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Mark B

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Registered: 15th Mar 07
Location: Galston, East Ayrshire
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16th Mar 10 at 18:31

lol

am4nf

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16th Mar 10 at 18:31

quote:
Originally posted by markb1234

quote:
Originally posted by am4nf
That really is some amount of car for the price

Do you like them now? lol

Nope, still a glorified rover

RCoughtrie

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Registered: 31st Oct 04
Location: East Ayrshire Scotland
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16th Mar 10 at 18:38

quote:
Originally posted by markb1234
had 4 xe's never had one bit of bother with the head gasket

Aye cos they are never in the motor long enough fingers lol

am4nf

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16th Mar 10 at 18:57

ShEp

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Location: Dingwall, Highland
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16th Mar 10 at 19:32

Ah Well as pish as they are I'm all about profit, had 4corsa's in a row as runabouts, time to try something else.

I'll do the gasket on this, lowering springs are on order, Not changing anything ese cosmeticay, Just needs new wipers and front pads.

Job done, sell at a profit

Ryan_G1

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Registered: 29th Aug 05
Location: East Ayrshire
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16th Mar 10 at 20:06

Get the modified landrover head gasket with the shim plate. If it was done properly at the rover garage it would have went again

MarkSport

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16th Mar 10 at 21:04

Thats the mls gasket ryan

freelander 3 stage gasket(the same one i bought)

Might be worth you getting a water pump and cambelt kit aswell shep just as a selling point.

02 plate 160's sell for around £3,800 on rovertech.net. and other forums like xpowerforums.com

Mark B

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16th Mar 10 at 21:08

quote:
Originally posted by RCoughtrie

quote:
Originally posted by markb1234
had 4 xe's never had one bit of bother with the head gasket

Aye cos they are never in the motor long enough fingers lol

haha i done 10.000 miles in my first one!

ShEp

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16th Mar 10 at 21:10

Cambelts were done the week before I bought it, with reciepts.

£3.8k

I'll be happy with £2k wanna buy it?

MarkSport

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Registered: 22nd May 09
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16th Mar 10 at 21:20

Obviously £3.8k is going off the condition.zr's tend to have bopulster wear in the drivers seat,gear gator wear and rust on rear arches...oh and faded badges on the front and boot.if it has any of these an mg enthusiast won't pay too much but you have the right colour as people jump for black zr's

stolen off parkers.com

Original Priced £14,560
Independent Dealer £1,535
Private Good £1,465
Private Poor £1,030
Part Exchange £1,265

but they are always way out.you will definately be safe at 2k

ShEp

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16th Mar 10 at 21:36

had replacement badges,

Just a carbon fibre circe there instead of the MG badge now.

MarkSport

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16th Mar 10 at 21:40

Ah not too bad.any rust around the button for boot release? thats another commen fault

Once its running and lowered etc you will piss that price.

Mike

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Registered: 20th May 06
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16th Mar 10 at 21:46

I remember being told the headgasket problem with the K series was that the thermostat was at the bottom of the engine so because heat rises by the time the thermostat got the heat it needed to open, it's already boiling up at the top and melting the headgasket. Don't know how true it is but the same guy told me he'd found a kit where you take the stat out, cut the top hose then use the new stat housing to join it and once done he'd never heard of another headgasket problem. As I said I don't know how true it is, I've never worked on a Rover engine but it sounds possible

MarkSport

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16th Mar 10 at 21:48

I've heard different.I heard it was because the water jackets wasn't in line but that could be a myth.the thermostat is on the top left of the head so not sure who told you that.that open very quick on cold mornings or within 3 mile of driving on a cold morning.

Mike

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16th Mar 10 at 21:55

I s'pose that'd add up with the low capacity thing someone mentioned, if there's not much coolant it's not gonna take long to warm it up.

Maybe it's just witchcraft

richc

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Registered: 24th Mar 07
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16th Mar 10 at 21:57

Ive also heard they have the wrong grade coolant.

Ie...they give it this coolant, but needs X coolant

God knows

Robin

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16th Mar 10 at 22:00

It's more likely that it was just due to the fact it was made in Birmingham.

Robin

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16th Mar 10 at 22:06

Hold on, are you selling this for £800?

ShEp

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17th Mar 10 at 16:01

quote:
Originally posted by Robin
Hold on, are you selling this for £800?

Bought for £800 Robin

Will do head gasket and MOT and sell for reasonable offers.

Good track car

Anty

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17th Mar 10 at 17:28

hAVE A b16 FITTED... seats are copfy, nice ride, sh*te engines

ShEp

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17th Mar 10 at 19:09

Really good engine when it's not got a blown gasket.

Goes like fuck.

cheekyalex

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17th Mar 10 at 19:48

Ive just finished fitting an upgraded mls gasket to a k series, with the shim etc. Just got to plumb it in , get it running then sell it on

I will try and find a link to a good how to guide someone on one of the rover fourums has done if you want. Not sure how much different the vvt is but the normal ones are actually relaly easy to do.

This one had only done 46k and had one lady owner from new that drove like a granny ,makes you wonder what rover where playing out letting these engines get mass produced being so feeble.

chrisritch

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Registered: 2nd Sep 08
Location: Northants Drives: V40
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17th Mar 10 at 20:24

Land rover headgasket kit mate theyre a much better design than the paper thin MG ones

MarkSport

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Registered: 22nd May 09
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17th Mar 10 at 21:23

The MLS kit is the landrover one.If you buy the complete head kit with headbolts etc you shouldn't have trouble again

ShEp

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Registered: 9th Aug 05
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17th Mar 10 at 21:51

Bought the MLS kit today.

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