesel heater for my workshop, can’t recommend enough..same heat without the fumes and headaches 😂
I had a 1.8 Freelander Commercial back in 2002. The head gasket blew at 63000 miles and I remember the recovery guy saying it had done well to get to that mileage. I changed the vehicle at 132000 miles and suspected that the head gasket was on its way out again. The plus point about that vehicle was that it went back to the lease company with the original rear tyres still on it with 4mm of tread still on them.
I had a Rover 25 1.6, yes the head gasket went at 55k miles. I loved driving that car though.
I went to the unveiling of the streetwise…always liked them, I found they drove better than the stock 25.
And the reason why the horn is on a separate switch is because the relay in the pektron bcm has stopped working...but new relays can be obtained and re soldered in
My sister in law bought an R reg diesel 220 this shape brand new.
She kept it for nearly a decade.
I bought it off her for what the dealer had offered in px. 700 quid.
I ran it for two trouble free years and sold it to my mate at work for 500.
Two years ownership for 200 quid.
Cheapest car i ever owned.
The Rover 2.0...L-Series Diesel...Great Engines (unlike Rover Petrol Engines)
Saw a Renault Scenic RX4 last week in Trowbridge .. It was a mess but hey , made me smile .
Not far from me I live in a Town called Midsomer Norton in Somerset close to Bath
It's Tasty Classics time again 🍕🍗🍻😁❄️
I owned 2 Rover 200's at the same time and I had no issues with the head gaskets. both were 1997 cars with a 1.4 & 1.6 K-series engine. I must have been lucky.
I worked at Rover specialist a decade ago and yes we did lots of them but it's not as common as it's portrayed we frequently had cars with over 200k miles with orginal headgaskets.
I used to have a standard 25 iL in that colour always looked good when it was clean
Bought back the old intro…Nice 👍🏼
FYI, snow is natures clay bar 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Missed my favourite offroadified on road car, the saab 93x
Good point!
fun fact the reason it only has four seats is to lower its insurance group to help appeal to the younger generation because it didn’t have five seats insurance companies treated it as a lower band and therefore younger people could afford to ensure it more than five seater.
But due to the low insurance and high ground clearance people across the country who lived in the countryside preferred these to drive a standard car mainly people didn’t wanna drive a high off-road but wanted something a little bit higher off the ground that didn’t ground out so much on these small country lanes
I would love to see a history of MG Rover from you Ben! I own and drive an MG ZT 260, one of the last models they ever produced. I absolutely love it, even though there are much better cars in the class I could have had for the same money. But I've always wanted my MG. Ever since old JC reviewed it back in 2004, when I saw it for the first time. They're fun cars! Thirsty, but I like a drink too, but fun! 😅
Keep up the great work Ben! 😊👍
Jesus! You are brave welding in that highly flammable suit
Im sure you heard it all before but ........remove stat from back of engine ..... skim ,head ,Mg 6 head gasket,who have had no problems so far ..... mls ,freelander oil rail ,remote freelander thermostat ,mg alloy radiator, bomb proof ......
5 minutes in and I'm checking the classifieds,.
Had a 1.4 25, loved it... Until the HG popped.
Think the streetwise is fabulous.
I have an 03 MG TF with a 1.8 k series, 52k miles and had no head gasket problems whatsoever
In 1999 fiat launched the Palio Weekend Adventure in brazil following this "offroad" idea. The adventure kit included a steel bullbar in the front that sat in the perfect height of pedestrian knees lol
I loved the Rover Streetwise, especially the Olympic version. Was going to buy one in the same colur but was in a shocking condition.
Restored and slammed it'd look mint. Maybe the boot button is on the rear wiper like bmw touring
As a MK1 C5 A6 Allroad owner, I approve of how this car looks. Cool find Ben!
When turning the key in door lock it needs to be done slowly when putting in the access code...if red light still on it hasn't gone in...but they were a bit hit and miss lol
Haha, I was two when this car was produced. My dad had a 45 impression for a long while it was far more characterful than the soulless Audi he has now. Sadly I think the 45 is now deceased the last M.O.T mileage for it was 112,570 which I suppose isn't too bad.
I'm such a rover fanboy and yes my mates do laugh at me 😂 had a few old rovers the one thing I will say is the vauxhall Corsa d also blows head gaskets for fun but people won't admit it because it's vauxhall not rover 🤷♀️
I have always liked this rover.
The only positive to the Jaguar 'thing' was that a comment I made about it 'Jaguar, you sell cars, not socks in different colours' got 300 likes. The first car I ever loved was a 1967 Jag like the one in Withnail that was in a house we moved into that was stuck in the back garden. The smell of the leather and walnut was intoxicating and beautiful.
I had a 92 214sli and a 98 218is lovely cars back in the day
100 quid 1 owner and I think your right it has aged well and the 4 seats I like for some reason lol keep it please do something with it please
I k ow this was going to be brilliant when you lock your self out of the rover lol
tha sill cam scared the life out of me lol
Put it on The shelf for the future
That rust was scary I kinda don't blame you lol
I really liked the look of the streetwise when it came out, i just like the sof troader look. I always wanted a matra rancho, now ive got a sandero stepway, there's a bit of a pattern there 😂😂😂
So jammy in getting that started
The horn was probably put on a separate switch because the relay has failed inside the BCM. The BCM is located in roughly the area the smoked came from.
I remember these coming out and thinking they were just the most rubbish looking thing ever, really sad! However, they have aged very well like you say. Wouldn't look out of place today at all. These sort of episodes are great fun.
The problem with the K series is it was a very misunderstood engine, The head gasket technology was F1 technology and was a sandwich style all alloy construction with a steel polymer gasket which when cold was effectively loose until the Alloy block and head warmed up and expanded creating a tight seal which required getting the engine up to temperature and not going above 3000rpm in the warm up phase which nobody did they just jumped in them in the morning dash then jumped on the motorway to work which of course eventually caused blow by on the head gasket and blew it. I worked for a Rover-Jaguar-Land Rover Specialist for 12 years and worked on them all of the time.
That’s not a problem other engine manufacturers have. It was an error. After a century of engine manufacturing, it’s incomprehensible to me, a mechanically minded 64 year old.
"Cool suburban guy" is a great power ballad. 😊😊
Another great video!
I love anything BL.
Shame you didn't still have the silver one to sell with it.
Keep up the good work Ben
I remember the Audi A6 Allroad. My local VW-Audi dealer went out to show off it's off-road capabilities and got it stuck. Any guesses what rescued it? Yep, a Volvo V70 XC 😂
If the immobilizer is the same as the 2006 Defender we have they're a right bastard when the key fob battery dies. They forget their programming if you don't change the battery in time but at least pressing the lock button on the last fob used usually reprograms it after a few goes. If the indicators stop flashing when locking/unlocking the fob battery is about to die.
Thanks
It’s getting ridiculous how much of my life TastyClassics is consuming. My to do list is getting seriously ignored but love the channel !
K Series also in Caterham’s and the Lotus Elise also as an N Series which were fitted in the last Chinese built TF’s had it all the HG sorted with further development. The Streetwise was a first Urban town runaround which was copied by many manufacturers with VW CrossPolo/Polo Dune, Fiat Panda 4x4, Citroen C3 XCR, Suzuki Ignis 4Grip. The later Rovers were changed from Lucas to Pectron electronics, good luck with that 😂.
The Streetwise was ahead of its time, as Rover often were. Predicted the SUV craze of the current day! Sadly it inspired the gastly Nissan Juke which started all this.
I've had 15 rovers in my time and only 2 of them had head issues. And one of them had the t series engine. Considering how cheap you could get them bk in the day spending a few bob on a new gasket and a day replacing it wasn't that off putting for me tbh.
All these years on earth, I didn't even notice the viking ship logo at a glance I thought it was a string harp the musical instrument but viking could be a cool return name for the Rover brand
Fantastic video thanks for the sticker and license plate
Couldn't click quick enough 😂 looking forward to this one, especially as I love a good rover!
Same
Amazed you made it this week after being so busy with last week's epic.
I may be wrong, but it was when they walked away from the Honda partnership that it started to slide. Parents had a Rover 600i which I thought was a good motor
Start ya bastard 9000 😂😂😂
😂 just said the same thing
It was a ' Lucky Rover ' having you breathe life into it Ben. Agree RIP Jaguar. 🤔
Can't believe you managed to get santa to do a segment for you. You have made it Ben 😂
I love watching your videos, I get to see all of these cars that I've never heard of.
What's crazy to me is that this doesn't seem that old a car, and it says a lot about Rover as to the state it is in. I had a mk1 Seat Leon on an '04 reg which I bought a year old and sold in 2007. I checked the MoT history on line recently and found it is still on the road gong strong at around 130k miles. The '05 reg Leon cupra R that I replaced it with and sold in 2011 is also still on the road at a similar mileage and has passed its MoT every year since I sold it with no advisories!!
They’ve grown on me. The lads used to run them on red diesel and veggie oil.
Excellent as always.
That head lining would be Savable maybe taken out glued back with spray adhesive love the seats car is cool lookin
So happy to see rovers get love after being the butt of jokes from the likes of top gear
i pass one of these quite often thats been parked up for few years. but its a 3 door.
It's colder on your side of the pond than mine. I thought Canada was supposed to be cold!
The horn was moved because the airbag clock spring failed, killing the horn from working from the centre steering wheel. And those cars were a pain in the arse to start without a working remote.
I had an mg zr. Head gasket went, so i changed the engine instead of the gasket 😆 🤣 😂
Was easier and cheaper at the time
And the reason it kept locking itself was because of the fault door lock barrel I seem to remember. I was a lot younger when I worked on them tho so could be wrong!
Great video would love to see one of a Rover SD1
I think alarms and immobilisers are more of a headache than head gaskets on some cars.
It's a shame that Rover weren't able to bring out the new mini that was already in development under their own name. That would've saved them!
Get in! This’ll help pass an hour at work tonight 🙏🤣👊🏻
You often see people in forums trying to defend the K series HG, i allways point out there's a reason why Kseal isn't called Zetecseal 😂😂
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I think that they look mucn better than the standard car. But you're right about the K Series being a kettle - I had a mate who ran a garage when these engines came out and he ended up putting a sign up on his garage door that saib No K Series Engines Allowed in This Garage. That was because to change the head gasket the whole engine had to be taken apart. The only other downside is that plastic add on panels breed rust like rabbits breed rabbits - I'll wait and see at 20 minutes in if f you have a randy rabbit!
yep, I would have moved it on also.
Yep I worked for Drive Direct in Warrington they where a nightmare
That’s a smart car to say it’s 2004.
When it just tried to start i could picture John cleese saying Pitche Le Vosh //.. at you.. :p
Maybe that smokey bit was a fusable link to the heater core., i say this at like 30 minutes in so i know you will find the problem and i here by look like a total idiot.. :p
Love the colour